#schnee semblance

I feel like there’s a pretty good chance that it’s ultimately going to be Weiss who kills the Nightmare, or at least is the one to deal the killing blow (perhaps as part of a combination attack with Ruby...). Given the emphasis IQ has thus far given to the value of Weiss’s agency and how much Ruby has been trying to simply get through to Weiss, it makes sense that the show would have Weiss herself be the one to end her own nightmare. Plus it’s a very ‘RWBY’ twist to have Snow White having to choose to wake up herself.

So with that in mind, consider the following:

Consider: Ruby has her Silver Eye power IN ADDITION to her semblance.

This means that if the Schnee Glyphs really are the counterpart to the Silver Eyes, this would mean that what the Schnees have been THINKING was this weird hereditary semblance for countless generations WASN’T ACTUALLY A SEMBLANCE AT ALL.

Hello CRWBY? Where’s the giant arma gigas that can reach............. uh. From the ground where mantle was to where Atlas used to float. The Schnee semblance has so much potential to be a pain for Salem.

Like -

Oh your trying to send a huge Grimm on us, well then let’s have a Schnee summon a Grimm you probably developed, enlarge it to where it’s matches or out grow your Grimm, and send it on your Grimm.

Specifically, I believe that the Schnee Glyph semblance is somehow derived from Old World Magic.

I’ve always gotten the sense that there was something different going on with the Schnee semblance compared to others. For one thing, it’s completely hereditary, which isn’t something we’ve really seen anywhere else. Plus, their glyphs are much more multi-purpose then most other semblances, and combined with the glyph/sigil aesthetic, the Schnee semblance seems more like an actual magic system then the ‘superpower’ model that semblances generally adhere to.

Before Volume 7 came out, I had a theory that either Weiss’s mother or even her grandmother was the Winter Maiden, that the Schnee family had actually been passing the Maiden powers down from mothers to daughters for generations. And they’d been doing this for so long that their children had started to inherit bits of the magic, hence the glyph semblance.

Now obviously that theory didn’t pan out, but now I think there may be a far more solid angle connecting the Schnee’s to Magic. Remember that Old World Magic came from the Gods,

Specifically, it was a gift from the God of Darkness.

Who also created the Creatures of Grimm...

Which the Schnees can summon.

Personally, I’d say the Grimm summoning ability paints a pretty solid line between the Schnees and the God of Darkness.

Plus, we’ve already seen a bit of Light’s powers be inherited by a mortal in the form of Ruby and her Silver Eyes.

It really only makes sense that we’d see a bit of Darkness’s powers manifest in the similar way.