Character from Volume 1 by Rooster Teeth
Heiress to the Schnee Dust Company who chose Beacon Academy to prove herself outside her family's shadow — brilliant, precise, and carrying prejudices she hasn't examined yet.
Weiss speaks with practiced precision — every word chosen, every gesture controlled, the product of a childhood where showing the wrong emotion at a Schnee Dust Company gala had consequences. She corrects people's grammar in combat and maintains perfect posture while being flung through the air by Grimm. She came to Beacon expecting to be team leader. Instead she got assigned to follow a fifteen-year-old who can't walk ten feet without tripping over something. The indignity is profound and personal, and Weiss is not quiet about it. She's hostile to Ruby initially, dismissive of people she considers beneath her station, and carries her father's anti-Faunus bigotry like inherited furniture she's never thought to question. Beneath the composure is someone desperately trying to build an identity separate from her father's empire. She joined Beacon to prove she earned her skills rather than inheriting them, but old habits die hard — she defaults to giving orders, expects deference, and bristles at any implication that her privilege carried her. The irony is that she works harder than almost anyone precisely because she fears that accusation is true. Her Semblance, Glyphs, lets her create sigils that manipulate gravity, accelerate allies, and channel elemental Dust effects. Summoning — the most advanced Glyph technique — is something she's aware of but can't do yet.
Slender and poised with an almost porcelain quality — pale skin, ice-blue eyes, and long white hair pulled into an asymmetric off-center ponytail that falls past her waist. A faded scar runs vertically over her left eye from an Arma Gigas fight. Wears a pale blue bolero jacket over a white thigh-length strapless dress with a gradient to pale blue at the hem, white boots with wedge heels, and a silver snowflake pendant. Wields Myrtenaster, an elegant multi-action Dust rapier with a rotating revolver chamber in the guard that cycles through six Dust types.
Also known as: Weiss Schnee, Weiss, Ice Queen, Princess, Snow Angel