
While Whitley was originally mad at Weiss for her actions affecting their family name, they eventually reconciled with each other after Whitley called Klein for help with Nora Valkyrie. Once her father tried to run away, she stopped him using her Glyphs and arrested him.įollowing her father's arrest, all of the workers in the company quit and Whitley was left alone in the Manor while their mother locked herself in her room. Later when she learned that her father won the election thanks to Arthur Watts rigging it in his favor and getting security evidence from her mother, she presented it to the council and showed them how little he actually cared about his workers.

Later when she remembers the incident when the mine caved in and her father only cared about the loss of profit rather than how many Faunus workers were killed in the accident, she apologized to Blake for how her family and the SDC have treated their faunus workers and their prejudice towards them.Īfter she was forced to confront her father again in " Pomp and Circumstance" and he began emotionally abusing her, she defied him again after he began to insult her Team and called them her family in front of him. After Jacques learned that Klein helped Weiss escape, he has him fired from his job.ĭuring a mission in an abandoned Dust Mine and Weiss saw the Schnee Dust Company logo in " Ace Operatives", she was shown to be unhappy about going inside. After Weiss was disinherited, she chose to escape from the Manor with the help of her family butler Klein Sieben to find her sister Winter Schnee in Mistral. After the incident, her father was furious at her for costing him the money from the charity.Īfter Weiss challenged her father and told him off for only marrying into the family, he slapped her on the face, decided to confine here to the Schnee Manor instead of allowing her to become a Huntress and disinherited her for the Schnee Dust Company in favor of her brother Whitley Schnee while coming up with a false reason for the public. Before it could attack however, James Ironwood killed it and refused to arrest Weiss after the guest told him to while scorning the crowd. After the Fall of Beacon, her father came to pick her up himself and took her back to Atlas due to worrying about how the incident would affect their family name.Īfter Weiss was forced to obey her father by putting on a charity concert for the Fall of Beacon without her knowing about it before and overhearing how slather the guests really were to the situation, Weiss snapped at all of them and her father while accidentally summoning a Boarbatusk to attack one of the guests. Eventually, her father cut off her access to the Schnee family fortune in order to get her to call him.


Weiss also acknowledged in " Mountain Glenn" that she was not happy with how her father was running the company.ĭuring her time at Beacon, Weiss was continuously called by her father and always refused to answer her Scroll. After her mother heard him say this, Willow began to stop being a part of her children's lives and started to drink.ĭue to her offended response to Blake Belladonna's remark regarding the SDC, Weiss was originally defensive of her family's business. Later in " Alone Together", Weiss revealed to Yang Xiao Long that after her father didn't celebrate her 10th birthday and her mother Willow Schnee confronted him about this that the only reason he married her was to obtain the Schnee family name, fortune and the company for himself. After her father took over the company from her grandfather Nicholas Schnee, he began using controversial practices such as abusing Faunus workers and worked with shady business partners. The Schnee Dust Company was a largely successful and prominent business founded by Weiss' family and was run by her father Jacques Schnee at the beginning of the series.
