Analyzing Weiss and Whitley Schnee’s relationship
With R/RWBYCritics poisoning R/RWBY on reddit, any pro-rwby posts or comments now get downvoted to hell.
And any positive RWBY statements get downvoted on R/RWBY as well.
Here is one example from a RWBYCritic claiming that Miles and Kerry create division within the fandom, and the RWBYCritics took advantage to attack the writers, the show, and the fandom in their malicious glee.
Here we have a person who delivered a FANTASTIC analysis.
“Once the story leaves the author’s hands it’s no longer their story, the interpretation is up to the person who reads it.
The problem is not how it is written, the problem is that people can’t accept people have different interpretations.
To me this looks more like a problem of perception more than writing.
Perception in the sense that it looks like this critic is written from an “outsider perspective” of a characters actions that should be perceived from the character’s point of view.
The Schnee’s family story is written from Weiss’ point of view from v1 to v3.
-her brother and mother are not mentioned. -her father is mentioned under a negative light. -her sister under a positive light.
That tells us at least that in her eyes she’s neutral/indifferent towards her mother and brother, Hostile towards her father and friendly to her sister.
At this point it doesn’t matter if the characters for Willow and Whitley exist or not because they don’t have any influence in Weiss during this point of the story.
For v4 and v5 we find out what kind of person is Jacques and we understand the issues Weiss had with him.
Then we are introduced to her brother and we see that he’s just as Jacques at a surface level so it’s understandable that Weiss acts hostile against him. But then we see the first hint Weiss gets that her brother is just as much as a victim as her.
-“it’s foolish to disobey father.”
Here is where the problem starts. We as an audience with an “outsider’s perception” are able to start putting the hints together and come to the conclusion that Whitley is a victim of Jacques’ influence and control.
BUT that is not a conclusion Weiss can reach on her own.
-“to me you, Blake and Ruby are more family to me than my father or my own brother.”
To her on this point in the story her brother is an extension of her father.
After that we don’t see anything about her family until we meet her mother.
-“unlike others I’m trying to do something about the problem.”
We could see that Weiss is not happy with her mother about the lack of action to fix her family (leaving the fixing to Weiss).
-“my bother doesn’t want anything to do with me” -“of course he doesn’t, you left him here with us”
At that point 6 volumes in Weiss understands that Whitley is a victim like her.
But can he change or does her brother became another Jacques?
The moment she had her dying friend in her arms, the weight of the world in her shoulders and its looking for a safe place to tend her friends (mortal wounds).
She’s received by a Whitely scolding her about her decisions (Jacques-like) so she points a sword at his face so he could stop talking and save her friend’s life.
(friendly reminder that under that situation anyone would be stressed as f*ck and they didn’t have any time to lose to save Penny)
To this point Weiss still sees her brother as another Jacques, but then he calls Klein to help Penny.
And it’s at that moment and ONLY that moment when she understands that her brother is not a lost cause so she finally embraces him.
-“you didn’t do this for me, for you or the family’s name. You are not Jacques.”
Of course, as I said earlier the interpretation of the story is up to the perceiver, by under this logic I see no problems in the writing for the Schnee’s family from Weiss’ point of view.”
As you can expect? the RWBYCritics downvoted it because it portrayed not only the show, but also the writing, in a positive light.
