Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-75.17.119.137-20140612190919/@comment-76.114.56.213-20140621010116

Back on topic; maybe Jaune's parents aren't okay with him attending Beacon, but they don't want to do anything that could hurt his feelings.

He struck me as an extremely sheltered individual, so maybe his parents (or at least his father) didn't train him to become a warrior because it was dangerous, and tried to guide him down a less dangerous path. I think his parents were overly protective, which caused one of two things to happen;

1: Jaune was relentlessly bullied throughout his childhood (he seemed to be pretty used to Cardin's treatment of him), and in a misguided attempted at “manning up”, he choice to become a Hunter because people respect them and he was too sheltered to know just how dangerous the job was.

2) Jaune reached his teenage rebellious stage and became tired of his parent's babying him. Opting to do the exact opposite of what his parents told him he should, Jaune joined Beacon Academy.

Once his parents figured out his little plan, it was too late to stop him, but instead of humiliating their son by pulling Jaune out of the Academy (and crushing s self confidence in the process), they decided to let him stay. Maybe they tried, but Ozpin talked them out of it by showing them that he had some potential, but Jaune's decision to attend Beacon was not something that his parents knew about prior to his enrollment.

Technology in RWBY is pretty advanced, so I can't imagine that getting fake transcripts was too hard; the difficult part is making them look real. Maybe he printed some fake ones off the internet or something. Anyways, his transcripts probably weren't good enough to convince Ozpin, but he let him attend anyways. I think Ozpin first let him attend with the intention of kicking Jaune out once the young man realized that he had bitten off more than he could chew so that he wouldn't try again, but upon seeing Jaune's potential, Ozpin decided to let him stay. Pyrrha probably partnered with him at first because she could tell that he was incompetent, but didn't want to let him die, but before she could talk him out of it, she saw his potential as well.

The way I see it, Jaune got the family heirlooms because those were the only weapons availible to him, and they heirlooms just so happened to be serviceable (when I first heard about them, I honestly thought they would fall apart in he he field). His armor is probably just some cheap junk that he picked up and strapped to his clothing. He knows nothing about guns (he should have been able to pick up on the fact that Crescent Rose was also a gun when Ruby said it was also a sniper rifle, but he couldn't), and understands that swords are for stabbing and shields are for blocking, but nothing else. I don't know where everyone got the notion that he had some decent defensive skills, but the only thing he every actually blocked was an attack that wasn't even aimed at him (episode 8, when the admittedly large Deathstalker was trying to crush Pyrrha with its claw).

One more thing that I want to point out about Jaune, that's admittedly a little off topic, is that he's off of a person who never actually fought on her own. Joan of Arc admitted to having been nothing but a banner carrier during her trial, which is a non combat role.

I know that this may be somewhat ironic for me to say, since I just picked apart Jaune's charecter in a very unfavorable way, but I actually like Jaune the most out of all the charecters.