Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-14138255-20151129182644/@comment-26397825-20151201011902

Well, what does Weiss actually have to pay for?

Lets assume that students are allowed to stay in Beacon through the entire year, including holidays. This includes laundry, sleeping, food and presumably an on-site doctor to deal with injuries that occur during practise or missions, as well as presumably a nurse to deal with the minor stuff like headcolds that everyone gets around winter time and the actual doctor doesn't have time to deal with.

So, she needs to buy clothes and ammo, by that reckoning.

Clothes; well. I don't know about anyone else, but I'm still wearing clothing from when I was twelve which was ten years ago. It still fits me, and I take care of my clothes so they don't wear out, which is what I assume Weiss does. Add in the fact that Aura is said to protect your gear, so the clothes wouldn't wear out as quickly anyway, and Weiss seems like the type to take care of her clothes, and she's not going to be spending that much on clothing.

Ammo; this is the main expense she will have to face, and even then she doesnt have to buy specific caliber bullets - just the pure dust itself to put in Myrtenaster. Dust may be expensive, and it may have gone up in price since Roman started stealing a bunch, but Roman has stopped now so the Dust prices should have gone back down. She seems to be fairly good at regulating how much Dust she uses, which means she doesn't waste any which will make it last just that little bit longer, which means greater periods of time between when she has to buy more.

She also has a stockpile; she had suitaces full of Dust when she arrived at Beacon, and I doubt she's the type to let them run low while she has money, so you would probably be safe in assuming  that she'd recently restocked it before her father cut her off. Those vials look like they hold more than one charge of Dust for Myrtenaster, so she's got a bit there. She's probably got enough Dust to tide her over until she either gets her card sorted out, or she saves up enough money by being frugal with her Missions earnings and has to buy the next lot.

And about the missions; Well, CFVY didn't seem to get in trouble for being out o a mission for an extra week. You'll probably find that they set aside time each term for field experience, as well as letting students take missions over the breaks between terms/semesters. And there's probably some protocol in place that means if you are on a mission, you are excused from all classes that run in the mean time. Otherwise any team that went on a mission mid term that ran overtime, such as CFVY, would get into big trouble.

So the only troubles she would probably have is if she was frivolous with her money; I can see it happening for the first few months, but then she'll start to realise that she needs to be more frugal and stop spending her money wily-nilly, which will make it easier on her. Gives her a bit of real life experience as well.