Summer Rose

*This article is about the **Summer Rose** character. For articles that share the same name, see Summer.*

## Profile

### Likes

Fairy tales, cookies, dogs, roses, the colors red and black, her family, telling stories, magic, happiness, helping others, joy, happy endings, cooking, daydreaming, Ruby's relationship with Kallen, mischief, strategy games

### Dislikes

Prejudice, manipulation, her loved ones in danger, disrespect, confinement, Raven's stubbornness, selfishness, rudeness, arrogance, ignorance, Salem

## Professional Status

### Previous Team

**STRQ*** Taiyang Xiao Long
* Raven Branwen
* Qrow Branwen

## Relationships

### Children

Ruby Rose (Daughter)
Yang Xiao Long (Stepdaughter)

## Voice Actors

### English

Morgan Garrett

**Summer Rose** (サマーローズ, *Samā Rōzu*) was Ruby Rose's mother and was the leader of Team STRQ. Her gravestone is at a cliff in the Cliffside Forest. Her weapon was Sundered Rose, an axe that also functioned as a hunting rifle.

It is revealed that Yang Xiao Long is Ruby's half-sister, making Summer Yang's stepmother. Summer is believed to have died prior to the start of the series, and it is implied that Summer faced Salem at some point before her disappearance.

According to Yang, Summer was a highly-skilled Huntress. She was a member of Team STRQ alongside Taiyang Xiao Long and the Branwen twins, Raven and Qrow Branwen, serving as the team's leader. Yang describes Summer as a "super mom" and still fondly remembers her cookies.

## Description

### Appearance

Summer was a beautiful young woman with silver eyes, fair complexion, and graduating black-into-red hair. In "Our Way" as part of her daughter's flashback, she had shoulder-length hair tied back in a half-up/half-down style and wore a hooded cloak which is white outside and red underneath. Under that cloak is a similar outfit to her daughter's but mostly black: a high-neck décolletage blouse with studded wristbands on the arms, a black and white overbust corset, a skirt with white tulle underneath, gray leggings, and black knee-high boots with red soles.

In a photograph of her in her younger days with Team STRQ, Summer's face was partially obscured by her cloak as well as much of her outfit aside from part of a black pleated skirt, which was similar to her daughter's style. In comparison to the rest of her old team, she appeared to be the shortest.

Her casual outfit is a one-piece red dress with white frills under the skirt and exposed shoulders, separate black sleeves with red and black bracers and a separate black skirt that covers most of the red one underneath. She wears a less bulky version of her white cloak with a red inner liner, which is secured by a pair of black leather straps with leaf-shaped pins that attach to the cloak at the shoulders before crossing above her chest and eventually attaching to a set of thick black belts around her waist. Prior to leaving for her last mission she wore the same rose pendant that her daughter would later don where the two straps overlapped above her chest. Covering her legs is a pair of grey leggings and on her feet is a pair of black high-heeled boots with red highlights.

### Personality

Yang described Summer at best as an attentive mother to both her and Ruby. Summer cared deeply for Ruby and Yang, regardless of the latter being her step-daughter. In "The More the Merrier", Raven notes that Ruby shares some ideals with Summer, believing in working together to beat Salem, stating that, "You sound just like your mother."

In "Pomp and Circumstance", when Ruby asks what her mother would've done had she learned the truth about Salem, Qrow tells her that he believes Summer would've pressed on, like her. He describes Summer as "always the best of us", but also claims that she could be a bit of a brat sometimes. The earlier notion was further proven by Salem who claimed Summer told her she would stop her despite her immortality, as Ruby spoke similar words to her image in Atlas.

## Powers and Abilities

Summer was a skilled Huntress, graduating from Beacon Academy, and going on missions until her presumed death. In addition to being a "Super-Mom", Summer was described as a "slayer of giant monsters" by Yang. According to Qrow, she and her team were rather well-known during their time at Beacon, suggesting a similar reputation and record of accomplishments as Team RWBY. She was apparently skilled enough for Salem to have to deal with her herself, as Salem hinted that the two of them had fought sometime before her death.

### Weapon

Summer's weapon of choice was revealed during the events of Volume 9. Sundered Rose was shown to be a hybrid between an axe and rifle, hinting that Summer was skilled in using both forms of the weapon.

### Silver Eyes

Summer, and by extension her daughter Ruby, comes from a line of warriors who possess powerful abilities related to their Silver Eyes. The extent of their power is unknown, but according to an ancient legend, those with Silver Eyes were destined to be warriors, and the Grimm feared them. It is gathered that Silver Eyes are capable of blinding, petrifying and even disintegrating Grimm. As she has not been seen using them, it is unknown how skilled she was with them.

## Etymology

* Roses are a type of flower that are usually a red color, but also exist in white varieties.
* Summer is one of the four calendar seasons, usually characterized by warm weather, which brings warm colors to mind.

## Trivia

* Summer and Ruby share the same Emblem design.
	+ Though on the show both emblems are shown as gray due to being carved in either metal or stone, Ruby's is seen to be red on other *RWBY* media.
	+ Aside from her overall look and Emblem, Ruby also shares her mother's last name instead of her father's, the reason for this is unknown.
* Summer and Ruby also share the ability to emit rose petals.
	+ Unlike Ruby's solid red petals, Summer's are two-toned, just like her cloak.