Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-31112221-20171116210337/@comment-34633327-20171118005452

SpiritedDreaming wrote: Did Ilia ever get to Atlas? She’s about the same age as Blake, and she left The Kingdom of Atlas before Blake left the White Fang and they hung around each other long enough to consider each other best friends. Blake was only the right age to join Beacon when she left the WhiteFang, so Ilia would have been way to young to enter Atlas Academy.

Not to mention she called the school her parents got her into an “Atlas Prep School”, not a combat school or academy. But isn't Signal technically a Prep School? Ruby built her weapon while there, so maybe Ilia built hers at the Prep School. Atlas is, for all intents and purposes, a military school, so it would probably make more sense for freshman to at least own a weapon before enrolling.