Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-141.134.109.210-20170630154254

I have been wondering a bit about how Jacques and Whitley can keep playing antagonists for Weiss in volume 5 and further.

I have recently read a post where somebody asked if Whitley was going to bring Weiss back in volume 5 and 6 on the orders of his father. Personally I see zero reason for Jacques to want Weiss back. She has proven to be a total loss since she is obviously not going to follow his views in regards to the SDC and he doesn't exactly seem to have a lot of parental love for her either unless she can help further his own goals.

Whitley would have no reason to even take this 'mission' seriously since he would want to keep his sister as far away for their father as possible. After all if Weiss is home then unlikely as it might seem she has a chance to make her father rethink his decision about making Whitley heir or discredit Whitley somehow. In the wilds however she has zero influence on their father and the SDC whereas Whitley could extend his influence completely unopposed by competition from Weiss. His position as heir at the moment is as secure as it is going to get.

That said chances are big that Weiss is not going to be allowed to get away completely scotch free either. I tried to think of a decent reason why either Jacques and/or Whitley would bother tracking down Weiss and capturing her. I remembered an interesting real life story about Joanna of Castile.

For those unfamiliar with that story here's the short version;

Joanna alledgedly carried around the casket with her dead husband Philip the Handsome for an entire year on her travels before being confined to a nunnery by her son Charles V of the Holy Roman empire because of a mental illness.

It is unknown if she actually had a mental illness, it is known to have ran in her family, but it could have been a lie fabricated by Charles V. After all those with mental illnesses were deemed unfit to ule, which meant Charles became the surpreme ruler instead of merely a co-monarch. This was usefull because the Habsburgers had both Austrian and Spanish territories. Charles V ruled the Austrian ones, whilst Joanna would rule the Spanish ones. By having her be declared mentally unfit Charles V would rule both Spanish and Austrian territories.

Weiss made a big scene at a charity banquet, attacked an innocent civilian (she was a dick, but nonetheless unarmed, intoxicated and made no attempt to resort to physical violence) with a Grimm summon and has fought in the Battle of Beacon which could easily have given her PTSD. All in all I think it would be rather easy for Jacques/Whitley to convince people that she isn't mentally stable.

I am not an expert in involuntary commitment to a mental hospital, but I have found two reasons for being involuntarily commited: The person could be a danger to theirselves or to others. Weiss almost killed somebody so I would say that she fullfils one of the criteria, maybe her messing up her room with her knight summon could be a prove of the former as well.

Jacques/Whitley could bypass Ironwood since that would be a decision the court would make based on evidence (if that works the same as on earth) and would make her internationally signaled. I doubt any kingdom or settlement would want a person with a mental disorder of that magnitude running free especially one with a Huntress power level.

I would think that once captured Jacques would have sufficient influence to keep extending Weiss her stay in the Asylum indefenitely.

I think it woud be interesting to see since it's one thing to combat the bad guys, but team RWBY and JNR physical prowess would be useless against the law enforcement. If Weiss gets cornered fighting the cops would get her into more trouble, whereas allowing herself to be captured would also equal a bad outcome.

I think  her blowing up at the banquet the way she did is just too big to not come biting her back in the ass some way or the other.

-TheShadowOfZama 