Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-67.171.134.135-20150521032555/@comment-4010415-20150710043826

Shadow at Morning wrote: Chishio: They have precious little air time as it is, and they've already been suffering from pacing issues. Besides, in some cases it's absurd to have people unaware of certain things. Aura is the best example; there's no  plausible way that superhumans can be cultural heroes and the source of their power not part of the cultural background. It's the equivalent of the classic knight who slays dragons being culturally lionized yet people being unaware that they fight with sword and lance. For an aspirant to be unaware of this breaks SoD. In your example of exam studying, you'd have to relate it to the main plot, or only have a few seconds of it (probably not enough for more than basic worldbuilding), otherwise it is a poor decision to include. I didn't mean for stuff like "Hey, Aura is a thing" but for more specific things that Jaune reasonably won't know and things that aren't in Ruby's skillset, such as what colors of Dust do what. Jaune doesn't use Dust, and Ruby just uses bullets, so neither of them would really know/pay attention to what the colors do, so if they had a test about Dust coming up, it would be better safe than sorry for them to study that.

They could even have a scene where they're studying while trying to figure out what to do next about the White Fang. Weiss helps Ruby study, since Weiss' skillset pretty much requires that she know what the colors do (that, and her family business). We get a small info dump of what the colors do, and when Ruby gets around to the color Cinder uses, she gets an epiphany of "Hey... That woman working with Torchwick. She uses this kinda Dust. I wonder if there's a good way to counter it." and maybe Weiss actually has an idea for a color of Dust that's good for countering the Dust Cinder uses. BAM! Info dump that ties into story.