Had I been in Weiss' position I would have just burned the mansion to the ground. Jacques made the big mistake of taking away all bargaining points he has against her, this is not how you emotionally manipulate people !
edited 3rd Jan '17 3:56:05 AM by Kiefen
So an idea that sounds quite plausible (though quite speculative) just occurred to me.
We spent a lot of time discussing which of the Gods supported/are Salem and Ozpin, "is the light God an example of Light Is Not Good and does that make his counterpart Dark Is Not Evil?"
But what if both creators are on Salem's side, and the world of Remnant is, by the will of the "all powerful" masters of the world, periodically destroyed and recreated so that each of the deities can fulfill their primary purpose (to destroy and to create) again and again until the end of time?
Both Ozpin and Salem are agents of these celestial tyrants, but Ozpin has gone rogue and is playing a stalling game, which from her perspective accomplishes nothing other than prolonging the world's suffering before the inevitable conclusion of the cycle, which is an accusation that Ozpin probably has no good answer for, hence the secrecy.
This theory makes the weird disconnect in "Divide" (shaming Ozpin and blaming him for everyone's suffering while seemingly working towards either the end of the world or a very violent reshaping of it) make a lot of sense.
edited 3rd Jan '17 7:00:43 AM by CaptainCapsase
Winter has rescinded any claim to the ownership of SDC the moment she joined Atlas military, really.
Really, I find it curious that the same fate did not befall Weiss initially, given that she went way further than Winter ever did. Perhaps Jacques thought this is just a phase or that Weiss will mature rather than go rogue on him (more or less).
@Cycle of Rebirth: It reminds me of Dark Souls, a little bit. Obviously Qrow's story is not the full picture, but we really need to hear Salem's version (or someone else's who's in the know) first.
If it is, what point would there be to being all cryptic with it? I've never understood people being so adamant about that point. So Qrow and Raven have a power we don't understand, it doesn't mean it isn't going to be explained later on, and until then I don't get trying to force it into being something that never really made sense in the first place.
edited 3rd Jan '17 9:01:49 AM by LSBK
I can't speak for other people but if there is another five frickin' not-magic magic abilities people have that are revealed every five episodes, I'm gonna lose it.
Semblance, Maiden Powers, and Silver Eyes are all around already and there's also Aura (related to Semblances) and Dust. Miles & Kerry (and Monty, rest his soul) seem to be writers of excess, putting new shiny things in before properly fleshing out the stuff they have in the show already.
"Evii is right though" -Saturn "I didn't know you were a bitch Evii." -Lior ValI mean, three of those were present from the beginning and are pretty easy to understand; aura and Semblance are tied together.
The other two are major plot points and introduced pretty close together much later. I'm not really seeing a lot of excess (yet). I don't understand what's wrong with their still being things in this world we don't understand. The story isn't even close to over yet.
But I am wondering how they even figured out that Qrow's Semblance is "I bring bad luck to everyone around me".
edited 3rd Jan '17 9:45:31 AM by LSBK
Yes, it is a big deal. My point is that the fact this isn't a big deal in that family shows there's something terribly wrong with the environment she's being raised into. Neither of them are focussed on the fact she almost killed someone in public and finding a positive solution to ensuring that never happens again. They're focussed on who is doing the worst damage to the Schnee family name and whose responsibility it to protect it.
It's a bad family environment.
What I'm hoping is that she realises she's got to walk away from it. Walk away with the clothes on her back and her sword, and nothing else. Rebuild her life from scratch. If she wants to get the family name back to the way it was in the days of Nicholas Schnee just by becoming a huntress, she's missing the point of why he succeeded. He worked from the ground up. He didn't have very much, but he made what he did have stretch as far as he could take it. He worked from the ground up which made him understand what it's like the be there. He knew what he was trying to save because he had been one of the people who needed saving - he saved himself first and everyone else afterwards.
Until she walks away and rebuilds herself from scratch with nothing to lean on except good, solid friendships to give her strength, she's not going to understand what Nicholas did and why he did it. If she doesn't understand, she won't be able to do anything about it.
What I don't want to play down, however, is that walking away from abuse is one of the hardest things a person can ever do. The writers clearly know that because they've had Ghira lampshade it, at least a little bit, during his talk with Blake and the moment I want to see for Weiss is the moment Blake had in the Black Trailer. Weiss is still building up to the Black Trailer. She hasn't had that moment yet.
If my post doesn't mention a giant flying sperm whale with oversized teeth and lionfish fins for flippers, it just isn't worth reading.My guess for all the Dust thefts (aside from the bombs in Mountain Glenn, helping to depower Huntsmen and causing economic instability thanks to technology being so dependent on it) is to contribute to the narrative that Atlas is a villain. General Ironwood's decision to stop Dust shipments show just how dependent on Atlas the world is for Dust. While it's a sign of a compassionate man who is worried about protecting people, it plays right into Salem's hands — cause a Dust shortage, trigger Atlas into cutting off supplies which makes the shortage even worse, and suddenly Atlas is the bad guy that's destabilising the other kingdoms via an economic war.
For all his faults and selfish motives, Jacques understands the consequences of Ironwood's decision far better than Ironwood does.
edited 3rd Jan '17 7:32:35 PM by Wyldchyld
If my post doesn't mention a giant flying sperm whale with oversized teeth and lionfish fins for flippers, it just isn't worth reading.Even when Blake wins she still loses.
From what little I watched (Well, 23 of the episodes anyway) of the Kill La Kill Akame ga Kill anime (which didn't go as far as the manga), Akame... barely did anything noteworthy besides look cool and fight Esdeath. So, thematically...
But still, Akame didn't even use her Super Mode.
edited 4th Jan '17 5:11:07 AM by Soble
I'M MR. MEESEEKS, LOOK AT ME!In my defense A) the names are incredibly similar, B) it was a typo, and C) both shows have a ton of Fanservice.
And Anime!Akame at least does have a Super Mode that wasn't used.
edited 4th Jan '17 5:18:30 AM by Soble
I'M MR. MEESEEKS, LOOK AT ME!

So one thing I think I might have misheard or misremembered, when Papa Schnee was stripping Weiss of her position as heiress was he saying/implying that to the public that it was Weiss herself who revoked her claim? The transcript for the episode put's the line as:
The way he's phrased it is interesting, which means either Jacques is trying to keep the family name out of further gossip by having what happened framed as Weiss voluntarily giving up her claim rather than a scandal of him stripping her of it, or that the SDC is legally handed down to the oldest sibling, which makes his actions even worse since he'd be literally robbing her of her birthright.