Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-27404492-20170417075739/@comment-25936766-20170504035844

............I admit I haven't been up to date with the whole "Weiss is innocent/guilty, it was an accident" subject, but.....

...The fact is, accident or not, she summoned Pumba, and Pumba almost hurt a guest. The Consolation-Prize Wife, in this case.

Did Weiss plan on doing that? No. Did Weiss want to do it? ....Maybe. In the case Pumba, say, killed the CP Wife, it most certainly would be an Accidental Murder.

.....But, it would've been done via her Semblance. And she's a Huntress in training, at the prestigious Beacon. So she would be considered a profesional, or at least she would be judged on the assumption and expectation that she would have enough control to not do that.

"Accidents happen" is not an excuse, especially for someone like her. And "murder/harm by incompetence" is still murder/harm. While Ironwood likely would show some sympathy, since he himself was at Vale when Beacon fell, Weiss doesn't really have any way to "excuse" what she did.

What really irks me about all this though, is that Weiss did not show any guilt, remorse or shame for what she did. She didn't even apologize, or gave a damn at all.

If you hurt/kill someone by accident, some remorse about it at least gains sympathy from the audience and makes them more likely to forgive or give a lighter punishment.