Well, since we're in season break rampant speculation mode, I've a few theories I'm waiting to see if they pan out.
- Ozpin's "I've made more mistakes than..." line and commenting on Ruby's silver eyes is because he was on a team with her mother, and something went horribly wrong, leading to her death.
- Glynda and Cinder know each other. When Cinder steps into the door in episode 1, Glynda's eyes narrow before Cinder's powers light up. Recognition?
- Tying into above, the image of Ozpin, Glynda, Cinder, and Ruby's mother (Summer Rose is the current fan name, from the tombstone) being a Beacon team, with aforementioned screwup leading to Summer's death and Cinder's Start of Darkness.
- Cinder is Blake's mother, going on the similar complexion, eyes, and dark hair.
- Alternatively, the fire powers are evidence Cinder is Yang's mother, and Yang was actually adopted into Ruby's family, not the other way around.
- During Blake's background montage, she never uses a gender-based pronoun to describe the new leader. This is to disguise that it's a she, and namely Cinder. Given Blake's backstory has her note "you could say I was born into it", it's entirely possible this ties back to the "Cinder = Blake's mom" theory and explains her defensiveness about the White Fang.
- Weiss' comments about the White Fang attacking her family's company are leaving out other details. She mentions her father a lot, but nothing about her mother. Her mother was another casualty, possibly so young that Weiss doesn't remember her much.
- Extending on this, Weiss's anger at the White Fang and the faunus is also a case of aiming her anger elsewhere than where it's deserved. She mentions her father came home furious every day, and her hand curls into a fist when she mentions a "very awkward childhood". It's possible that Mr. Schnee was actually abusive, and Weiss is directing some of that anger onto the White Fang and the faunus, rather than blame her father.
That's my WMG additions. Anyone else?
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"Oh, silver blade, forged in the depths of the beyond. Heed my summons and purge those who stand in my way. Lay
waste."
- Ozpin's "I've made more mistakes than..." line and commenting on Ruby's silver eyes is because he was on a team with her mother, and something went horribly wrong, leading to her death.
- Glynda and Cinder know each other. When Cinder steps into the door in episode 1, Glynda's eyes narrow before Cinder's powers light up. Recognition?
- Tying into above, the image of Ozpin, Glynda, Cinder, and Ruby's mother (Summer Rose is the current fan name, from the tombstone) being a Beacon team, with aforementioned screwup leading to Summer's death and Cinder's Start of Darkness.
- Cinder is Blake's mother, going on the similar complexion, eyes, and dark hair.
- Alternatively, the fire powers are evidence Cinder is Yang's mother, and Yang was actually adopted into Ruby's family, not the other way around.
- During Blake's background montage, she never uses a gender-based pronoun to describe the new leader. This is to disguise that it's a she, and namely Cinder. Given Blake's backstory has her note "you could say I was born into it", it's entirely possible this ties back to the "Cinder = Blake's mom" theory and explains her defensiveness about the White Fang.
- Weiss' comments about the White Fang attacking her family's company are leaving out other details. She mentions her father a lot, but nothing about her mother. Her mother was another casualty, possibly so young that Weiss doesn't remember her much.
- Extending on this, Weiss's anger at the White Fang and the faunus is also a case of aiming her anger elsewhere than where it's deserved. She mentions her father came home furious every day, and her hand curls into a fist when she mentions a "very awkward childhood". It's possible that Mr. Schnee was actually abusive, and Weiss is directing some of that anger onto the White Fang and the faunus, rather than blame her father.
That's my WMG additions. Anyone else?
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"Oh, silver blade, forged in the depths of the beyond. Heed my summons and purge those who stand in my way. Lay
waste."