User blog comment:Angren Túrë/Weiss' full backstory (as I see it)/@comment-23784953-20130730170710/@comment-4830106-20130730182208

Those are all good points, so here's my (quite lengthy) response. I forgot to mention this, but there are these things I'm taking into account (yes, making this even less possible). Also bear in mind, I do watch more Game of Thrones than is probably healthy for me, thus I forgot about Main Character Immunity.

I'm working under the impression that SDC is already under investigation by the time Raureif (I will be using his name) starts making plans to kill Weiss, so he has to tread very carefully in order to not arouse public suspicion about her death. He is also very paranoid about this kind of thing.

He also severely underestimates Weiss when he sends the Giant Armor after her. He figures the Smoke will be enough to finish the job, and not have to waste further company resources (and possibly cause a red flag on police monitors) by suddenly having a large amount of AK-130 Androids on the premises. He could say 'extra security', but I'm pretty sure that would sound thin at a press conference.

As for having an Android pick her off and then blaming it on a White Fang member, you got me there. I can't really come up with a solid defense for that, other than that Androids have a hardwired security protocol in which they cannot fire on members of the Schnee family.

But I get the feeling that Raureif is going through all these elaborate schemes that have the potential to fail because deep down in his warped subconscious, Weiss is still his daughter. So every time he hits on a plan, he unconsciously sabotages it because that last little bit of decency doesn't have the balls to go through with said plan.

That's the reason he can't kill her himself. That, or there is a huge cultural/religious stigma against personally killing a relative that even the lowest criminal would hesitate to defy (think "no man is as accursed as the kinslayer").

I don't think Raureif viewed the Concert as a potential opportunity to kill Weiss. Instead, it was his way of enacting revenge for his failed plot by humiliating his daughter. And if he could close a marriage deal, Weiss' husband would have more claim to the Schnee company than she would (assuming that succession rights are male-dominant), thus eliminating the necessity of killing her. This possibility doesn't occur to him until the first marriage offer though, thus his attempts to kill Weiss.

He's also not going to just let an accident happen at Beacon, which I feel like I have to explain a lot whenever I post my ridiculous Weiss backstory theories. It's anyone's guess as to how this would be accomplished, but the easiest way to do it would be to pay off someone (as to who, I have no idea) to "accidentally" use lethal force on the training room floor.

So on the whole, yes, Raureif is sort of like a classic supervillain with all of his elaborate and faulty plans. But that's because his wife's death began to gradually drive him insane, although he hides it very well. Or he's more subtle than I originally characterized him as, and everything he does is an elaborate scheme to slowly drive Weiss insane.

Overthinking? You know, just a little XD.