Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-27404492-20170417075739/@comment-14909251-20170508020127

Arkantos95 wrote: Except she's not a total noob, she's been training for years to use and control it. The standard applies.

I'm not rationalizing abuse, I'm only saying that Weiss being grounded and stripped of a title she had no real rights to beyond her last name for almost comitting manslaughter was a fairly reasonable course of action. The only problem was that Jacques is an asshole and as such was an asshole about delivering said punishment. It is important to note that Weiss couldn't even do a full summon in Volume 3. She still seemed to struggle with it in Volume 4 after accidentally summoning the Boarbatusk. There is no indication that she had been training in the six months between Volumes so it is likely that she hadn't got any better at it in that time. Obviously, there is a big difference between using Glyphs to launch someone like a slingshot and being able to summon then control a physical entity. You can say it isn't about rationalizing abuse, but you completely neglect that the series of events that led to her accidentally triggering her Semblance included him physically grabbing her arm and reprimanding her for being distraught over a very serious tragedy that personally affected her. All he did was make a bad situation worse and the result was her falling then accidentally triggering her Semblance, which he then used against her without any understanding, sympathy, or sense of responsibility for his own actions.