Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-4830106-20140725003808/@comment-24219008-20140727133007

The Devil's Advocate WP wrote: Zolnir wrote: It's not 'it's strongly implied', she totally stole the binder and didn't even bother hiding it. Look at the binder title. Oh God, it's even worse than I imagined. "Vytal Festival Activities Property of Weiss Schnee" crossed out with "Best Day Ever Activities" written below it. When you consider the context of Weiss being the one who was practically gushing over the festival in The Stray as the rest of them dissed her for her enthusiasm, that is a pretty bad violation. Ruby even started out with a diss when introducing the purloined itinerary to add insult to injury.

I have noticed since The Stray that Weiss has sort of become the team punching bag. There has been a lot of unprovoked hostility towards her or cavalier mistreatment. She also has become the fanbase punching bag for most viewers. With the pie-in-the-face gag you even seem to have the production team turning her into a punching bag. Yet, it isn't like Weiss actively fights any of this. She defends herself some times, not always, but you don't really see her go on the offensive or retaliate.

Unless they do something, Weiss is at risk of becoming like this guy before long. Maybe it is intentional that she is increasingly taking the brunt of mistreatment and this is going to become increasingly obvious over this volume until finally someone goes too far without realizing it and we cue to Weiss breaking down in front of them (say, darting off wailing or practically going catatonic for a while). I feel like they're only doing this to Weiss because she was pretty much the main antagonist against the group throughout the entirety of Volume 1. That being said, it's evident she was constantly trying to change her ways as she realized she was hurting more and more people (especially after Blake compared her to Cardin in Episode 15), so I feel like her not speaking up now is her way of dealing with the guilt for how she treated her teammates/friends throughout the first semester at Beacon.... Now, based on her comment about sticking together, she seems to actually genuinely care about the other girls, but of course she's still going to be Weiss, and add a little snark here and there ("I don't know whether to be proud or scared"). Also, Ruby insulting Weiss/Weiss insulting Ruby seems to kind of be their "thing". Like Yang's constantly interrupting Blake and saying things without thinking while Blake just sits/stands there and rolls her eyes.

I do hope we get a little deeper look into Weiss this volume, as her little tidbit about her family's feud and her father's anger issues seemed to really cause Weiss a lot of pain, and it seems as though that's where most of her attitude comes from, using it as a mask to hide the stuff she went through as a kid. I also hope she continues this "straightforward" path, as I like this more interactive, seemingly more "fun" Weiss, and I would hate to see her revert to her old ways....