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osir-ethria · 3 years

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.... Debating on whether or not I should do something other than the Schneeblings...

Well here’s another thing about them anyway.

Whitley loves fashion and designing with a much more creative aspect to clothing. Jacques however found out and called it far to feminine and that he should be focusing business and other things (minus fighting).

Winter would always let Whitley choose the dress she would wear to business meeting with Jacques and tell him about the guests reactions and how many compliments she got because of his choice. She did this in the form of a letter that Klein would hand Whitley because if she was seen anywhere near Whitley he would be reprimanded by their father. She’d first give him a list on what the event was about, how she was to be represented, and if Jacques was there to enjoy himself a little or purely just business.

This helped Whitley with his look when he went out on formal events and got to choose. (This is me saying please change his outfit for once. Maybe inspired by Weiss?)

Even though Winter never directly told Weiss but Whitley was the one who designed her outfits minus the Volume 7 one... I’d have to say Weiss looks good but like, the pounds of hair in that braid is unnecessary. She has a lot of hair but why make it not proportional to the rest of the head. Other than that she actually picked up a few things from Whitley just by studying what she’s been wearing.

After the half of the group that got to Vacuo arrives at the main kingdom they need new gear. The Atlas gear is going to give them a heat stroke. They are trying to decide what to do and they see an obviously emotionally unavailable Winter write a few things down, hand it to Whitley, and tells him to go all out.

Later she explains the whole fashion thing with them and tells them that if they’d trust him with their outfit designs to just list necessities, color schemes, any requirements that’ll help with how they fight, and what style of clothing they are comfortable or uncomfortable with. When Whitley receives these papers from the group he starts crying, they aren’t seeing it as weird and actually trust him with it. Remember, Jacques hated this side of Whitley.

Whitley works with Pietro to design the new gear and everyone loves it. Comfortable, looks good, and does its job. I also remember that the Schnee dust company doesn’t only have dust mines in Atlas even though it was the majority, there are some all over Remnent. (This is from the World of Remnent episode Rooster Teeth did about the Schnee Dust Company.) The Schnees however stay with the refugees instead of going somewhere else so they can help them. They also have enough money to help provide for the refugees like buying tents, getting food and water, and any other necessity. Whitley gets a good feeling from helping and not keeping it all to himself.

Whitley better ask Winter to train him or Winter forcefully teaches him because she can’t handle losing another sibling. This is just with a sword he hasn’t gotten his semblance yet.

He’s smarter than a lot think he should be, the only thing that’s stopping him from being a huntsman is how young he is, like I would prefer if he was around Oscar’s age, and he’s not of the physical or aura capability of a huntsman. You could argue Jaune was like that but Jaune was of the age to go to beacon, had a weapon, and was physically fit to the point he could play it off as maybe going to the school. The only thing he was lacking was skill which was remedied by Pyrrha.

Whitley hasn’t had any of that but I wouldn’t doubt that he’d be a good fit. I can imagine him trying to use his left hand but it doesn’t work out so he forces himself to switch and it works but he wanted to use his left hand for that. He’s not as nimble as Weiss but more so than Winter so he’s slowly forming into a mix. Best part would be he keeps his sarcastic attitude and teasing only being serious in serious situations.

I think all Schnees are brutally honest with everything but understand and feel bad when they hurt someone who hasn’t done anything bad to them or has gotten on their nerves. If they are misunderstood for what they say and they know it wouldn’t be easy to understand said topic they go soft and attempt to explain, Winter and Penny at the Schnee manor in Vol 7.

I also like to think that each of them are slightly gifted in the others area of art. Whitley is better with design, art, and visual concepts.

Weiss is better musical and hearing as well as being able to take quickly to anything she was forced to learn by Jacques or genuinely wanted to know. Weiss and Whitley also share common interest in design from a mathematical stand point because it gets their motors going which was derived from Jacques trying to control them and force how they think, what they do, and what’s going on.

