Talk:Schnee Dust Company/@comment-98.176.181.54-20130711011918/@comment-10390252-20130711155301

Personally, I'm a fan of the 'isolated princess in a tower' scenario. Weiss has been educated at home and has never been apart from family 'minders' (au pairs, bodygards and the like). What news from 'outside' she's seen has been carefully edited so that she'd grow up the perfect heir to the corporation. She's never faced the real world to any significant degree before Blake walks up to her and starts rubbing her face in it.

That isn't to say she's brainwashed. She's a smart kid and smart kids learn what their parents are not saying. She would have picked up that there is trouble in paradise and the Iron Giant trying to chop her into fillets has told her that something has gone badly, possibly irrevocably wrong in her family life. What she probably doesn't know in any detail is what and how that's affecting that strange foreign country the rest of the world.

I personally like the thought that, maybe, she's got a 'fairy godmother' character - maybe one of the au pairs who raised her from childhood. She's the one who fostered her singing (and such 'frivolity' got her fired for her trouble) and inspired Weiss to start questioning the sanitised version of the world her parents fed to her.

Yes, I also think that her Wicked Stepmother is going to be the Big Bad.