Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-27404492-20170708180328/@comment-4010415-20170912221825

Nikoli the rebel wrote:

Nontheless, I am still heavily invested in Weiss because she choose between Freedom and Riches. Now she may learn that there is no freedom in poverty. Or she might learn that poor people live much happier lives and are much more free. idk. CRWBY can go any direction they want and it would be interesting. I think one thing with Weiss is what has been described in the manga and mentioned in Path to Isolation.

The manga has her giving a "voiceover" while she fights the Arma Gigas, and she says that she used to have a distorted view of family pride that left her without a sense of self. She decided to create a sense of self she can be proud of, just like Winter did.

Path to Isolation has lyrics that say something like "Can't find myself when I'm constantly forced to conform."

So, I guess one reason she wanted so desperately to get away from home was so she could actually manage to fully develop a sense of self that she can be proud of, away from the pressures to behave a certain way as an heiress among the Atlas elite.