Winter is more about art through movement. She taught Weiss how to dance and is probably the only person who could stand a chance against Yang with Martial Arts. With her being the most controlling of her emotions she could easily do acting which she was forced to do while in school before Atlas Academy.

Whitley learnt how to play the piano from Weiss with videos Klein recorded where Weiss explained how to play. This was an assignment by Jacques to prove she was practicing but Whitley caught them once and asked Klein if he could see the videos. Jacques thought he had the natural talent for the piano, nah he just practiced a lot with Weiss’s help.

Winter hasn’t listened to any of Weiss’ personal songs. By personal I mean the RWBY soundtracks. I head canon that those songs are Weiss describing their journey and how she believes their friends, enemies, and family feels.

I like the idea that Weiss’s songs were used as protest. Now Winter has heard a few she just never put two and two together that that was Weiss singing since she always had a soft pitched opera voice. Well not until she heard someone in the refugee camp blast This Life Is Mine which included the more opera segment. That broke Winter. The idea was on a head canon post but I forgot the name and I’ve liked to many posts to the point I doubt I’ll find it.

Whitley got two copies of Weiss’s songs, using a bit of money for himself and Winter there, and as a bonding activity between them and if they ever feel stressed listen to her music and voice. This is how Whitley realized that Jacques had been lying to him about his sisters just abandoning him and not caring for him at all that they left him, but rather Jacques pulled him away from Winter to ensure he wouldn’t end up like Weiss. This Life Is Mine hits close to Whitley as for Winter as much as she agrees with Whitley that it hits close she knows that Weiss’s song Path to Isolation hits more for her.

Weiss had managed to submit War, Until The End, and Fear to the people who published her songs before everything the evacuation using Pietro. Pietro questioned why and she just gave a quick summary, not explaining everything but just enough. Those publishers got though the portals and with the help of Whitley and the Schnee money got Weiss’s ‘final’ track out.

The songs are played everyday which was new for the Atlesians that survived compared to the survivors in Mantle. No one expected Weiss to be so defiant and see how abusive Jacques was to her and which they can assume the rest of the family. How they weren’t picture perfect.

......... I should stop now. Written to much again. I’ll most likely try to find the post with the idea that Weiss’s song were used as songs of retaliation in Mantle. If I do I’m going to reboot it so here me go, deep diving.

#Schnees #rwby whitley #whitley schnee #rwby winter #winter schnee #rwby weiss #weiss schnee #head canons #sad stuff #Whitley should become a hunter in the future change my mind #winter was so busy and absolutely detested Jacques #schneeblings #they are multi-talented and I don’t take criticism for that #rwby #post rwby vol 8 #rwby vol 7 #rwby vol 9 head canons #I’ve gotta find that one post

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deadwestrp-blog · 5 years

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Minerva “Minnie” Stendahl. Twenty-Four Years Old. The Coward.

The Stendahls have quite the history of being intellectuals, dandies, cowards, however you wish to call it. It all began with Minnie’s great grandfather, Henrik. Born into a well-to-do family in the parish of Ljuder, Henrik knew what was expected of him as the eldest son of the family: finish his rudimentary schooling, find a wife, take over the family inn, have children, etc and let the cycle repeat itself from there. However, he was not interested in this. Henrik was enthralled with the idea of knowledge, of learning until there were no more books on God’s green earth he hadn’t devoured. The life of a innkeeper and farmer afforded no time for these pursuits. This, coupled with recent poor harvests, leaving Henrik questioning his future prosperity, lead him to make the voyage to the new world. As a young man of 17 in America, Henrik continued his studies, settling in Massachusetts before becoming a professor upon completion of his degrees.

