Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-4010415-20141223120240/@comment-24198837-20150106235539

I had a whole thing typed out, but I hit a hyperlink. Damn.

Anyway, crux of the now-nonexistent paragraph was that Weiss can see past the poor and downtrodden faces of many Faunus - it's just that any one of them could attempt to kill her at any time, and she's placing her own survival above being polite. She assumes the worst in people because the worst is a threat to her life. She's removing, or at least noting, potential threats. Once someone's proven that they're not a threat, she accepts them. She just needs proof that she's safe around them first.