Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-33754845-20190916192846/@comment-27745396-20191106084031

Jacques is pretty much the symbol of everything what is wrong in SDC so killing him off could be seen as "symbolic" act of killing the corruption in the company. But as people above said, that is the easy way out. As long as Jacques is still alive, he's still a treath in some way (he's a charismatic businessman after all) but in symbolic story telling it works because destroying corruption is never as easy as removing a single person.

Of course who kills him off changes things a lot. If Whitley is to kill Jacques, it would just be the ultimate betrayal type of thing and lifts Withley's danger levels up. Tyrian killing him could be a start of a full out faunus war in Atlas when faunus take his act as inspiration to go after their oppressors and humans lose all their trust towards the faunus. And so on