Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-27404492-20170709002747/@comment-141.134.109.210-20170712101652

ChishioKunrin wrote: Terminus99 wrote: Ouran High School Host Club, heh.

I remember that a long long time ago, when I was a kid, my cousin, who was a teenager at the time, showed me the first episode of an anime. It wasn't until fairly recently that I discovered that that anime was Ouran High School Host Club.

I didn't understand why she liked watching cartoons in Japanese with subtitles, but she said I would understand someday. Needless to say, she was right.

That being said, I still haven't watched it.

My current headcanon is that Jacques was born in poverty in Mantle, and had to work very hard to get where he is now. His hard work was noticed ny Nicholas, who served as a father figure for Jacques. I can't help but wonder how many people watched Ouran when they were preteens when the English dub came out. I mean... I know there are people my age who watched it a long time ago, and I expected it to be very, very innocent and child-friendly, so I was surprised that it does actually reference and mention mature things like BDSM, rape, and morning wood (that one was referenced with a visual metaphor). They even made a joke about gay terminology ("pitcher", as in top).

I can't help but think that we would have evidence of Jacques being a little more... nice and grateful when it comes to Nicholas' daughter, if that were the case. However, instead, we have evidence that the two loudly argue a lot and his wife may take to the drink more than she should. It's not because he might have liked Nicholas that he extends those feelings to Willow. Nicholas might have been a sort of mentor figure, which is already assuming Jacques ever liked Nicholas at all. It could very well be that he thought Nicholas took credit for a lot of his own ideas. We know Nicholas did a lot of stuff: travelling and protecting the Dust, handling the firm,... A lot of stuff to micromanage.

They might have liked each other or they might have had a sort of Crusty the Clown/Sideshow Bob kind of relationship where Nicholas took credit for Jacques ideas. It's difficult to say how good both were. Nicholas was a starter, whereas Jacques had a solid base. Nicholas however worked in a golden time, whereas presumably the wind in the sails of the Schnee Dust company had already become much smaller or dissapeared completely by the time of Jacques took over hence the competition needing to be crushed. Jacques is a good businessman no doubt about it. How good Nicholas actually was is up to debate.

However if they liked each other then Jacques wouldn't necesarry like Willow, especially considering her maybe not being interested in the firm was viewed as sloth by Jacques or as wasting a precious gift. For a poor man it would be incromprehensible why a rich person woudn't be interested in the source of their wealth and for an impoverished noble it would hit too close home. Or they simply weren't compatible, happens as well. Jacques needed her for the company though and that might very well have caused him to resent her.

Doesn't really help that the World of Remnant about the SDC (one of our main information sources about the SDC) was narrated by Qrow who is obviously not a big fan of Jacques. This alone already makes it so that everything he says about both Jacques and Nicholas needs to be taken with a bit of salt. Is Jacques as bad as he says? Is Nicholas as good as Qrow claims?

-TheShadowOfZama