Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-3257939-20151009080148/@comment-3387274-20151018091201

It makes waaaaay more sense to me that Ruby got her cloak because she looked up to her mother, rather than because it was Summer's. Getting Summer's cloak to Ruby without bringing Summer back while changing the colour is just an endless stack of increasingly convoluted events. That is, you're having to make up more things that happened to justify it all rather than simply having a single credible event that explains everything.

on a related note, one thing I like about the reveal of Summer and Qrow is that we see so much of what inspired Ruby; the cloak is based off of Summer, the cross motif in the pins is a nod to Qrow. And similarly Yang is wearing the same kind of scarf as Taiyang.