Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-4830106-20131108040231/@comment-14138255-20140302152128

Angren Túrë wrote: Would certainly do a lot to undermine Weiss' faith in Blake. If Weiss found out that Blake was involved in her hypothetical mother's hypothetical disappearance. I'd really like to see that episode. Well Blake would not know, she wouldn't recognize her, and the Fang would pull a "she's no one now" bullshit on her (and she would not look in to it due to the trauma). What I had in mind is that she would see her mother being taken by the Fang (while also pleading she had a daughter), but not look into it because more people were being kidnapped and she was just another poor soul in the end. Then when Weiss is looking at a picture of her mother (say) alone in the dorm, then Blake recognizes her and panics and tells Weiss everything. Weiss would be mad at her, but also relieved that her mother is alive and Blake agrees to volunteer to look for her.

The Devil's Advocate WP wrote: Well, in my fic (note the shameless plug), she dies tragically of illness, but there is more to it than that. She is not killed by the White Fang, because I feel that is far too overdone. I had the same illness theory too, I imagined it like an ancestral disease that has been plaguing the Schnee Dynasty for years (much like Hector's family in Fire Emblem.