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"Everyone is entitled to their own sorrow, for the heart has no metrics or form of measure. And all of it... irreplaceable."

A girl dressed all in white, from her platinum hair to her high-heeled boots, steps onto a stage in front of large audience as a barely audible P.A. voice introduces her as "Weiss Schnee". A slow, melancholy piano begins to play; she closes her eyes and starts singing a song about mirrors. As the orchestration expands and the tempo ramps up, a transition through her reflection on the floor brings us to a different moment where she finds herself facing a monstrous figure in armor, with a sword whose length and width can be measured in yards. Wielding a rapier with what looks to be a revolver's cylinder in its hilt, she dances around the giant knight, striking ineffectually at it while bouncing off of snowflake-like patterns that appear on the floor and in the air as her sword glows different colors and projects different effects.

The knight feints and lands a powerful punch on the girl, sending her flying and stunning her. We suddenly flash back to the performance, and high above her a skylight reveals a moon which has been partially shattered. Just as quickly, we are back to the battle. The girl rises shakily to her feet, revealing that the knight's blow has opened a bleeding wound on her face. Determination filling her eyes, she launches a rapid-fire salvo of both elemental and blade attacks, first disarming and then pinning the armored form. Then, with a graceful leap and dive, she delivers the Coup De Grace.

As the knight disintegrates behind her, the moment fades and we return to the performance, where we see that the wound on her face became a subtle scar crossing her eye. As the audience applauds, she shakes herself back to awareness of the moment and curtseys, then is hidden by a closing curtain.

Tropes used in RWBY/Recap/Trailers/P2 White Trailer include:

• Alien Sky: This is the first time we see that the moon of Remnant is partially shattered.
• Animated Armor: A monstrously large one, yet.
• Coup De Grace: Weiss's final strike, which elegantly takes out the Giant Armor.
• Epigraph: The first of the trailers to have an epigraph hinting at its character's depths, quoted above.
• Good Scars, Evil Scars: Weiss's surprisingly subtle facial scar -- acquired during the events of this trailer -- is definitely a "good scar".
• Image Song: "Mirror, Mirror" is very much this for Weiss.
• Instant Runes: Weiss's snowflake-like "glyphs".
• Magic by Any Other Name: The immediate explanation for the things Weiss and her sword can do.
• Shout-Out: "Mirror, Mirror" very obviously references "Snow White" on multiple levels, including the recasting of "fairest of all" to "loneliest of all".
• Stepping Stone Sword: While fighting the Giant Armor, Weiss leaps onto and runs up the Armor's sword to attack it close up.