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V3 08 STRQ

Summer and her team.

In Summer's younger days, she enrolled in Beacon Academy and became a member and the leader of Team STRQ, along with Taiyang Xiao Long, Raven Branwen and Qrow Branwen. She and her team eventually graduated to become Huntsmen and Huntresses.

At some point, Team STRQ, Summer included, found out about the secrets of Professor Ozpin's abilities, his longevity and Salem's existence.

At some point later in life, Summer entered a relationship with Taiyang after Raven had left him, the two having a daughter, Ruby Rose, and Summer took to raising Raven's daughter, Yang Xiao Long, as well. According to Yang herself, Summer loved Yang as much as her own daughter Ruby, and never corrected Yang's assumption that Summer was her biological mother; it wasn't until after Summer's death, that Yang learned she was Raven's child, rather than Summer's. Summer's family lived in Patch as she left regularly to carry out missions. According to Yang, Summer was like a "supermom", "baker of cookies" at home and "slayer of giant monsters" due to her Huntress career.

It is revealed by Qrow that Summer acknowledged and utilized her abilities through her Silver Eyes. It is unknown when and how she discovered her abilities and to what extent.

At some point, Summer encountered Salem, where she told her that she'd be stopped even if she could not be killed. This encounter was memorable enough for Salem to remember her words.

In a flashback in "Of Solitude and Self", Summer finished reading Ruby and Yang a fairy tale about The Girl Who Fell Through The World, and put them to bed. Once done, Summer left Ruby her emblem and prepared to leave, only to meet Tai. Summer explained she was going on a mission with Tai, the two then hugging before she left.

Truthfully, however, Summer had gone out to meet Raven, the latter teasingly making amusement of Summer actually lying, though then asked if she was alright with leaving her family. Unamused, Summer merely claimed Raven had no right to say such a thing, flustering Raven. Raven then opened up a portal where the two left elsewhere, with Summer proclaiming she'd be back.

Death[]

When Yang and Ruby were still young, Summer went on a mission and never came back. Specific details surrounding her fate are undisclosed or unknown. According to Qrow, the mission in question was Summer's secret and even Ozpin seemed in the dark about her disappearance. According to Yang, Ruby was likely too young to be able to fully comprehend what had happened, though both she and Yang were grief-stricken.

Taiyang did not handle the news nearly as well as his daughters; Yang saying that he simply "shut down". It is after this that Yang learned Summer was the second love that he had lost, the first being Yang's mother, explaining that Taiyang was so deeply affected due to the fact that he had to experience that type of loss for the second time.

It is implied in "Gravity" that Salem is responsible for Summer's death.

RWBY[]

Ruby is seen visiting Summer's Gravestone in the Cliffside Forest during the "Red" Trailer.

Vale Arc[]

In "Burning the Candle", Summer is mentioned by Yang in her childhood story to Blake Belladonna, in an attempt to get the former to slow down her investigation, which Yang said was controlling her.

In "Round One" and "End of the Beginning", Ruby revisits Summer's Gravestone and tells her mother about new events in her life.

Mistral Arc[]

In "The More the Merrier" Ruby attempts to sway Raven into joining the fight against Salem. Raven responds, somewhat contemptuously, "You sound just like your mother", before beginning the attack on Haven.

In "Our Way", Ruby thinks of Summer to tap into the mental state needed to use her Silver Eye powers, and she successfully petrifies a Leviathan in Argus.

Atlas Arc[]

In "Pomp and Circumstance", Ruby and Qrow have a conversation about Summer's last mission and the unknown nature of her disappearance. Ruby also wonders what she would've done had she learned the truth about Salem, to which Qrow tells her he believes she would've pressed on, like her.

During "Gravity", Ruby tells Salem that even if killing her is impossible, she can still be stopped. However, Salem looks at the girl and tells her that's exactly what Summer said, and that in the end it wasn't true. Ruby proceeds to break down in grief, thinking of her mother.

In "Witch", Yang calls Salem out on all the destruction she's caused and that everyone she's lost was because of her. When Salem scornfully asks who she's taken from Yang, the latter replies Summer, which causes Salem to smile at hearing her name again.

In "Risk", having killed The Hound only to discover that its' core was a Silver-Eyed Faunus, Ruby wonders if Summer met the same fate. Filled with horror and despair, she theorizes to Yang that Salem stopped killing the Silver-Eyed Warriors when she encountered Summer, because she found a new use for them. Despite being devastated by this possibility, Yang affirms that Summer took a risk when she left for her final mission, and that, regardless of how it turned out, she was still her hero.

In "Of Solitude and Self", when Ruby, during her Ascension, touches the glass case holding her mother’s weapon Sundered Rose, she unintentionally sees her memories of her last mission, finding out that she lied and left with Raven. Angered, Ruby pushes the glass case down breaking it, realizing Summer wasn’t the perfect hero that she believed. However, when Ruby sees her own weapon in another case, she chooses it and finishes her ascension, deciding that she doesn’t need to be perfect and to just be herself.

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