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JayHart wrote: I am personally inclined to believe that Weiss is the older sister, based on how much pressure she seems to have been under quite a bit of pressure to be as perfect as possible. My theory has her taking a lot of heat from her father to keep it off of her younger sister, which would actually give her something in common with Yang - the overprotective sister syndrome. This is my favorite theory on the topic.

The main problem with this idea is the almost complete lack of mention of Winter for most of the series thus far, along with the fact that Winter seems to work at the SDC already, indicating that Winter is either older, or had a falling out of some kind with Weiss. x.x

Younger children were usually not as pressured to be successors compared to the older one. They also tend to be laid back because they were left to their own devices since no one had expectations of them. Winter probably had her share on high expectations because of her family but in the end Weiss was the one that would get the most flak simply because she was a the oldest.

Why didn't Weiss want to talk to her? It could be because she wants to avoid her dad as much possible even if Winter wasn't him,or she's a little angry at Winter. Remember how Weiss was not happy with Ruby being leader? It could be the same problem. Since Weiss is judgemental about people she feels like Winter didn't deserve to have that position because she didn't have work hard for anything. She wasn't the one that didn't have to deal with their dad's issues, work hard at everything in order to get what she wanted, and be the perfect little heiress. In short, Weiss could be jealous that Winter had it a little easier than her. Someone like Ruby would just remind her of that.