Weiss Schnee

"There's Weiss Schnee. I like this girl. She's so cool that even though her hair looked like an old woman, I think she's still just a regular old teenager... with some kick ass personality."

--Su Ji-Hoon, The Rise of Team RWBY

Weiss Schnee (pronounced Why-ss Sh-nee) is a former student of Beacon Academy and one of the main protagonists of RWBY. Her weapon of choice is a Multi Action Dust Rapier (MADR) named Myrtenaster.

The former heiress of the vastly influential Schnee Dust Company, Weiss made her first appearance in the "White" Trailer. After enrolling in Beacon against the wishes of her father, she becomes a member of Team RWBY alongside Ruby Rose, Blake Belladonna and Yang Xiao Long.

In When the Cold Breeze Blows Away, she is the Weißer Anleiter (meaning in German "white leader") of her personal soldiers, the Schnee Sturmtruppen and the Waffen Schnee.