Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-33754845-20190916192846/@comment-14909251-20191129012152

SpiritedDreaming wrote: She doesn't need to kill either of them. Her goal isn't runnig the SDC, it's redeeming the Schnee name. That's why she left her cushy position as Heiress and became a Huntress instead. If she'd been planning to take over the SDC and rework it from the inside, she would have made her actions a lot more political instead of headstrong. Were her goal not running the SDC then she would have renounced her inheritance like Winter. Blake, in a sense, reclaimed her family legacy with the White Fang, but it is also different. For Weiss, her last name is unavoidably tied up with the company. As long as the SDC is in the hands of Jacques, it will be a taint on their legacy. Plus, whatever one might think of her mother, she is not drinking out of mere irresponsibility. She probably was abused by Jacques, if not physicially then emotionally, and Weiss isn't going to be uninterested in helping her mother. This isn't something Weiss can run away from and ignore without having to mail in her hero card.

ChishioKunrin wrote:

I'll be honest, to me, it doesn't even seem to be in Weiss' character for her to kill Jacques.

The way I see it, if someone else tried to kill Jacques and he lay on the floor in front of Weiss, helpless and dying, she would most likely protect and save him, while making it clear to him that she's not doing so out of love or respect for him.

Whitley, meanwhile... would probably let Jacques die, just to be rid of him. Have none of you read the Lord of the Rings novels? I have several times mentioned the Saruman-Grima Wormtongue outcome and think that is a pretty plausible model. Someone who has only seen the movies might not get it, though you would have some idea if you saw the extended edition. The way they did it in the novel was more complex and more what I am thinking.