Summer Rose

**Summer Rose** 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.

According to her stepdaughter 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. The heroes in the fairy tales she read to her daughter Ruby inspired her to become a Huntress just like her.

It is revealed in "Burning the Candle" that Summer was the stepmother to Yang Xiao Long and went missing after a mission, later shown in "Of Solitude and Self" to have involved Raven Branwen. In "Gravity", it is implied that Summer faced Salem at some point before her disappearance.

## History

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.

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.

In Deadpool: Remnant, it was revealed that she was killed by Kronika, rather than Salem.

## 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. Stating that she loved both of them just the way they were, and left Ruby her emblem. In "The More the Merrier", Raven notes, in a mocking tone, 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.

In a flashback in "Of Solitude and Self", Summer reveals another side of her. Primarily, despite Ruby's thoughts of her, Summer was willing to lie to her husband Taiyang by claiming she was going on a mission for Ozpin, when in reality she was leaving with Raven for an unknown mission. This reveals Summer wasn't the perfect Huntress as Ruby assumes, as even Summer had moments of deceit. Though when Raven comments on this, Summer bitterly states the former had no moral high ground while also stating she had every intention of returning home.

## 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.

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.

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.

## Appearances

* Deadpool: Remnant (Mentioned)
* Tales of the Comicverse Episode 8: STRQ
* RWBY: Microverse