Weiss Schnee

Weiss Schnee (ワイス・シュニー, Waisu Shūnī; pronounced Why-ss Sh-nee), is a fictional character and protagonist from the RWBY series created by Monty Oum. She is a former student of Beacon Academy and former heiress of the vastly influential Schnee Dust Company. Her weapon of choice is a Multi-Action Dust Rapier (MADR) named Myrtenaster.

Weiss made her first appearance in the "White" Trailer, facing the original "Arma Gigas" in battle. After enrolling in Beacon against the wishes of her father, Jacques Schnee, she becomes a member of Team RWBY alongside Ruby Rose, Blake Belladonna and Yang Xiao Long. She is the younger sister of Winter Schnee and the older sister of Whitley Schnee.

"I'm not siding with anyone. I'm doing what I feel is right, and that does not include wasting my time up here with these clueless people in Atlas. The Schnee family legacy isn't yours to leave. It's mine, and I'll do it as a Huntress."
 * —Weiss, to her father.

Appearance & Biography

 * Voice Actor: Kara Eberle (English), Yōko Hikasa (Japanese), Not Known (Albanian), Not Known (Arabic), Not Known (Basque), Not Known (Brazilian), Not Known (Cantonese), Not Known (Catalan), Not Known (Chinese), Not Known (Dutch), Not Known (Finnish), Not Known (French), Not Known (Galician), Not Known (German), Not Known (Greek), Not Known (Hebrew), Not Known (Hong Kong), Not Known (Hungarian), Not Known (Indonesian), Not Known (Isralian), Not Known (Italian), Not Known (Korean), Not Known (Mandarin), Not Known (Norwegian), Not Known (Polish), Not Known (Portuguese), Not Known (Romanian), Not Known (Russian), Not Known (Serbian), Not Known (Spanish), Not Known (Swedish), Not Known (Tagalog), Not Known (Thai), Not Known (Valencian), Not Known (Brazilian Portuguese), Not Known (European Spanish), Not Known (European Portuguese), Not Known (Latin American Spanish), Not Known (Latin Spanish)

Appearance
Weiss is a pale-skinned young woman with pale blue eyes and long white hair pulled back into an off-center ponytail on the right side and pinned with an icicle-shaped tiara and bangs. In Volume 7, her ponytail is braided and her bangs are longer and more neatly parted. A crooked scar runs vertically down her left eye and face, gained during her battle against the original "Arma Gigas" in the "White" Trailer.

Original (Volumes 1–3)
She wears a thigh-length strapless dress with a faint color gradation from white to pale blue at the hem. A small piece of black lace sits in the front of her neckline and the hem of the dress is scalloped and stitched to resemble snowflakes, with layers of white tulle under the skirt. Over this she wears a bell-sleeved bolero with the same color gradation as her dress from shoulder to wrist, lined in red and with a ruffled collar. On the back of the bolero is the Schnee Crest.

She also wears a small apple pendant on a silver chain and thin, rectangular silver earrings. Her boots are white, wedged heeled and higher at the back than the front. They have a small silver decoration across the top of the foot and are lined in red. A thin white sash is tied around her waist with a pouch attached to the back.

In her character short for Volume 5, she wears the same outfit except her ponytail is centered.

Pajamas
Weiss' pajamas consist of a faded blue nightgown with short sleeves and white trim and display the Schnee Crest on the upper-right chest. She also wears her hair down.

Alternate Outfit (Snowpea)
During the events of "A Minor Hiccup" and "Painting the Town...", Weiss wears an alternate outfit codenamed "Snowpea".

This outfit consists of a white, double-breasted jacket with black piping, cuffs, and buttons over a white, pleated full skirt with black lace trim. She also wears a pair of white, thigh-high boots with black heels and lace-topped black stockings.

Dance Outfit
During the Beacon Dance, Weiss wears a short, white, sleeveless dress with cutouts on both sides of her waist. The yoke of the dress is translucent mesh and she also wears white pumps.

Uniform
Weiss wears the same uniform as every other girl attending Beacon, consisting of brown shoes, red tartan skirt, white blouse with maroon trim and thin red bow, a brown vest with gold buttons and maroon blazer with gold trim, alongside black socks reaching to mid-calf.

Post-Timeskip
After the two-year time-skip following the Fall of Beacon, her new design includes a glittering dress with a color gradation of blue to pale blue at the hem, a sweetheart neckline, a floor length skirt and split to her thigh on one side, and she wears chunky heels. She no longer has a ribbon on her waist and she wears her hair and earrings in the same style, albeit her ponytail has grown out, now roughly reaching her knees.

Mistral Outfit (Volume 4–7)
She also has an alternate outfit, which follows the same design as her standard attire except for the skirt, which is short like the dress she wore two-years ago, and a white, tulle petticoat.

A white ribbon is wrapped multiple times around her waist, and over the outfit is worn a slightly sheer long-sleeved blue shrug fastened at the collar with a large sapphire broach that has three pendants dangling from it. Printed on the back of the shrug is the Schnee Crest. Completing her attire are dark blue wedge heels and sapphire drop earrings.

In Volume 6, she wears a red scarf with white design at the ends and pale blue tights with her outfit.

Atlas Outfit (Volume 7-Current)
After arriving in Atlas from Argus, Weiss gains a new outfit. She wears a pale blue and white v-neck top, above which she wears a vivid blue shrug with a raised collar, puffy sleeves, and the Schnee emblem on the left sleeve. On her arms are a pair of long dark blue gloves. For her bottoms, she wears a long white tulle skirt that splits in the front. Over her skirt, she wears a light blue, high-waisted article that matches the skirt's cut. Around her waist are three white belts with a medium-sized pouch attached to the lowest belt. She wears long, pale blue wedge-heel boots with white frills coming out from the top at the front.

In addition, she wears a pair of matching ruby earring that matches her icicle-shaped tiara with a diamond-shaped ruby in the center. Weiss's hair slightly changes: her ponytail is now braided and she has grown out her bangs, framing her face more closely.


 * Hair Color: White
 * Skin Color: Not Known
 * Eye Color: Pale Blue
 * Age: 17 (Volumes 1–3), 19 (Volume 4–Current)
 * Birthday: October 31st
 * Height: 5'3" (1.6 meters) in heels
 * Weight: 50 kg (110 lbs.)

Friends/Allies

 * Klein Sieben
 * Beacon Academy
 * Ozpin
 * Glynda Goodwitch
 * Peter Port
 * Team RWBY
 * Ruby Rose
 * Blake Belladonna
 * Yang Xiao Long
 * Team JNPR
 * Jaune Arc
 * Nora Valkyrie
 * Pyrrha Nikos
 * Lie Ren
 * Team CRDL
 * Cardin Winchester
 * Team SSSN
 * Sun Wukong
 * Neptune Vasilias
 * Team CFVY
 * Fox Alistair
 * Velvet Scarlatina
 * Yatsuhashi Daichi
 * Team STRQ
 * Qrow Branwen
 * Atlesian Military
 * James Ironwood
 * Penny Polendina
 * Oscar Pine
 * Maria Calavera
 * Jinn

Family

 * Nicholas Schnee (grandfather)
 * unnamed mother
 * Jacques Schnee (father)
 * Winter Schnee (elder sister)
 * Whitley Schnee (younger brother)

Neutral

 * Team STRQ
 * Raven Branwen
 * Caroline Cordovin

Enemies

 * Salem's Faction
 * Salem
 * Tyrian Callows
 * Hazel Rainart
 * Arthur Watts
 * Cinder's Faction
 * Cinder Fall
 * Emerald Sustrai
 * Mercury Black
 * Roman Torchwick

Summoning
With mastery, a Schnee also has the ability to summon avatars of the foes that they have defeated. While these avatars have the appearance of Grimm, they do not possess the same weaknesses. For instance, they are unaffected by the light from silver eyes.

In "Lessons Learned", Winter Schnee specifies that the summoned foe had to have caused the Schnee to push past who they were and become who they are now. In that same episode, Weiss only manages to summon a tiny version of the sword wielded by the Arma Gigas she defeated in the "White" Trailer. Later, in the episode "Heroes and Monsters", Weiss unintentionally summons the arm of said Arma Gigas to protect Velvet. Nevertheless, she struggles to demonstrate this ability at first, and she tells her sister that "it's the only thing [she's] been having trouble with".

She can also summon the Boarbatusk that she defeated in Professor Port's classroom, as demonstrated when she involuntarily summons it to attack a party guest who offended her in "Tipping Point". After being grounded following the incident, Weiss devotes her time to mastering the ability, eventually learning to fully Summon the Arma Gigas in "Two Steps Forward, Two Steps Back". She can also cause her summons to teleport and use her glyphs as surfaces to jump off, as demonstrated in "Dread in the Air". In the same episode, she defeats a Queen Lancer and gains it as a summon.

