Talk:Jacques Schnee/@comment-148.252.128.96-20180131223549

I do hope he gets more characterization. RWBY villains are woefully one-dimensional, and if he becomes an arc-villain, hopefully that comes with more insight into him.

I'm speculating that the reason he's such an a$$-0l probably relates to his history of coming from outside the Schnee family. He could have come from lower socioeconomic circumstances, and risen through the ranks of Nichola's SDC through the talents he posessed and political cunning until he became of a high enough social standing to court Nicholas's daughter. For a guy who came from not much, becoming the Schnee heir, and the most powerful person in Remnant must have been his life's achievement.

I believe he's so in love with the Schnee name when he took the name and the presidency, his identity fused with the company. The man he was before was a mere cog in the corporation, a nobody. When he became Schnee, to him he became more than just a president: he became the SDC, and the SDC became him; he became significant in the greater scheme of things, a somebody. To ensure the prosperity and continuation of the SDC was to ensure that, even when he died, he would be somebody. He's furious when his daughters refuse to do what's best for the company because they're, in his mind, relegating not only themselves, but him as well, to becoming nobodies, and rejecting his very being in rejecting the SDC and how it does things.

Jacques Schnee has no friends, no companionships, even his family detests him. WIth the cold way he saw things, through his whole life becoming somebody important and significant was the only way he could become somebody who matters. If he loses the SDC, he has nothing.

Well, that's just me speculating.