Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-294840-20170719134411/@comment-294840-20170729162441

ChishioKunrin wrote: I kind of thought of it as him being raised to be that way, rather than becoming that way to prevent having to endure Jacques' wrath or anything. What I mean by that can be explained by, once again, looking at the lyrics of one of Weiss' songs.

From This Life is Mine:

"Amazing how you conquered me, Chained me in servility and made me see The world the way you told me to But I was young, and didn't have a way to know the truth"

Meaning that Weiss used to view the world the way that Jacques told her to. She was taught to see the world a certain way, and maybe Whitley was too and still doesn't know the truth. For example, he believes that fighting is beneath the Schnee family and that is why they have an army. Though, I just realized... Whitley said "that is why we have one", as if the Schnee family owns Atlas' army, when that's not what's going on. Atlas' army serves the Kingdom of Atlas, not the Schnee family. And it's ridiculous for him to think "That is why Atlas has an army" because Atlas also trains Huntsmen. So, his view doesn't make sense, but it may be a view that Jacques taught him to have. For what it's worth im specifically talking about EMOTIONAL abuse NOT physical abuse.This kind of abuse is no less damaging to the victim.