Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-12443850-20130728193835/@comment-11188061-20130729152833

Angren Túrë wrote:

Zolnir wrote: This theory feels dead wrong to me at least. You're confusing our own reality with the RWBY world's reality.

Schnee corporation is mining Dust, an energy resource that could power up a person to the realm of superhumans, and basically so strong that they could slay monsters with ease. Remember that Weiss had taken a full punch (and before that, a few barely defended blows) from the Giant Armor, and other than just staggering a little plus her old wound bleeding, she nearly suffered no damage at all. There was little to no danger sending Weiss to Beacon Academy, and if anything, I believe her parents (if they even exist) expects her to become a top class Huntress (if not the first), and anything else lower would disgrace the family instead.

This is further reinforced by the fact that humans in the RWBY world seemed to be tough beyond belief. Just take a look at the goons Ruby beat up and you'll realize what I mean. Any 'normal' human would've broken bones and died already, and she practically impaled one of them to the ground which normally would result in lots and lots of blood and gore. Weiss literally suffered no injury at all when Ruby accidentally triggered an explosion, and the worst she got was a body of black soot, which cleared in no time at all. Of course they're by no means invincible, but currently the monsters are very much in the backfoot as compared to humans at the current time. Recall, this is an anime. Anime and correct physics are not mutually inclusive. Look at Avatar; they did three whole seasons of a show in which there were lots of pretty violent fight scenes, without a single character dying on screen.

And while you're probably right about the Schnee company being founded by a Huntress or Huntsman, just because one founded the dynasty doesn't mean the tradition has to continue. I mean, we have no idea how far back the Schnee family goes, but it's obviously not new-money.

Granted, though, it is possible that the head of the Schnee company is an excellent fighter, if not a Hunter per se.

But the opposition to Weiss becoming a Huntress would not be because it is a potentially dangerous occupation (though it is), but since Hunters are essentially an elite scion of the law (they don't fight monsters exclusively). I mean, if you were the head of a powerful company surrounded by white-collar crime scandals and you had a rebellious daughter abandoning an inheritance so she can become an elite law enforcer (FLOABT), what would be your first thought?

Nip it in the bud, and kill her before she causes any serious damage. Nothing has been confirmed about Weiss' 'rebellious' state yet and you've already decided that she had abandoned her inheritance to become a Huntress. Which was completely unconfirmed and purely speculation.

In that case, it is equally possible that as heiress to the Schnee corporation Weiss was required to become the most competent Huntress in Beacon Academy and prove to the world that a Schnee could do nothing wrong. This would make far more sense because if Weiss truly had 'abandoned' her inheritance I doubted that she has the cash to hire people and haul around her tonnes of expensive luggage, which Dust quality alone must've cost a fortune. Nor would Weiss act so 'proud' about her family without hesitation, because if she did throw her past away the first thing she doesn't want people to know is that she's a Schnee.

Of course, I am not denying the possibility that she specifically requested to become a Huntress against her family's wishes, and was set through a series of trials to prove herself worthy (hence the golem fight).

But ditch the whole 'her family's trying to kill her' bullshit. Stop her maybe, throw in little tricks like the golem fight so she would give up, maybe too. But the whole 'send her to Academy and hope she'll die in an accident' idea was just stupid to begin with. If it was me and I need her dead I would've just called Weiss, kill her, then declare to the world that she died of an accident. No one would even know the truth, because it happened on the Schnee's own ground where they had complete control of Weiss. Why even go through the stupid trouble of sending her to the Academy where she gets the time to train with the best and  become the best, and then hope that she'll die of some random monster assault? Are you serious?