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LSBK Since: Sep, 2014
#41201: Nov 2nd 2016 at 6:31:14 PM

Eh, I doubt that'll come up. That'd be a pretty lame bias and character flaw for Weiss to have.

Not really sure what you mean, I'm not saying Weiss would be thinking of it in those terms, just out of universe it's a bit of a cop out to go "No he's not really a Schnee".

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#41202: Nov 2nd 2016 at 6:31:22 PM

What we know about Whitley:

  • He's Weiss' little brother.
  • They seemed not to get along much before Weiss left, but he claims to have grown out of it.
  • He doesn't get along with Winter either, which I can't blame him for.
  • His first and only scene has him giving a heads up to Weiss about their dad, which earns sincere thanks from her.
  • He looks less miserable than Weiss and Winter in their family portrait.
  • He has rich-kid mannerisms.

    That's it. Honestly people just seem to be projecting.

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VutherA Since: Jul, 2009
#41203: Nov 2nd 2016 at 6:33:51 PM

[up][up]Huh? I don't think I know at all what you were suggesting now. Dumb it down for me.

LSBK Since: Sep, 2014
#41204: Nov 2nd 2016 at 6:37:54 PM

[up]Just that going the guy who is "tarnishing" the Schnee name married into the family and isn't a "real" Schnee indirectly weakens Weiss's point.

It's an easy way to go the "real" Schnee's are actually honorable people and that he doesn't count because he's not really one of them. People do stuff like that all the time.

edited 2nd Nov '16 6:40:32 PM by LSBK

IniuriaTalis Since: Oct, 2014 Relationship Status: Love, football, the arts, the occasional pint
#41205: Nov 2nd 2016 at 6:38:08 PM

[up][up] She wants to redeem the Schnees from what her father has done, but if her father isn't really a Schnee then that conflict becomes less meaningful.

edited 2nd Nov '16 6:38:18 PM by IniuriaTalis

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VutherA Since: Jul, 2009
#41206: Nov 2nd 2016 at 6:47:34 PM

I get the hypocrisy you're referring to, but I think that's just in our heads and won't ever come up. There's no indication Weiss have ever thought that - the fact Weiss claims to deeply want to redeem the Schnees' name would imply to me she's not going to sit with such a logical cop-out anyway, which is the only benefit to adopt it at all in her case (If she's going to work hard to fix her family's name, it won't matter whether the problem is No True Scotsman or not - she's fixed it anyway).

edited 2nd Nov '16 6:47:59 PM by VutherA

LSBK Since: Sep, 2014
#41207: Nov 2nd 2016 at 6:52:08 PM

I'm not talking about Weiss herself, I'm talking about the audience. People routinely look for such things in fiction when stuff like this comes up, that's why it's a copout. Weiss herself not thinking about it that way doesn't change the fact that it's what a lot of people would take away from it.

Edit: Like, to give an example from another series. In Adventure Time, when the character Finn's biological father was revealed there were so many people who immediately jumped to him not really being his father or lying about it because the guy was a douche, though Finn himself didn't. The audience is constantly looking for outs about unfortunate or uncomfortable situations like this.

edited 2nd Nov '16 6:55:40 PM by LSBK

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#41208: Nov 2nd 2016 at 6:56:52 PM

if he did manage to do enough damage to the family name to the point that it is treated like a family practice to people in universe without being an Schnee then the goal Weiss has isn't less important though.

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VutherA Since: Jul, 2009
#41209: Nov 2nd 2016 at 6:58:50 PM

Ahhh, ok, sorry about this long thing over it.

And now that we've mentioned it, YA'LL DON'T FUCKING DO IT

Bloody logical fallacies, hate em'.

AmbarSonofDeshar Since: Jan, 2010
#41210: Nov 2nd 2016 at 8:05:36 PM

Hey, maybe Weiss' mom and dad are ''both'' Schnees.

What? Like every other possible form of incest hasn't been joked about in this thread?

Soble Since: Dec, 2013
#41211: Nov 2nd 2016 at 8:05:42 PM

That's it. Honestly people just seem to be projecting.

And in his first scene it's established that he seems different from how Weiss remembers him.

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#41212: Nov 2nd 2016 at 8:07:45 PM

[up]x2 I approve as long as we get some stupidly hilarious ship name out of it like how Ruby x Yang is called Enabler.

CaptainCapsase from Orbiting Sagittarius A* Since: Jan, 2015
#41213: Nov 2nd 2016 at 8:10:15 PM

[up][up][up] I mean, when it comes to rich pseudo-aristocrats, it's not unbelievable that they're like third cousins.

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#41214: Nov 2nd 2016 at 8:29:58 PM

[up]x4 It might've just been 2 types...

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Parable Since: Aug, 2009
#41215: Nov 2nd 2016 at 8:48:01 PM

There will be more now that Weiss and Blake have families to ship.

VutherA Since: Jul, 2009
#41216: Nov 2nd 2016 at 8:48:56 PM

The Schnee and Blake family should swing, thus fixing Human-Faunus conflict forever

AmbarSonofDeshar Since: Jan, 2010
#41217: Nov 2nd 2016 at 8:49:59 PM

I think the real issue with Whitley is just his voice. Everything he says carries a tone of "I know something you don't".

VutherA Since: Jul, 2009
#41218: Nov 2nd 2016 at 8:52:52 PM

That's probably where most of the "I really wanted to punch him after his appearance" stuff is coming from. A voice can really get on people's nerves.

God_of_Awesome Since: Jan, 2001
#41219: Nov 2nd 2016 at 9:24:54 PM

I liked his voice. I felt it teetered on that, pulling away at the last moment. I like that.

CaptainCapsase from Orbiting Sagittarius A* Since: Jan, 2015
#41220: Nov 3rd 2016 at 9:08:58 AM

So I just looked through the recap page, and it was pointed out that in episode one, two of the chairs in Salem's conference room (or whatever) were empty, which seems to foreshadow two additional members of her inner circle who for whatever reason aren't present.

Any thoughts?

LSBK Since: Sep, 2014
#41221: Nov 3rd 2016 at 9:11:22 AM

I brought that up before. I'm not sure what I think about it but someone else guessed those two might be out hunting the other two Maidens.

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#41223: Nov 3rd 2016 at 9:39:31 AM

[up] Maybe, but I was under the impression that the chairs were meant for proper members of Salem's conspiracy and they are just lackeys. Just some wild mass guess on my part.

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LSBK Since: Sep, 2014
#41224: Nov 3rd 2016 at 9:42:20 AM

I'm really curious about how much Blake's family knows about her fallout with the White Fang and Adam. I don't see her being totally honest about it, so I wonder what they think happened.

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#41225: Nov 3rd 2016 at 9:56:58 AM

  • Salem: Would you care to take a seat?
  • Mercury: What's that supposed to mean?! Is it because I don't have legs?!
  • Salem: ...what.
  • Emerald: (whisper) The hell are you on about?
  • Mercury: I don't know! It was an impulse! I panicked! Now I have to stay up here to save face. Would you just stand next to me so I don't look like an idiot?
  • Emerald: Fine, but you owe me one.

edited 3rd Nov '16 9:58:13 AM by TobiasDrake

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