Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-3146930-20140708014442/@comment-24994749-20140716035403

I agree that the SDC emblem is likely a family crest, given it's practically Weiss semblance.

About Weiss herself being a victim of faunus extremist (because, as I said before, the White Fang turned to violence when she was 12). She mentions crimes committed against family members, friends and boards members, not herself. What made her childhood difficult was the way his father dealt with his anger over these acts against the company.

There are is something people seem to either be missing or don't know: when it comes to family run business, nobody is just a friend because "Friend!" and nobody is called family because "Family! Blood bonds!". I hate to break anyone's illusions, but when money gets involved, your social circles get limited to that people that are useful to the business. If you are leading a large successful company, soon your every move will be done contemplating the future of your business, meaning that if a person plays no role in your business, they will begin to become further and further apart from you until you see them no more.

This doesn't rule out that innocent people might have been targeted but that here "innocent" is more something along the lines of "dude who didn't really rank high enough to be fully aware of the consequences of the orders they carried out".

Now, onto Weiss attitude over the SDC. I will probably get a lot of hate over this opinion but this is what I think about her "rebellious" nature with her sidelined ponytail:

Honestly? She reminds me to one of those former secondary school class mates whose families had an income moderately higher than the rest of the students. When they went rebellious, they would do things like not respecting the school uniform or not brushing their hair but at the end of the day they loved their brand new smartphones, their Play Station and hyper speed internet connection on their gamer computer too much to fail a class on purpose or stand up for their opinion when threatened by their parents to take any of those luxuries from them.

And Weiss, with her sided ponytail, at the same time she wears the company's logo on her combat uniform, grows offended by implications of their practises and uses all of their products, gives me exactly that impression.

Yes, the company name is in her surname, and the logo is in her semblance, but if she was so mad at her dad, she could have, you know, carried her own luggage instead of having servants carry it for her, buy another dust brand and bother to inform herself if the bad things said about her family's company have some truth in them instead of getting offended and throwing a "How Dare you!", or instead of blaming a shitty childhood on the people who gave her father a hard time, she would acknowledge that no matter how angry you are, you don't take it out on your daughter.