Do you think there was a moment in the Schnee manor in V8 where Blake considered whether the family was ever really the problem or if Jacques’ sociopathy was just VERY LOUD.
Like, she’s already seen Weiss grow out of the attitude. Whitley is obviously just a kid. Winter might not be on their side at the moment but she’s still got loyalty and a dedication to protecting the world even if the team doesn’t agree with the how. Willow is a broken woman and alcoholic who loves her children but wasn’t good at protecting them.
Blake grew up viewing the Schnees as this snobby bunch of evil assholes and in reality most of them are just abuse victims trying their best to survive.
(Very basic Summary for ur convenience: i doubt it actually takes Blake that long to get to that point ESPECIALLY after how genuinely quickly Weiss managed to improve from how she was)
I think Blake and most people always saw Weiss’s dad as the biggest problem because he’s for one the face of the company and its decisions and financials
Like if you think of today’s world and in our own real life thinking of all the awful manipulative and cruel billionaires of the world I’m not really thinking “and their kids suck too”
if the kids aren’t also adults and aren’t SUPER fed to the public, people aren’t really thinking about them
Like they might be like “oh I heard his oldest went into the military and quickly rose through the ranks, must be to get more government connections and when possible use the military for more business opportunities in other countries (this is a real thing that happens) or just to get away with more illegal actions” and not like “oh she was trying to escape her family” because monopoly to facist military doesn’t give that vibe even though winter was genuinely trying to leave all that evil behind (its not like she was raised with an awareness of how inherently corrupt the atlas military would HAVE to be considering it seems to be the only military and their country is THE evil country)
But even still it wouldn’t be something people would talk about all that often it’d be more about the company and therefore the dads actions cause he’s the one doing that shit it’s his name on the horrors
Weiss was clearly meant to be used (and was continued to be used) as propaganda and distraction tactics for the company before winter gave up her role as heiress
She’s a singer she’s shown being an entertainer in a way (a fancy rich pretentious persons version of what a performer is allowed to be) this is obvious to distract and deflect from all the negativity the company gets for their crimes and horrors (may or may not be something Weiss is aware of)
This probably would have put a bit more hate her direction because she’s just being put in the public eye a lot more
However not in the THIS IS ALL UR FAULT kinda way it’s a like “oh look at that nepo baby” “look at the company trying to distract from the terrible things instead of change or apologize” “oh turns out this is the person who will eventually be in charge of the company? This singer? Probably an evil little girl then” but she’s still a teenager and jsut a symbol for something that people hate so it’s not the worst
I REALLY doubt a lot/any of Blake’s hate pre meeting Weiss was directed at Weiss specifically
Maybe after seeing her become a bit of a singer (if it’s something that was put into the world and not some super exclusive but decently frequent event for rich people, then it’s after finding out about it vaguely) just because Blake and Weiss are the same age so Blake wouldn’t be viewing her as a young teenage girl, she’d be viewing her as someone who should have the same accountability and responsibility as an adult (because Blake was groomed by Adam and assumes all people her age should act “mature” and be treated as adults) but other then that probably not a lot of thinking about the schnee children
HOWEVER when she MEETS Weiss, she becomes a representation and symbol for that hatred because Weiss is RIGHT THERE and also WILDLY supportive and forward about how GREAT her family and her families company is
And even still Blake wasn’t overly antagonistic to her when she could bare not to be she really only retaliated against Weiss she didn’t start anything
Weiss was OPENLY and LOUDLY bigoted against Faunus and very narrow minded and harsh and loud about her thoughts on the white fang
This brought Blake a lot closer to the idea of the Schnee family instead of company and possibly putting more judgement on the actual family
But probably a lot of that faded after Weiss got her little “oh shit racism is baddd” arch and they became good friends and they got to both come to an understanding on how they were led to think about things a certain way (Blake’s was a lotttt more of a subtle thing)
I would LOVEEEE to see Rwby go more into Weiss and her family’s journey of separating themselves fully from Jacques mindset and ideology’s and abuse because even if they all knew he was terrible it’s REALLY hard to be exposed to something for so long and not accidentally absorb SOME of it
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