Talk:Summer Rose/@comment-73.182.7.3-20151030052727/@comment-183.179.237.237-20151118160604

In anime world, unless it the death was pretty explicitly shown or described (i.e. killed by a Grimm, body was found etc.), it's safe to assume the author wants to keep that door open. At the moment there is no way to know if author wants her dead for good or somehow decides to make her alive again, and that of course depends mainly on funding of the animation (if they can make money for making more stories from this series, they use that door). I am pretty sure author didn't want to close the door yet about Summer's death. For all we know, her death could have been 100% real, or merely symbolic in the way that she is dead in Ruby and Yang's life. Gravestone means absolutely nothing in the world of anime, especially when it comes to a character that has been pretty mysterious throughout the series.

And this is obviously different from Grimm being souless, which I thought was a silly comparison. When a fact is stated as is, it will always be a fact until a plot twist is given later. Basically if they ever stated clearly Summer is dead by whatever means (someone saw her get eaten, someone saw her explode, they found her body, etc.), then it is safe to assume author wants her dead. But when everything is still in the cloud and her death needs to be extrapolated from speculations, then the door is always open.

Let me give you guys a good example from Code Geass the anime. [SPOILER FOR CG, just in case] Last fight between Suzaku and Karen, it seemed like he died, and they even made a tombstone for Suzaku with the cat in front clearly trying to trick audience into thinking Suzaku actually died, but at the end, nope, still alive. I know RWBY is not a Japanese anime, but I think the basic structure of story telling is more or less the same, especially when you consider how much influence RWBY recieved from Japanese animes.