Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-64.113.177.152-20150121173112/@comment-4010415-20150315102507

Coolishy777 wrote: Actually, as far as I am aware there has not been a 100% confirmation that Summer Rose is dead. The only information we have to go on is Yang saying in Vol2Ep6 that Summer left for a mission and never came back. This in no way says that she has died. Unless I have missed a very important detail. If I have and you have the proof of her death than please provide that as I would love to know. 1. "One day, she left for a mission and never came back" could easily be a better and less clunky-sounding way of saying "One day, she left for a mission and was killed"/"One day she left for a mission and was killed by Grimm."

2. Red Like Roses Part 2, which Jeff Williams (writer of the song) said is about Ruby and Summer, pretty much outright says Summer died. Though, it can be argued that Ruby's (Casey's) line "the minute that you died" was from everyone assuming Summer was dead and thus telling Ruby such.

3. That gravestone from the Red Trailer and volume 1 opening is marked "Summer Rose, Thus Kindly I Scatter." In the volume 1 opening, the white cloaked figure's legs pretty much fade into non-existence, giving her a ghostly appearance.

Sure, there is a possibility she could maybe possibly perhaps be alive, but everything is trying to tell us she's dead. Or, at least, assumed dead by her family.

In a world where monsters eat the people they kill, no one really assumes the person who fights said monsters is MIA until they find a body. Bloody scraps of clothing is enough. We could go gruesome if we wanted, and interpret what Yang said as meaning Summer physically never came back. As in, she was eaten. There wasn't even a body to bring home. Or there wasn't enough of a body to warrant bringing home.