User blog comment:Zathronas/Speculative author: Who is Summer Rose?/@comment-6830001-20140809121822

An interesting subject of discussion. First, I find Maki's crazy theory "From Summer to Fall to Winter" really great and it would lead to some nice battles and feels. So, back to the subject, however without much chronology, it's hard to give accurate theories :

1. I also think she sacrificed herself and it might have something to do with Ozpin's mistakes. I could imagine that he was like Blake not so long ago. He may have had a talk with Summer and he might then have acted alone on something big, been overhelmed and caused Summer, who came to help him, to get injured or worse... (Now, if I were to agree with your "emotionnally-detached" Ozpin, I could say that he doesn't want Blake to repeat his mistake and maybe cause his trump card Ruby's death...) I just think that Ozpin is empathic however...

I don't think Summer is the one on the statue. It might be the founders of the academy who, after the war, realised they had to teach new generations to fight in order to maintain the peace hardly obtained and created a special school for that, Beacon, but that's just a theory...

2. I imagine Summer as a mature Ruby. She probably has the same behaviour as Ruby but with a mature part that came with her experience as a Huntress and the difficult things she has seen during it...

3. Since we almost don't have any chronology related to her, I have no idea on who she knew, probably Qrow and Ozpin, but the others...