Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-226878-20140810021742/@comment-107.195.92.37-20140811044220

I would like to put my own theories out there on the discussion of the Schnee family;

1) I think that if Winter where to be younger than Weiss, Weiss as the older sibling would be the prime candidate to leave the company to simply for the fact that she is older and there was no practical reason to disinherit her. Thusly, he would 'lather' her with his 'attention' (though it probably be on a purely business based level) and he would 'praise' her when she did 'right'. Seeing as how he is also a very busy man this would mean that what little personal time he had would be spent on Weiss and would probably only give dismissive attention to Winter (or any other kids of his). This would lead to Winter being resentful to her older sibling for being the favorite and thusly leading to their relationship to be strained and to her trying very hard either to screw Weiss over or to simply try her best to be better than her.

2) If Winter where to be older (or her twin), however, this could mean that for the reason stated above Winter was originally going to be the Heiress, but Weiss began to prove to be a more capable and natural leader and was chosen instead of Winter leading her to be resentful of Weiss (or resenting her out of anger and confusion as to why Weiss was chosen and not her in the case they are twins). Weiss probably was not yet old enough to realise this and thusly had no idea as to why Winter didnt like her so further widened the gap between them by avoiding her in an attempt to not piss her off.

3) Winter could actually NOT be a huge bitch, instead is actually a very kind and considerate sister, however she is blind to the fact that her father is (probably) a bad man. She would actually think the Schnee company is not corrupt (as Blake has stated before) and tries to support the company despite not being the Heiress, and supporting Weiss in her role as Heiress and in her persuing a career as a huntress. Despite this Weiss obviously isnt as blind as Winter trying to ignore these cracks in the company's reputation yet still seeing them and also being a more direct witness to their fathers true character. This leads to the both of them being glaringly different and have little in common leading to an estranged and awkward relationship.

4) It is more likely that there are more Schnee children. Despite the fact that using the teller lady to introduce Winter as a character was an easy route to use, I think we should remember that despite when Scarlet (the red character of Sun's Team) was mentioned by Sun to Neptune it wasnt neccassarily stated WHO Scarlet was, only that it was an acquaintance of theirs. This means that the teller lady probably meant to mention Winter to Weiss so as to avoid confusing her ('Sister? Which sister?') upright and then mentioning her as an after thought. This means that they have at least one other sister.

/rant over