Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-28522425-20161227021237/@comment-28522425-20161227184450

The message that I got from the last WoR was: Only a true'' Schnee is worthy of running the SDC, so if you don't have Schnee blood you don't deserve to run it. Oh, and Jacques Schnee is a sociopath because he looks out for the company's best interests''. Prsonally, I don't like that message.

I believe that in-universe, Jacques has gotten a lot of crap for running the company despite not being a real Schnee, therefore not deserving it. Weiss was quite clearly trying to hurt him when she said that he only married into the family. Now I don't have kids so I wouldn't know for certain, but I would probably slap them too if they insulted me like that.

I think that Jacques himself believes that he earned his place, a thought I can not completely disagree with. He was chosen to run the company by Nicholas himself, who chose him over his own daughter, who probably wasn't fit to run it. Talking about Mrs.Schnee, the only things we know for certain are that she is an alcoholic and it can be inferred that her own children don't think highly of her.

So yeah, Jacques most likely married into the family so he could become president, which is probably the best thing that could have happened in order to both maintain the success of the company and keep a Schnee as president.