Talk:Jacques Schnee/@comment-1446360-20200111181543/@comment-24018437-20200111192902

I mean...He did pit her against a massive piece of armor with an equally massive sword that was being posessed by a Grimm, whose purpose in life is to kill, in order to stop her from attending Beacon...

And even if he didn’t intend it, it still happened. And even before that he did extremely questioneble things. Unless holding backing a basic need, knowing it would chaos and therefore attract Grimm and cause trouble with Atlas is somehow unintended.

Jacques didn’t intend for Watts to destroy Mantle. That is true. But he did intend to cause chaos, to hold people hostage by denying them something they need for survival, to manipulate everyone into electing him as leader and to make Ironwood’s job a lot harder. Aside from the end goal, Jacques knew all of this. He was aware of all the steps that would lead to his election. He just didn’t know what would happen afterwards.

It’s the equivelent of someone in a desert town withholding all water and other means to stay cool, in order to force people to obey him. Its blatant manipulation and abuse. Its a recipe for disaster and while Jacques wasn’t aware of Watts’ end goal, he was aware of a lot of stuff that the plan involved. Robyn was right when she said the blood is on Jacques’ hands.