Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-14138255-20130921015754/@comment-10390252-20130921143155

As the headmaster of one of Vytal's premier academies of the arts of war, Ozpin actually has more power than you might realise. He probably has libraries of proven techniques and experimental techniques that go bad centuries and may not be recorded anywhere else. He might have access to ancient weapons that are considered far too difficult, dangerous or unethical to use it. The amount of damage he could cause by letting the wrong person access to the wrong information or training is incalculable.

He also strikes me as perhaps the sort of person who makes the wrong decision for all the right reasons - letting a loved one live when they are becoming a danger to all; letting an experiment to proceed that promises much knowledge but carries enormous risks; burning bridges with those in power when he needs to have influence, not be right.

I suspect... I wonder...

I think that there was once another cadet huntress with silver eyes. When he first met her, she was already one of the strongest Dust Mages on the planet, but he was astounded at the strength of her Aura. He took it upon himself to train her as an Aura Channeller. He thought that he could teach her as well as the ancient masters spoken of in the oldest history books and thus he could gift the world with a heroine... no a saviour... of a kind that had not been known since legendary times. He was wrong.

Maybe her mind wasn't able to handle the power she was now accessing. Maybe she'd fallen in with a bad crowd who was taking her down a bad path. Maybe he'd misjudged her and she'd always had this dark, selfish, egoistic and malign core to her spirit. Maybe he'd counselled her badly time and again, causing her pain, loss, sorrow and a building bitterness and resentment of his failures. In the end, it doesn't matter; she became not a champion of the light but a champion of the dark.

Now, thirteen years later, her daughter, who had been told she is an orphan, is starting off down her own path. Already, she's showing the same potential but also the same wild, untameable spirit. He does not plan to make the same mistake again.

One mistake out of so many... Out of so many others...