This love of knowledge was instilled in his son, who followed a similar path as Henrik and in turn encouraged that love in his own son, Minerva’s father, Isak, who one could call even more of a dandy than his father. In young adulthood, Isak’s studies took him back over that very sea his grandfather crossed, to the University of Oxford in England. It was in England that Isak would meet Ruth Casey, the painter. The two bonded over a shared love of classical Greek and Roman literature, hence the name Minerva, and neoclassical artwork. Ruth and Isak married one week following Isak’s graduation and two years later, Minerva arrived. The family stayed in England until Minnie was four, sailing to America after Isak caught wind of an open staff position at Harvard.

Ruth, fair, illustrious, and hard-spoken, wanted for nothing when it came to her education growing up. Taught by the best tutors money could buy, the entire Casey brood was expected to do no less than absolutely excel in whatever field they chose. She demanded the same for her child and Isak, happy to share his knowledge with whoever willing to listen, obliged. Enrolled into Amherst Academy, Minnie began her studies in language, literature, history, botany, etc.

Minnie Stendahl grew up in an incredibly sheltered life. You would be hard pressed to find Minnie more than some odd 500 ft outside of her family’s property, her time outside largely spent in her family’s garden or orchard and not a foot past. She passed her days either in the classroom or holed up in the family library, devouring those same books that so enchanted her great grandfather all those years ago. Both Ruth and Isak encouraged this secluded approach to child-rearing, as Ruth herself had a similar upbringing in England. In a way one could say Minnie has been an adult since she was old enough to speak, as her parent’s high brow, no nonsense personalities left no room for childish games and appeasements. Despite this at times severe behavior, there was no shortage of love in the Stendahl house, Ruth and Isak were just more inclined to treat Minnie as a miniature adult of sorts. A quiet, articulate child, sure she could charm the pants off the director of Harvard’s Classics department, but put her in front of a child her own age and she’d be shooting panicked looks at her parent’s until they told her she could leave.

Much like Isak and Ruth, Minnie grew up entrenched in the world of academia, never learning nor really caring about what else was going on in the world; tragedy blew right over her head. She had her mother, her father, her books, and the family cat, Violet, and that was all she really cared about.

As Minnie neared 14, a shockwave ran through the Stendahl house. Ruth, previously understanding that Minnie would be her one and only, that her womb would never produce another child, discovered she was pregnant. Minnie was horrified. She was her parent’s child, she was the apple of their eye, there was no room in their home for some messy, squalling infant. Every night she’d pray, pray that this was some sort of mix up, that her mother’s doctor must be an imbecile, that her mother’s upset stomach was just…indigestion or something. Yet the weeks passed, Ruth’s stomach growing larger with each day it seemed.

However, in the most haunting, macabre way, Minnie got what she wanted in the end. Not without conditions of course. Day by day, Minnie’s mother started fading, her sicknesses growing more intense and unbearable. She began losing weight, never a good sign for an expectant mother. Ruth’s skin grew pale, waxy, that golden light that seemed to shine when she smiled dimmed and dimmed until she couldn’t muster a smile at all.

Little Cyrus, or Diana should the baby be a girl, arrived two months ahead of schedule. By then, serious concern had been mounted for Ruth’s heath, and the health of the baby as well. It was not an easy birth, and after 24 hours of labor, the world met Diana. Then Ruth started bleeding, a bleeding that never stopped. Diana, impossibly tiny and fragile, didn’t see more than two days after that.

At 14 years old, Minerva had her first brush with tragedy, losing her mother and the young sister she had reluctantly come to love over the course of the pregnancy all in the course of a few days. She would never truly forgive herself for that, convinced their deaths were God’s twisted way of answering her prayers, her punishment for wishing her sister away. Following this, Minnie grew even more introverted, refusing to speak to anyone but her father and grandfather for months, even when it got her in trouble at school. Both horrified and deeply wounded by the tragedy, Minnie and her father were inseparable in the years following.

Minerva Stendahl grew from a quiet child into a reserved, bookish young woman. Enrolling in the Mount Holyoke Female Seminary for her higher education, she all but completely rejected reality, preferring to absorb herself in the worlds of the past, the Greeks, the Romans, the Egyptians, etc. While this served to broaden her mind and knowledge, it did nothing to help her already poor social skills. And her father, forever stricken with the grief of losing his wife and child, did not see the problem in this, holding tightly onto the little family he had left.

