Character development and meaningful scars
Well, its Develpoment and scars, that is about it.
Meaningfulness really doesn't matter.
Well, it also steals Weiss' battle and makes it our thing.
As people have correctly deduced, this is the option where Whitley tries to become a Huntsman like his elder siblings. But note the mention of the scar being worse:
A moment to state that, while the scar is bad and our boy's vision is damaged, he is not blinded.
I would have made it quite clear in the option that he would
You want to horde power and be a BS protagonist who can slap their way across Remnant, enjoy a giant permanent debuff to combat.
Well... PErhaps not exactly slap your way across Remnant, but you will be able to fight Grimm pretty well.
This is basically what went down in canon, and carries many of the same problems. Winter wants nothing to do with the Schnee family as it stands, and Whitley is, to her perspective, obsessing and whining over a dead man rather than doing shit. But it basically means we're not getting sucked into the boobytrap that is the Atlas Military.
And it also opens up the "Hey your sister is hunting you down to send you back home, got to avoid her if you can!"
While the Fought Back option may seem like the way to go down a Beacon route, this is much more closely aligned with a tweaking of canon. as Weiss doesn't undergo her big defiance and choose to go to Beacon. Instead? Magoose reveals he's a secret Frozen fanboy and she breaks down. Weiss becomes the Good Little Girl Jacque wants, much like Elsa does her Conceal, Don't Feel. So Daddy Worstest doesn't give a shit if we go hang with Ozzie The Fuckless.
I am a Big Frozen Fan, no one asked about me ever liking the film.
Besides, Weiss, if she didn't rebel is basically Elsa, and that to me, is Gold!
It's quite a meta decision: Do you all want to hang with the canon characters at the price of Weiss losing everything?
...A 14-year-old, hormonal teenage boy with three very beautiful young women as roommates/ teammates living together.
People would claim that is the start of some Harem Anime shit!
This may seem a surprise to people who's only watched the show, but Willow's various appearances in the expanded media have shown her to steal credit for Weiss' achievements to boost her social standing and the SDC's reputation. The closest thing to a benefit we get out of this is that Willow hasn't crawled inside a bottle to die and is pushing back in her own way.
And that will lead to a very interesting power dynamic with Jacques and Willow battling for control over the SDC, Weisses Future in it, and so much more.
God just talking about it makes me feel excited.
Don't really want Whitley to be the best punch master with the Fought Back action, and I'm concerned the Broken Weiss action would be boring. Going with Willow's fall, for the dichotomy between terrible parents.
Whitley doesn't become a punch master if he fought back.
He's just far more trained in combat than in other options, and he got fucked by Nicks's Armor nearly blinding him.
And Broken Weiss leads to something very interesting. Like what Ruby gets up to without exploding all that dust the first day of Beacon.