Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-27404492-20170511131216/@comment-14909251-20170611043146

Terminus99 wrote:

I have some problems enjoying "This Life is Mine" because, even though the song is awesome, it feels somewhat... undeserved, know what I mean? Once again, we have a song of Weiss talking about how she has always been under the control of her father, and how she is finally breaking free. My problem is, we have barely seen her been treated like a pawn by her father at all. Sure, she was forced to sing in a concert, which was both inconsiderate and unnecesary, but not particularily terrible. And then we saw Jacques grounding her and disowning her after the fiasco of the charity ball, which was a very dickish thing to do, but understandable given all that happened during the night.

How little we have seen of Weiss been controlled by her father, coupled with the fact that I consider most of the bad things that happeed to her during Volume 4 to be at least partially her own fault, makes it hard for me to enjoy a song about how she is finally not a puppet anymore. I really hope that in the future they are going to show in more detail the things that Weiss had to go through during her childhood, like maybe showing that Jacques didn't allow her to choose her own friends, or pressured her to be perfect, or forced her to appear in concerts and commercials, or things like that.

Haven't got the soundtrack yet, but this whole business with Weiss being at fault kind of misses the point. We may not know all the details of what her life has been like, but there are more than enough hints and allusions to it that we can safely conclude she lives in a toxic and love-deprived environment. At the same time, she is shouldering a great sense of responsibility for fixing the broad global issues created by the person who is the source of that environment. Said person happens to be the one who is keeping her from fixing those issues that person created.

Dealing with that kind of stuff and the personal trauma of what happened at Beacon, then having everything that happened at that event happen was more than she could handle. Coupled with her having a Semblance that she had yet to fully understand and she was basically a powder keg ready to blow and Jacques was, ultimately, the match. The fact he was the direct cause of the inadvertent Semblance activation and the underlying reason for the emotional state that left her susceptible to such inadvertent activation, makes his "punishment" really just adding insult to injury.

We probably do need to see some much clearer evidence of his mistreatment before some will be convinced, but I don't think it is really true that there isn't enough to satisfy your concerns. It may just not be easy for you to see.