Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-14138255-20151213162620/@comment-26397825-20151214051610

I doubt that just because a girl unlocked his power, Jaune would suddenly become the first guy able to become a Maiden. Think about it; there would be one person who unlocked their aura first. Then they would have gone around unlocking both male and female's aura, and so forth, and I doubt they would have chosen to just unlock the aura of their own gender.

In other words, people have been unlocking the aura of people of the opposite sex for ages.

We could even go a step further with this; what if the Maidens were the first people to have their aura unlocked? And they in turn unlocked other peoples. They would have had tounlock the aura of males, which rules out your 'Jaune can inherit because the person who unlocked his aura was a Maiden' theory.

And Pyrrha wasn't even a Maiden when she unlocked his aura; she was a candidate. A potential. She may not have even been chosen in the end; it could have found someone else who fits the Autumn Season better by the time Amber died, or Ozpin and Co could have picked someone else (like Penny, which I think is what Ironwood wants, technically).

Being a candidate does not make you a channel for this power, as all young girls are technically candidates. That means that Jaune won't inherit simply because Pyrrha was the one who unlocked his aura, otherwise another male sometime in the past thousands of years who had his aura unlocked by a candidate for the power would have inherited it long before Jaune did.