User blog comment:ItsjustAvy/I am a bit disappointed that all of team CRDL are jerks/@comment-16763585-20130929191845/@comment-16763585-20130929214147

Making characters to serve souly as plot points is a major red flag for terrible writing, and Monty Oum and his crew are not bad writers. No, the members team CRDL are very heavy broad shoulder people and Cardin in particular seems to have this dog eat dog mentality when it comes to combat. Beacon pulled no punches for these guys, they had to fight every step of the way to prove themselves capable of going to the academy, and now they find themselves surrounded by the pompous brats of rich families who can just send their kids with no hurdles to speak of.

Of course they hate Juane, the guy can't even guard his own books let alone fight an Ursa, and he's supposed to be the leader of another group. The injustice of it all must boil his blood.