Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-14138255-20151129182644/@comment-24994749-20151201000826

I honestly got the impression Winter is manipulating Weiss to antagonize Mr. Schnee for her own amusement or some other reason we have no clue of right now. I honestly don't buy Winter's treatment of Weiss as healthy or well intentioned.

Her advice to Weiss of going on her own and discovering herself is all nice but WEISS IS GOING TO NEED SOME FORM OF INCOME TO LIVE. And we have no indication that Winter intends to provide it.

There is also how she seems to delight on Mr. Schnee being aggravated by Weiss actions, and her way of encouraging Weiss to continue doing so includes taunting her about being humiliated by Mr. Schnee's and presenting the idea of accepting her economical reliance on him as shameful.

She even plays Weiss talk of being exited to show Mr. Schnee her improvements into Weiss being impressed by Winter's skills and downplaying Weiss confidence in her growth.

.... I dunno. Maybe I'm over-thinking it, but when I contrast how Winter gave Weiss the message that "you still have training to do, you have a long way to go." to how Qrow gave it to Yang and Ruby, it's comes to me as if it was being delivered with two completely opposite intentions.

Qrow sounds sincere and both delivers a "don't get cocky it will backfire" and encouragement.

While Winter just strikes me off "here is my speech to make you love me and do what I want you to do without realising it".