Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-50.136.245.120-20140115051706

Fan theory here, and it's very long. But since this is the wiki afterall, if you have the time, just hear me out. I did put a tl;dr at the bottom, but yeesh it's really far down there.

The Wiki at the time of writing states that "Being the heiress to the Schnee Dust Company, it is possible that Weiss is pursuing a career as a Huntress because of [her] rebellious attitude." Well, there are a few things to note that don't make much sense with this idea, or even outright contradict this idea.

For a start, why is she still so tied to her family? Once again quoting the wiki, "Weiss is also quite proud of her status and certainly plays the part of the pampered princess without difficulty. Coming to Beacon Academy, she has a bellhop transport her luggage. She is also pleased when Blake names her as heiress to the Schnee Dust Company. Of course, her reaction turns sour the moment Blake mentions the company's "controversial labor forces and questionable business partners."" I might be nitpicking here, mostly because I am, but this even goes as far as putting herself in the shoes of her family/families' company when it comes to the White Fang's attack. Think from episode 15, when Blake declares that Weiss is discrimanatory, how does she respond? "Im''' a victim." Now, I don't feel like debating on whether or not her father's apparent anger that he himself turned on Weiss is directly the White Fang's fault, whether or not she may have had an event where the White Fang specifically has threatened her, or how impossible it is to imagine Blake wearing a White Fang uniform, but it is certainly something to consider.

Another thing; her weapon, uniform, and training make absolutely no sense. For a start, where did she obtain her weapons and combat skirt in the first place? I mean, think of it like this:

"Daddy, I was just wondering, could you get me a custom made rapier with dust storage capable of utilizing dust's strength with each individual canister's use? And while you're at it, a combat skirt that may or may not be able to take a punch from an enchanted suit of armor without any visual damage? KK, love you~"

...I have a problem with this. And that's ignoring how blatantly stupid that approach is if she was planning to run away from home one day, the rebellious rascal the wiki apparently makes her out to be.

Then again though, Ruby literally forged her weapon at what seems to be the equivalent of a public school, so it does hold the possibility that she managed to obtain these items at the market under everyone's noses somehow. The problem is, this doesn't explain how damn good she is at utilizing her sword. Proffessor Port has made comments on her talent so I'm willing to believe that, canonically, she is considered very skilled, but that skill means a lot of training, something that seems near impossible considering her lifestyle. I mean, the argument can be made that, to defend from the White Fang should the event happen, the father in question would be the one who directly gives her the items and the training somehow, but I'm going to leave it to some other smart person to explain why that conflicts with the idea it's Weiss' rebelliousness that drives her.

Now here's an idea. What if, just an idea, Weiss' determination to become a Huntress is in fact related to or is an integral part to revenge against the White Fang? Like, let's look over what we already have:

-Family ties

-She sees herself as a/the victim for attacks against board members and the company as a whole

-Obtaining her gear and training

Think of it like this. If instead of rebelliously leaving her family to become a huntress, she's in fact doing so for revenge against the White Fang in some form (such as to hone her skills as a fighter, for example). This actually gives her a lot of reasons to apparently be so in terms with her family and all that. After all, assuming that it's her pride and how much she cares for her family that drives her revenge, she has every reason to be proud when someone recognizes her family, annoyed when someone disses it, and have a bellhop deal with her luggage. It also makes a billion times more sense for her to associate herself as a victim on a personal level so closely for a company wide struggle even more than just for an implied violence by her father. And the idea that her father supplied her and gave her training that didn't necessarily work with the idea that her rebelliousness drives her? Well, it works pretty damn fine here actually.

What if there was more to Weiss' cold exterior than we expect. What if under all of that abrasive cynicism, the truth is that she is hurt, she is angry. We already know that she does in fact carry her emotions with her. What if there's a much greater reason behind why she's so ready to be mean to others, even for the smallest of things? What if her approach to the world around her is dictated or influenced by what is literally a lifetime of burden, and with her realization of her own capabilities, she strives to become a full fledged Huntress to one day exact revenge on the White Fang for everything. At the end of the day, it may just be that Weiss strives for the day she can avenge everything that was done to her and her family by the White Fang.

tl;dr Weiss became a Huntress because she wanted revenge against the White Fang. It makes very little to almost no sense that it was rebelliousness (at least alone) that drove her to become a Huntress, let alone obtain the gear and training to even begin the idea.

Once again, just a theory, but if you managed to get this far into reading, I'd like to know what you think. 