Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-27082610-20170424154014/@comment-26397825-20170625230859

I can see them encouraging down-on-their-luck Faunus to move out of Mantle and off to Menagerie, but I don't think they'd ship criminals there until after they'd served a sentence. Also, the shutting down of the Dust Mines so the only thing they can do is steal for a living sounds a bit odd. Even the snobbiestvof human settlements have menial labour jobs that they don't want to do - Faunus aren't just restricted to stealing food.

Perhaps rather than making them thieves, and petty ones at that, they can work multiple hard labour jobs in warehouses and as cleaners and the like. Almost everyone looks down on the cleaners and most don't even realise it, as if making sure a building is clean (including the toilets) as a living somehow makes you worth less than them.

Then they can run into monetary problems from increases in taxes/bills but not an increase in the minimum wage for Faunus, which then leads to them seeking monetary assistance from the government/banks, only to be denied. A "helpful" accountant could suggest they make the move, pointing them in the right direction to get the government assistance to leave Mantle, and they'd be on their way after a long, hard struggle that doesn't leave them petty thieves.

Or something like that.

That being said...I am totally borrowing your idea of an unofficial academy in Kuo Kuana. >.>