Behind the Scenes of Beacon's Finest (#8) (Analysis)
Weiss: If you take the headcanon that the Schnee company uses Faunus as workers (and it's probably not just faunus, but the faunus are what people are concerned with because that's how prejudices work unfortunately as well as defense against it)
[11:18:46 AM] Weiss: And these workers were mistreated. Then they grow angry, and these workers break free and join the White Fang. THey'll be filled with so much anger and hatred of the Schnee name and the human race in total. It fuels a movement into one revenge and getting even rather than justice and equality that it might have been before.
The 'once peaceful' White Fang the news report says.
But that doesn't help. Acting like that only makes you seem more merciless, more brutal to people. That's just compounding the problem. That's making things worse because they're reaffirming in the minds of the unhappy humans who don't like them in the first place and causing them those issues. It makes it worse for the next 'generation' of workers in the mines.
[11:23:55 AM] Weiss: And now enter Weiss and Blake. Blake who's grown up with Faunus, who is one. Who might or might not have gotten involved with those workers. She's seen a lot of things, she wants equality. It's why she was a member of White Fang. But you also see the way she dislikes how Adam was willing to simply blow up an entire train with people inside it.
Their changing mindset into one of brutality was the reason why she left. But she doesn't want to think of her friends as monsters the way Weiss does. Because she knows that they're just lashing out and fighting back against the world that treated them horribly. In the wrong ways maybe, but that's what they're doing.
But then on the other hand there's Weiss. Weiss who grew up in the Schnee family, young and so desperately /alone/ because her family would be busy with work. Work and the war. Grew up with White Fang always targeting her family. She has /nothing/ but negative associations with Faunus. Possibly because she's never had a meeting with a Faunus that isn't White Fang until school. And even then, she probably avoided them because she doesn't trust them.
What does she know of her family's possibly more questionable business ethics? All her life, what she knows probably has been filtered by the people around her. Telling her that nothing is wrong, or that the Faunus were just causing trouble again.
With no reason to believe in the Faunus, and knowing the White Fang as nothing more than murders of her family and it's people, what reason would she believe it when a Faunus related cause comes up with propaganda about her family's company?
[11:26:57 AM] Weiss: Weiss might not dislike the Faunus personally, or she might because of all the negativity she's ever had. She's grown up hearing slurs of them in her entire family because of what the White Fang did.
It's not an impression that will give her any bit of positivity to the Faunus /at all/.
Especially not when they make her father angry. Not when it's implied that her father got home /furious/ and made growing up 'difficult'. Which implies some sort of domestic violence in there, verbal physically, towards her mother, the rest of her family or herself.
Not when she knows the White Fang Faunus were behind it. It's a very personal thing to her then, it hits close to home, and it's not just a prejudice anymore.
It becomes a legitimant fear of them that manifests itself into a strong dislike and distaste of them. And this is Weiss. Fear she will fight, fear she dislikes.
[11:28:39 AM] Weiss: And finding out that her teammate was a White Fang?
That probably /hurt/. Because she wouldn't know what to think. She's always been cold, that's just her, she's just as socially awkward as Ruby, but in ways that make it a /flaw/ rather than a /quirk/ and adorable. It makes her a bitch, it makes her hard to deal with. (I would know).
And then this happens, and then what is she to think?
That somebody she considered, althought she never said it out loud, a team member, somebody she could work with... was suddenly part of a group that she dislikes because of what they have done to her in her life?
[11:29:34 AM] Weiss: Ultimately, they do kinda represent the two conflicting sides. But only their ideals. Their methods and means and every overarching thought pattern though.
The prejudices?
That might not be true.
[11:29:46 AM | Edited 11:29:49 AM] Weiss: ..... Anyways. I've ranted enough. I'll just... yeah.
[11:29:51 AM] Ruby: *goes to post this*
[11:29:59 AM] Weiss: .... what are you posting?
[11:30:02 AM] Weiss: o.o;
[11:30:32 AM] Weiss: RUBY WHAT ARE YOU POSTING?!