Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-294840-20170719134411/@comment-4010415-20170730072832

73.Anon.52 wrote: His father? He may not vocally oppose him, but he likely doesn't give the warm fuzzies of trusting him completely. I dunno about that...

He says that using combat skills as a Huntsman is beneath both him and Jacques, then questions what a Huntsman can do that an army cannot, then says "That's why we have one, even if it is run by a fool." I don't get the impression that he's calling Jacques a fool. I honestly wouldn't be surprised if Jacques thinks Ironwood is a fool, and Whitley agrees with/copies Jacques' opinion.

I mean, look at how Jacques talked about Ironwood in Remembrance, when he was alone with Weiss:

"It's a wonder Ironwood wasn't stripped of his rank. I suppose the council trusts him, for better or worse."

"Thanks to him, Atlas is forbidden from exporting Dust to other Kingdoms. "A precautionary measure," as he puts it, "until we're certain no one is going to declare war". How anyone could possibly find that to be sound logic is beyond me."