Talk:Pyrrha Nikos/@comment-35555395-20181231003803/@comment-4010415-20190101000936

@Leonhart Volumes 1-3 are Teams RWBY and JNPR's entire first year at Beacon, so that's 1 year. Then, after that, there was a time skip between Volumes 3 and 4, followed by Volume 5 taking place around the time of year that Volume 2 started out at, and now we're on Volume 6, which is weeks to a month after the end of Volume 5, so it has been almost another year.

Thus, two years.

Apparently, their school year starts at the beginning of the actual calendar year, considering that the fall semester is their second semester. This is evidenced by the combination of Ruby's dialogue in Best Day Ever (Volume 2 Episode 1) and It's Brawl in the Family (Volume 3 Episode 3). In Best Day Ever, Ruby says that they're about to resume classes, "our second semester is going to be great", and that students from other academies were already gathering there for the tournament "at the end of the year". In Volume 3, the tournament is going on, and it is fall.

So, Teams RWBY and JNPR started their first year of Beacon at the beginning of the year and attended through both semesters, until the Vytal Festival Tournament was interrupted during the finals by Cinder's attack. In End of the Beginning, the final episode of Volume 3, we get a timeskip from fall to winter.

That is one full year.

We were told that Volume 4 starts after a time skip. In Volume 5, they talk about how the White Fang's attack is planned to be during the last full moon before classes resume for the fall semester (aka the second semester) at Haven Academy. Therefore, that's around the same time of year that Volume 2 began at. Now we're a couple weeks to a month after the end of Volume 5.

So it's been almost a whole year.

Thus, almost 2 years have passed.