Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-174.135.62.244-20160617232120/@comment-3146930-20160710232044

As far as a Semblance being hereditary, I've heard mixed things myself. During one of the podcasts, they mention that a Semblance can be passed down from the parents or may have a similar effect. Then later someone said that during a different podcast, they said a Semblance isn't hereditary so I guess it is more of a case-by-case thing.

As far as Jaune goes, I actually hate Jaune because he faked his way into the school. Assuming Beacon only takes in a certain number of students every year, Jaune took the place of someone that has actually worked hard in order to one do go there and now they have to go to their safety school. Then after getting into Beacon, he doesn't take his studies seriously at all and is apparently failing most of his classes.

The real question is how did Jaune get transcripts that were so well made they fooled Beacon. Jaune seems to be kind of a bumbling fool that has very little knowledge of combat and probably the outside world as a whole. He doesn't seem like the kind of guy that knows some shady guy in a back ally and looking at his weapons and armor, his family probably isn't that well off. The only real explanation is that one of the pencil pushers noticed some kind of irregularity in his papers, took the matter to Ozpin, and Ozpin himself approved Jaune's application.