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[ A couple of hours had passed since Roman had made his announcement. It took her a while to calm down. After the hard learned lesson about not reacting emotionally from the first time Roman had attacked her, albeit in a very different manner, she knew better than to say anything while she was still reeling. Anxiety, stress, hatred, fear of losing her new friends, and fear of losing what she'd just begun to build on top of what she'd already lost to Torchwick were overwhelmingly keeping her from trying to react without thinking things through first. She'd turned her phone off for a short while- it was probably a mistake, it probably made it look like she was hiding, but the reality was that she was just a teenager who was trying to make some kind of a difference.

But after she'd had a chance to breathe, she worked out what it was she'd wanted to say. Because Torchwick wasn't the one she had to answer to- it was everyone else. The people who had put their faith in Schnee Company here, the people who believed in her and thought she was a good person, and even the people who didn't know what to think yet. They were who was important, not someone using her father's sins to try to destroy her. ]

Here we go.

[ Weiss took a deep breath and flickered the video on, her gaze unwavering as it did. She looked determined, serious. If any member of her family ever came here, she would likely be ruined after this video, but this was the only way to save the life she'd started building here. ]

Many of you may have seen Roman Torchwick's video and accusations earlier. The answer is yes.

Yes, many of those things are true. My father and our company under his leadership have been accused of doing those things and I have personally witnessed some of them. I don't have evidence of some of the things that Torchwick detailed in his apparent report, the source of which I find suspect given that while Schnee Dust Company in Remnant has managed to evade essentially all charges. If a report like that were legitimate, it certainly would've risen much sooner and certainly not in Genessia instead of back home. And I happen to know at least a couple of those are false, but the important ones aren't.

Yes, my family has used money to corrupt politics to get away with.. less than moral business practices. Yes, we...

[ Weiss took another deep breath. This was, honestly, hard for her. She hated the idea that her family's name was being dragged through the mud and that she was confirming it, even if she knew what was true. She wanted nothing more than to scream that Torchwick was a liar, but that wouldn't solve anything. ]

Schnee Dust Company has been known for both Human and Faunus rights abuses, most condemningly the forced labor of the Faunus people. Yes, Torchwick was telling the truth about that, but as usual he ran his mouth without knowing or including the entire story.

My family didn't claim our name in bloodshed or the sweat and tears of Faunus. It was my grandfather's company, and until my father took over it was a moral company. The Schnee family name didn't start off standing for these gross violations of humans rights, and I have no intention of allowing it to stay that way. Perhaps if Torchwick had taken a moment to question why the heiress to the company in question was busy attending a combat school for Huntresses instead of living easily in the comfort of my multiple homes and a plush office on the top floors of Schnee Company headquarters, he would have realized that leveling those accusations here was a mistake.

I chose to become a huntress because I have every intention of taking my family's company back from my father to make certain that the Schnee Dust Company doesn't operate in the dark, because I will need those skills to reclaim it from him. I never brought any of this up here in Genessia not because I had the intent to deceive any of you, but because by saying this publicly, I run the risk of my family finding out if any of them come to Genessia. I don't intend to back down back home, nor do I intend to let Torchwick take Schnee Company down to his level here. Schnee Company in Genessia is going to be a prime example of what Schnee Dust Company in Remnant should operate like.

The entire reason that the people from my world agreed not to start a witch hunt for Torchwick when he first arrived was on the basis of second chances. Torchwick squandered his when he attacked my friend and I, killing her and kidnapping me out of a sick need for vengeance because we've cut a couple of his heists short- a part of our jobs as huntresses.

Don't take Schnee Company and my second chance away from us because Torchwick decided to share what my father is responsible for and I haven't had the chance to fix back home yet.

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[She pretty much wants to go after Torchwick more now (because he's a jerk who doesn't respect his things) and Weiss said she'd give money for bringing him in but, well. She probably should ask the same thing she asked him.]

Um, lady. I asked that man this but I wanted to know your answer: if you had any toys, what happened to them?

[It's very important. To her, if no one else.]

Frankly, that's none of your business and it's not remotely related to the situation at hand.

I'm a doll; is it weird for me to wonder about things that relate to my kind? I don't know what half these things you two are accusing each other are and the other half are human things.

[Excuse you, Weiss.]

It matters to me. I just want to know if you threw them away or not--you probably don't care either way but something like that really is important.

It's not weird for you to wonder about things relating to your kind, but it is weird to deviate so far from relevance in a conversation.

[ She rolls her eyes, though it's a voice post so at least she can't see it. ]

My father took them away when he thought I shouldn't be playing around anymore, if you really have to know.

It's relevant! To me, anyway. After all, that is something I understand and at least you answered me.

[That's more than Roman did.]

... Well, that's more reasonable. Still a human thing to do but it wasn't your choice. I'll still try to bring that man in.

[Those that make things to only throw them away, that was the most unforgivable thing in the world.]

[ Whatever, you strange girl. ]

Thank you for your continued cooperation.

[Toys have rights, too, Weiss!]

Humans who just throw things they care about like that away... I can't forgive humans like that. He seems the type.

[ No amount of rights they do or don't have is going to convince her that this was remotely relevant to the topic at hand. ]

He's the type to throw things out and take away things from other people, you've certainly got that right.

[She also doesn't think like a child. A kid's mind (even a youkai kid) is a weird thing.]

It's going to be hard to go easy on him but I'll try. You're still offering money, right?

Yes, I am.

Good. That way I can save a lot of my kind! Don't know why I need to buy them first but....

What, dolls? Because it costs money to make them and if you don't support all of the effort that went into them being created as well as the material costs, then the people producing them will go out of business. Then there won't be anyone else making dolls.

We could make ourselves.

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