Jaune Arc, 17 years old, bright young man. Accepted into Beacon with one of the highest score. Only getting one answer wrong in the placement exam. Only a handful of other students getting a perfect score. This young man, however, had great potential to be a promising addition to Beacon Academy. So why was it that he had the eyes of a 30 year old?
When Jaune was 11, his father had died. The only person who seemed to care for his path and not his potential. He was the smartest boy in his class, the teachers loved him but his peers resented him. He was an Arc, and to be an Arc meant social isolation. No one would freely associate with him and some of the kids were particularly cruel. They would go out of their way to make Jaune miserable. He was lonely, he only had one "friend" and he would only hang out with Jaune outside of school. For fear of damage to his reputation.
When Jaune became twelve he was in some desperate need of companionship. But he refused to see his sisters, his family. What should've been a simple sibling rivalry had been fanned into utter contempt. He wasn't welcome by one of his older sisters. He mistook that to mean that all of his family hated him, so he ran away from home. His father had taught him Wilderness Survival, but Jaune figured that could translate into Urban Survival just as well. His food only lasted him two days, a lot of it rotted without proper refrigeration. Once hunger hit him particularly hard on the fourth day, his resignation of theft was gone. He snuck into a lively night club bar. He noticed a man dressed in white talking to a bearded man. Sneaking up behind him, he tried to grab the man's wallet out of his pocket. The man spun around and grabbed his hand. He knelt down to ask the boy how he could be so stupid to steal from the great Roman Torchwick. Jaune sneered as he spat at the man. He told him that he was a Heir to the Arc line and that names meant nothing. Jaune told Roman that he had nothing, Jaune had run away from home because his family hated him, that without father's protection, his siblings had come to resent him. Roman let the boy go and hugged him. Confused, Jaune had fainted from starvation.
With nowhere left to go Jaune attached himself to Roman. This man gave him one ray of hope in a sea of contempt and ridicule. Roman took Jaune under his wing, almost determined to keep Jaune away from his 'business' associates. But Jaune, eager to please a man who had shown him simple kindness, joined Roman's organization. Roman realizing that keeping the boy away would be next to impossible, embraced him as his new protege. With the help of Neo, Roman's right hand, they focused on helping Jaune master his strengths and mitigate his weaknesses. Roman, a man whose very reputation was built on cut-throat business, decided to keep Jaune hidden away. If he was to have a trump card, a person no one knew about would be the perfect one.
When Jaune had turned 13 he had experience making believable fake IDs, hotwiring cars, and laundering money. Roman also taught him how the Arc name came to be known as poison. The Schnee had made sure that the Arc's betrayal in the Faunus war would be severely punished. They dedicated every resource they had to the public denouncement of the Arcs. And it had worked. Now Jaune knew why his father hated the Schnee so much.
When Jaune turned 14, he became proficient in removing traces of hacking and he had his first kill. It was in self-defense, a bar fight was ensuing and Jaune went in to break it up. When the man pulled out a broken beer bottle on him and cut him across the face, Jaune punched the man multiple times and swept at his legs. Falling, the man lands on the other half of the broken bottle. Glass quickly embedding into his skin, the man bled out quickly. Jaune looked on in horror at what he had done. The man quickly died. The next few days were a blur, he would constantly throw up and Roman comforted him and told him that it wasn't his fault. That next time he killed someone, it would be cleaner, less bloody. But Jaune never got used to murder.
When Jaune turned 15, he became Torchwick's shadow. Making sure deals were honored, and bargains were made, and when they weren't he would, silently, remind them that Torchwick didn't like being stolen from. By the time he had turned 16, he was a ghost. Elusive, no one other than Roman knew what he looked like, and he issued his orders through untraceable scrolls. Anyone who disobeyed were swiftly dealt with. It was also around this time that Roman joined the White Fang and came to work under a woman named Cinder Fall. Jaune did not like this woman because she lorded over Roman, and Jaune admired Roman above all else. When he turned 17, Roman ordered him to enter into Beacon and find any and all White Fang deserters and execute them. Once again he would have to get his hands dirty. A concept that didn't sit well with him.
Forging the documents were simple enough, and he had the aptitude and combat strength that they would never question them. It was the perfect crime, just one in the long list of them that Jaune committed ever since he met Roman Torchwick. The weak and bullied child no longer existed, only a man with a plan remained, a hardened criminal who viewed anyone beneath him as pawns to be moved in the grand plan. And he had so many to fish out the traitors who were dumb enough to think they could leave the White Fang.