Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-27404492-20170709002747/@comment-25936766-20170713213316

2A02:1811:DC01:8400:992C:F51E:442:E8DF wrote

There's of course the possibility with Jacques using drugs or magic or a sort of manipulation Semblance on Nicholas, but that would assume he has one or multiple of those three at his disposal. Not impossible, but not hinted at either. There's another, much simpler possibility, however: Manipulation of the facts.

Like I said before, Nicholas most likely could hardly speak by the time he gave Jacques the SDC. We also know Jacques is perfectly capable and willing to lie, or at least twist the truth somewhat, if it benefits him more.

So maybe, Jacques was alone with Nicholas during his final hours, due to their friendship and all. And later said that Nicholas decided to let Jacques take over the SDC.

Or at least, some other event that would allow him to say with some safety that "Nick said X" while sounding believable-enough.

Though this, nor any of those possibilities I'm quoting, really explains why Jacques is so obsessed with the family's PR. He barely acts like "The people must think Jacques is awesome", he always acts like "The people must think the Schnees are all awesome".