Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-14138255-20161030153351/@comment-14909251-20161030215826

I think Jaques is also smiling in the portrait, though subtly under his epic mustache. There is something really screwy about the Schnee family:



Jaques and Whitley are the only ones who don't seem to be down all the time. Whitley is also the only child whose picture graces Jaque's desk. There appear to be other pictures, unclear but obviously female individuals, tucked up on shelves. Something is off about the whole thing. Even when you get down to their ages, it is abnormal to have siblings with large age gaps. Usually, siblings have gaps of maybe one or two years with some larger gaps in larger families. Having each child born at what seems to be around six or so years apart is bizarre.

Looking at the previous spoiler thread, there seemed to be a lot of talk about whether whether he is a Schnee or not, whether Whitley was his son or not, but honestly it is making me wonder if there is not some underlying family secret that puts this in a very different light. One thing I think back to is the fact that Snow White had a wicked stepmother. It is why I and others assumed her mother died, but maybe they flipped it a bit and gave her a wicked step-father, except she doesn't know it.

The name Jaques is derived from Jacob and it is said to mean "supplanter" as in someone who seizes a position that belongs to someone else. It is a reference to the Biblical Jacob who was the secondborn to his twin brother and took his older brother's birthright from him. So, what if Jaques is really her uncle with her real father dying when she was young and, either due to it being the product of an affair or just kept a secret from her, she believes Jaques is her father? This could explain the sour relationship between Jaques and their mother, along with her apparent boozing, as well as his comparitively better relationship with Whitley.