Why Jacques?

Why Jacques?

Your question, funnily enough, is the answer. Why Jacques? Why Jacques, indeed.

V7 and V8 puts a lot of focus on Jacques's impact in Atlas and on his family. But what is it about Jacques that makes him such a force to be reckoned with?

How did Jacques marry into the Schnee family? He doesn't have any powers or fighting skill. Neither is Jacques from a lineage of any note himself.

Subsequently, how did Jacques manage to dominate Willow, Winter, and Weiss to the extent RWBY states he did? What kind of man was Willow's father, who would force his more powerful daughter to submit to Jacques?

Ultimately, in Jacques's final moments, he proves himself to be just a normal guy involved in matters way over his head. When Jacques says;

"You lose! We both lose."

Jacques didn't gloat over Ironwood's betrayal. Jacques didn't throw a fit. Jacques accepted that he lost. That does not strike me as something Jacques, as he is established so far in the show, would do.

Then there is Jacques's final words;

"You're... You're going to open mine too, right?"

That hit me harder than Yang's death. Jacques really is out of his depth, and that is the last thing he is aware of before James blows Jacques to ash. It wasn't a demand. It was Jacques's last hope. Jacques knew he was going to die, but he was hoping he wouldn't.

In the end, Jacques was a Man who got caught up in events greater than himself. RWBY makes it seem like Jacques deserved it, I don't see why. Therefore, why Jacques? What did Jacques do to end up as he did. Exploring that question was interesting to me.

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The thing isn't just that we think Ironwood could be written better or the story could be done in a different way.

The thing is that some of us like Ironwood unironically, and we are not allowed to do so.

In my case, I consider Ironwood a Hero compared to RWBY as the villains. This is not just a headcanon, but logical inference from the plot and plot context. Read my posts and you would see. However, RWBY fans don't like that and jump on that wagon like bears in heat.

Mine is an extreme case, but other Ironwood fans are also attacked because they like Ironwood.

Ultimately, we are not allowed to interpret Ironwood the way we want to and these attacks against unironic Ironwood fans is getting a little over the top.

That's what we have issue with.

What hurts the most about Ironwood in the end is that Miles and Kerry did this to the character they created.

I hate to bring him into this, but Monty stated that Ironwood was mostly Miles and Kerry's creation.

So Miles and Kerry took the character they created and did that to him.

Out of the entire cast that could have been an author's pet, you'd think it'd be the character created by the two writers who was there from the start.

Honestly….I didn’t know this before but knowing it now….it makes the whole damn hurt even more. Just….how could you do something so fucking awful to a character you created and seemingly liked at one point? I mean I can’t imagine how you could write that kind of story for any character really but….one that you created? It makes even less sense.

Like these guys made this character, and with the kind of people they are….why didn’t they do more projecting onto him? Why didn’t they want and push for a better ending for him? I just cannot comprehend what their thought process is on anything anymore.

Every time I think I’m as sad as I could physically get about James something like this pops up to make me sadder. What possibly could a fictional character you created do to make you hate them so much to do what they did to him?

It has to be whatever Penny was using as her weapon while she was a robot. Ironwood adopted it to be able to destroy Penny if she didn't surrender, I guess.

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I can’t remember its been so long but I actually thought of one last one and just in time too but why does James’s gun gun shoot green?

Now its no secret I’ve always hated this dumb thing, but….why does Due Process’s two guns combined make it fire….green? It looks like when he takes them out they shoot normally and normally the silver due process shoots green and the black one shoots purple (likely as it is filled with gravity dust bullets.

(I know these look bad but I am tired and don’t feel like trying to get a better screenshot okay?)

But what is the gungun doing that turns the shots green? Why Green? I don’t understand and it annoys me and I know (well HOPE I should say) CRWBY has some sort of reason for it but I don’t think the show explains this and it annoys exactly me so uhh I am complaining about it here. 

Now maybe James changes his black due process’s bullets to a different kind of dust or regular but that still doesn’t explain why green. Even the flames left behind are green. 

(I hate this volume and this scene and all it stands for but I am making a point)

Why green? What does it mean? Fire dust is red which would make sense for him to use but green dust is according to the wiki right now plant dust. So dust clearly isn’t affecting the color of the shots, so what is? Why not use fire dust for more destruction? Nothing about this stupid gun makes any sense I hate it so much. 

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Abusive Dad Defiance (ADD) -

In defiance of the trend of making father figures abusive, this is my slightly nicer headcanon(s) for 'Abusive' Fathers in all media.

Jacques Schnee;

Jacques was an honorable, good man in the past. Willow Schnee loved Jacques despite objections from her wealthy relations. Favoring the less wealthy man for his wit, loyalty, and a sense of duty matched only by Willow's father.

Jacques loved Willow and no matter what happened Jacques cherished the memory of his love for her. This is why Jacques lost his cool when Weiss accused him of marrying for money.

But while Jacques was a good man, he was changed due to the stress of running the Schnee Dust Corp and keeping the company together without the benefit of his Father-in-Law's strength as a Huntsman.

Despite Jacques's business acumen and genius, Jacques had to stoop to shadier means to keep the SDC afloat and Jacques could not stop the needs of the corporation from turning him into the cold man he was in the present day.

It had gotten to the point that while Jacques deeply loved his children, he still had to prioritize the corporation over his family.

While Jacques has no love for the Faunus, he sympathizes with their plight. But he is unable to do more to help because he needed the support of his financial backers who WERE Human Supremacists.

Willow Schnee feels extremely guilty for what she had to put Jacques through. This is why she drinks and lets Jacques do what he does. She feels that the Schnee name had destroyed a good man and thus she has no right to confront Jacques about his mistakes.

Jacques died knowing that he would never have a chance to tell his family the truth.