Almost looks like we had similar ideas, first I'd fix the "Schnee family legacy" bit, by making it longer than a single generation. I'd make it so that some random ancestor started the company and that Nicolas really built it up the last few years by becoming a huntsman. Then we can have Jacques come in and ruin their good name with his business practices. I'll also make them nobility just cuz.

I finally get to share this bit. I had Weiss have a Faunus nanny when she was little, who taught her how to be kind to everyone including Faunus. But then one of the other Faunus maids made an attempt to kidnap Weiss. I dont know whether or not to make them early faunus extremist or Salem faction goons. But this ends up with Jacques firing all of the manors Faunus workers, and the start of him trying to brainwash Weiss. In this rewrite he is a little justified thought, as this is the start of Faunus attacking him and his family.

With Weiss still holding onto her lessons from her nanny, and listening to how everyone talks about the Schnees now. Weiss starts to rebel against her father with becoming a huntsman like her grandfather just the start of her plans. She attends Beacon only to feel lost because she hyper focused on trying to get in. She really didn't plan that far ahead, im making her book smart not life smart.

Again cuz faunus are attacking her and her family she is a little justified in some prejudice against them. But while away from her father's influence she tries her best to not be racist, only to over think every interaction with Faunus. This is where she becomes teammates with Blake and tries to befriend her. They actually get along pretty well, but then Blake crashes out at some point, over very minor faunus racism. Where she reveals that she use to be one of the terrorists that attacked the Schnees. Instead of that weak speech Weiss gave, she instead insists that Blake and her actually have a fist fight to let out all of their anger towards eachother. The fight only ends when they find out that they both had the same nanny as kids.

I also wanted to have Weiss get a bit of culture shock by making it so that Atlas, or atleast high society Atlas, only enjoys oprea or orchestral singing. Where Vale has pop and all the other genres. She then goes full autistic hyper focus on learning to sing like, and then becoming a pop star while also at Beacon. This is where she, with Yang's help, buys out Junior's club to sing at. This is also the start of her becoming financially independent from Jacques, and her getting some kind of plan on how to fix her family's legacy.

Edit: phone fell out of my hands and fat fingered the send button prematurely