Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-27745396-20190617183121/@comment-25936766-20190618172222

Granaatti wrote: Jacques Schnee:

Whitley Schnee:

Weiss Schnee:

Winter Schnee:

Mama (Willow?) Schnee:

Salem's group:

''' Other party: ''' Honestly, all options suck ass in-universe. Who do I think would control the SDC by the end of V7, I don't know, because all options suck and there's in-universe reasons for why each shouldn't happen.

So I'll take this question and do something else: Think about how it would be if each of those options had control of the SDC.

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Jacques: There's only a few things we truly know about him. He's an awful parent, regardless of how true Weiss and Qrow's shit about him is. He is obsessed with PR to an unhealthy extent, but it's not his own reputation what he cares about, but the Schnee's as a whole (kind of...selfishly selfless). And he pays his faunus workers the same as the rest of the mining staff.

In any case, the show tries to promote him as a corporate Satan who screws over everyone just to get ahead. And assuming he doesn't get character development, he's bound to stay the same and keep working the same way he has so far for better and worse.

He's kind of the "safe option" in the sense that nothing would change unless he changes first, which is unlikely because MK have a phobia towards giving character development to assholes. The problem here, however, is that we know so little of the actual way he does things (and the effects of this) that we don't really know if it would be for the best or not.

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Weiss: She could take it over in the far future, but she really can't do it anytime soon unless MK feel like dropping one of their main protagonists to the side before the final battle, which is unlikely. So she's a hard no, or better said it would be stupid if she did (so soon).

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Whitley: We know about Whitley 10 times less than we know about Jacques, and the worst of it is that all of it comes from Weiss. Who didn't even mention Whitley or implied his existence until he showed up out of nowhere in Vol.4, which is a clear indication that she doesn't care that much about him compared to her precious Winter who she loves no matter how much public slapping she gets from her.

Weiss accused him of planning her "downfall", but he didn't even lift a finger. And his response can easily be interpreted as "don't piss off dad, you idiot", which is a perfectly logical answer if Jacques was as abusive on the average day as Weiss makes him sound.

So he's a wild card. He's the current chosen heir, so if Jacques dies or something he takes over, but we can't make a guess about what would happen after that because the most we know about Whitley is that he speaks like a little shit.

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Winter: She's not an option, or shouldn't be. First, she's a Specialist, she has a job and duties that wouldn't allow her to be an efficient CEO, not to mention the chances of dying on the job, while if she sticks to managing the company, Ironwood loses a good soldier, and he's already paranoid to the point of sending all his operatives back to Atlas.

Second, she works directly for Ironwood as a Specialist. Which means that unless someone is a brain-dead ignorant, they would easily see that if she takes over the SDC, Ironwood by proxy takes over the SDC, which would give him complete control of Atlas, militarily, politically and economically. It would be a true dictatorship, and people hate that, meaning protests and riots, which leads to Grimm, which leads to The Fall of Beacon 2: Electric Boogaloo.

So she can't take over the SDC. Either she wouldn't do a good job as a CEO or as a Specialist, or it would lead to everyone dying.

Mama Schnee: There's a reason why her father gave the company to Jacques instead of her. Qrow, IIRC, says Jacques manipulated Papa Schnee to get the company, but he's a depressed drunk who made clear that he hates Jacques, so that idea is worth less than dirt.

And then you just add how she never even interacts with her family, instead just drinking alone forever and somehow not dying from alcohol poisoning. Even in a worst case scenario, only an absolute idiot would give her the world's greatest Dust-working company.

Salem's Group: The only one that could believably take over the SDC is Watts and even then it wouldn't be believable unless MK pull some shit out of their ass like him being the SDC's vicepresident or something.

Something more believable, however, would be manipulating whoever does take it over like he did with Leo.....except, why do that when he can manipulate Ironwood, which is implied in V6 he's already planning to do alongside Tyrian. And Watts, unlike Cinder, isn't some idiotic imbecile with a complexity addiction, if something already works he doesn't fix it.

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Other groups: The Altesian Military taking it over has the exact same problems as Winter taking it over, but more blatant and worse. "Faunus rebels" makes no sense in any way. And aside from the ones already mentioned, the only possible "other group" that could take it over would be some random company never mentioned in the show.