Weiss' Summons:

 * Arma Gigas
 * Boarbatusk
 * Queen Lancer

Dust
Weiss frequently utilizes Dust and occasionally uses her Semblance to direct the movement and manifestation of it, such as in "Players and Pieces", where she does this to create a curved wall of ice between Ruby and the Death Stalker's stinger.

Weiss has shown a preference for Ice Dust, only switching types if it provides her with an advantage, such as using Wind Dust against sonic based attacks, or to create certain types of glyphs such as black or Time Dilation glyphs. She has used Ice Dust to trap enemies, create a trail to push enemies from a height, create a slippery sheet of ice and form pointed ice chunks to use as projectiles.

Semblance
One of Weiss' most notable abilities is her Semblance, Glyphs, which allows her to create glyphs that can be used in a variety of ways: create a slippery platform to skate on at high speed, generate midair platforms to manipulate her trajectory in the air and perform limited Time Dilation that can speed up actions, to name a few.

In the series, Weiss' glyphs have appeared in a variety of colors for unknown reasons. Blue and white normal glyphs have been shown with the base ability to push whatever is within their influence. Black glyphs have the ability to pull whatever is within their influence, and they appear to involve the use of Gravity Dust, evidenced by Myrtenaster's Dust chamber revolving when Weiss makes the first black glyph in the "Volume 5 Character Short". The Time Dilation glyph has a gold-colored clock design and involves the use of Lightning Dust. Summon glyphs are white and have their own unique designs. In Volume 5, using fire Dust with her glyphs make them become a red-orange color.

Strength level

 * Incinerated a tree with fire dust.
 * Overpowered soldiers from the White Fang.
 * Overpowered a Boarbatusk-class Grimm.
 * Capable of slashing through AK-2000 androids.
 * Her summoned sword was able to cut through a large mech.
 * Froze a giant robotic elephant, which was large enough to cause people to crane their necks just to see the top of it
 * Created several shockwaves during her battles in the Vytal Festival
 * Flung a ton of ship cargo with the use of her glyphs
 * Killed a Grimm summoned by her older sister Winter
 * Staggered the Arma Gigas with strikes from Myrtenaster
 * Catapulted the Arma Gigas into the air with her glyphs before destroying it with a powered up strike from Myrtenaster
 * Overpowered a sword strike from the Arma Gigas using Myrtenaster enhanced with fire dust
 * Easily killed a group of Beowolf Grimm at once
 * Catapulted her partner Ruby Rose at high speeds towards a Nevermore Grimm before boosting her speed to help her decapitate it
 * Queen Lancer summon was able to impale Hazel (who enhanced himself with Dust crystals) with its stinger and pull him from a distance.
 * Blocked another sword strike from the Arma Gigas with Myrtenaster (which wasn’t enhanced with Dust)
 * The Arma Gigas is stated to be as strong as Atlas’ mech suits, which are capable of smashing through several concrete pillars.
 * Hit Nora Valkyrie hard enough with a swordfish to create shockwaves
 * Blocked a strike from Vernal
 * Arma Gigas summon was strong enough to kill this powerful Queen Lancer
 * Nearly toppled the Colossus with her ice dust.

Speed

 * Easily dodged blows from the Giant Armor.
 * Can keep up with Ruby Rose.
 * Capable of moving and slicing faster than the eye can track.
 * Blocked plasma-based attacks.
 * Reacted in the timeframe of a lightning bolt.
 * Blitzed a White Fang lieutenant using her Glyphs to propel herself while attacking.
 * Sliced at FTE speeds
 * Dodged missiles
 * With the use of her glyphs, Weiss moved around an arena while deflecting bullets and dodging bladed projectiles.
 * Shot fire projectiles hundreds of feet within a few seconds
 * The speed of Weiss’ sword strikes are at the same level as Ruby’s gunfire.
 * With the use of her glyphs, Weiss jumped backwards hundreds of feet into the air within a short amount of time.
 * Dodged a sound attack from Flynt Coal.
 * Destroyed a swarm of robots so fast, she appeared as a blur.
 * Ran past Yang Xiao Long fast enough to appear as a blur and froze a Deathstalker Grimm in time to prevent it from stabbing Ruby with its stinger
 * Jumped up a collapsing stone structure
 * Propelled herself at superhuman speed
 * With the use of her glyphs, Weiss propelled herself to her opponent from multiple angles along with ice projectiles.
 * With the use of her glyphs, Weiss blitzed the Arma Gigas and dodged its sword strikes
 * Queen Lancer summon dodged fireballs from Hazel
 * Intercepted a cannon blast from a giant robot by creating an earth wall to block it.
 * Summoned a Queen Lancer to evade a barrage of missiles from a close range.

Durability

 * Took a hit from Nora Valkyrie that broke the speed of sound and crushed a large stone pillar.
 * Can take hits from Boarbatusk-class Grimm.
 * Tanked a dust explosion.
 * Took hits from the Giant Armor.
 * Used black Glyphs to defend against sonic attacks
 * Ice barriers are tough enough to save the team from a train crash.
 * Tanked a gunshot from an Atlesian Paladin-290 prototype
 * Took a blast of fire and magma at point blank
 * With the use of her glyphs, Weiss survived a fall of hundreds of feet high
 * Got kicked through a large fire Dust crystal
 * Used black glyphs to defend against sonic attacks
 * Withstood a punch from an Atlesian Paladin-290
 * Took a hit from Vernal’s blade
 * Survived being impaled by a fire spear
 * Weiss’ Queen Lancer summon (before it became her summon) tanked this large Dust explosion, which was calculated to be at city block level
 * Queen Lancer summon can tank blasts of fire
 * Took a blast from a Manticore Grimm
 * Earth wall was durable enough to tank an ice blast from a giant robot’s cannon.

Skill

 * Became a member of Beacon Academy, one of the most prestigious academies for hunters, and a member of Team RWBY.
 * Defeated the Giant Armor, which she later managed to sucessfully summon.
 * With her team, defeated a Nevermore-class Grimm.
 * Killed a Boarbatusk.
 * Fought against members of the White Fang.
 * Killed a horde of Lancer Grimm and their Queen by summoning the Arma Gigas.
 * Defeated an Atlesian Paladin-290
 * Participated in the Vytal Festival tournament alongside Team RWBY (Defeated Team ABRN); she and Yang represented their team in the doubles round against Team FNKI and won
 * Helped stop the Breach
 * Managed to escape Atlas
 * Survived the Fall of Beacon
 * Helped prevent the Fall of Haven
 * Defended the town of Argus
 * Fought countless Creatures of Grimm, members of the White Fang, and Atlesian robots
 * Create 2,082 tons of ice.

Weaknesses
Weiss seems to have limited endurance and stamina, as seen in "The Emerald Forest" after Ruby and Weiss are forced to retreat from a pack of Beowolves after a forest fire; Weiss is shown to be panting in exhaustion while Ruby is still fully energized.

The biggest sign of her lack of endurance, however, is her inability to take heavy hits. Out of everyone on her team, she has been knocked out the most, such as by Nora Valkyrie with her watermelon hammer during the food fight, and the White Fang Lieutenant smashing her head into the ground.

Despite her glyphs' durability, they have been demonstrated to be breakable, such as when she summons three black glyphs in an attempt to stop the cargo ship's crash. The ship falls far too fast or is too heavy for her, causing it to rip the glyphs apart as it falls through them.

While Weiss may be becoming more familiar with her Semblance's Summoning ability, larger summons like her Arma Gigas apparently take greater time and effort to manifest, as shown in her duel with Vernal, who kept interrupting Weiss' attempts to bring forth the sword-wielding warrior. This weakness was heavily exploited by Vernal.

Other Weaknesses

 * Aura has its limits.
 * Lacks experience when it comes to summoning.
 * Works better as a support team member.

Weapons

 * Main article: Myrtenaster

Weiss' weapon of choice is Myrtenaster, a Multi-Action Dust Rapier. The rapier has a revolving chamber inside the guard, which has six slots in total, each of which contains a vial of Dust. The revolving chamber is constantly stocked with red, cyan, violet, white, yellow, and blue Dust.

Weiss utilizes the Dust in combat, either in raw form or in conjunction with her Semblance to create various effects that suit the situation. When not using Myrtenaster as a Dust supplier, Weiss utilizes her speed to dodge attacks and her sword to deliver damage through quick thrusts that leave little room for counters.

