User blog:EmBELLEm/Nicholas Schnee

Young Nicholas Schnee decided to spend his days at combat school, his nights working alongside his father in the dwindling Mantle mines, and anytime in between learning everything he could about anything he didn't know.

Nicholas Schnee is the father of Willow Schnee, father-in-law to Jacques Schnee and grandfather to Winter, Weiss and Whitley. He is the man who originally founded the Schnee Dust Company.

Appearance
Nicholas' appearance is seen in portraits throughout the Schnee Manor. In them, he is shown to be a tall man with long, silver hair and a silver beard,heavily resembling his daughter Willow and his grandchildren,who all inherited his silver hair.

He wore a heavy, ornate suit of armor reminiscent to that of the Arma Gigas, with a black shirt and pants underneath. Nicholas wore a red fur-trimmed cloak which was held by a gold chord. Statue replicas of this armor are seen repeatedly throughout the Schnee Manor.

In RWBY: World of Remnant, he is portrayed as having a red scarf.

History
Nicholas has not been shown in the main series itself, but his existence and history are detailed in Volume 4's seventh episode of RWBY: World of Remnant, "Schnee Dust Company".

In his youth, Nicholas attended combat school and mined with his father in the mines of Mantle. Upon his father's death, he inherited all of what little his father had and used the money to gather a mining team and discover a Dust deposit. Nicholas personally oversaw Dust expeditions around the world and built a trustworthy, upstanding reputation for the Schnee Dust Company that led to the company's success. Nicholas was forced to retire as his youth spent in the mines caused his health to fail later in life. He allowed his son-in-law, Jacques, to inherit the SDC upon being convinced by the latter to do so.

Trivia

 * Whether Nicholas is alive is unknown.
 * The Arma Gigas that Weiss battled and now being used as one of her summons is similar in appearance to her Grandfather's armor.
 * Statues resembling Nicholas' armor appear around the Schnee Manor.

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