Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-27404492-20170709002747/@comment-4010415-20170709004426

So, basically, points toward dickishness include:

1. Apparently gets into loud arguments with his wife a lot, enough for there to be a conversation where Whitley says "I heard father shouting with someone in his study earlier" and Weiss' immediate assumption is "Mother?" It's apparently enough to lead their mother to take to the drink, even if it's just wine (which would make her a wino, the wine version of an alcoholic) - this is hinted to with the "already" in "she's already drinking in the garden".

2. Has exhibited controlling behavior, not just toward Weiss, but Winter as well, considering Winter said that he did to her the same thing he was doing to Weiss in volume 3. When Weiss wouldn't answer his calls, he took her bank account hostage.

3. The thing that gets me: Everything about his insistence on Weiss not attending Beacon. Yes, it would make sense for him to worry about her attending school on another continent, but the way that he goes about it all is what gets me.

In the manga, which Kerry has stated is canon, we discover that the White Trailer fight was a result of Jacques making a bet where Weiss' reward for winning would be that he would allow her to attend Beacon. However, what's really telling is that Weiss says that Jacques' secretary is basically telling her she has no chance of winning. This means that Jacques expected her to lose the bet. This means that the bet was intended to be a roundabout way of telling her no, in a way where he could claim "I gave her a chance to prove herself and she failed. Oh well, too bad."

Even though she won the bet and went to Beacon, he apparently still wanted her to keep explaining to him why she wants to be at Beacon. This is shown by Winter's statement of "You can either call him, beg for his money back, and explain once more why you would want to study at Beacon over Atlas, or [...]" She already earned his permission to attend Beacon, but he's still bugging her about it?

4. We can't really just assume that he's being 100% fair to the Faunus just because he said "We offer Faunus the exact same wages given to the rest of our mining staff." As Grey said in another thread, this implies that, in his entire company with a doubtlessly wider range of job positions than miner, he only hires Faunus for the mining jobs. In light of WoR: Faunus saying "Once humanity learned they weren't so different from the Faunus, they still used those differences as an excuse to exploit and alienate them.", it's possible that the SDC is another example of Faunus being exploited for their differences.