Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-17760348-20131021233145/@comment-82.12.156.248-20140406200127

My head canon for each is as follows:

Weiss - Mother was a huntress that retired early in order to start a family with Mr. Schnee. She was killed short enough ago that Weiss remembers and it still scars the family. Like her mother used to, her father tries to be the nurturing father, but fails. She's showered with materialistic gifts but she has some resentment towards her parents for never succeeding in being mommy or daddy, or for giving her a younger brother or sister to care for.

Ruby and Yang - Is Ruby's half sister. They shared a mother until she was ripped away. Yang's father became Ruby's adoptive father Yang took the matriarchal role to fill in for their mother. Ruby resents Summer for abandoning her whilst also harbouring some level of anger towards Yang for treating her like a fragile, helpless child. Yang knows more about Ruby's mother's death than she's told Ruby about. Ruby's actual father is just gone, either leaving her and her mother when they were younger, or being forced to surrender Ruby due to being branded psychological unfit following the death of Summer.

Blake - I'm gonna get a lot of flak for even speculating based on nothing. BUT I believe Blake's parents were already members of the White Fang during pregnancy. Blake's mother died during child birth and her father possibly labelled unfit to care for her (obviously I don't use that same father cliche for Ruby when I use it for Blake). This led to Blake being adopted by other members of the White Fang and from that is her sense of loyalty that demanded her allegiance to the White Fang for at least several years following the regime change.

JNPR - I odn't think their parents are gone. I also don't think they have sob stories in general. Ren and Nora's friendship is a direct result of family friendship (the Valkyries and Rens are close so naturally Ren and Nora bonded throughout childhood). Jaune is likely the middle child to add to his average teenage boy archtype with his parents still actively pursuing careers as on the side hunters. Pyrrha, I'm not too sure. I flip-flop between Asian Perfectionist parenting style and nurturing average family. Basically either her family demands success because it runs in the family or her family is a bunch of average joes with Pyrrha being the prodigy child, the diamond in the rough.