Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-24189217-20131120191134/@comment-16774229-20131120223115

I'm thinking that he got lessons from his dad when he was really young, and was sent off to a combat school, but was thrown out for some reason. He didn't have the heart to tell his parents, so he just lived in the area for a while (assuming it was a boarding school). He probably had a friend in around there that he could live with, and spent the years trying to figure out how to get into Beacon without going to combat school, as this would require he tell his parents that he failed out of one. He obviously did find a way to forge a transcript, and filed the rest of his time “in combat school” learning to dance. After he got home to ally with his falk transcript, his parents were so proud that they gave him his great great grandfather's sword and shield.

A flashback to that could make for a really good emotional scene.