Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-27404492-20170511131216/@comment-141.134.109.210-20170619101953

SomeoneYouUsedToKnow wrote:

Terminus99 wrote: 1-Because Whitley's attitude made it seem like he was up to something, at least to me.

2-Couple that with the fact that he was the only other person in the party that could have possibly summoned the Boarbatusk,

3-and the fact that he is the only person who truly got what he wanted that night, and you understand why suspecting him of being at least partially responsable of what happened is easy. 1-Like always. A man cannot be overly-expressive with their body movements without being seen as questionable in intentions.

2-Except that given his stated opinion about Hunters and about fighting, him actually being good enough to have fought and defeated a Boarbatusk (thus be able to summon it) is absurd.

3-It's just baseless blame-shifting. There's only proof that he did nothing, but because he's a Smug Little Shit he obviously planned everything out. In regards to your second point. In my previous post I explained why I think it could be possible for him. We know the Schnees can summon defeated foes. Do those foes have to be special? We could argue that Weiss has a sort of bond with the knight from what we know from the 'White' trailer and the manga since it was her test to get to Beacon, however I have a hard time believing Winter to have a special bond with a small flock of tiny Nevermores. That's why I think that having a special bond with a foe perhaps makes it easier to summon, but it isn't a requirement to summon them. If a special bond isn't required then gaining summons could be as easy as wounding a Grimm or holding it down and just letting Whitley deal the killing shot with a pistol for example. Safe and controlled. No advanced combat skills needed just the will to finish off a wounded and defenceless soulless monster and some basic firearms skills.

I think Jacques might supply him some Grimm for that purpose since the man doesn't seem to be against Semblance development and Aura training. He was against Weiss going to Beacon academy as opposed to Atlas academy and he was against her being a full time Huntress instead of a CEO with Huntress skills. We already know from the armor Weiss fought that the SDC has Grimm in their possession or could get Grimm if they wanted to.

Can he do it at all? I don't see why not. His family is definitey rich enough to pay somebody to unlock his aura and if your family is such a big target for terrorists I don't see why you wouldn't unlock it. So he probably has his aura unlocked, whether or not he has the aura reserves to actually have much use out of it is up for debate. Let's assume he has for the sake of argument. The Schnee semblance is perfect for defense as the Glyphs allow you to retreat rapidly and act as forcefields against attacks, the summons could do the fighting in your stead. I believe the semblance is too usefull for Jacques to not allow his children to train. I think he would even encourage it so long as they don't plan on abandoning the family business in favor of the military or becoming Hunters.

@73.Anon.52  Your reasoning is a bit flawed. It would be dumb for him to have done so if he was the only one there to have the capability of doing it and there was reason to doubt Weiss being guilty. He however wasn't the only one, Weiss was also there and the most obvious perpetrator. Sometimes the best crimes are the ones done straight under the people their noses. Yeah, Whitley is one of two possible suspects in that room, but who would assume it was Whitley. The boy stood harmlessly next to his father and some other guests, whilst Weiss was making a big scene, got into a big argument with the victim (the Trophy Wife) and is very possibly suffering from PTSD from having fought in the Battle of Beacon, she was also a trained huntress in training.

Unless people can trace aura back to a person it's not a matter of who has done it, but who is the most likely perpetrator. Weiss is clearly the better suspect of the two.

@Terminus99 It's true that Weiss her semblance acted up when she was under great stress, so it could be possible it was of her own doing. However Whitley's words should be taken with a grain of salt. She sked him "Are you jealous of mine and Winter's abilities?" to which he replied "No, frankly I find it barbaric and it's beneath people like me, like father."

This should not on it's own be taken as him saying he can't summon. Winter and Weiss use theirs for actual combat, they actively seek out combat and use mostly Glyphs combined with their weapon and Dust. Whitley could honestly not give a damn about being better then Weiss with sword fighting or Dust usage or even Glyphs, because he doesn't want to do the fighting. He knows she isn't good at summoning and if he knows he is better than her and at least beliefs he is better than Winter at summoning and he only cares about summoning than he could speak the truth. "I don't care about your abilities, my summoning is better and that's all I care about."

Of course he could be very weak with summoning as well, however I would like Whitley to be that kind of antagonist that is scary because he is right. The type that never technically lies only builds his sentences on such a way that people assume the wrong thing. Like I did above. He didn't lie about not being jealous of Weiss and Winter's abilities, because he is better at the only part of the Schnee semblance that actually interests him for example.

I also don't think Whitley will have anything to do with Salem to be fair. It would be nice to have Jacques ad Whitley be a third faction with the SDC, perhaps with a coup against Ironwood for example.

@SomeoneYouUsedToKnow With a house that big it should be very easy for him to train summoning away from prying eyes, perhaps his father onces supplied him some Grimms, it didn't work out and he thought nothing of it. However Whitley could have continued training in secret. For people who think Whitley shouldn't be better than Winter at summoning. Winter also trained her Glyphs, sword figting, Dust usage and probably has a lot of paper work to do as well. If Whitley just throws himself all out on Summoning then it could be posssible that he could be as good or even superior in summoning than Winter. If he's better than Winter then it could be possible for him to have summoned his summons farther away from him than Winter managed to do. Peraps he is even a master summoner. Winter being alright at it, Weiss having a lot of trouble with it and Whitley being a prodigy at it. A possibility.