Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-4830106-20131004004930/@comment-10390252-20131004083253

After watching the episode for the first time, I was shocked but, after thinking about it, the thing that shocked me the most is that I was shocked at all! I mean, let's be brutal here - wasn't a stunt like that complertely in-character for Jaune? With everything we really knew about him and his relationship with his family to date, wasn't it obvious that something like this would happen?

What's next? Well, for a while at least, I suspect that Jaune is going to be in a very, very miserable situation. Cardin has him checkmated between his fear of the consequences of his actions and his prideful need to deal with his issues himself. I, for one, sense a coming Aesop-worthy moment where Jaune has to face up to the fact that he is not an island and that, if he really wants to do this, he is going to need help.

Some other thoughts:


 * Blake's status is still undetermined but my gut still says she's a Faunus or Faunus-human hybrid;


 * Yeah, Pyrrha is sweet on our Jauney, isn't she?


 * I take back the nasty things I said about Glynda; she wasn't misjudging Jaune, in fact, she didn't know how right she was when she said he was't ready.  My apologies, good lady.

On the issue of the forged transcripts - I wonder who forged them? I've got a feeling that Roman might have some goods on Jaune too.

No matter how good the forgery though, it is utterly implausible that Beacon didn't verify them before accepting Jaune. I'm getting a feeling that, like Ruby, Jaune is one of Ozpin's little 'special projects'. I'm just wondering what his agenda might be. Someone on the RT forums suggested that Ozpin is waiting to see if Jaune has the guts to confess to him and, if he doesn't by the end of the semester, he gets washed out. I think that's quite possible.

IF Jaune wises up and goes to Ozpin, it's already been established that the headmaster can accept technically-unquaified students on his own discretion. I'm pretty sure he'll inform a fuming Glynda that he 'mislaid' the appropriate paperwork and that Jaune's file is in order. "Transcripts? What transcripts?" he'll ask as the shredder whirs in the background.

There still will have to be some punishment, though, and I know what it'll be. Jaune is going to have to accept remedial combat lessons from the youngest, quirkiest and possibly most insane student in his year - Ruby Rose.