Talk:Whitley Schnee/@comment-2A02:1810:4D0F:A000:8EA:6C2:6B7E:228C-20170822153102

Recently I stumbled upon a very interesting article (10 Richest People of All times and How They Made Their Fortunes) that is honestly quite fitting to the Schnee family situation. It talked about the richest men in history and a couple of them really hit home with the family situation of the Schnees. Namely Henry Ford and Cornelius Vanderbilt. These guys were insanely competent business men (and lucky as well) and acted a lot like Jacques Schnee.

Currently Jacques acts more like Cornelius and I hope he doesn't go into 'Ford mode', because that guy really fucked up his son.

Basically Cornelius also wanted only one heir to his steamboat (later railroad) business empire, which was William Henry Vanderbilt (eldest son, he had three elder daughters as well). Apparently he often verbally abused William.

Henry Ford went even further literally driving his son Edsel to suicide by bullying him.

What am I trying to say? Either Jacques and Whitley have a sincerely better relationship or Whitley had and has to put up with the same abuse as his sisters and either he is going to take it in stride or maybe he is even going to break under it. Whilst I honestly hope Whitley and Jacques have a better relationship, maybe it could be an interesting story arc.

I am curious to see how Weiss leaving will affect Jacques. Maybe he doesn't care or maybe he becomes truly pissed off and only Whitley and Willow (mama Schnee) are near him and the latter is perhaps an alcoholic who has perhaps zero shits left to give. Not exactly a good target if you want a reaction.

It could be an interesting story arc (dark as well) to see Whitley going from merely trying to be an opportunistic boy trying to one up his sister who he sees as the cause of some of his problems by being a little rebel to becoming the Weiss substitute punching bag of Jacques and what happens after that depends. Maybe he gets a semi happy end with his father liking him, maybe he breaks and becomes a psychopath, maybe he breaks and becomes as ruthless as Jacques,...

Maybe my idea is a bit too dark for RWBY. Well regardless I hope I inspired some people to research these historical figures.