Thread:SpiritedDreaming/@comment-27447621-20160415140748/@comment-26397825-20160416050600

It is tougher for Aegis students to utilise close range attacks more effectively, though they'd still be useful on the ground and for flyby attacks. It all depends on the fighter, really. The Headmaster uses wing-based weapons that fire explosive knives like a Nevermore, but he uses his fist and feet as backup.

The deputy headmaster is a trapper with Roy Mustang gloves, only Ice instead of fire. His semblnace allows him to trap things that pass through his glyphs in stasis, holding them in place while he bombards them.

Aegis is like the Air Force, Hookshot. It is aerial defense and ground support. The people who go there don't lose their ground-based accomplishments or capabilities just because they start learning to fight in the air instead, and it's a post-Graduate academy which means you have to graduate from Beacon or it's equivalent beforehand. I mean, they probably would accept people who have equivalent experience elsewhere, but they're not going to train them up to graduate-Huntsmen standards. It's up to the individual to train up their skills in that case, since they are adults by the time they get there and Aegis is not a babysitting organisation.

All characters are welcome; even teachers and graduated Huntsmen who live in Aegis. So far my only designated teachers are an Assistant Teacher for the Personal Flight Class, and the Headmaster and Deputy Headmaster. If you are wondering what colour/year your student should be for the underside of the wingsuit, the First Years at the beginning of the show are Dusk/Purple. The year before was Dawn/Orange, two years ago was Cloud/White, three years ago was Sky/Blue and four years ago was Dusk/Purple again. Just keep counting back, following the cycle like that.

And I just worked out that 65 years ago the First Year students were Dawn/Orange, which was when the school opened. Accidental symbolism for the win. =3