Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-27144409-20170705210718/@comment-25396609-20170902150617

1: Agreed, just mentioned that because those are where she got her rather... bizarre romantic aspirations.

2: Hey, just because she likes them and they had a heavy influence on her worldview doesn't mean she holds herself to the same standards.

3: I spent so long trying to find a good way to work in some level of grieving over that particular redshirt's death but it didn't really mesh well with her backstory so I said fuck it, accept the plot hole to maintain narrative flow.

4: Yeah, Jaune but worse. Except actually being trained and competent, that is. More like... Jaune fawning over Weiss + Pyrrha trying to get with Jaune but being totally incompetent at it. She is 2/3 of her own love triangle, and she is REALLY bad at it.

5: And that's where the trashy romance novels and epic-level stubborness come in. She's slow on the uptake and it takes her WAY too long to figure out why something isn't working.

6: They put pressure on their own Huntsmen to join the specialial operations division, so they'd probably be hesitant but welcoming of foreigners (specifically recent graduates, as people fresh out of school are likely still young enough to put into a military mould and haven't been out in the wild long enough to become corrupted). You're thinking of the Atlesian army like the Soviets, but really Atlas is more along the lines of WW2 era USA; highly industrialized, military oriented. They accepted anyone who could hold a gun and pass a medical exam.

Hell, Atlas closing borders even reflects the American attitude at the begining of the war; when the war started, the United States basically boarded itself up, restricted exports of military materials (in the case of Atlas Dust is literally what fuels the whole world, from weapons to cell phones), and planned to wait things out until Pearl Harbor was attacked and we set lose the dogs of war.