Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-12443850-20130728193835/@comment-49.144.64.34-20130801041712

Just placing my two cents in:

@CeroWest: Yes, Snow White had an Evil Stepmother. The actual story states that Snow White's birth mother died during child birth, so the King remarried and we get our Evil Stepmother. So, 99.140.247.171's plot could have some bearing, but that's not my point here.

I think we should all remember that Monty is simply ALLUDING to the Brothers Grimm Tales. Ruby wasn't bringing a basket of goodies to her grandmother, nor was Blake inlove with Adam and attempting to break him from his "Beastly" nature.

I agree that the Giant Armor was a test of sorts (but not THE TEST) since, watching the White Trailer again, Weiss seemed unsurprised that the Armor was there in the first place. In my opinion, her movements and reactions were much more similar to that of a duel than an assasination attempt.

In my opinion, the "Test" mentioned in the lyrics of "Red Like Roses" refers to her current admission in Beacon Academy (possibly as a means to discipline her?) due to the fact that her "bratty and spoied" nature, exhibited in the Episode 2 (explaining Monty's comment about her rebellious nature), maybe be unbecoming of an heiress of the Schnee Dust Company.

Perhaps, the "loneliness" she sang of in "Mirror, Mirror" allows us to speculate that her parents (or even just one of them e.g. her mother) are "gone", but "gone" could mean so many things: her parents (or parent) are too busy with work to attend to her, or they are physically not around all the time, or they really are dead.

Basically, her admission in Beacon is to "Tame the Shrew" in Weiss and whoever sent her there is an insider of the Schnee Dust Company.