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@ FarmerKyle

I think it's going to be like this:

Ruby is a Sophomore at the School. Yang is the oldest of the girls and will be a Senior this year; last year, she was Ruby's mentor and did a lot to help the younger girl get over the death of her grandmother, Summer Rose, at the hands of the Beowolves. This closeness leads to them to think of each other as sisters, although they're not blood relations. Yang's dad or mom is a PI or Bounty Hunter and she's apprenticing under him, getting her at least a provisional Inquiry Agent's license and maybe even a Marshall's badge. Having looked at the source image of the picture on Yang's PDA, it looks like an older Melanie - The Wicked Stepmother perhaps, maybe a senior lieutenant of the Big Bad (whoever that turns out to be). Alternately, if my theory about Blake being an exiled princess from the conquered Black Tribe is right, the picture of her Yang has might be her in a more formal costume than the one she normally wears, which is why Junior didn't recognise her.

Weiss is a princess ("burdened by a royal test"), either by literally being royal or being the daughter of a family who is so wealthy and powerful, they might as well be royal, whose powers have grown beyond the ability of her parents' private tutors to help her control, so she's transferring into the School. As a licensed PI/Bounty Hunter, Yang may find herself being hired to be Weiss's bodyguard... not that she needs it but her parents don't believe that.

Blake, now she's parted company with Adam, is looking to help her people out in different ways. Maybe she's hoping to recruit less amoral allies at the School or maybe she hopes that being at the School will earn her social position from which she can openly campaign for their rights. Or, just maybe, she thinks she's identified the Big Bad and intends to assassinate him at the graduation ceremony.

Ages (from youngest to oldest):

Ruby (about 13-14)

Blake (no older than 15)

Melanie and Melcia (16-ish)

Weiss (16-17)

Yang (17-18)

Adam and Junior (both around 25)