Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-74.64.52.26-20130816020620/@comment-9090085-20130818043631

I agree with both BenRG and MakiKuronami.

I will say this (better here than after a long shouting match...) - Having the students of Beacon Academy fight monsters on their first day makes a twisted sense to me: these "kids" have spent years learning how to fight (more then most modern solders, I'm sure), but there are some things you can only learn in combat - better to start learning this now, against a "few", "weak" monsters in a (relatively) controlled environment.

This initiation would also snap people out of their "stary-eyed" world-view, which ironically enough Weiss still holds: Her big concern before being attacked was her grades - at this point, she needs to worry, first and foremost, about surviving. Yes, she said Beacon was not a normal school, it's one for fighting monsters, but that's just it: Hunters can and will die fighting these monsters if they don't know what they are doing, not just intellectually, but emotionally and physically as well. Again, the best way to help these new Hunters survive is to "break their teeth" before they have innocent lives to worry about, and where the enemy's strength remains consistent.

Of course, this is just my opinion; and this years initiation could be... different from previous years... say the unexpected appearance of a high-powered Grim?