Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-27404492-20170709002747/@comment-26018514-20170714081941

The Devil&#039;s Advocate WP wrote:

...That said, really it is a farce to say it is about appearances. His own methods of running the company have sullied the family name, which is why Weiss dissed him by pointing out it wasn't his family name when he suggested she was doing her best to hurt it. Previous attempts to justify Jacque's treatment of Weiss tend to ignore that part.

One thing I think really makes the idea of him using Willow's behavior against her as a way to take her inheritance from her is that it would be very much like the way he has treated Weiss. He pressures, demeans, manipulates, gets physical, and does everything else possible to break her down. When she reacts he uses her reaction against her and tries to act like everything leading up to it didn't really happen or was really her own fault.

Were he doing various little things to control and manipulate Willow to the point that she became broken and then used her brokenness to convince Nicholas that she wasn't stable enough to run the company, it would just illustrate that this is a pattern with him. I would say what Jacques was doing to Weiss this Volume is gaslighting and it would be what I am suggesting he may have done to get the Schnee Dust Company handed to him.

1. We are justifying a character's motivations as they apply to his characterization, we aren't saying that character isn't flawed or is actually "justified" as a law man is "justified" to uphold the law, we are instead backtracking his reasoning process through events we know transpired in the hopes of understanding where he came from. They are 2 different things.

2. But that theory makes no sense because essentially you are saying "well he's an asshole now, and he must have been so at the start of the relationship..." but then when does he become the asshole? If he were an asshole from the start, why would Willow have began a relationship to begin with? It isn't like she didn't have sex with him at least 3 times almost decade apart, and he not only got Nicks blessing for the marriage, but his endorsement to take over the company over the mans own daughter.

this indicates either:

A. Nick HATED Willow

B. Nick loved/trusted Jacques

C. Willow was incompetent/uninterested

I've met and known this type of person before, and they don't build themselves from childhood around being an asshole... no one does, everyone you ever meet is the hero of their own story, no matter how much their mind must do mental gymnastics to do so... the only exceptions are those who are like suicidal levels of depressed or so far in the rabbit hole of madness they no-longer can understand what is reality.

This isn't to say that there aren't people who view themselves as supporting characters/sidekicks/etc, but most have at least some level of self importance.