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2. Giving us a good, strong feel for what kind of life her family lives, I suppose. And, I'll be honest, I actually caught myself wondering how much of the Schnee home is 2D disguised as 3D and how much of it is actually 3D modeled. To be fair, some of those locations may not be used very in-depth as setpieces later, so why waste time making complete 3D models with textures and UV maps for those when that time could be spent making such for other things that will actually be used more?

Whitley apparently means White Meadow.

Whitley's movements... I could be wrong, but it strikes me as possible that Whitley moves with exaggerated expression in an attempt to hide his true nature. When we tell the truth and show our true thoughts and emotions, we tend to unconsciously be more expressive in our body language. When we lie and hide our true emotions, we have a habit of unconsciously being less expressive and not moving our hands, due to a subconscious fear that our actions will betray us. Some people overcompensate for this by moving around a lot, being very expressive, sometimes too expressive. While we can't really judge Whitley's character very much from this one scene, it's entirely possible that that is why he moves around so much and acts so fluidly. There's that, and there's the fact that the "concerned frown" he got while talking to Weiss struck me as fake.

Mama Schnee's name is probably Willow, if the ol' character folders photo is anything to go by. That's the only other Schnee name that's visible in the photo, Willow is a feminine name, and it starts with a W like the other true Schnees, so it makes sense. Yes, I said true Schnees. I think Jacques married into the family, due to his name and the fact that he had black hair when he was younger, whereas Winter, Weiss, and Whitley appear to have been born with white hair.

There may be some oddity with blood-related Schnees sharing a lot of the same traits - Semblance, hair color, and eye color. The Schnee family's genetics appear to defy individuality, but Weiss and Winter are rebelling and expressing individuality by breaking away from what their father wants them to be.

We also have the fact that the concept art for the hallway where the family portrait and the door to Jacques' study is shows a special symbol designed specifically to be engraved in the wall above his study door. This symbol is also seen all over the wallpaper in his study, all over the rug in his study, in the background of his personal portrait from his younger days (when his hair was fully black), on his tie, and... oddly enough, all over the dining room's chairs.

In my opinion, Winter and Weiss look sad in the family portrait. Whitley appears to be smiling, to me. (Also, Whitley has big round eyes in the portrait, which proves that RWBY does follow the typical art style of "kids, regardless of male or female, have big round cute eyes.") I agree that Winter and Mama Schnee look a lot alike.

Also, did you notice that it seems implied that Mama's an alcoholic? When Whitley said Papa was yelling at someone, Weiss' assumption was their mother, and Whitley replied that she's "already drinking in the garden." The use of "already" and the fact that Papa yelling at Mama is apparently a common occurrence add up to "alcoholic mom."

3. Ruby was pretty high up the tower and got there pretty shortly after that. By that time, the Huntsmen in training had gathered at the docks for evacuation, the White Fang were pulling out because of the Dragon (according to Sun), and for the most part, the air around the tower was still and quiet. There weren't even any Nevermores or Griffons flying around. So, it's actually entirely possible that Ruby, at least faintly, heard it.

Meh, map doesn't matter. It was probably in someone's backpack and everyone forgot who had it. Jaune assumed Nora, Nora assumed Ren, Ren assumed Nora... Guessing Nora misplaced it. Maybe Ruby had it.

If that is the hoofprint of a Grimm, it may not be a horse. Note the triangular spot where the dirt didn't get pressed down. That hoof has a slight split in it. Horses don't have split hooves. Granted, unicorns tend to be depicted with cloven hooves despite, again, horses not having a split in their hoof. And it could just be that the Grimm chipped its hoof or something.

That said, this is the bottom of a horse's hoof without a horseshoe. Thus, without a horseshoe, a horse's hoof prints look like this. (I highly doubt that a Grimm horse would be wearing horseshoes, after all) That looks quite unlike the mark that Ren and Nora found in the sand, so I rather doubt that it's a horse. I mean, hey, Rooster Teeth did enough research to make Qrow's crows have a curved fan-shaped tail and have the Nevermores (based on ravens) have pointy tails.

I'm having trouble finding any real animals that have a hoof print like that. I'm a little tempted to suggest Qilin/Kirin, since they are apparently sometimes depicted with split hooves, but... they're typically good creatures in Asian mythology. Why would there be a Qilin Grimm? Then again, unicorns are also often depicted as good, pure creatures. I'm at a loss.

4. Weiss' singing has been mentioned since the White Trailer, twice.

Volume 2, Jaune: "[...] and talented. I mean, have you heard her sing?!"

Volume 3, Weiss: "*Coughs up soot* I may not be singing for a while."

5. Those will o' wisps plus Pyrrha's voice saying Jaune's name and sounding almost like she said "Follow me", made me nervous. I'm not gonna lie, I cried during that last scene.