Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-14138255-20171205173000/@comment-14909251-20171217173251

Smaug55 wrote: It’s so weird watching Volume 1 and thinking of Weiss as the victim of the show. In fact, when you think about it everything she did during Volume 1 that made her same bad looks very different in context. Weiss arriving at Beacon was her finally being essentially free of her toxic and abusive family environment Then the first thing that happens is some bright-eyed girl two years her junior knocks over her stuff and blows her up. Given how Jacques is the reason for their bad name and the way he has treated the family, then Blake's response (leaving aside her secretly having been part of an organization that has apparently killed people close to her family) is an even deeper wound.

Although it hasn't really entered into the series yet, "It's My Turn" also implied Jacques was constantly diminishing her talents and putting her down by saying she could do nothing without him (a common manipulation by an abuser). In that respect, it makes all the more sense why she was so determined to succeed in every respect such as wanting to be team leader or trying to link up with Pyrrha. Doing so was not just about a desire for success, but to prove she really could be the best without needing Jacques for anything. However, Ruby kept stealing her thunder.