Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-1599757-20151212162645/@comment-27404453-20151215172117

ChishioKunrin wrote: Edit: AND OF COURSE!!! I'm sure we're all wondering if Summer Rose was a Maiden of Summer, right?! Her last thoughts must have been of Ruby, so Ruby will inherit the Power of Summer!

I think this should happen. And I think it can kind of be cannonically supported. Summer died before the start of the show. And most semblances have one active ability, be it Yang's flames, Weiss' glyphs, etc. They can be enhanced through dust but generally have only one ability.

Now what I'm getting at here is, what if Ruby's use of her semblance touches on her abilities as the Maiden of Summer? The rose petals she leaves whenever she uses her semblance have always seemd a bit out of place. Some how I doubt Ruby just carries a bag of rose petals to drop as she runs. And the reason we don't see more of her abilities as Maiden of Summer is she doesn't know how. It would also explain why Qrow was her teacher, as despite being related, he obviously took an indepth interest in her, enough so to teach her how to use a scythe at a mastery level. This would take him away from whatever he has been doing for a while for Ozpin and the rest. So I think there's a good possibility that Ruby is the Maiden of Summer, even if she doesn't realize it.