Minnie found herself in Saint Clemens, waiting at the ship port to intercept an old college friend of her father’s. He had planned on heading to Massachusetts to undertake a massive translation project and had agreed to take Minnie on as an assistant. He arrived just before the chaos broke out. Both, completely in denial of the reality of the situation, resolved to catch one of the illegal train rides they had heard murmurs of and get the hell out of there. The two spent their train ride chattering excitedly about the project waiting for them in Massachusetts. The chaos of Saint Clemens was forgotten, as if they had managed to convince themselves it was all a figment of their imagination. Then the passenger took ill. The gunfire began and Minnie, caught up in the lawlessness and disorder, lost sight of her colleague. Only to find him again minutes later, a well-dressed corpse slumped against the wall of the train car, blood still trickling from the stray bullet lodged in his brain.

She ran. Skirts covered in dust and blood, she ran and ran, desperate to find some semblance of civilization.

Skills.

Constitution; Two. ◆◆◇◇◇◇◇◇◇◇ Strength; Two. ◆◆◇◇◇◇◇◇◇◇ Intelligence; Seven. ◆◆◆◆◆◆◆◇◇◇ Perception; Four. ◆◆◆◆◇◇◇◇◇◇ Charisma; Three. ◆◆◆◇◇◇◇◇◇◇ Luck; Seven. ◆◆◆◆◆◆◆◇◇◇

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yangarah · 7 years

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RWBY Soundtrack Analysis: Mirror Mirror pt 2

I wanna do this justice. I love Weiss so much. I’ve had an overwhelming few weeks and it kinda hit me today but I’m gonna do my best to forget that for now!

ALRIGHT

“Who am I to complain? My life’s been spared so much pain. Born with all that I need, my comforts all guaranteed.” Weiss was born into a rich family and was never left wanting for anything, or so it appeared. If you recall V1E10 “The Badge and the Burden pt 2”, Professor Port and Weiss had a very important conversation. “With all due respect, your exceptional skill on the battlefield is matched only by your poor attitude.” “How dare you?!” “My point exactly. I see a girl before me who has spent her entire life getting exactly what she wanted.” “That’s not even remotely true! ... ..Well, not entirely true.” It’s a crucial part of Weiss’ character development. She went to a teacher she trusted with her concerns and doubts and was given a lecture. She could have been like any average teenager and told Port to shove it, but instead she thought carefully about her behavior and realized she was the one who needed to change. She understood how fortunate she had been to grow up not lacking anything. And later that night, she told Ruby “I think you have what it takes to be a good leader. Just know, that I am going to be the best teammate you will ever have.” She knew what she had to do to grow, and she did it with grace.

“So what’s the problem? What’s keeping me from moving forward? It’s hard to see. I should be free now. I should be fine. But the life I fought for still isn’t mine.” This is where the “Well, not entirely true” line comes in. Weiss knew she was trapped in her family. She knew the despicable person her father is, and she managed to escape, sort of. But she still can’t move on. She can’t summon.

“Some believe in fairy stories, and the ghosts that they can’t see. I know that I could do so much if I could just believe in me. Mirror, Mirror, tell me something. Can I stop my fall?” In this song, it definitely seems like the mirror Weiss is talking to is Winter, especially because the song is played after their meeting in V3E4 “Lessons Learned”. But what’s actually going on is deeper, or maybe more obvious than that. This is Weiss’ struggle against herself. This mirror she’s singing about portrays the worst parts of Weiss. It shows her loneliness, her sorrow, her poor attitude, all her mistakes, her prejudices, But she knows it’s still part of her, so she’s asking if she will be able to ever believe in herself, knowing that if the answer is no, she will fall back into her doubts Her relationship with her “mirror” is clearly negative, and she’s struggling with that, but she hasn’t fully grasped it yet.

