Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-16277621-20130823040543/@comment-14909251-20131027040929

BenRG wrote: We know that she likes to put up a front that she doesn't do the softer emotions; maybe her view is that Velvet should handle her own problems. Or, possibly, doing her nails was something to focus her mind on to stop her from jumping the table and using Myrtenaster to make a CRDL shish kebab.

My impression of Weiss is that she is actually extremely nice, but never really shows it. When we see her acting "mean" it is more accurate to say she is being defensive when someone has disrupted her life in some way or has confronted her directly. She is a very passive individual otherwise. As I have said elsewhere, I believe Weiss is actually not very fond of confrontation and is not one to seek it out. The only times when she rushes in is when other lives are on the line and then she will do it without a second thought.

Keep in mind, none of them intervened to help Velvet. The most anyone did is pontificate about bullying and discrimination, which did Velvet exactly zero good. I do not believe this communicates anything about her views of the Faunus. Blake herself only grumbled about Cardin's behavior.

Primsatic wrote: OK, well in that case I'm selling my house and head down to the bookies right now! I'm sure I'll make millions!!

In all seriousness, I don't think we can even begin to suggest that Weiss isn't at Beacon with the full consent of her parents and that she isn't at the very least an unwitting supporter of  the SDC. As evidence to the contrary I'll offer the image of her arrival surrounded by expensive looking luggage, by some private means, with staff to help her, fully stocked with a wide range of SDC products and toeing the company line wrt safety. Weiss being rebellious does not mean her parents will not indulge her desires, especially if they hope she will be dissuaded by pursuing them. I can hardly imagine any wealthy parents happily sending their daughter out to fight a bunch of murderous beasts in the wild. She may have been very persistent about wanting it and they eventually relented.

The most this could mean for her attitudes about the Faunus is that she might have some misconceptions, but even there I am skeptical as she is a well-educated young woman growing up in a more progressive generation.

Again, I think where you will most likely see division is them learning of Blake being a former member of the White Fang. If we presume the SDC has been targeted by the group and consider the more violent tactics they had begun adopting as evidenced by the Black Trailer, then Weiss is more likely to feel personally upset at being in Blake's team over that than any silly issue of her having ears or night vision.