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SketchyOpus wrote: Also -- I don't think Winter has any part in the Maiden thing. Simply because when Ironwood dismissed her from the group, it was right before they started talking about Autumn's condition and all of that. Had she been a maiden, she would presumably know all of those details.

(Although I wouldn't rule out her being one a candidate to replace another maiden, unknowingly to her. Could explain the hostility from Qrow.) Could it be that the group doesn't want Winter to know she is a maiden?

Either way, holy shit. It's happening.

For those of you who don't believe that Summer is the maiden of Summer, I do have one thing to ask? Where did Summer live? No, really-where did she live?

I'll tell you where; an isolated, smally popluated island (that possibly isn't even generally know about, considering how Yang had to explain to Blake what it was) that few live on. If that isn't a good local for hiding a person who is supposed to dissapear from the publics eye, then I don't know what is. And we can look even further, at RLR Part II, specifically at the lines,

" This little fairy tale doesn't seem to end well," 

 " This bedtime story ends with misery ever after," 

''' " But, baby, please don't do what I did;  I don't want you to waste your life in vain." '''

 and 

''' " You're not the only one who needed me; I thought you understood.  You were the one I needed, and you left me as I always feared you would. Would I change it if I could?" '''

The first two refer to how Summer is a maiden, a being from what is now known as a fairy tale.

The third refers to how Ruby should not do whatever it is Summer did, (Be a huntress, be a maiden, etc.)

And the forth and final speeks of Summer being needed by more than just Ruby. While this originally may have been interpreted as being part of a huntresses duty to protect the people, we know they are little more than glorified swords-for-hire. Who are dedicated towards helping the world though? The Maidens.

Finally, this songs speak to one crititical fact; that Summer was likely thinking of Ruby as she died.

Furthermore, we see how Ruby has the same eyes as her mother. Normally, this could be seen as just an example of inherited traits, but when we look to how Cinders eyes flare up whenever she uses her power, it could well be that special eyes speak to being a maiden. And the power of a maiden is passed down. And Ruby has the same eyes as Summer

And, ending this long, rant of a post (sorry), I would like to do a bit of baseless theorizing of my own.

I think that there will be 4 huntresses destined to become the four new maidens, but, going against the theory that each of team RWBY will become one (that would suck!), I've come up with some canidates of my own.

Ruby-Summer

Pyrrha (assuming she does become the maiden and doesn't die or change)-Autumn

Penny-Winter?

...-Spring

Either way, we could get a special team name out of it, like PRTR (Protecter), or GRDN (Guardian).