Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-14138255-20170816155108/@comment-26397825-20170816160252

This is something I've been thinking about for ages, actually, and I've basically come up with three options

1. The teamless/smaller team is kept as 'resevre' - only sent out with other full teams, or not sent on certain missions due to danger levels that they are people short to deal with. They still attend the school like normal, but it can be difficult to an individual if they keep switching teams as other teams may resent them for becoming a 'fifth wheel' in their well oiled team attacks.

2. They can transfer to another Academy to fill a slot on a team that is missing a member, or have someone transfer to them to fill the slot in their team. The transfer would be the one that requires less moving - basically if there is a team of three at one school and a single student at another, the individual would move to be with the trio rather than the trio going to the individual.

3. Students directly apprentice to a full Huntsman, getting the education in an arguably harder form but benefitting from a dedicated teacher as opposed to being one of a class. Basically they would follow the Huntsman, learning directly from them and earning experience in the field rather than through classes. It wuld likely mean a much faster rate of education, but their teamwork skills might suffer unless the Huntsman has a few friends who can help out with that aspect. Of course, a student wouldn't be given to an unwilling Huntsman.

I am of the opinion that you can drop out of Initiation at any point - but if you fail to step on that plate and get flung into Initiation you cannot apply or try again until next year. There's no "I changed my mind, launch me" on Initiation Day. They want Huntsmen, not hesitaters.