Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-158.125.243.29-20150329080244/@comment-26206856-20150417235550

JayHart wrote: Wow, I really wish I had been on this thread a lot earlier. ^.^; I did go back and read every post;

Clearly that should've included a coffee break after mine, being as long as they tend to be. -.-; I don't really like quoting in my responses either but I feel without a reference to what I'm talking about we'd all be lost. Unfortunately work and school keep me busy enough to not be able to check or respond every few hours.

I believe the Armour is simultaneously literal and symbolic. I believe it was an actual event in which Weiss fights against a construct created by her father's semblance, but she views it as a way for her to fight against the image established for her - a way to break out of her own armor, so to speak.

Yep, I've seen it possible as applying both ways as well, but it gets hard to explain the relations to both at the same time and still be clear. Also, the scar seems less likely to have happened from that fight the more I look at it, no matter how conspicuously placed her bleeding is.

I suspect Weiss' mother was slain by the White Fang at least five years prior to her attending Beacon. I'm very curious why you chose 5 years, and now that I look at it, I'm seeing some suspicious inconsitency. Blake told us the change in ideals and leadership in the WF happened 5 years ago. Before this, they were supposedly peaceful and righteous yet Weiss's family seems to have been 'at war' with them throughout her life. Was it that there were certain bad apples in the WF who always attacked them until the new leadership made them 'just one of the others', or was there something else going on? Curious. Very curious.

Possibly as a result of one of her trainers' stories, Weiss got the idea that to become the perfect heiress to the Schnee family, she would become a Huntress - something that absolutely did not align with her father's crafted image of her. I'm not sure about aligning with a crafted image. I could see it as friction over her taking on a role with so much risk involved with putting her life in danger. Though I'm not certain, I'm pretty sure we can all assume she does actually perform as a talented singer, and this is likely the closest she gets to a large audience other than charity balls or parties with special invited guests. Letting her out into the world with a target on her back (rich, famous company heiress all on her own!) is risky enough even without the WF eyeing her, and top it off with fighting over life and death against grimm. I know I'd be against it even if it was the right thing to do to let her go out on her own, and it again supports the idea that if she can beat the 'trial', she can take care of herself enough to challenge those risks.

As for her father summoning the golem as a semblance, I just can't get behind it 100% at this point. I feel it'd be more of a trainer with a 'puppeteer' skill relaying his actions, or a talented fighter (hire the best fighter to make sure she can't beat them). Though he could be this almighty powerful hunter, I'd start to question why he'd bother with building up the SDC and gaining wealth and 'power' over the seemingly rockstar life that being a Hunter seems to entail. That's why I'm imagining him as being more of a 'commoner' who hasn't unlocked his aura or semblance. (Remember most of the population don't have these abilities, and even Jaune was lacking these until Pyrrah forcefully unlocked it for him.)

Now here's something I noticed while rewatching the White trailer. Anyone see the similarities between the Schnee manor (or maybe jail room) and the Atlesian ship's brig? I know they said they were running short on time and have re-used resources in the past, but in the shot on the top right, you can faintly see it's modified with a four pointed star where the Schnee logo is in the trailer. Not sure what it means since I haven't seen the symbol before and it isn't the Atlesian icon, but maybe the similarities point to the scenes from the White trailer taking place in some sort of cell. Figuratively or literally.

ObiWanCokeNosey wrote: So, Spiegel, where do you see Weiss' story arc going from here? Please, don't ask me that. xD I don't have nearly enough time to get that far into it.

General rundown and thoughts though? I can see an event that forces Weiss to get involved with her family be it family issues or uncovering information while on their hunt for clues to what the baddies are up to at the time (possibly following leads to the WF or Blake showing her an unforgivable act the SDC, and by extension, her father is doing). Maybe Winter decides to drop in on her sister a la Blackfire in Teen Titans. This will lead to a confrontation where she'll be interacting with friends (laid back and lively) and family (strict and ettiquite driven) where she can't hold up her image from both sides. Once the others are exposed to her conflicting duallity between her friends and family we'll see a lot more of the details come out to fill us in on the backstory.