Past
Weiss was born as an heiress to the Schnee Dust Company, which her father currently controls. However, due to the company's mistreatment of Faunus labor and the resulting escalating backlash targeted at both the company and her family by the Faunus Civil Rights Protest and the White Fang, her childhood upbringing was a "very difficult" one.

She accounts multiple times greeting her stress-ridden, aggravated father after the workday, which produced a very uneasy family lifestyle when Weiss was a child. She also recalls several hardships within the company, such as the disappearance of family and friends, as well as the execution of company board members at the hand of the White Fang extremists. As a result, her frustration and hatred were directed towards Faunus as the cause of her family's troubles.

On Weiss' tenth birthday, Jacques missed his daughter's party and Weiss' mother confronted him. It is here that her father admits that he married his wife only for the Schnee family name. Weiss bore witness to the fractured family as her parents had separate meals and sat on different balconies during her recitals. Eventually, her mother descended into alcoholism as a way of coping with a marriage to a cold and uncaring man.

"White" Trailer
Weiss is a singer, as shown in the trailer. She also has a history with the Schnee Training Room, with it serving as the place where, in a flashback sequence, she fights the Arma Gigas.

Volume 5 Weiss Character Short
Weiss was on a training session with Winter Schnee. Weiss is shown facing off against numerous white Beowolves in what is presumably the Schnee manor's frozen courtyard. With the use of her Semblance, Weiss manages to successfully hold her own against the Grimm until they manage to disarm and overwhelm her. As Weiss calls for her sister, Winter stops the Beowolf summons, causing them to disappear into the falling snow. After striking Myrtenaster into the ground, Winter informs Weiss she must be able to save herself, and Weiss promises to get better. Walking away, Winter reminds her sister that improving will be necessary if she wants to leave.

Welcome to Beacon
As Weiss and her servants begin moving cases to her room at Beacon, she gets into a dispute with Ruby Rose, who has crashed into her belongings. As Ruby watches Weiss beginning to gather her stuff, she accidentally sneezes due to Dust inhalation, and subsequently causes a small explosion of Dust in their faces, angering Weiss.

Weiss is further angered when Ruby continues to be disoriented in response to her scolding. Blake Belladonna interrupts the dispute, recognizing Weiss as the heiress to the Schnee Dust Company. Initially delighted to get some recognition, her pleasure dissipates when Blake also brings up the controversy surrounding the company, causing her to storm off.

Within the main assembly hall of the academy, Weiss confronts Ruby, lecturing her on Dust and her company, accompanied with a pamphlet on Dust. She tells Ruby to never speak to her again. While giving this lecture, she gets into an argument with Yang Xiao Long.

Later that night, Weiss complains about the noise keeping her awake, only to find the three noisemakers are the three people she had confrontations with earlier. This leads to another argument.

Beacon Academy Initiation
Weiss tries to form a team with Pyrrha Nikos, in attempts to form a pair of "the strongest and the smartest" students at Beacon. However, her manic scheming is interrupted by Jaune, who interjects and tries to flirt with her. Jaune tries to flirt with Pyrrha too until Weiss bursts out that Pyrrha is a very good fighter and out of his league.

Jaune continues, however, but Weiss gets Pyrrha to throw Miló at Jaune, ending the conversation as the girls leave the locker room. Weiss is then seen on the launch pad lineup on Beacon Cliff, and again when she is catapulted into the air.

After using her glyphs to safely land on the ground, Weiss runs into Ruby in the Emerald Forest. Without a second thought, she turns away, trying to find a different partner while Ruby trails behind her.

When the next person she runs into is the helpless Jaune, who has been pinned to a tree by Pyrrha's javelin, Weiss concedes to Ruby's badgering and teams up with her. After prompting Ruby to keep up, the younger girl claims she is very fast and rushes off, leaving Weiss alone before several Beowolf encircle her.

She prepares to fight the Grimm that have appeared. As she tries to get into the proper stance and prepares to attack, Ruby steps in and attacks the Beowolf, causing her Dust attack to misfire and set part of the forest ablaze. This sparks an argument about battle style between the two of them.

As Glynda informs Ozpin of the status on the teams, Ozpin watches Ruby and Weiss argue on his Scroll. In the forest, Weiss paces around in circles trying to find the correct way to go and constantly reversing her direction. When Ruby confronts her about her unwillingness to admit she is wrong and has no idea where they are, Weiss still refuses to admit it and claims she knows exactly where they are going before saying that Ruby does not know where they are either.

This leads Ruby to admit that while she does not know where they are, she isn't pretending to know everything like Weiss. Weiss starts another argument with Ruby over how they handle themselves when making mistakes. When Ruby tells Weiss to stop acting like she is perfect, Weiss confesses that she is not, at least not yet, but she is still way ahead of Ruby. Weiss then walks away from Ruby back into the woods.

Ruby and Weiss are both latched onto the back of a flying Nevermore because of an idea Ruby has. Weiss begins to hate the idea, but when Ruby suggests they jump, she calls Ruby crazy, only to then notice that she actually jumped. Weiss continues to fly on the Nevermore until she falls off and Jaune tries to impress her by catching her, only for them both to fall and Weiss lands safely on his back. Later, when Ruby tries to kill a Death Stalker and fails, Weiss moves in and traps part of it in ice to save Ruby.

Weiss then lists most of Ruby's faults but agrees to be nicer if Ruby would stop showing off. Ruby admits that she was trying to prove she can take care of herself, but Weiss says she is fine. Weiss then notes that each team can gain a relic as they are all at the temple and they all retreat to an old castle. Once there, Weiss, Yang, Blake, and Ruby try to fight the Nevermore, but it simply brushes off their attacks.

Ruby then claims she has a plan and asks Weiss to cover her. As Blake, Ruby, and Yang get into position, Weiss freezes the Nevermore's tail to the ground before retreating and using Myrtenaster to pull Ruby back, while Blake and Yang use Gambol Shroud's ribbon as a large slingshot to aid in their efforts.

Weiss launches Ruby and she hooks the Nevermore's neck with her scythe, pinning it to a cliffside. Weiss then makes multiple platforms to allow Ruby to pull the Nevermore up the side of the cliff and cut the Nevermore's head off. Back at Beacon, Weiss is made a member of the newly formed Team RWBY.

Manga
Weiss is seen with Team RWBY in the Beacon Academy food halls talking about the nature and uses of Dust, before they are interrupted by Cardin Winchester throwing Jaune Arc into their table, sending it flying. When Cardin begins antagonizing Ruby Rose, who stepped in to defend Jaune, Professor Glynda Goodwitch appears and turns the situation into an official sparring match. Ruby nervously freezes up due to the large audience present and the size of The Executioner, but with some encouragement from Weiss, manages to defeat Cardin fairly easily.

The third chapter explores Weiss Schnee's backstory before she met the rest of her team. As the heiress of the Schnee Dust Company she was raised from youth to strive to be the best in all she did and excelled at activities such as singing and playing the piano. Although praise was generously heaped upon her by others, she had always lacked the approval and recognition of her father.

Years later, Weiss is training in combat with Myrtenaster, under the supervision of her father's aide, the President's Secretary. The Secretary praises her skills in combat and mastery of her Semblance but comments that she must continue to apply herself in her training at Atlas Academy. Weiss reminds him that she has no desire to study at Atlas and that she has instead decided to study at Beacon Academy in Vale, in order to put distance between her and the family. When the Secretary attempts to dissuade her from studying at Beacon, claiming her father is merely concerned for her well-being and thus wishes to keep her close by, Weiss acerbically calls the Secretary a puppet of her father.

In response, the Secretary unleashes her next opponent, an enormous animated suit of armor which has been "possessed" by multiple specimens of Geist Grimm. The armor was created by the Company from captured Grimm specimens and is described as being as powerful as a mech and three times stronger than the original model, giving Weiss what he believes to be no chance of winning. It is revealed by the Secretary that this is a "test" formulated by her father, who expects her to win in order to prove herself and earn permission to attend Beacon if she continues to be "selfish". Weiss retaliates with Myrtenaster as the suit attacks. As she fights, Weiss decides that she is tired of continuously living up to the expectations of others. She also narrates that she used to carry a distorted view of family pride and had no sense of self, and she now seeks to create a sense of self that she can be proud of, just like Winter did.

Start of Classes
Weiss is assigned a dorm to live in with her team. As she wakes up, she is shocked when Ruby blows a whistle right next to her ear. Ruby then decides on their first order of business, which is setting up the room. Weiss agrees to unpack and set up her belongings, which includes a large picture of a forest.

After they do so, Weiss points out they have no room for the beds. Ruby suggests making bunk-beds, which Weiss opposes, but is outvoted and the team makes two sets of (unstable) bunk-beds. Ruby then moves on to their next order of business and talks about a class at 9:00, during which Weiss interrupts her to point out it is already 8:55, and the girls (followed by Team JNPR) dash off to class.

