Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-6500074-20130310094020/@comment-3146930-20140320013359

The reason I don't want to bring the White trailer into my opinion of Weiss is because unlike the other three trailers, the person shown in the White trailer and the Weiss we meet in the series seem like two different people. For example, the abilities that White uses against the Giant Armor don't really seem to link up with the abilities Weiss uses in the show. For example in the show, Weiss uses fire, ice, and those platforms to push herself off of. In the trailer, she uses platforms, but they seem to teleport her around in a manner different from the show; as well as her knocking back the armor with some form of red energy and using a bunch of binding-type spells. The only thing that White and Weiss use that are the same are their ice attacks. Also Weiss doesn't really seem like the singing type. Really no songs in the show focus on Weiss and you would think that if she was a singer, she would go and sing something to blow off steam or at least have a song about her.

There is also the fact that unlike the other three trailers, no one is really sure if the fight is just a metaphor or it really happened. I myself like to lean toward it being a metaphor because the trailer seems so different from the others and as I think I said above, White's reflection appears in her eye when she attacks the armor.

I'm also well aware about the life of a rich kid being hard. I have to constantly defend a character on another wiki who has a Movie Star Dad and everyone calls her out on it, saying her life should be all rainbows and sunshine. I understand that Weiss probably had a difficult childhood, especially after she said she had a difficult childhood. However so far her defining feature seems to just be that she is incredibly opinionated, she gets into fight with a member of her team, then makes up later. She gets into a big debate with Blake and then wants to turn her into the police for awhile, which is after she told Ruby a few episodes earlier that she would be the best teammate ever. She is really impressing me on that note btw. But what I'm saying about the life of privilege is that her opinionated attitude is probably a result of her always getting her way, something Peter Port points out right away. She has no censor for her thoughts so she just keeps getting into fights, once again leading to "get into fight with teammate, make up later, rinse and repeat."

I also can tell the difference between "hurt" and "complex." What I like about Blake isn't the fact that she has a dark past, it is the fact that she is trying to overcome her past. She knows that she has done terrible things and is trying to make up for it by devoting her life to protecting people. She also has to learn to trust those around her, which none of the others seem to have a huge problem with. Jaune also had to sort out his problems with himself, his team, and his priorities. It was an interesting arc and I hope he learned something from it.

Like I said, this is just my opinion on the matter and to each their own.