User blog comment:FinalWholockianGrrlGamer/Analysis: Red Like Roses Part II/@comment-3257939-20151021022019/@comment-4010415-20151021024705

Why does everyone forget that Yang said "Ruby was really torn up"? They always jump to "But I think she was too young to really get what was going on."

What Yang meant was that Ruby was extremely torn up and upset that Summer was gone and not coming back, but she was too young to completely understand how her awesome kick-ass mother, who promised she would come home, could possibly be gone forever.

It's just like a child to think along the lines of "No, she promised she would come home, so she can't be gone! She's coming home! She has to! She promised!!" I can imagine Ruby being in denial while Taiyang and Yang try to get it through her head that Summer isn't coming back. And then after time passes and Summer still isn't back, it starts to set in, and all she wants is to see her mother walk through the door.

Summer used to be the one who read her bedtime stories, but now Yang does it, while Taiyang is grieving somewhere else in the house. Qrow stops by every once in a while to check in on everyone and try to distract Ruby and Yang from their father's state, but nothing he does can keep Yang from noticing.