Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-28776596-20170712001155/@comment-124.106.137.109-20171029123056

For those that think 'TL;DR', scroll down to last paragraph. XD

Contradict me, if you dare!!! (>_<)

His family did not train him. That much is certain. Now we talk about the reasons why.

If it's about being overprotective, maybe it's because he's the only dude among the kids. If he was the firstborn and all his seven sisters are younger than him, I would understand it if they refused to let him go. Ya'know, inheriting family name and all that stuff.

However, that doesn't seem to be the case. In Volume 3's Destiny, we hear this line :

[ Even when I told my parents I was going to Beacon, they told me not to worry if I ended up having to move back home. How depressing is that?]

This probably points out that they weren't expecting much from little Jaune. Then, I assume he's the youngest of all eight children. Why is this important?

1. The youngest is almost always not taken seriously. (The 'told me not to worry' part plus the 'ended up having to move back home'.)

2. The youngest makes the rashest of decisions. Rushing and recklessness are samples. (Boy came to Beacon without experience for anything from forest hiking to interpersonal interaction. Didn't even know what Semblance or Aura meant until Pyrrha (God rest her soul))

3. He was pretty much his sisters' plaything when he was home. (No really, they taught him how to dance. Also, hair braiding. Wolf tail is still a pony tail, boyo.)

Number 3 aside. Jaune did make his decision without time to prepare for the enrollment. Not even learning a stance to defend himself, he just jumped on an Airship straight for Beacon. His parents' words are also a cause for concern. Translation being : They never expected that he would amount to much. If it was because he WAS unprepared for it all, then them not going to Beacon to take him back home was probably because they BELIEVED he would come back on his own.

If Jaune was the type to go at his interests solo and failing in the process over and over, then it would be safe to assume that his family had grown used to it all and just let him be until he came back. Jaune seemed stubborn on doing it all on his own. (Remember Jaundice?) More so if the process of (Jaune attempted > Jaune failed > Jaune returned home) was a common occurence at their household, the family would think of it as just another attempt doomed to fail.

As for the coffee-loving headmaster, Ozpin probably saw Jaune's potential, hence allowed him into Beacon unconditionally. Maybe it's Jaune's unknown Semblance or something. Hell, e ven Tyrian saw something in Jaune that sparked his interest. But that's probably just Oz's excuse for more war potential. Bottomline to my theory is this:

Jaune did not recieve any training because he spontaneously joined in without getting any preparation done. Due to being a reckless idiot, he expected to get everything from Basic Training to Advanced Lesson from Beacon itself and didn't expect a buttload of problems from the get-go. This is even more likely if Jaune and his family lived in the boonies, aka. beyond the walls. Country-kid-meets-city-girl is as much a trope in America as panty-shots are to Japanese, so I wouldn't be surprised if Jaune's entire backstory revolves around a stubborn, ignorant kid learning the meaning of 'responsibility' and 'relying on friends'.

-ReavesTheReader