Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-14138255-20170816155108/@comment-26018514-20170817060658

SpiritedDreaming wrote:

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And that doesn't address the other problme: Why would they force the trio who has already completed Initiation to run it again, just so one person who had previously been rejected but is now suddenly accepted 'just because' can run it?

They'd keep the team as a trio or do transfers between Academies before they considered running a second Initiation that year, which would: It's all around a superfluous option when there are much better things they could do that doesn't waste time, money, and delay the education of the people who did actually get accepted on the first go and succeeded at Initiation. You do realize that if a team member dies the others have probably seriously Fucked up right?
 * Be a dick move for the guys who have already succeeded in it, because now they have to do it again.
 * Delay their schooling, making them miss out of the first few days of the school year as they have to wait for the extra student to arrive at the school, then run Initiation again and have the paperwork sorted out. The first few days are the most important, as it introduces you to the curriculum, gives you your timetables, lets you learn the layout of the school, and makes your first impressions on other students and the teachers.
 * Cause an outcry by other rejected applicants, as they would want to know why that person got a reconsideration when they didn't, which harms Beacon's PR.

Initiation is a team building exercise... I wouldn't expect they run a normal one as that kind of figures on x amount of students being there... RWBY and JNPR likely exceeded expectations killing the Deathstalker and Nevermore, but they were expected to be able to deal with it, likely with greater #'s working together, but this theoretical remnant squad would have the knowledge advantage, but be lacking confidence and a bit of team cohesion and potential firepower(no-one else there to back them up), and they would need safeguards in the field just as the new student would.

As for delayed schooling, normal grief counseling would likely provide as much an interference as a new initiation would, and they really should be concerned with these students mental state as it effects them immensly in the field.