Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-203.14.52.141-20151216011808/@comment-14909251-20151227220617

Phantomlink959 wrote: Summer is dead, Jeff Williams specifically said as much, that RLR I/II were confirmation, and he wrote the songs using information Monty gave him access to. Just going to note once more as I do when people say this that Williams does not actually say matter-of-factly that Summer is dead. Unless you are thinking of some different instance, the long-winded explanation he gave behind the meaning of "Red Like Roses" kind of danced around the question. His actual phrasing that comes closest to confirmation frames the song as being about Ruby's reaction, but he is sort of skittish when saying it is about her reaction to Summer's death. Technically, it is Ruby's reaction to Summer's death, because even if Summer is alive Ruby does believe she is dead.

Conveniently, the story has given us a means to address this question. If we presume Summer's name is not a coincidence then she may have been a Maiden and that means were she to have died her powers would have been transferred. Should they say the Summer Maiden's powers are lost or have not reappared then we have cause to believe Summer is actually alive. Granted, given that we also know powers can be stolen, we can't say for certain that her powers being passed on means she is dead, either.