While in class, Weiss takes notes on everything that Peter Port talks about, but later begins to doze off during one of his stories. When Professor Port talks about a story from his past, she becomes annoyed at Ruby's distracting laughs and nose-picking, prompting her to impulsively volunteer herself to confront a monster directly after Professor Port asks for a volunteer.

Weiss faces down the Boarbatusk in class, but becomes frustrated when the fight starts out poorly. Ruby tries to give her advice, but Weiss considers her to be a nuisance and yells at her. She manages to defeat the Grimm (using the advice Ruby had given) before leaving the room as the class had ended.

Ruby follows her out and Weiss admits she doesn't believe Ruby should be the leader and she should. She then leaves Ruby and goes to Professor Port. She asks him if Ozpin could have made a mistake in picking Ruby as the leader, but Port instead sides with Ozpin despite all the compliments he had paid Weiss earlier.

Port correctly guesses that Weiss growing up always got her way and as a result, she has a poor attitude when she is disappointed. He suggests that she should instead try and be the best person she can be and she accepts the advice. She later goes to see Ruby, seeing that she had fallen asleep when studying and wakes her up. She gets Ruby a new cup of coffee and tells her she will be the best teammate Ruby could have.

Weiss is later seen during Jaune's fight with Cardin, sitting with Yang, Ruby, and Pyrrha. Weiss and her two teammates fail to contain their excitement they hear about the upcoming Vytal Festival, an upcoming combat tournament that is held with other kingdoms who would soon arrive in Vale.

Over the next few days, Weiss continues to excel in her classes. In Bartholomew Oobleck's history class, she correctly answers a question about the Faunus Rights Revolution. She later attends a field trip to Forever Fall in order to collect red sap. She also witnesses the fight between Jaune and an Ursa and is the first to prepare to help when it looks like Jaune is in trouble until Pyrrha holds her back.

Weiss witnesses Pyrrha use her Semblance to help Jaune slightly and when Pyrrha explains she has the power of polarity, Weiss corrects Ruby when she mistakes Pyrrha's "polarity" as the ability to "control poles", noting that it means controlling magnetism. After Pyrrha leaves and tells the two to keep the events that just occurred a secret, both Weiss and Ruby smile at one another in agreement.

Team Divided
As Team RWBY goes to town for a major cultural festival, they happen among a crime scene: a Dust store in the aftermath of a robbery. As Yang and Ruby speculate on the perpetrator, Weiss proclaims that no matter who did it, performing the act automatically classifies them as a lowlife.

Team RWBY then witnesses an incident between the local police and Sun Wukong. They decide to chase after him, whereupon Weiss crashes into Penny Polendina, Sun and the police leaving the girls' sights. She wants to press the chase on Sun and repeatedly slurs Faunus. This causes Blake to be offended, which soon causes an argument between her and Weiss.

Back in her dorm, she explains why she deeply mistrusts Faunus: Because of an ongoing war between the Schnee Dust Company and the Faunus, she became a target for the Faunus' attacks. In the explanation Blake interrupts, accidentally implying that she was a Faunus, shattering what trust Weiss had for her. Blake flees their dorm in the realization of what she did. The next day, Team RWBY goes out in search for Blake, with Weiss expressing her disbelief that a member of the White Fang was among them.

As they search, Penny shows up and talks to Ruby. This leaves Yang and Weiss a window of escape, and they flee. Later, as Yang and Weiss exit a building, Yang asks if Weiss cares whether or not they find Blake.

Weiss responds that she does care, but is afraid of how Blake will act when they meet. When Weiss meets back up with Blake, she states that she does not care about Blake's history. After having thought of it for the twelve hours the girls took to find Blake, Weiss tells her to talk to Team RWBY next time information of heavy importance comes up.

Beginning the Second Semester
Weiss eats lunch in the dining hall with Yang and Blake when Ruby enters with a large binder of ideas on how to spend their final day before the second term. Weiss accuses Ruby of taking her binder, but Ruby claims she "is not a crook". Despite fearing what Ruby has planned, Weiss feels that she feels that they should do it as a team when Blake tries to back out. Nora Valkyrie accidentally hits Weiss' face with a pie while she and Yang toss food at each other.

This results in a food fight between the two teams, and the other students clear the dining hall. She manages to make Lie Ren slip into some tables with ketchup and later duels Nora with a swordfish, but she is defeated when Nora hits her with a watermelon hammer. After the fight is over, Yang crashes through the roof, and the team laughs together.

Later, Team RWBY plays a board game in the library, but Weiss is confused by how to play. Yang informs her of possible plays she can make, but Weiss is still confused until Ruby explains she could quickly take over the world. She prepares to play, but Yang counters and destroys Weiss' armies, causing her to break into tears alongside the crying Ruby. Ruby tries to comfort her with a hug, which Weiss returns while protesting by telling Ruby not to touch her. Jaune tries to enter the game, but Weiss protests. Soon after, Sun enters the library with Neptune Vasilias, who introduces himself to the group and flirts successfully with Weiss.

That night, Weiss, Ruby, and Yang returned to the room, and Weiss stops Blake as she attempts to leave. Weiss confronts her about her recent quiet and antisocial behavior, reminding her she agreed to tell them whenever something bothers her. Blake expresses her concerns about lack of actions against Roman Torchwick and the White Fang, but Weiss feels that they are not ready yet to take on the role of true Huntresses.

Blake counters, saying they may never be ready and that their enemies will not wait until they are real Huntresses before attacking. Ruby suggests they try and take down the White Fang by themselves, and despite Weiss' earlier protests, Weiss agrees to go along with their plan as "it could be fun".

RWBY Investigations
Weiss is seen in Peter Port's class, seemingly waiting for it to end. When Jaune asks her out it seems she is not paying him attention, but she eventually she refuses his invitation. She is later seen in her team's dorm room changing clothes, the team sporting completely different attire from that of their normal combat clothing.

After Weiss mentions how she and Ruby will gain information on the Schnee Dust Company, she notes that it should not be a problem, since she is a member of the family. The team is then startled by Sun, along with Neptune, who both agree to help out in their investigation. Weiss asks Ruby to pair her with Neptune, and that she should be paired with Yang since both are sisters, but Ruby laughs at the idea and pulls Weiss out of their room, much to her dismay.

Outside, the two are talking about how the four kingdoms communicate with one another, shortly before running into Penny, who then runs away, leaving both Weiss and Ruby confused. Ruby then decides to go check on Penny and informs Weiss that will catch up with her later.

Weiss then heads to the Cross Continental Transmit Center to get information on her families company, some of it being highly sensitive. After contacting the Schnee Company World Headquarters in Atlas, she is answered by an attendant with whom she is familiar with. Refusing to talk to her father as per the attendant's query, the attendant gives her the information she needed and signs off. Weiss then stares sadly at the screen.

Weiss is seen leaving the CCT Center when she receives a distress call from Blake. She arrives and joins her team in a fight against Roman, who is piloting an Atlesian Paladin-290, granting her team support while also attacking the giant machine.

With teamwork and planning from her partner Ruby, the four girls manage to beat Roman, thus destroying the large robot, however, the criminal escapes with a girl named Neopolitan, who aided him. After the duo retreats Weiss makes a joke that is not well received by the other girls, except for Ruby who snickers.

Aftermath and The Dance
Weiss is seen with her team attending a sparring match between Pyrrha and Team CRDL. Shortly after the end of a second match between Mercury Black and Pyrrha, Team RWBY discusses how the investigation has been stressing out Blake, all in front of her. Weiss and the team implore her to go to the dance and assure her that they will all continue their investigation after the dance.

However, even after pointing out on how she barely sleeps and eats, and has bad grades, Blake refuses again and leaves, leaving her team disappointed. Weiss is then met with a surprise in the form of Jaune attempting to ask her to the dance via serenade, to which she slams the door in his face. Her team points out this is why she is nicknamed "Ice Queen".

Weiss and Yang are then seen decorating a ballroom in preparation for the upcoming dance. She asks Ruby to pick between two tablecloths, but after her partner points out that both are the same, she wonders partially to Ruby but largely to herself why she even bothered asking. As Sun and Neptune enter the room, she asks them if they are going to the dance, with Sun saying that where he is from they tend not to use formal clothing.

When Ruby brings up that she does not know what to else to do with Blake, Weiss agrees and wonders what they should do next. Later that day, Weiss asks Neptune if he would like to go to the dance with her, leaving a hidden Jaune heartbroken.

