Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-410526-20160214074328/@comment-410526-20160227150832

VedranTheII wrote: Yang tells us her dad sort of shut down after Sumer, which made us wonder if he was a tad reclusive or cold… I feel like this was never in question unless you misinterpreted things. Every other time Tai is mentioned, he is referenced as being a loving if somewhat overprotective father. Ruby says he wouldn't approve of all the boys in "The Shining Beacon, Pt.2" and later says that Yang fussing over Ruby and telling her to making friends makes her sound like their dad in "The First Step".

Wanting your kid to make friends and stay away from nasty boys is normal father stuff... And shutting down is a normal response to losing your wife/SO tragically. Besides which, we know he'd since recovered from that state from the other comments Ruby made about him. I don't think it was ever a question that Tai has always been a caring father for Ruby and Yang.

(and if it was, the comment about shutting down in "Burning the Candle" was only 2 episodes before we got Zwei in "Field Trip" so that was only in the air for the briefest of periods)

VedranTheII wrote: Yang also made it clear her mother ran away…and then when her life is in danger…yeah. Raven saved her when her life was in serious danger and then promptly disappeared again. Even before we learn that she will only do this once, I'm not sure how that makes her a good, caring mother. She clearly wants no part in Yang's life and will only show up (and only once!) if she's literally about to die. There's enough drama there to fill an Oscar-winning movie about parental abandonment...

I do totally agree that Winter and Weiss' relationship was a lot warmer than we might have been initially led to believe. In addition to the whole bunkbeds thing there's the bit where Weiss seems really adamant about not talking to her sister at the CCT that made me think Winter and Weiss were not on good terms as they turned out to be.

But, I don't think there's any chance they'll do the same thing with Papa Schnee. He's basically the final boss of Weiss' plotline and is by all accounts a pretty bad dude. His relationship will unquestionably be played for drama (and it already has, with the phone calls and also in the Manga).