Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-11188061-20130624121001



'''Facts '''

-        Ruby visited a grave with ‘Summer Rose’ carved onto it.

-        Weiss was given a test of arms, and she succeeded at the price of a scar on her face.

-        Blake was a team with Adam (robbing?) but she left him at the end of the trailer.

-        Yang is searching for a missing girl. She finds Junior, the information broker who was said to know everything. Ruby appeared to be headed towards the bar in the end as well.

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'''Assumption '''

With exception of Yang and Ruby, neither of the girls knew each other in person.

They’re all self-sustainable, with exception of Weiss who’s born into a wealthy family.

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'''Weiss First Theory: '''

Now then, before we start. As far as I could remember there were arguments regarding the scar on Weiss’ left eye. Some said that she got it when she fought the Golem and got punched for the trouble. Some said that she had it before the fight, even though it was evident in the trailer that at the beginning of the fight, her face was perfectly scar free. But the fact was she did have the scar after she got punched by the golem, but it was an old one and not in the slightest new: simply put it did not look like a fresh wound no matter how you would like to dress it.



So what in the blazes is going on? Was there a rendering error? Did the lighting hide the scar so we couldn’t see it at the beginning of the fight? Was the scar purposely off-centered or not? Did, oh my god, director Monty Oum just made a mistake?



<p class="MsoNormal">Yeah, I had one helluva good laugh reading the wiki. I’m still labeling it here as theory because nothing can be proven until the episode comes out, but I believe I have the answer to the MYSTERY OF THE SCAR. *chuckle chuckle* It is indeed surprising how people overlook the simplest of things.

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<p class="MsoNormal">Okay, enough laughing. Without further ado, the answer to the mystery is… *badaaaaauuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuummmmmmmmmmmm*

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<p class="MsoNormal">Weiss had makeup on.

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<p class="MsoNormal">… It was a shock wasn’t it? Actually, it might not, because I think many people should’ve discovered the answer by now. I would’ve edited the wiki, but I’m afraid that someone might edit it right back to save face so I’m putting it down here instead. Yes, the simple answer to the mystery is in fact, very simple: Weiss put on makeup to hide her scar. That is why before the fight you could see no scar on her face (for god’s sake, lighting?? Lighting?? Who the hell came up with that shit?), and after the punch the makeup came off and hence you could see it.

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<p class="MsoNormal">Weiss Second Theory

<p class="MsoNormal">Let’s recall Weiss’ heritage. She is wealthy, a superstar singer, and very likely princess and heir of a royal family. Judging from the lines, ‘Mirror, mirror, tell me something; who’s the loneliest of them all?’ she must’ve met almost no one personally except for her mentors, her family, her guards, and her books. Oh yes, Weiss very likely has a fondness for books of the fairy tale-genre, and especially Snow White. Long story short, Weiss is an incredibly lonely girl who knew almost nothing about real relationship. We could almost be certain that her family was not a point of intimate connection for Weiss.

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<p class="MsoNormal">Now then, other than lonely, what else can we attribute to Weiss? She is extremely talented with a saber, can manipulate multiple types of magic; can combine both arts to incredible effects and with supernatural balance (which means she can strike at will from all directions). And she is a royal princess. Pampered as she was, we can say that Weiss, despite all of her talent has never met a real challenge in life, and even if she had a tight rein on it, Weiss was confident with her skills to the point of arrogance. She didn’t think – can’t really imagine, really, given how little of the world she saw – that she could be defeated, and even as the day of the royal test comes by, Weiss never thought it to be a problem.

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<p class="MsoNormal">That is until a few days before the royal test, perhaps even the day before, Weiss was attacked by an unknown intruder. Perhaps the intruder was targeting her specifically; perhaps the intruder was after something else and she happen to be in the path. Not only that she nearly lost – perhaps she did lose – to the unknown assailant, she nearly lost her left eyes and was scarred as a result. A cut down the eye, hurt by something sharp. A blade or something shorter. At any rate, it shook her confidence greatly, and her mind has been on that battle ever since. The first time she encountered someone from the outside world, the first time she lost a fight.

