Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-27404492-20170511131216/@comment-28522425-20170618223830

@TheShadowOfZama:

I think that at first most of us suspected that Whitley was the one who summoned the Boarbatusk, but it was kind of disproven when Weiss asked if he was jealous of her abilities, meaning that he apparently couldn't have done it even if he wanted to. Besides, we've seen at least one person using her Semblance without intending to before, so it seems that Weiss really did summoned it.

I think that Whitley does have the Schnee Semblance, but he either can't use it correctly or never unlocked it (I would like a scene of Whitley struggling to use his Glyphs and failing miserably). My headcanon is that, since he was never good with his Semblance, he wanted to find something in which he was better then his gifted sisters, or something along those lines.

While I do believe that Whitley has the potential to become a very interesting character, I doubt that he has anything to do with Salem, at least as of yet.

My theory regarding a possible coup is this: Some rich people will approach Jacques in the hopes of recruiting him for a coup they are planning, since they need the support of the SDC if they want any chance of pulling it off succesfully, but Jacques will refuse (for a reason which could be anything from having loyalty to Ironwood, or because he doesn't want to risk a civil war because it would be bad for business, or because he could die, etc). And Jacques will not tell Ironwood about it because the man is paranoid enough as it is.