Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-65.103.12.54-20130217000600/@comment-10285961-20130601032620

Somehow, in my head, Ruby shares a lot of resemblences to Ryu from Street Fighter. I know there's a lot of leaps of logic, but here's my thinking. The gravestone could be a teacher that found her, raised her, taught her to fight, but did so in such a way to make it clear that only beasts and monsters - like the Beowolves - deserved death.

What if this teacher had a younger more power-hungry sibling who simply wanted power for power's sake? Enter Adam, who uses a fighting style similar to Ruby's - a hybrid of firearm and melee - with little to no regard as to who gets in the way. What if we saw Ruby paying her last respects to her dead teacher before setting out on a quest to find the asshole who killed them in a bid for supremecy?

Like Ryu, Ruby would have no surname - just as she has no blood relatives that she knows of. Likewise, her teacher (who I will call Grant at this time because Gouken is far too Asian to fit the decidedly Western themed setting at the moment) and their sibling would have no surname. It would also set up a potential relationship between Ruby and Blake to becoming allies of convienience against Adam who could end up being the big bad of the series. Throw a possiblity of Grant and Adam being royal hunters of some sort before Adam stabbed Grant in the back and went rogue, and you add the possibility of Weiss being dispatched to bring in the rogue agent and meeting up with Ruby and Blake. Again, lots of leaps in logic, but at the moment, that's the best I've got.