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<p class="MsoNormal">Now then, before I continue, why didn’t I speculate Weiss sneaking out of the castle and got a fight somewhere? That’s because Weiss is a good girl. She is responsible, she ‘understands’ the needs of the kingdom, and while she might have moments of longing for the outside world she wouldn’t even think of leaving. Her quiet attitude can be seen as being submissive, though I think that Weiss truly believe that her place belonged to the kingdom, and that it was unnecessary for her to go anywhere else.

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<p class="MsoNormal">Continuing on. There weren’t many people in the world that could beat Weiss despite her being a greenhorn in real brawls. Her mastery in magic was especially troublesome where she could easily displace an enemy’s location, as seen where she managed to float the Armored Golem in the air with ease. This meant that the enemy must’ve been pretty quick and slippery on their feet that Weiss’ magic couldn’t catch up. But Weiss wouldn’t lose in terms of speed alone since she’s pretty quick and sharp-eyed herself, so this enemy had to be incredibly tricky. This person doesn’t fight like a fencer, they don’t fight according to the rules, and they are completely out of Weiss’ predictions that she ultimately got cut in the eye.

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<p class="MsoNormal">How many in the world could be this good, I wonder. How many would be good enough to sneak past the heavily guarded area, fought the princess to a stalemate and even cut her eye, while still managing to escape?

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<p class="MsoNormal">How about a person from the shadows? How about, say, Blake Belladona?

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<p class="MsoNormal">There are in fact a lot of circumstantial evidences that support this theory. Consider Weiss’ fight against the Armored Golem. At the beginning, she had tried to overpower it through sheer speed and piercing strikes alone, in which she got in return a harsh beating. And then she switched tactics and began to use the skill she’s best in, that is spatial control, and began dancing all over the air and striking again and again at the enemy’s joints. This however still failed, and she got a wake up punch to the face that finally roused her into seriousness.

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<p class="MsoNormal">Notice that before the punch, she did not use any other magic except for her own White. I believe that she was seeing not the Armored Golem, but the enemy that had nearly blinded her when she initially fought. Her pride was so wounded that she tried to fight with just speed and strength alone – which she has, but a style that was unlike her. I believe that she is usually much more coolheaded and fought mainly through intelligence and pattern prediction. Perhaps she could not believe that she was outthought, or maybe she couldn’t believe that she was bested at agility. Blake might even have provoked her into thinking that she was relying too much on the magic and lost because of it – that actually sounds pretty plausible. In any case, she definitely wants to fight her assailant again, so much that it nearly affected the royal test.

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<p class="MsoNormal">Look at that crestfallen look on her face when she realized she was wounded and bleeding, again and at nearly the same spot. Perhaps there was even fear. It’s a pretty terrifying experience when one of your eyes became blinded by blood. I almost could hear Weiss saying, ‘I lost again’ there. Fortunately the disappointment was only temporary, and instead of losing self-control because of the trauma it only made her more resolved. Weiss realized that the ‘enemy’ she fought before was far stronger than the Armored Golem, and if she was daunted there she would never be able to catch up. Much less winning. You know the rest.

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<p class="MsoNormal">Finally, there was also the fact that the cut on her eye was only superficial and did not reach the eyeball. Believe it or not, while Ruby may have the skill I have a hard time believing that she could’ve done that with such a huge ass scythe. The other culprit is Adam – possible, but he seems to hate the royal family or something (more on that in RWBY Blake’s Theory) and it didn’t seem like him to cut so… lightly. Of course, it may be a form of provocation saying, ‘I can maim you anytime I want’ which does seem like him, but who knows. I do like to think that it’s Blake since she’s shown to be caring of human life, and may have did it intentionally to stop Weiss from pursuing, while not harming her sight.

<p class="MsoNormal">And this is why before fighting the Armored Golem Weiss hid her scar with make up, and why she did not after. At first Weiss was ashamed of the wound because she sees it as an unerasable symbol of her defeat. Afterwards, it became reminder of an extraordinary encounter, and a burning desire she would never forget: To fight the person who wounded her left eye again, and this time come out victorious.

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<p class="MsoNormal">And maybe... maybe she wanted to learn more about the assailant, and the mysterious world he/she brought into her daily life. <ac_metadata title="RWBY Weiss Theory"> </ac_metadata>