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73.Anon.52 wrote: That amounts to the same thing... I could have stated "dead/absent father" except that "absent" does not work in RWBY because if the father is unrelated by blood to the Schnee's that would make her mother the heir and unlike "Snow white" there exists no explanation for the mother's absentia like business because Schnee industries is the business and nothing short of a life as a huntress or in an asylum would explain such abandonment. As it concerns my last point, there is no reason why we have to presume Weiss will have a family situation that perfectly parallels Snow White's situation. There is no reason why she can't have a horrible father and a horrible step mother, for instance.