The next day at the dance, Weiss is seen alongside Ruby and Yang, glad that Blake came to the dance. When Ruby asks what they should do next, Weiss and Yang head in opposite directions, leaving her complaining about her dress. She spends a great deal of time alone in a chair during the dance due to Neptune rejecting her, unaware Neptune declined because he could not dance.

Later in the evening, Neptune approached her and started shared a conversation while the dance escalated. Weiss asked why he changed his mind since he was "embarrassed at first", to which Neptune looks at Jaune and says "you're looking at him", surprising her. As Neptune comments she has "nice friends looking out for you", Weiss becomes a bit guilty about her behavior towards Jaune.

The Mountain Glenn Mission
Weiss, along with her teammates confront Ruby upon her arrival to their dorm room and ask her what happened. When Ruby reveals her fight with Cinder Fall, Weiss says that fighting was incredibly risky, although Blake and Yang thought otherwise and approved of Ruby's actions.

Shortly after that, and the revelation of a package delivered to Ruby and Yang, Weiss became quickly enamored with their dog Zwei, and alongside her team and other first-year students, were drawn to the assembly hall by Glynda where Ozpin gave a speech on a war that ended eighty years ago.

After the end of the speech, the team decided to take a mission called Quadrant 5 from Search and Destroy but were unable due to Team RWBY being first years, but with a little "bending the rules" from Ozpin, they were allowed to. Weiss and her team then meet up with Velvet Scarlatina from Team CFVY who informs them of why they were so late, but wishes them luck and safety on their mission.

However, despite being ready for their mission, along with Ruby's enthusiasm and belief on how they never give up on anything, Weiss and her team are left completely and utterly shocked upon the huntsmen accompanying them, who is none other than Bartholomew Oobleck.

Weiss and her team, still in shock at Oobleck being their Huntsman are informed by the latter on the reasons of their mission. When Weiss attempts to ask a question by calling him Professor Oobleck pointedly tells her to address him as "Doctor", before speeding off towards the airship.

As her leader attempts to cheer them up, they are met by Team JNPR, along with Sun and Neptune, who each talk about their mission, but after being called by Oobleck, the three teams part ways to head towards their mission as Team RWBY heads towards the bulkhead, and head towards Mountain Glenn, and are briefed even more on the mission. When Weiss asks what Oobleck's expertise on history has to do with their mission he promptly reprimands her that history forms the backbone of their society, along with the liver, and probably the kidneys as well.

After arriving, they eventually encounter a pack of Beowolves, something made completely obvious by Oobleck, and dispatch them over the course of the day. At one point Oobleck asks Weiss and the rest of Team RWBY, save for Ruby, why she became a Huntress, and she answers that once she learned she had the ability to fight there was no question it was her duty to do so in order to uphold her family's legacy.

Sometime later, after Ruby and Oobleck head out to scout the perimeter, Weiss, Yang and Blake reflect on Oobleck's question, but when Weiss says it is more to uphold a family legacy, they all agree that they really do not know the complete answer. When Ruby takes first watch, the rest of the girls prepare their beds and lie down with downed faces.

As Ruby continues to keep watch, Weiss, along with Yang and Blake discuss why Oobleck asked them as to why they wanted to be Huntresses. Weiss brings up what she said about honoring her family's name again, but adds that she is fully aware of the status her family's company now occupies, and how it is currently operating in a moral gray area since her father took over. She feels that she needs to make things right, that taking a different job "wouldn't have changed anything", and just as her family name did not begin with her father, she would not let it end with him either.

As Yang explains her and Ruby's reasons for becoming Huntresses and how Ruby always seemed to know what she wanted, Weiss adds that Ruby is still just a kid, which Blake counters by saying that they are all still kids. Weiss states what they chose is a job and that they romanticized their views on being a Huntress, and they now had to realize that whatever they might want would have to come in second to their duty to protect the people.

Sometime later that same night, with Yang noticing Ruby's absence, Zwei comes running in and leads them to Ruby's last location, as her scythe remained above the collapsed street area. As Weiss, Blake and Yang look at each other in concern for their leader, Oobleck, after telling the girls the history behind the location, readies his weapon and tells them that if Ruby really did fall, then they have to go after her. Decidedly, the team descends into the crevice and engages the White Fang.

Amidst their assault, Ruby frees herself from Roman's capture and rejoins the team. As Weiss asks if she's fine, Ruby rushes her response in lieu of informing the others of the departing train carrying vast amounts of weapons and robots. Oobleck states such a thing is preposterous since the tunnel has been sealed, only to be debunked by Roman's intercom announcement. Unable to get a call outside, Weiss asks what should they do, to which Oobleck and Ruby reply jointly to stop the train.

After successfully boarding the train, Weiss opens a compartment on top of the train, revealing a device planted in it. She asks Oobleck about it, again calling him "professor", to which he corrects her by saying "Doctor", who identifies it as a bomb. With the White Fang approaching from the forward cars and the bomb remaining active, the team rushes over to the next car as the previous one decouples and explodes.

Upon her later inspection of a similar compartment with Ruby, the group discovers each car is armed with a bomb and begin advancing towards the front of the train, engaging the White Fang as they go.

Weiss glides across the cars, using Myrtenaster to freeze the path behind her, then abruptly stops at the end of the pack and disarms the members. As the team finishes off the White Fang members atop the train, Oobleck shouts out that the train is leading the Grimm into the city by creating holes in the surface for the Grimm to escape, ordering Weiss, Blake, and Yang to go below and stop the cars while he and Ruby try to stop the train.

Once inside the cars, Weiss hands Blake a magazine of Dust cartridges for her Gambol Shroud, saying she might need it. As they progress forward, Neo appears before the trio to stop them. However, Yang tells her teammates to go ahead while she deals with Neo. However, Weiss and Blake encounter the White Fang Lieutenant wielding a chainsaw. Weiss tells Blake she will handle him while Blake goes on ahead. Weiss parries his attacks as Blake exits the car, but re-poises as he stands and chuckles that he will "get to kill a Schnee".

As Weiss' fight with the White Fang Lieutenant ensues, she defends and dodges his chainsaw swings while countering with a series of quick strikes. Eventually, she uses her semblance to create glyphs around him while simultaneously creating a speed glyph under her, allowing Weiss to perform an omnidirectional combination strike. However, he recovers and catches Weiss by her head, slamming her into the floor before throwing her into the air and swinging at her with his chainsaw.

Later, while Blake is seen confronting Roman in the front car, Weiss is revealed to have been defeated, as the White Fang Lieutenant tosses her into the car with Blake, before preparing to finish her. As he approaches Weiss, Blake grabs her incapacitated teammate and retreats. Both rendezvous with Yang and Ruby atop the train as it approaches a dead end. Weiss then impales Myrtenaster into the car, creating an ice barrier around the team as the train collides with the end of the tunnel, bursting into the center of Vale.

After recovering from the crash, Weiss and her teammates witness a large horde of Grimm emerge from the tunnel and begin to terrorize the city. As they regroup in the plaza, the team is surrounded by Grimm. Team RWBY engages the oncoming Grimm, with Weiss striking down Grimm one-by-one as they approach her. Soon, Teams JNPR and CFVY, along with Sun, Neptune, Emerald Sustrai, Mercury, the Atlesian forces, and several Beacon Professors, join the fight to contain the swarming Grimm.

Once the Grimm infestation was neutralized and the breach caused by the train collision was sealed, everyone gathered in victory. Team RWBY returned to Beacon and talk to assess the events that transpired over the past two days. Weiss jokingly comments states that she would be disappointed if they did not get extra credit for everything. However, as Ruby voices her concerns over being unable to solve all the mysteries surrounding their investigation, Weiss reminds her that "not every story has a neat and tidy ending".

With their investigation currently at a close, Yang asks what to do next, to which Weiss replies they should train for the tournament but believes the team has that covered. With dawn approaching, the team decides to get some much-needed sleep.

Vytal Festival Tournament
At the enormous floating stadium Amity Colosseum, Team RWBY's first match in the Vytal Festival tournament is with Team ABRN of Haven Academy. Weiss gives a stellar performance throughout the match, using her Semblance and Dust to great effect against her opponents. After an action-packed match, Team RWBY emerges victorious, and they then head to the Vytal Festival fairgrounds to get a meal.

There, they run into Emerald, who praises their performance in the match. It is revealed that Weiss will be joining Yang in moving forward onto the doubles round to represent Team RWBY, whilst Emerald and Mercury will move on from their team. Emerald remarks that they will not go easy on them if they happen to be paired up, and they bid farewell.

As they look for a place to eat, Weiss receives a phone call from her father, which she declines to answer. Team RWBY ends up eating at a noodle store run by the Shopkeep. Weiss attempts to pay for her team's meals as thanks for getting her through to the next round, but her credit card is declined, much to her surprise.

