Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-6500074-20130829103240/@comment-209421-20140212083129

82.12.156.248 wrote: Flashfire212 wrote: I was about to point out the current lack of older students...at least notable ones. I'm sure we've seen their silhouettes so far... Most universities in the real world only provide housing for the first year with exceptions of course. It's possible we haven't seen them (aside from the fact that they presently have no place in the story to warrant their design) because they may not live on campus. Dorms in the real world are reserved for first years with second, third, fourth and fifth year's expected to find their own housing.

I also have a feeling that third and fourth year's at Beacon may not interact much with first or second year's out of habit. What would be interesting though is seeing part of the second year course involve carrying out a mission alongside the first year's to give them experience in a safer environment (since they would be alongside four other more experienced fighters who are graded on whether or not they come back alive). Could be an interesting dynamic and potentially lead a few learning experiences for Team RWBY or Team JNPR. Perhaps someone tells Pyrrha to stop babysitting Jaune if she doesn't want to see his head on a spike later in life. Perhaps someone finally teaches Ruby how to actually snipe...

As a second-year uni student this year who has had the luck of living at home with my family, I have to say I wasn't aware of that side - there was still second and third year students I met that were living on-campus during the trimesters. Maybe Australia does things differently.

Alongside the roles you've mentioned, another thing that the older students might do is tutor the younger students, or serve as mentors. In that case, we might see third or fourth-year students in that respect, helping out the first-year students.

The other area I'm interested in seeing is the side of maintenance. Students may all carry their own weaponry, but would all students be expected to maintain and upgrade their own equipment in their dorms, or would there be specific workshops or places where students could take their equipment and work on them? We know that the majority of the students at Beacon, or at least the graduates from Signal, made their own weapons, with only Jaune a confirmed outlier to that. However, considering the layout of the dorms, I have trouble seeing Ruby sprawling Crescent Rose out on the floor to sharpen the blade or strip the casing to clean the internals - there's simply no room. Likewise, would they really trust students who use Dust-based weaponry, such as Weiss, to work on weapons that hold the residue of volatile substances in residential areas on campus? The only people I can see performing regular work on their gear in their dorms are Blake, Yang, Jaune, Pyrrha, and Ren. We know that Nora's weapon is seemingly compact, but explosive cartridges would fall under the same sort of "volatile substances" as Dust.