Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-27404492-20170709002747/@comment-141.134.109.210-20170710172037

Jacques a dick no doubt about that. However are his motives good enough to warrant being a dick? Well nobody likes jerks, but we can understand why some people might act as jerks if they got a good reason for it.

So far we don't know enough about his backstory to say for certain. For example as it is right now he presumably married into the Schnee family for the money, fame and power it could bring him. That's an extremely selfish move with little reason to have sympathy for him.

Alternatively he saw an opportunity to enrich himself by becoming the head of the company he was already somewhat raising. Perhaps by being a financial advisor of the sorts to Nicholas. In a sense the power, wealth and prestige of the company was thus a bit of his own already, Nicholas just stole the spotlight in a sense. He needed Willow (presumably the name of Nicholas his daughter) as a way of getting a hold of the power he himself had partially build. Perhaps he didn't even love Willow, but was forced into taking her in order to get the company he did care for.

In the second scenario he's still a dick for using Willow as a sacrificial pawn of a sort, but one with understandable motivations. He wants a company he helped to make great. He wants his share of the cake he helped to bake so to speak.

The guy is a dick, but maybe still deserving of our sympathy. Remember we see him from Weiss her point of view and in her POV he's the villain.

Perhaps if we see the story from his point of view we would see Weiss as an annoying brat that is hopelessly naive about how she wants to run the company and insults the hard work of a hardworking man. Perhaps in a story from his point of view we would see Whitley as the likeable son that supports his father as the only one in the family.

It's all about motivations. I hope they don't make a one dimensional villain of him.

-TheShadowOfZama