LIES

Favorite Character

Jaune struggled with his conscience sometimes. He linked to think he was mostly a good person, but he had faked his transcripts to get into Beacon. There was the initial adjusted transcripts, but every interaction he'd ever had at Beacon was based on the assumption that he was qualified to be there when he knew he wasn't. That seemed like lying on a pretty grand scale, lying to everyone he'd ever met at Beacon.

If he thought about it too long, he felt like he'd personally let Professor Ozpin down. Beacon had a prestigious reputation as the best training academy in all of Remnant. The best of the best at Signal vied for a chance to study at Beacon. Even a corporate heiress like Weiss and a champion fighter like Pyrrha had chose Beacon over the training academies in Atlas and Mistral. All Jaune had done to earn his place at Beacon was forge some documents.

Pyrrha - somehow she made Jaune feel better and worse about his less than honest methods. She was so nice when she found out, offering to help him instead of telling one of the professors and getting him kicked out like Cardin had threatened to do. Pyrrha, quite possibly the best person he knew, had chosen to keep his secret and help him; and that made him feel like he couldn't be all that bad. Then again, if he were ever caught, there was a chance of dragging Pyrrha down with him; and that made him feel even worse.

Jaune knew he could come clean at any time. He could just tell Professor Ozpin what he'd done and go home. There would never be another chance to be a Huntsman, but he could always head back to the farm. He wasn't bad at farming. In fact, he was a lot better at farming than he was at fighting. Being a farmer just didn't fit his idea of someone who made a difference in people's lives.

Dust burn it all! Beacon was his one chance to do something worthwhile with his life. The need to help people that had always burned deep down inside him would only be satisfied by fighting the forces of Grimm like his great-great-grandfather had. So he would stay at Beacon even if he had trouble looking Professor Ozpin in the eye sometimes. He would stay and learn to be the best Huntsman he could and make up for his sins by helping as many people as he could. That's exactly what he'd do.

Now if he could just keep from dozing off during Professor Port's lectures...