Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-92.26.59.27-20140417185953/@comment-86.121.87.31-20140417222353

He gives off the air of having a pretty normal family (by normal I mean they seem to love each other dearly), given how easily he namedrops both his parents on separate occasions…with that said if he had a normal family episode 12 wouldn’t exist…because if his parents where as supporting as everyone wants to believe then he wouldn’t have felt the need to go to the extremes he did, and would have likely had his aura unlocked by one of them…so something is amiss.

Assuming one of them is a hunter and the other one is a…not-hunter, the simple answer would be that the parent that was a hunter is…six feet under…so most of the stuff he knows is self taught, which would also explain his aura still being locked; but again he mentions both of them on separate occasions with no hint of malice or regret…although he did ask Ruby to drop the subject when he started talking about his mother too much...soooooooooooooo

The other simple answer is that the parent that wasn’t a hunter…kicked the bucket… the one that is a hunter feels responsible and refuses to train Jaune to become a hunter so he doesn’t end up like that, and Jaune does precisely the opposite because he also feels responsible but in a different way.

BUT I HATE SIMPLE ANSWERES

My personal headcanon is that the not-hunter (the mom) gave up on him being one out of fear of him dying and tried to shelter him and talked the hunter (the dad, which I picture as a veteran with PDST) into it, and are as of now under the impression he’s at a…non-hunter academy, although the hunter parent may have noticed the old sword is missing.

It would explain how Jaune still seems to care for the both of them but gets a little sad when talking about his mom, his locked aura AND lack of training, he’s desperate need to succeed at beacon, why he refers to his blade as a hand-me-down with that sad face (because he feels guilty he stole it), the extreme measures he took, his mama boy tendancies and even his attitude up until episode 14 (he’s in his rebellious phase), and all that without having to tie him to a stupid prophecy, conspiracy, death of a parent OR a combination of the 3.

So to answer your question I think Jaunes relationship with his mom is…pretty good all things considered, but if I’m right they may have a looooong talk when she finds out where Jaune is right now.