Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-4830106-20131108040231/@comment-82.12.156.248-20140301091253

Bill2401 wrote: I feel like the whole mother being a huntress who died while Weiss was young theory is too similar to Ruby's (practically confirmed at this point with Red Like Roses Pt. II) backstory. My personal theory is that her mother is either dead but otherwise insignificant, or cold and distant, not cruel like her father, but not comforting. There has actually been as little mention of Ruby's mother actually being a huntress than there has of Weiss's. People just theorised that Ruby's mother was a huntress before they theorised that Weiss's mother was a huntress

As for the likelihood of both having similar backstories, it's possible that Monty may want to go with a "History repeating itself" kind of angle where it's revealed that Ruby's mother was actually part of a team consisting of herself, Qrow, Weiss's mother (or similar family member) and a lion faunus in reference to the Wizard of Oz and having that draw parallels with Team RWBY (which is also made up of a young scythe wielding prodigy, their caring older sister, a feline faunus and an externally cold-hearted woman whom is seemingly trying to better express her emotions).

They could explain Weiss and Ruby/Yang never being told about each other by making it such that perhaps Mother Schnee abandoned her team due to personal differences and decided to marry into comfortable fame. It could make Weiss uneasy if someone points out that Summer's team was a lot like Ruby's given that she seemingly has a fear of becoming like her mother or father. She could start dreading abandonment and leaving RWBY, knowing that her mother's, and Ruby's mother's relationship broke down over time and being reminded that they were essentially a reincarnation of that team.