Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-158.125.243.29-20150329080244/@comment-26259025-20150418171941

I don't think Blake has a tail at all to be honest, I think they tend to stick with one animal-like physical feature per Faunus. I could be wrong, but you don't see any Faunus with two.

Yes, it would be in Mr. Schnee's best interests to leave Weiss out of the trouble with the White Fang, no matter how he feels about her. Even if he doesn't love her (which I doubt) he needs to preserve his line of succsession. You've got to believe, if given the chance, the White Fang would kidnap, or maybe even kill Weiss without much hesitation. This also leads me to believe Weiss has not only lived a lonely life, but one of fear and paranoia. Living in terror that someone was going to break in through her window that night, and take her life. That definitely plays in to the "difficult childhood".

Just going to throw another trope out here; What if Mr. Schnee resents Weiss and Winter because they're girls? What if he wanted a son to carry on his name? What if he had two daughters, then his wife passed, leaving him with two girls as his legacy?

I don't know how naming customs, bar the colour rule, work on Remnant. Do women typically take their husbands last name? If so, Weiss inherits the company, and gets married. But she's not Weiss Schnee anymore. She's Weiss -insert husband's last name here-. The CEO of his company- his father's company, his father's father's company- doesn't even go be Schnee anymore.

Then, Weiss has kids. They're not Schnees. They have the last name of Weiss' husband. By all rights, Weiss' first born child would inherit Schnee Industries from her. Suddenly, you have a line of people who don't even go by the name Schnee running Schnee industries.

And, the exact same thing would happen with Winter. And perhaps, Mr. Schnee resents his daughters for being girls because of this. Perhaps Weiss refused to talk to her father because every time she does, he makes passive-aggressive remarks about her being a girl, and makes her feel bad about it.

This is just another possible reason Weiss seems to be ill at ease with her father. He would blame the White Fang for killing his wife, who was supposed to give him a son but died before she could, and he would resent Weiss because she-

A) Reminds him of his wife and B) is a girl, and thus, not his ideal heir.

And every day he comes home furious- becoming more and more bitter.