Fortunately, Pyrrha arrives and pays for their meal instead, and they are joined by JNPR for their meal. After they have eaten, JNPR is called away to their next match. Weiss and her team follow them over to the stadium, taking their place at the spectator stands to cheer their friends on.

During the match between Team JNPR and Team BRNZ, she comments positively on how Jaune's skills improved. After their friends' victory, they are later seen watching Team SSSN's match. At first, Weiss cheers for Neptune, but after seeing him attempting to flirt with the members of Team NDGO, she quickly changes her allegiance. After Sun and Neptune win the match, she catches sight of the approaching aircraft and says with seeming awe and admiration, "She's here...".

When she runs to the Beacon cliffs, she calls for her sister Winter's attention. As Weiss tries to catch up with Winter, many of her questions cannot be answered due to the answers containing classified information. When Winter asks how Weiss has been, she has to correct that she meant Weiss' well being and not her merits.

After Coco Adel and Yatsuhashi Daichi are defeated by Emerald and Mercury in the tournament, Weiss shares a meal with her sister. She says she has improved in training immensely, even now working with time dilation. When Winter mentions summoning via glyphs, Weiss says it is the one thing she cannot do. Winter singlehandedly summons a pure white Beowolf, and Weiss seemingly fails to summon anything. She did manage, however, to summon a sword about the size of a caterpillar. When Winter remarks that she should be a receptionist under their father, she channels the anger she feels toward him into a summoning glyph. Winter interrupts, saying never to allow emotions to overpower her or her fighting.

Winter suggests an ultimatum to her. Either she could continue to answer to and rely on their father, or she could turn away from him and explore all she can of Remnant and herself. After Weiss bids farewell to her sister, she receives a call from her father and once again declines it, signifying that she has chosen the latter.

Weiss and Yang's doubles round fight is against Neon Katt and Flynt Coal of Team FNKI, representing Atlas, Weiss' own homeland. Whilst Weiss originally believes their Atlesian opponents to be disciplined and technologically advanced, Neon and Flynt turn out to be unexpectedly unconventional and eccentric. Flynt also has a personal grudge against Weiss, holding the Schnee Dust Company responsible for pushing his father's Dust shop out of business.

When the match begins, Weiss faces off against Flynt while Yang fights Neon. Flynt manages to overpower Weiss' Dust attacks using Dust of his own in conjunction with his Semblance. Unwilling to give up, Weiss sacrifices herself in a reckless attack by tackling Flynt and enveloping both in a pillar of lava. While she is unsuccessful in knocking her opponent out, Weiss' sacrifice allows Yang to defeat both the weakened Flynt and Neon. Singed and covered in soot but still mostly unhurt, Weiss gains the respect of Flynt and Neon.

When Yang breaks a defenseless Mercury's leg without provocation after the conclusion of her match in the singles rounds, Weiss is visibly taken aback. However, in the dorm the next day, when Yang says she used self-defense, Weiss unconditionally believes Yang is telling the truth. Blake hesitates and Weiss is mystified at how Blake could think her own partner is lying. After Blake believes in Yang, the team leaves Yang to rest and goes outside.

Blake and Weiss go to the fairgrounds to get drinks together, and they witness Pyrrha tear Penny apart, followed by a speech from Cinder, who spreads her message of hate and rebellion against the leaders of the academies as well as the governments.

The Battle of Beacon
Chaos soon erupts across Vale, with hordes of Grimm sneaking past the defenses of the city and swarming in the streets, killing indiscriminately. Weiss and Blake learn from Yang that the White Fang have returned and are attacking Beacon Academy. They decide to head back to the school to assist Yang in the defense of Beacon.

On arriving at Beacon, the Atlesian Knight-200 androids stationed there turn on them, though they manage to escape unharmed. The pair then fights through droves of Grimm, White Fang soldiers and Atlesian Knights. Weiss and Blake then split up to handle separate threats, Weiss fighting a rogue Atlesian Paladin and Blake taking on an Alpha Beowolf.

When the battle continues, Weiss expresses concern for Velvet's safety. After Velvet is knocked down by a Paladin; Weiss rushes to defend her, summoning the arm and sword of the Arma Gigas in the process before it slices a Paladin in half.

When the remaining Paladins are disabled, she catches her breath, using Myrtenaster as a support when Yang rushes in. Weiss tells her about the whereabouts of Blake and Ruby before giving a thumbs up.

After having recovered, she regrouped with Ruby and the rest of her team, along with Nora, Ren and Sun. After they realize that Jaune and Pyrrha are still missing, she and Ruby head to the CCT tower to retrieve them. Once Jaune informs them that Pyrrha is still inside, she uses her Glyphs to send Ruby up the tower.

After the incident, her father arrives to bring her back to Atlas, believing that Vale is too dangerous for her physical safety.

During the Timeskip
Several months after the fall of Beacon, Weiss is seen at the Schnee family home in Atlas, looking out of her bedroom window.

In Atlas
Sometime later, she is seen staring out of her window again, until her butler, Klein Sieben, informs her that her father wants to speak to her. Dejected, she goes to see her father, but on her way, her brother Whitley Schnee warns her that their father is arguing with someone. She then continues towards Jacques' study and intrudes upon a heated conversation between him and General Ironwood. After Ironwood leaves, her father discusses his plans to make her sing at a charity event for the company. With little enthusiasm, Weiss agrees. After leaving Jacques' study, Weiss is cheered up by Klein.

At the charity event, Weiss performs her song and receives applause from the audience. At the cocktail event shortly afterward, Weiss becomes overwhelmed by the insensitivity and pretentiousness of those around her, including Henry Marigold, and loses her temper. Weiss shouts at a woman insulting Vale across the ballroom, chastising her and the other patrons for their petty materialistic interests and ignorance. Jacques grabs Weiss to prevent her from making more of a scene, but she shakes free from his grasp, falling to the floor. In her emotional outburst, Weiss accidentally uses her Semblance to summon a Boarbatusk that charges at the woman, but Ironwood kills it with his revolver before the woman can be harmed. The woman demands that Ironwood arrest Weiss, but he coldly responds, "She's the only one making sense around here."

Later, Jacques argues with Weiss about her outburst. The argument escalates when she pushes back at him about his marital rights to the Schnee name versus her birthright to it and he slaps her. Despite this, Weiss pushes forward, declaring that she will use her skills as a Huntress to preserve the Schnee name. Jacques declares her no longer to be the heir and grounds her. In response, Weiss trains in her room until she is able to Summon the Arma Gigas.

With the help of Klein, Weiss begins to make her escape from home. As she passes by her father's office, she overhears Ironwood's plan to close the borders of the kingdom due to information reported by Winter about Mistral. She meets back up with Klein in the library and confirms that she still plans to head to Mistral, now hoping to reconnect with her sister. They part with a hug, and Weiss escapes through a secret passageway. After escaping the manor grounds, Weiss locates and bribes a pilot to let her stow away on his airship to Mistral.

Flight to Mistral
As the flight to Mistral draws to its conclusion, the pilot receives a distress call from a passenger ship pleading for help. Weiss wants to help them but to no avail, for the pilot refuses to get caught up in any danger, and she has to comply with his wishes.

Passing by the floating islands of Lake Matsu, the ship comes across a swarm of Lancers destroying airships. Having enough of standing idly by, Weiss uses the Dust ammunition from the cargo to fight the Lancers that chase after the ship. She manages to defeat them, but a Queen Lancer arrives and proves to be a more difficult challenge. Ultimately, Weiss Summons her Arma Gigas and slays the Queen Lancer, but the Grimm's stinger heavily damages the cargo ship and causes it to crash. Weiss tries to slow down the ship with her Glyphs but to no avail. Sometime after the ship crashes, Weiss is captured by Raven Branwen.

Held Captive in Anima
Weiss wakes caged in a bandit camp during the night. A woman named Vernal appears with Weiss' weapon and says they will traffic Weiss back to Atlas for ransom. Weiss says Winter will find and save her, but Vernal says Winter was recalled to Atlas by Ironwood's order. She relishes that nobody is coming to rescue Weiss. Later into the night as the bandits sleep, Weiss summons a miniature Arma Gigas.

As Weiss notices something in the bandit camp causing the tribe to look away from her, she summons a miniature Arma Gigas again, and it swings at a bar of her cage. After Weiss realizes Yang was the disturbance and that everyone can see she is attempting to escape, she scales the Arma Gigas to be many times her size and forcefully breaks out of the cage. She runs over to Yang as the camp's tensions rise, and as they run to begin a fight, Vernal breaks the altercation. Raven orders Vernal to give Weiss her weapon back and orders Weiss and Yang into her tent to learn "the truth." As the bandits disperse, Weiss and Yang share a reunion hug as she tells Yang she missed her.

