Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-174.135.62.244-20160603201323/@comment-410526-20160723075415

VedranTheII wrote: As it stands, Weiss is supported on her quest, which we can garner from Winter and even her father funding her until Weiss started ignoring him. Comparatively, Jaune's parents phrased their acceptance of him failing not as a possibility, but a probability. VedranTheII wrote: As it stands, Weiss is supported on her quest, which we can garner from Winter and even her father funding her until Weiss started ignoring him. Comparatively, Jaune's parents phrased their acceptance of him failing not as a possibility, but a probability. Well firstly, there's a difference between material and emotional support. It's obvious that Weiss has never had approval or love from her father. We know Weiss' father was against her leaving for Beacon and in fact forced her to fight the Giant Armor in order to "earn" her place there. I'm not sure how that can be construed in other way other than the exact opposite of support. For all her life, her father imposes these pressures upon Weiss to conform to his wishes, and she has no choice but having to live with them (whether that is by giving into them or by fighting them).

Compared to Jaune, who has the love and compassion of his family regardless of whether or not he fails, that's a completely different situation. I'm not saying his motivation is "selfish", but it'd be incorrect to say his family actively puts pressure upon him to succeed. Yes, he wants to succeed because his father and grandfather were warriors, but that's a personal motivation for him and by him, it's not something that is imposed upon him by his family.

I'd honestly say he has a lot more common ground with Pyrrha or even Ruby, whose motivations are a more personal, individual need to fulfil a goal or destiny than out of "pressure" (familial or otherwise).