Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-28522425-20161227021237/@comment-14138255-20161227204333

I suppose he doesn't want people overshadowing them or saying he doesn't belong, warranted or no. He REALLY doesn't want to just be seen as "the outsider", Jacques Gelee, the guy who married into the family and nothing else. He wants to feel like he's part of the family/is the man of the house now that Nicholas is gone (presumably, he's probably in the Old Man Winter Senior Care Center). He's become so obsessed with being a Schnee and being a part of the family that he fused it with his own reputation.