User blog comment:BenRG/Beacon Dorms - A Fanfic/Fanart Resource/@comment-3406244-20130909195707

Cool idea, VERY nice archicetural design, but may I propose another possibility?

I got a Hogwarts-ish idea of what dorms could potentially be like. Instead sections for four houses, they have sections for four years, and those sections are divided between genders. This allows for a common room and and gender separated rooms. The reason I have years divided is to maintain that sense that students won't know what's going on later. (Little to no knowledge for first years in regards of initiation for example). Given that a team operates together for their time at Beacon, access to each other is crucal, yet another reason for year division and a common room. If they can help it, partners' beds are adjacent to each other (like Harry and Ron) and if they can help it even more, teams are slumped together (RWBY and CRDL would get it easy). In the case of JNPR, Jaune would have to bunk with Ren, rather than Pyrrha, who was his initiation partner.