Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-27404492-20170709002747/@comment-26397825-20170709005034

I think he's a dick. He's implied to be verbally abusive towards his wife when we first meet Whitley, who tells Weiss that their father's yelling at someone in his office again and Weiss's first instinct is their mother.

Children don't just automatically assume their parents are fighting/yelling at each other without due cause. In fact, children tend to prefer to pretend they're not fighting at all and their parents have a happy relationship if they can, so for Weiss to automatically assume he is yelling at their mother means it wouldn't be the first time and it's happened often enough in the past for it to have become 'a thing'.

If he was just yelling at her because of stress, he would apologise to her later and the children would be around to hear it at least once and know he just snapped because of stress. They wouldn't automatically assume he's just yelling at her again, they'd assume he's yelling at someone else (which in this case he was) because Jacques and Willow's relationship - while it has a few tough patches - is strong.

Instead we get an alcoholic Willow who avoids everyone (why else did we never even see a glimpse of her) and Jacques who yells at his wife, as well as being controlling and manipulative towards his daughter, going so far as to control her money and put her against something he believed she wouldn't win against just to get her to stay close at hand.