Talk:The Coming Storm/@comment-27144409-20181125142039/@comment-35434444-20181125160052

I doubt RT thought of this at the time, but Atlas is so far north I doubt the sun more than dips above the horizon at any given time. They would have to deal with cold conditions so often that they must have found a way to use dust in such a manner to keep themselves from being affected by the cold.

It's a cheapshot to say that there was an oh-so-conveniant anti-cold field generator just out of shot in the vol.five trailer, but it beats nothing and allowas us to expand the lore and Weiss' character at the same time:

Suppose what I said was the case; that there are devises for regulating how much cold a person experiances that are too cumbersome to be made portable (otherwise everyone outside the tropics would have them.) That means Weiss may not nessessarily be any more suseptable to the cold physically than anyone else, but because she's so used to not feeling it, the contrast leaves her psychologically vulnerable to the cold.

When we were in Atlas during Vol.four, all of the astheti were centred around coolness, ice, or snow. Even people's outfits including her own reflect ice as if it were something symbolic of Atlas. I draw attention to this because it would mean that untill now, the cold has held nothing but positive and encouraing conotation for Weiss, but now it's like it's turned against her, making the wind bite that much harder.

It's like a reverse Batman; instead of hating the cold and growing to embody it so as to one's enemies "share one's fear," Weiss' embodyment of the ice queen has left her ignorant of it's true nature.