Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-31883133-20180114001435/@comment-34633327-20180114021013

Okay, I'm back. Let's start with what exactly Ozpin said:

Gretchen Rainart was Hazel’s sister. Despite her brother’s wishes, she enrolled at  Beacon Academy  to become a  Huntress

Okay, here we have the first noticeable thing. Why did Hazel object? The only reason we get from him is when Oscar asked if she knew she'd be risking her life.

Oscar: Did she know the risk of being a Huntress?

Hazel: She was only a child! She wasn’t ready!!

 An easy interpretation is that Hazel was just being an overprotective big brother, but notice the first part is him mentioning she was a child. So, did she actually know the risk? Ruby enrolled at Age 15, and she dreamed of making the world a better place. Weiss, Blake, and Yang all joined for more, let's call them "Selfish" reasons, and only after being interrogated by Oobleck did they realize they didn't think about it as much as they thought. Weiss wanted to restore the Schnee name, Blake wanted to make right what was done wrong, Yang wanted adventure and to find her mom.

 It's quite possible the reason Hazel brought this up is that she didn't know the gravity of the situation, she wasn't ready to be a huntress because she didn't know the risk. In addition, the child clause can lend credence to the idea she enrolled early like Ruby did. Ruby was, and still is to an extant, heavily naive. She tried to look on the brighter side of things and buried her negativity down. But all that's done is cause her to bottle up her feelings and put her close to a breakdown several times. Gretchen could be similar, she wasn't emotionally mature enough.

 and tragically lost her life on a training mission.

 Here is the next hiccup. As we've seen, missions at Beacon are limited based on the grade level of the Teams, but Ozpin has no problem bending the rules for teams that spark his interest. Regardless, teams are typically expected to be chaperoned by a huntsman while on said training missions. Not to mention, most training missions for first years are siginificantly mundane. SN were "Junior Detectives", so basically, a ride along. JNPR was visiting a village, assumedly just to take care of some grimm. So what kind of mission could she have lost her life on?

 And for that matter, why didn't the huntsman help out? We've seen Glynda, Qrow, Oobleck, a bit of Port, and Ironwood all hold their own in a fight easily, and Oobleck himself took care of numerous Prototype Paladins with just Zwei. And where were her teammates? The only time any of the students were shown at risk while at Beacon was when they were on their own. Yang almost got stabbed by Neo because she was in over her head. Adam trounced Blake and Yang. Cinder killed Pyrrha. But they were all alone. So what situation happened that allowed Gretchen to get hurt where neither her teammates, nor a huntsman could save her?

Hazel… holds me responsible.

The next hiccup. Why would Hazel hold Ozpin responsible? Well, I can think of two reasons. One, the situation is something Ozpin could have stopped on his own. Two, Ozpin was the one who recruited her, much like he did Ruby, and Hazel blames him for seeking her out.

Please, let me fight. I know Hazel. He’s wounded in a way that cannot be healed.

The final hiccup. Ozpin says its a pain that can't be healed. Except we have seen characters that have had people close to them die and manage to push on. The wound wasn't entirely healed, but it remained closed until someone reopened it.

Ren lost his parents and managed to push on enough to finally get closure against the Knuckleavee. Jaune held himself together up until seeing Cinder again. Ilia tried to hold herself together after her parents died, but only really starting pulling herself after Blake helped her. So to say the wound can't be healed is a bit of an exaggeration. Wounds heal, they just leave scars sometimes. And scars can be torn back open. But to say Hazel can't be healed seems a little extreme.

After analyzing all this, something doesn't add up. The picture of the Puzzle is still missing some pieces.

And remember, most of what we heard was from Ozpin's perspective. Perspective distorts memories. Again, with the Vader analogy. Kenobi fully believes that Anakin died the day Vader was born. Vader however considers both Anakin and Vader to be one in the same. We only got one line from Hazel about it. So something is still missing.