“Years of scorn will leave you cold. ‘Forget your dreams, do what you’re told!’ When disapproval’s all you’re shown, the safest place becomes alone. And isolation’s the price you pay when every friendship is pushed away.” Here we see why Weiss was so UNBEARABLE in the first few chapters of Volume 1. All she knows is how to be disapproving or prideful or condescending... because that’s all she’s been shown.

“But bit by bit now, I step each day. I’m slowly starting to find my way!” YES WEISS I’M SO PROUD OF YOUUUU!! This has everything to do with Ruby and Blake (I’m sure Yang has a lot to do with it too but the main scenes are between Weiss and Ruby or Weiss and Blake). I’m sure you all remember Weiss and Blake’s blistering argument in Volume 1 Chapter 15 “The Stray”. Weiss reveals the reason she hates the White Fang and doesn’t trust faunus. “It’s because they’ve been at war with my family for years. War. As in actual bloodshed... Ever since I was a child, I’ve watched family friends disappear. Board members executed. An entire train car full of dust stolen. And every day my father would come home furious. And that made for a very.. difficult.. childhood! ...They’re a bunch of liars! Thieves! And murderers!” This prompts Blake to reveal she’s a faunus and a former member of the White Fang. Someone Weiss has gotten to know and trust, to some degree. Of course she feels betrayed! And angry, and hurt. Her immediate reaction is to isolate herself from Blake. She doesn’t want her back on the team at first. She’s even willing to report Blake to the police, though that could have been just a not-well-thought-out-plan. But she takes the high road when she’s face-to-face with Blake again. Weiss has every right to be furious with Blake, but instead she puts the good of the team ahead of what’s comfortable or easy (which is really SO in line with her character). She forgives Blake and moves forward with a changed heart. SOME PEOPLE think that this character development happened way too quickly to be realistic but I disagree ZANDREAS. Everything about Weiss’ character falls in line with the speed at which she changes her heart. She is intelligent and knows how to introspect. Upon finding things she can improve on, she never wastes any time making herself better. She just needs a push. When it came to putting her selfishness aside for the good of the team, the push came from Professor Port (and she tries to act in line with that for the rest of the show). When it came to changing her attitude about faunus, the push came from Blake’s disappearance. “Do you have any idea how long we’ve been searching for you? 12 hours. That means I’ve had 12 hours to think about this. And in that 12 hours, I’ve decided. I don’t care!” “You don’t care?” “You said you’re not one of them anymore, right? ...All I want to know is that the next time something this big comes up, you’ll come to your teammates. And not some.. someone else.” When it comes to her doubts and her summoning, the push comes from Winter. “Your semblance is like a muscle. The more you practice with it the stronger it will become. But if you only focus on one aspect of it, if you fail to test the limits of what you think is possible, then you’ll never truly grow.” And you know what Weiss does later in that volume? SHE STARTS TO SUMMON. Which means that in her free time, she’s been flexing that muscle.

“Mirror Mirror, I’ll tell you something. I think I might change it all.” Before Winter left, she gave Weiss one last piece of advice. “It sounds to me like you have two choices in front of you. You can either call [Father], beg for his money back, and explain once more why you want to study at Beacon over Atlas, or.. you could continue to explore Remnant. Discovering more about the world and, honestly? More about yourself.” Weiss gets a call from her father while this part of the song plays in the background. And she doesn’t answer. She’s choosing to move on and to be better and to learn about herself more. YES WEISS I’M SO PROUD OF YOU YOU’RE DOING AMAZING SWEETIE <3 <3 <3

Please buy the RWBY Soundtrack on iTunes!! It’s so rad and filled with beautiful songs that tell a beautiful story, or songs that make you feel like you could run a frickin marathon. Jeff and Casey Lee Williams are wonderful please support them! <3

#rwby soundtrack analysis #Mirror Mirror pt 2 rwby #weiss character development

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