Talk:Winter Schnee/@comment-73.167.143.121-20151115172502/@comment-4010415-20151115210053

Their father is harsh, and we haven't heard anything about their mother, so she might not be fulfilling the more... traditionally motherly type things, so Winter might have stepped in to be a caring, motherly figure for Weiss.

When the adults who are supposed to act as parental figures fail to uphold that duty, the eldest child steps in and takes on the parental attitude instead. It happens all the time, even in fiction.