Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-33053086-20180201061103/@comment-14909251-20180406232616

SomeoneYouUsedToKnow wrote: Assuming Weiss wasn't lying her ass off to Yang or remembered something terribly badly (she was 10 at the time, so 8 years before Vol.5), Jacques never loved Mama Schnee, but she only found out 10 years after Weiss was born.

And at that point in time Winter and Whitley were already born (Whitley doesn't seem like he's much younger than Weiss. 3-4 years younger, top). So it's very unlikely any of the W Schnees is a bastard.

Retconning that info to make any of them, not necesarily Weiss, be born out of an affair, feels just plain cheap and unnecesary. There's no need to turn Weiss's life-story into a soap opera. To be fair, Weiss suggested her mother already knew he didn't love her with his remark merely confirming what she felt and given how Jacques has behaved, it is entirely possible her reasons for knowing that already are the kind of thing that would drive someone to another person. Basically, we are given the impression the real rift was created then, yet it is possible the rift was already there even if it wasn't apparent. Weiss was only ten, so it is quite plausible that before that there were things going on she didn't really see or know about or perhaps things she just wasn't ready to share with Yang.