Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-4830106-20140725003808/@comment-14909251-20140802013851

96.254.157.84 wrote: Ruby already has the dead relative aspect covered. Doing the same thing with Weiss would be repetative. From what I can gather in the first season, Weiss grew up living a pampered life, but was constantly abused by her father, who took his frustration for the White Fang out on her.

Weiss hardly seems like the person to be afraid to step out of her comfort zone. In fact, she seemed rather excited to go to Beacon, perhaps to get away from her horrible household. Unless they go with "Team Broken Homes" as a theme for RWBY. Blake has no apparent family (I'm gonna go with orphan), Weiss may follow the Snow White storyline a bit with a wicked stepmother who stepped in after her mother died, Ruby's mom is implied to have been a huntress who died in the line of duty, and maybe Yang's mother is the person she was asking about in the club.