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Bigbadwolfman wrote: Angren Túrë wrote: Are you saying Ozpin is trying to rub out Jaune? Rub out?

What I'm saying is that ozpin might of let two people who shouldn't get into beacon (Ruby and Jaune) get into beacon in the same year and is let or making a lot of weird stuff happen to said people.

So he might have plan for our heroes that he's not saying. That is what I was saying at the outset and a big reason I think that is because of that opening scene from the pilot episode. We have this narrator saying "you may prepare your guardians, build your monuments to a so-called free world, but take heed there will be no victory in strength" as though to emphasize the futility of struggle and Ozpin responding in a sort of moralistic manner that "perhaps victory is in the simpler things that you've long forgotten", with the last bit sounding like a snub.

I also think to when Ozpin seemed "out of it" in Episode 3. Part of me wonders if the Narrator is the big bad or an emissary of such and Ozpin has been in some spiritual stand-off like Aragorn staring into the palantir of Orthanc to challenge Sauron. He was "out of it" cause he was drained from another confrontation like the one in the first episode. One might take the comment "you may prepare your guardians" as a general reference to hunstmen and huntresses, but it could also be that this is a very specific reference.

Ozpin may be marshalling certain students to Beacon for the explicit purpose of preparing them to confront the big bad and he has been selecting people he believes have the precise talents or potential necessary to win the coming battle. He may feel Jaune has a special role or destiny for some reason. The big bad/servant of the big bad knows Ozpin is doing this and her comment to him was a mocking retort, insisting his efforts will prove fruitless.

What I can envision is some of the other major characters having peculiar stories of how they managed to get into Beacon to the point that it becomes clear they did not all get there by accident, but by design.