Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-25396609-20191130155818/@comment-4010415-20191209002356

The Devil&#039;s Advocate WP wrote:

1. Like, what is that "Father's view of the world no longer matches with mine" remark about? The whole point of her going to Beacon, as she explained herself, is that she didn't agree with her father and his view of the world, so she set out on a plan to try and fix things.

2. Pretty much every story she has told makes it seem as if Weiss and Jacques were never really in tune with each other.

3. It happened before with her remarking about being "complacent" in the SDC's abuse of the Faunus. Given what she herself said about her reasons for heading to Beacon and her feelings about what Jacques has done in the family name, it is hard to see where she was complacent. Once she got into her teen years it was established that she was aware and took issue with the actions of her family company and wanted to change things. 1. She said that she went to Beacon because she wanted to bring back a positive reputation to the Schnee name.

There is also the Shirow Miwa manga, in which she narrates that she sought to form her own sense of identity that she could be proud of instead of her whole identity being Schnee, just like Winter did. This is something that Weiss and Winter seemed to refer to in this episode.

The Path to Isolation even talks about how Weiss could not find herself because she was constantly being forced to conform. She fled to Beacon to put distance between herself and the environment that was forcing her to conform to something she was not, so she could actually find what she is. This is referred to by Winter in Lessons Learned:

"You can either call him, beg for his money back, and explain once more why you would want to study at Beacon over Atlas, or you could continue to explore Remnant, discovering more about the world and honestly, more about yourself."

2. Something else that unfortunately wasn't in the show but was presented to us in other media: There was a time where Weiss was on the same page as Jacques. This Life is Mine says "Amazing how you conquered me, chained me in servility and made me see the world the way you told me to, but I was young and didn't have a way to know the truth."

3. And yet she was still racist toward Faunus in Volume 1. Something that people miss is that Weiss was not only saying that she didn't like the White Fang, she also said that she didn't trust Faunus specifically. She said "You want to know why I despise the White Fang? Why I don't particularly trust the Faunus?"

While she disagreed with the way Jacques was running the company and the kind of reputation he had brought onto her family, she didn't necessarily oppose his view of the Faunus and showed no sign, at the time, of taking particular issue with how the Faunus under his employment were being treated. It was after befriending Blake and finding out she's a Faunus that Weiss began to grow in that regard.