Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-14909251-20131004050309/@comment-22924771-20131004233559

Primsatic wrote: if you like it dark:

Dad is dead, hence Jaune's need to fill the Hero shoes without any concept of what is involved or training in preperation.

Mom cracked and is strung out on somekind of dust based drug - an introduction to Vale's criminal element for Jaune and thus a possible source for the forged transcripts. Or in a weird twist, his mom is addicted to dust and is in league with Roman and his dust store robberies. This inevitably leads to Jaune having to confront his own mother on the battlefield.