In Mistral
Weiss and Yang meet in Raven's tent as the tribe leader tries to convince them to relearn a way of thinking about Ozpin. When Weiss says Ozpin was a prodigy and the youngest headmaster to be appointed to a school, Raven counters that it was planned and tells of Ozpin's sphere of influence. Neither girl believes Raven as she tells she has seen magic and knows people who can come back from the dead. After Yang is heated, Raven offers to show the two what Ozpin did to her and Qrow. They follow her outside the tent and watch her transform from a raven into her human form. Raven gives them an ultimatum- to stay with her and continue to learn or to go to Qrow and face what she believes is certain death. Yang and Weiss ride into Raven's portal to Qrow. Qrow takes them to Ruby, Jaune, Nora and Ren, and the two share a hug of reunion with Ruby.

Later, the six students share a ramen dinner together and recollect about past events, with Weiss lamenting about throwing her temper at the SDC cocktail party. When Nora states her disbelief, Weiss summons a Boarbatusk next to her to prove herself. After the dinner, Weiss and Yang catch up with Ozpin about the Maidens, magic, and Salem.

The next morning, Weiss brings coffee to her teammates to enjoy together. Things turn sour when Yang angrily states she does not care about Blake anymore, leaving Weiss and Ruby extremely worried. Weiss confronts Yang alone, and they share the unique forms of loneliness they endured when they were younger. Weiss defends Blake's departure, saying she had concealed her past from her teammates and her greatest fears came to life during the Battle of Beacon. In the end, Weiss admits Team RWBY is more of a family to her than her father and brother and is willing to do anything for them. She vows to be there for Blake when she returns and promises to be there for Yang as well.

The Battle of Haven
Weiss enters the Haven Academy lobby alongside her allies, including Qrow and Oscar, where they are greeted by Leonardo Lionheart shortly before Salem's Faction appears. After an exchange of words, the battle begins. Raven orders Vernal to engage Weiss, who gains the upper hand rather quickly. Even when Weiss attempts to summon, Vernal takes it out with a single strike. The second attempt at summoning leaves Weiss vulnerable for Vernal to perform a powerful attack, fully depleting Weiss' Aura.

Whilst the fight continues, Cinder has overpowered and pinned down Jaune, allowing her to conjure and throw a fiery spear at Weiss as she remains unaware and vulnerable. The spear goes through and impales Weiss through her lower-right torso before dissipating after a few seconds, causing her to collapse toward the floor.

Weiss immediately receives attention from Jaune and Ren, but they find themselves unable to help her as she begins to slowly die. However, as Jaune pleads for her to survive, his Semblance activates, miraculously healing Weiss as she starts to regain her breath.

As she regains consciousness, Weiss learns of her serious injury from Jaune and is annoyed when he tells her to stay with him. Eventually, Jaune fully restores her Aura, and she rejoins the battle. Weiss summons a Queen Lancer to impale Hazel Rainart and draw him back inside the building. She prevents Emerald and Mercury from pursuing Yang to the vault.

As the battle continues, Weiss is devastated when Hazel Rainart destroys her Lancer. She is shocked when she sees Blake suddenly arriving and joins with her and Ruby, asking if she is alright. Weiss is surprised as she remembers Blake usually being quiet. She regains her focus, and Ruby directs her and Blake to their team attack. When everyone is visibly worn out, Yang reemerges from the vault with the Relic of Knowledge, Weiss smiles upon her friend's return. However, she and the other students are left terrified after Emerald unleashes a gigantic hallucination of Salem upon them.

After the battle, Weiss welcomes Blake into a group hug with her, Ruby and Yang as Team RWBY is united once again.

Journey to Atlas
Recovering at the manor, Weiss and her friends are packing their belongings when Qrow informs them that they are heading for Atlas. Weiss becomes dismayed at the thought of returning to the place she has worked so hard to escape from but decides to go anyway. The heroes then learn about the Relic of Knowledge from Ozpin, but they apparently cannot use it because the questions have already been used.

Two weeks after the Battle of Haven, Weiss and her allies are in a train station on their way to Argus, a city in northern Anima, with the hope of finding someone at the military base who can take them to Atlas. Weiss enjoys a few moments with her friends, and they reassure her that everything in Atlas will be fine now that everyone is back together. Once aboard the train, a group of Manticores and Sphinx Grimm attack it.

A tunnel and the fact that Grimm are attracted to the Relic complicates the ensuing fight. In response, the group decides that Jaune, Ren and Nora lead the passengers and the front cars safely to Argus while they decouple the train and everyone else uses the rear cars to fight the Grimm, the Relic of Knowledge with them. The group wins the battle against the Grimm, but the Sphinx spits one last fireball that damages the oncoming tracks, derailing the train and sending the group into a snowy forest. Maria Calavera, an old woman who happened to stay in the rear cars, exits the train and greets them.

When Team RWBY confronts Ozpin about keeping secrets, Weiss is annoyed about having someone else besides herself decide what is best for her. Oscar tells Ruby about a being within the Relic, and everyone is awestruck when Jinn emerges. They then learn that she can still answer two questions in this era, meaning that Ozpin has lied to them. When Qrow speaks up, Weiss points her weapon at him, though he merely tells Ruby to do what she feels it is right. After Ruby asks Jinn about Ozpin's secret, everyone is separated and transported to a white space. Then Jinn begins to answer the questions in the form of a story, and they learn that Salem was once Human.

Jinn tells Weiss and the others a long story about Salem and Ozpin's pasts, which includes information on the gods of Light and Darkness, as well as the origin of the Relics. As Jinn finishes her story, Weiss is shocked to hear that Salem cannot be destroyed. Later, the group finds a path, and they follow it until it ends at Brunswick Farms, where they decide to take shelter.

Nightmare of Brunswick Farms
As they try to enter the main house, Weiss ponders if the residents of the estate left before things got worse. After they break their way through, she volunteers to find blankets with Yang. But when they reach the master bedroom, Weiss screams in terror as she and Yang find a pair of decomposed corpses on the bed. She later sits in front of the fire in the living room and shivers in terror until Blake places a blanket on her shoulders. They then learn from Qrow that everyone else on the estate suffered the same fate. After Ruby suggests that there should be supplies for them to use. Weiss follows her to find food for them to eat. The pair finds a wine cellar, and Ruby suggests that they close it to hide it from Qrow, as she is concerned about her uncle after Jinn's revelation of Ozpin's lies and secrets. Weiss then asks Ruby if they are really going to Atlas, as she is finding the goal of getting the Relic of Knowledge to Atlas pointless. She then expresses her fatigue and disgust of the estate. When Ruby finds room in the storeroom, Weiss is initially annoyed that it is canned food but later decides that it is better than nothing. They then take some of the cans and leave the storeroom.

Later that night, Weiss sullenly sits with Blake and Yang around the fire before Ruby tells them that they are leaving first thing in the morning. The next day, Weiss readies Bumblee so that the flatbed found by Blake and Yang can be attached to it. But after Qrow's Semblance flattens one of the tires, Weiss once again questions the mission of getting the Relic of Knowledge to Atlas. She and Blake side with Yang's argument that they are better off leaving the lamp at the bottom of the nearby well so that Salem will have a harder time finding it. After Ruby unintentionally drops the lamp down the well, the team grudgingly agrees to go down the well for the Relic. But when their leader finds the lamp, they are attacked a pack of Apathies. Found by Maria, they run through the tunnels, coming across a cellar with an exit. They are then attacked again by the Apathies and collapse but are able to move after Ruby activates her silver eyes to momentarily stun the Grimm. Weiss then runs to the doors but finds that they are locked from the other side. The Apathies screech again and they all collapse in exhaustion. But their lives are saved when Ruby unleashes her powers again with more control and destroys all of the Apathies in the cellar. After they escape and find Qrow passed out in the bar, Weiss throws a few alcohol bottles at the cellar doors as the Apathies emerges and sets them on fire. She then helps Ruby in pushing Qrow out of the bar and the entire group quickly get on the flatbed and leaves Brunswick Farms. On the road, the group learns from Maria about the Apathies and the demise of the farm residents. Weiss then apologizes about giving up on their mission.

A Brief Respite
The group learns Maria was a Silver-Eyed Warrior known as the Grimm Reaper, but she was blinded and went into hiding out of fear. All of a sudden, they get a call from Jaune on Ruby's Scroll and discover they have reached Argus. After reuniting with Jaune, Ren and Nora and riding the trolley through the city, they find Jaune's sister, Saphron Cotta-Arc, and her son, Adrian Cotta-Arc. Saphron takes them to her home, where they meet her wife, Terra Cotta-Arc. After Weiss and Yang fond over the baby after he gives a pout, they enjoy sandwiches. Team RWBY plans to get through the Argus military base the next day, but when they go, its front gate quickly closes before them.

