Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-294840-20170719134411/@comment-14909251-20170914201814

SomeoneYouUsedToKnow wrote:

And Weiss, so far, yelled at guests out of nowhere for (from their perspective) no reason, almost killed one (by accident, but still), showed no remorse for her actions, and in spite of it all demanded the right to leave Atlas, and when she wasn't given that right, she resorted to insulting Jacques in his face, and then blamed her brother (who had done nothing, literally) by accused him of planning all that. I don't know why people keep saying this in a way that badly misrepresents the situation. Jacques insulted her first, for one, so it is kind of absurd to say she insulted him as a mark against her when she was just calling out his hypocrisy for suggesting she wanted to tarnish the family name. Weiss was being put under an incredible amount of stress by Jacques in all of that and doing things specifically at those times that caused her further stress on top of the overall stress of her situation.

The fact she finally lost it when someone at a charity benefit for Vale of all places suggested the people of Vale deserved their suffering is not a mark against her either. You can say people should be able to hold in their stress better, but that isn't really the case with anyone in power. Jacques has lots of stress and we know who he takes it out on when it is too much. At least Weiss was taking it out on people who were behaving horrendously.

Saying it makes her less qualified than Whitley is just not right. Presumably, if she were in control then many of the particularl elements of stress she is experiencing would be gone. Also, she wouldn't need to blow up at people behaving badly because she could simply eject them from the premises as that would be in her power. Under Jacques she has no power and the result is she is forced into repeated stressful situations without any regard for her feelings or needs.

Lastly, she did have a right to leave Atlas and Jacques had no right to keep her from leaving if we assume people the same age as Weiss are considered adults in Remnant as well. Had she demanded he provide for her path out it would be one thing, but she simply said she wanted to leave and it is quite possible she would have accepted leaving with nothing but the clothes on her back. The fact he denied her that is not just wrong, it could very well be considered criminal.