Talk:SSSN/@comment-25145782-20150429094111/@comment-4010415-20150507170721

My theory on why Sun got to Vale first alone is because he went to visit Vacuo, possibly to visit family. The ships from Vacuo happened to come in before the ships from Mistral.

There's a possibility he didn't just up and abandon his team just to get to Vale first. He could've decided to visit home during break, while he had time, and stowed away on a boat to Vale instead of heading back to Mistral because the festival was starting soon and his teammates would arrive in Vale soon anyway.

Remember, Weiss said that the ships that were coming in were from Vacuo. Sun was born in Vacuo but attends Haven Academy in Mistral.

Neptune showed up later, and we've seen that Scarlet and Sage have also arrived (though, apparently, no one was able to finish making and rigging their models in time to do anything in volume 2), so we could probably assume that Neptune, Scarlet, and Sage arrived together. The Mistral ships may have arrived after the Vacuo ships.

Sun may be a hyper delinquent, but he could still be a quality leader. I mean, hell, he saw Blake for, like, a second, and yet that night, when he saw her at the statue at Beacon, he decided to stick with her for two days straight, despite her only giving him small talk and weird looks. He knew something was wrong, but she wouldn't talk about it, so he stayed with her and waited patiently. He has compassion, and he wanted to let her tell him in her own time, rather than forcing it out of her. Kid's got some good qualities in him. We just need to see a little more of him.