As the guards refuses them entry, Weiss is presented by Qrow, who says that they're trying to get her home. This allows them to meet Caroline Cordovin, a special operative in charge of the military base. Ultimately, only Weiss is allowed by the Commander to go to Atlas to return home, but she is upset when Cordovin calls her friends questionable, especially Blake. When the gates close on them again, Weiss is assured by Ruby that they will not leave her and that they will all get to Atlas somehow. But the situation deteriorates when Team RWBY and Oscar reveal Ozpin and Salem's past to Jaune's group back at the Cotta-Arc, which leaves everyone disheartened and needing time alone. Later, Weiss, Blake and Yang discover that Oscar is gone and report this to the others.

The entire group then go on a search for Oscar. With no luck, Team RWBY and Maria return to the house at night where they find Qrow passed out on the doorsteps. After Jaune and his group rejoin them, everyone is surprised to find Oscar with a new outfit. Inside the house, Weiss tells Oscar that they were worried about him. Later, the group listens to Jaune's offer of stealing an Atlas airship, leaving Weiss to tell him that they will be doing something much worse than breaking the law. Qrow later turns down the idea, and the group is disheartened again. But their spirits are lifted again when Ruby decides to hear Jaune out and that they should do things their way.

The Airship Heist
For her part of the plan, Weiss smuggles Maria in a suitcase as Cordovin leads her through the Argus base, thinking Weiss returned to her family roots. Saphron and Adrian, who accompany them, cause a distraction so Weiss and Maria can board the airship unaccompanied. After getting on board and getting out of range of her allies' signal, Weiss attacks the guards and throws them out of the ship with a parachute. As they take control of the plane, Weiss is concerned that Maria's eyes need repair, but Maria repeatedly interrupts her protests. Maria brings the ship back to Argus to pick up the rest of the group. However, they are shocked when Argus catches them on radar and Maria is unable to fool the base. The pair then witnesses Cordovin piloting a Colossus and hit them with a lightning Dust blast.

Upon receiving Ruby's order to return to her and the others so they can fight the Colossus together, Weiss expresses disbelief at the thought of battling the Colossus. When Cordovin is about to fire at the group, however, she commands Maria to get to them, then jumps off and protects her allies with a stone wall. After the group formulates a plan, Weiss traverses the water with Ruby using ice Dust to get close to Cordovin to try and take down her shield. She then summons her Queen Lancer for transport and to later save Ruby, Ren and Qrow. Ultimately, however, Cordovin destroys her summon, and they crash land on the cliff. Recovering, the group is informed by Oscar about the missiles popping out of the cannon and can be destroyed while they are exposed. Weiss then watches as Ruby tries to make a clear shot but fails, and as Cordovin counters and sends the airship crashing into the trees. Weiss and the others barely dodge the lightning Dust blast as it reaches the cliffside. They are later shocked when Ruby jumps into the cannon and fires, causing the raw Dust to explode. As Ruby barely escapes and falls, Weiss uses her black Glyphs to slow down Ruby's descent and allow Qrow to catch her, but collapses soon afterwards. The group is later shocked to hear that a Leviathan is approaching the city.

As Blake and Yang reunites with the group, Weiss confirms with them that a giant Grimm is approaching, and they just took out the only thing that can stop it. They then board the airship and leave Cordovin to struggle to move the Colossus. When Maria states that it is their only chance to get to Atlas, Weiss sternly opposes alongside Blake and Yang as they cannot leave Argus to the mercy of the Grimm. They then go back to Atlas to find the Leviathan easily breaking through the city’s defenses. To help Ruby in defeating the giant Grimm, Weiss uses her Lancer summon to carry her partner closer to their target. They all watch as Ruby uses her silver eyes to petrify the entire Leviathan, the monster breaks its head free, and Cordovin finishes it off with the Colossus. Afterwards, they are given permission by the operative to continue on to Atlas.

As they reach Atlas by nighttime, Weiss is shocked to find the floating city surrounded by the Atlas air fleet as if they are expecting an attack.

Canon

 * Weiss Schnee vs. Arma Gaigas (Won)
 * Weiss Schnee vs. Winter's Summoning (Lost)
 * Weiss Schnee and Ruby Rose vs. Beowolves (Retreated)
 * Team RWBY vs. Nevermore (Won)
 * Weiss Schnee vs. Boarbatusk (Won)
 * Team RWBY vs. Team JNPR (Won)
 * Team RWBY, Sun Wukong, and Neptune Vasilias vs. Roman Torchwick (Draw)
 * Team RWBY vs. Grimm (Won)
 * Team RWBY and Dr. Oobleck vs. White Fang (Won)
 * Weiss Schnee vs. White Fang Lieutenant (Lost)
 * Huntsmen vs. Grimm (Won)
 * Team RWBY vs. Team ABRN (Won)
 * Weiss Schnee and Yang Xiao Long vs. Flynt Coal and Neon (Won; Team, Knocked Out; Individually)
 * Students vs. Grimm, White Fang, AK-200s and Paladins (Won)
 * Weiss Schnee and Atlas Pilot vs. Lancers (Won)
 * Weiss vs. Vernal (Lost)
 * Weiss Schnee, Ruby Rose, and Blake Belladonna vs. Hazel Rainart, Emerald, and Mercury (Won)
 * Argus Limited vs. Manticores and Sphinx (Won)
 * Ruby's Party vs. Caroline Cordovin (Won)

Canon

 * Beacon Academy Initiation
 * Beacon Dance
 * 40th Vytal Festival
 * Battle of Beacon
 * Battle of Haven
 * Airship Heist

Theme songs

 * "White" Trailer: "Mirror Mirror" - Casey Lee Williams.

Etymology

 * Weiss alludes to Snow White from the fairy tale of the same name: Snow White and the Seven Dwarves.
 * Her name translates literally to "White Snow" in German. However, the actual descriptive phrase "white snow" would translate to "weißer Schnee" or "schneeweiß" in German. The German name of Snow White in the original book is "Schneewittchen".
 * "Mirror Mirror", her song in the "White" Trailer, makes reference to the mirror that plays a large part in the story of Snow White.
 * Her role as the heiress to the Schnee Dust Company may allude to Snow White's affiliation with the seven dwarves, who were jewel miners.
 * Monty stated that the pendant on her necklace is shaped like an apple, and in "Jaunedice", Weiss' meal consists of only an apple. These are references to Snow White and the poisoned apple.
 * Weiss' voice actor, Kara Eberle, compares her to both Hermione Granger and Draco Malfoy from the Harry Potter series.
 * During an "Ask Me Anything" question and answer session on the Rooster Teeth website, Kara said that Weiss' favorite season is winter, her favorite color is baby blue and her favorite ice cream flavor is blueberry frozen yogurt.
 * Also, if given the choice between fighting one horse-sized duck or 100 duck-sized horses, she would rather fight one horse-sized duck.

Notes & Trivia

 * For more information on this allusion, as well as other choices the creators made for this character, see Weiss Schnee/Behind the Scenes.
 * It was stated by Miles Luna and Kerry Shawcross that Weiss prefers drinking coffee over tea. In "Destiny", Weiss suggests that she and Blake get coffee, but Blake opts for tea instead. It was also mentioned in the Fan Service Podcast.
 * Despite her name being German, the 'W' in her first name, as well as the 'nee' part of her last name are not pronounced as they would be in German. Monty stated that this is because real-world countries, such as Germany, do not exist in Remnant.
 * In the official artwork shown at the end of each trailer, she is holding Myrtenaster in her right hand, despite being left-handed. This is because the drawings in the Team RWBY composite are early concepts.
 * She has her own official Twitter account at RT_WeissSchnee, like Ruby, Yang, and Jaune, all of which are currently inactive.
 * Weiss is often addressed by nicknames, being called "Princess", "Snow Angel" or "Ice Queen" by Ruby, Jaune, Neptune Vasilias, Sun, Yang and even Roman and the White Fang Lieutenant.
 * The "Ice Queen" nickname is also given by Qrow to Weiss' sister, Winter.
 * Weiss is a playable character in BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle.
 * Weiss also appears in the 110th episode of Death Battle, where she had faced off against Mitsuru Kirijo from the Persona series but lost.
 * On July 19th, 2019, a limited event collaboration between RWBY and in Other Media#SMITE SMITE was announced. Team RWBY is confirmed to appear as voiced skins with Weiss as a skin for Freya