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I think that instead of an actual, abusive relationship, her dad was instead just neglecting of her. Barely spent time with Weiss, if he even spent some with her in the first place.

This could actually explain other things. Weiss wanted to become a Hunter, in part to get her father's attention. The scar, she either got it while practicing, or during a fight (probably with the knight) to show to her father that she could become a good Hunter.

A neglecting parent can be worse than an abusive one. The abusive one at least pays attention to you, and in some cases their abuse is actually just them trying to help their kid improve, but don't know how, and along with other problems it ends up in them probably hurting the child one way or another by accident/and not realize it at first.

But a neglecting parent doesn't even pay attention to you at all. They make one feel like the child doesn't even exist to them, that they don't care about them or what happens to them, and in some cases they are right. Abuse can lead to the creation of bullies and woobies, but neglect can lead to the formation of criminals and different kinds of bullies, probably loners too. And neglect causes more suicides than abuse.

Hell, for all we know, maybe Weiss actually made that scar herself, trying to cut her eye to get Papa Schnee to pay attention to her. And it probably failed.