Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-6500074-20130310094020/@comment-28277272-20140315040900

I'm not sure where to post this as I am new to this wikia, so I guess this thread (that I've read entirely) will do.

So, I've watched the White trailer over 50 times, I've read every theories I could about this, looked through every piece of information I could gather and here is my theory: Weiss did this scar to herself, consciously. It might sound crazy, but it doesn't come out of nowhere.

I'll just right to the thing that made my mind go "tilt!". First of all, I'd like to specify I think the scenes where she fights and the ones where she sings take place at different times (which explains why she has the scar in the beginning and then it disappears when the fight scene starts). Now take a close look at the moment right after she takes the hit from the armour, at 1:44. She falls on the ground and then sits on her knees. If you look closely at her left eye at 1:50, you can see there is no sign of blood. I first thought it was a matter of angle, but. The video cuts back to the singing scene (the present), then back to the fighting scene, at 2:01. And you can see she is now laying on the floor, rather than sitting, and when you see her face again, she is bleeding. This leads me to think she took a hit which was ellipsed, because of the singing scene.

As many of you said, a punch would cause a bruise, not a cut, which would be easily made by a rapier. Also, I'd like to point out how many hits the characters have taken during the show, and none of them got an injury; none, except Jaune, who got a cut on his cheek... because his aura wasn't up. But Jaune is an amateur, Weiss isn't. Weiss shouldn't have gotten any injury from the punch (besides, she took two punches during the trailer and the first one didn't do anything). And even though she could have gotten the cut, her aura could have healed it (once again, Jaune's cut disappeared when his aura was activated). We still don't know much about auras, but I assume Weiss could have temporarily got hers "down" and caused herself an injury, then deciding not to heal it.

The fact we see her reflection in her eyes right before she inflicts the final hit tends to approve a bit of my theory. The song also seems to lean that way, "save me from the things I see, I can keep it from the world, why won't you let me hide from me?", it clearly doesn't sound to me like she is satisfied by herself. She seems highly judgemental of herself, and my guess is that she might actually hate herself when she doesn't meet her own expectations (or her father's, as many people seem to like the parent issue theory). There's also one other tiny thing, which might not be revelant at all (and might be just me reading into things much)... when she met Ruby for the first time, and said "so watch where you're going!" after scolding her, she looks another way, like she might feel guilty for going overboard. My point is, I think she is aware of the fact she is a difficult person, and even though she cannot help it (she has been raised this way), she stills feel angry at herself.

That's it. I'm aware of the fact my theory sounds crazy, but I think it is a pretty great combination of "she has issues with herself" and "her parents abuse her". It seems to be the more coherent thing to me so far, but I'm open to any criticism, and any new theory. (Geez, I wrote a lot, I might emphasize the important parts...)