So, this will be quite a bit shorter than usual. It's hard to write from Seishin's POV since I consider him the most well adjusted of all of them.
Divisions
Seishin Kuma
"I don't like him", Seishin exclaimed, "he is shifty, keeps to himself and I don't believe for an instant that he cares about us."
"Keeping to yourself is not a crime", Lafiel defended without much zeal, "if it were, some might consider you guilty of it as well."
"I was there when Pandora needed to be cheered up", Seishin countered, "I may not have said much, but I was supportive nonetheless. He couldn't have cared less about the entire thing if he had tried."
"He brought us food, when he could have just as easily stayed in the cafeteria and ate by himself", Lafiel offered up another weak excuse.
"Why do you keep defending him?", Seishin said angrily and punched a wall in frustration.
Lafiel looked towards the door of their room with worry that someone might have heard the commotion. While they waited, Seishin calmed himself down. It would not do to become too enraged. Who knows when he would manage to calm down again?
When none entered for a while, Lafiel breathed a sigh of relief and looked reproachfully at Seishin, her tail swishing in agitation, "if you cannot control yourself, then I will not have this discussion with you."
"I'm calm now, but you still owe me an answer", Seishin answered, "why keep defending him?"
"He is my partner", Lafiel stated simply, as if that explained everything, before belatedly adding, "and your teammate."
"Is he though?", Seishin pressed, "would you honestly trust your back to him? Trust him not to leave you behind the moment things get tough? The guy that constantly tries to run from challengers?"
Lafiel turned her back to him as she answered, "running from a more skilled opponent is occasionally a valid tactic. If you weren't so stationary during our battles, Pandora wouldn't have to pick up as much of your slack as she is currently doing."
Seishin huffed in triumph. She hadn't been able to say that she trusted Yonsa to have her back.
"It isn't just the running though", Seishin continued to press, "he is lying to us. I know he is. Just look at how differently he treats Pandora after she told us that she hadn't told her parents about who her teammates were and how we live at Beacon. Going from submissive to dismissive overnight is not the mark of someone honest about their intentions."
"He rarely lies", Lafiel defended, "I would be able to tell."
"He may not lie, but he is not telling the truth either", Seishin accused, "don't tell me that you don't know that."
"Of course I know that!", Lafiel snapped and turned to face him, "do you think that I don't already know all that you have told me? That I was too blind to see something so simple?"
"Then why do you keep defending him?", Seishin asked again.
"I already told you. He is my partner, and our teammate", Lafiel said annoyed.
"Which is why I am trying to convince you that we should remove him from the team!", Seishin reiterated a previous point, "if you and I band together, we will easily be able to convince Pandora that the team would be better without him."
"And then what?", Lafiel rhetorically asked, "we go to the Headmaster and ask him to boot one of our teammates just like that? On what grounds? That we don't like him? Think for a moment about how this will look to others if we try to boot a teammate that performs all of his outwardly obligations to his team and his studies. One word from Pandora, and it would look like two Faunus bullying her into agreeing to gang up on the team's weakest member."
Seishin was stunned into silence. He hadn't considered that angle, and he suddenly had far more respect for Lafiel.
"Well, what about just trading partners then? He could get Pandora, and we would be partners", Seishin eventually proposed, "it would make everyone happier if they were with their own race."
"I will not let people whisper that I could not handle my own partner", Lafiel stated with finality, "he isn't discriminatory, which is something that cannot be said for everyone at this school. He just isn't invested in the team, yet. Once I get him to open up and become an active part of the team, we are going to aim to be the best team at Beacon. Every Huntress and Huntsman will be forced to recognize that a team consisting of cooperating Faunus and humans became the best, and you are going to make sure that Ms. Pandora Azura has a positive impression of Faunus to take home and talk about to her high class fellows in Mistral."
"I want to be a Huntsman, not a political spokesperson for your ideals", Seishin growled.
"You already are a spokesperson for the Faunus race", Lafiel countered, "if you behave badly, humans will associate other Faunus with your behaviour. It is why the White Fang's methods won't work in the long run. They may provide us with some equality now, but at the expense of every Faunus being a suspected White Fang sympathizer. The moment that the White Fang begins to show weakness, all that they have gained will be taken away with brutal interests."
"And how is your plan different? You still want them to respect us out of fear", Seishin wanted to know.
"My plan revolves around uplifting the Faunus race as a whole, not tearing others down to make them respect us", Lafiel said with passion, "Menagerie is already bursting to the seams, but if we can just reclaim the desert, our living space will triple. Vacuo had large deposits of Dust in their desert, so why shouldn't we also have some? By combining the increased arable land and Dust resources, we will be able to modernize Menagerie and turn it into a proper Kingdom. One that is on the same level as the others, and which has its own CCT tower."
"Even if there is Dust, the Schnee Dust Company will just move in and strip mine the place like they did Vacuo", Seishin said with a shrug, "and if there isn't anything, then what?"
"They won't be able to with their reputation. Not in Menagerie", Lafiel said with confidence, "and even if there isn't any, then we will still triple our land mass. More Faunus can live there, and that means that we can create our own market and expand from there. Vale doesn't have many Dust deposits and Atlas is a frozen wasteland, but they are both modernized Kingdoms that the others respect."
"Even if I accept that your plan is feasible, you would still need to either be the Chieftain of Menagerie or have a Chieftain that agrees with you to enact half of the changes that you want", Seishin noted.
"If it is required, then I will become that", Lafiel said with conviction, "If I can just reclaim the desert, then I am sure that the people of Menagerie will be happy to support me as their next Chieftain when Ghira steps down."
Seishin would have told her to check her ambitions a bit, but a noise outside the door alerted him that someone was close. Lafiel spotted this and quickly grabbed something from her desk to look busy, while Seishin plopped down on his bed and appeared as if deep in thought.
Moments later, Pandora entered the room. She was wearing jogging clothes and was all sweaty. She looked back and forth between the two for a bit, as if trying to figure out what was going on.
"How was your run?", Lafiel asked her in a clear attempt at distracting her from trying to figure anything out.
"…Good", Pandora answered hesitantly.
"Isn't Yonsa coming in with you?", Lafiel asked while looking between Pandora and the closed door.
"He wasn't running with me?", Pandora stated confused.
"Oh, then where could he be then?", Lafiel questioned confused.
"I don't know. Aren't you his partner? Shouldn't I ask you that?", Pandora questioned back, "otherwise, try calling his Scroll."
"Right, I will try that", Lafiel concurred and immediately tried calling the Scroll.
A buzzing sound from Yonsa's bed alerted everyone that the owner of said Scroll had forgotten it yet again.
"Hmm, well, while you try finding him, I will take a shower", Pandora said with a shrug and began to grab supplies from their closet, "try the shooting range. He seems to live there nowadays."
"Yeah, I'll go do that", Lafiel agreed and exited the room with a final look at Seishin.
He knew what that look meant. Don't tell anyone about the contents of their conversation. As if he would have any need for such a warning.
With much of the day gone, but still a while before dinner yet, Seishin decided to do maintenance on Krunch for the remainder. It would be good to clear the head and regain the calm that he prized so much.
So, I know this was kind of short, but the next one will make up for it and then some. That is, if real life doesn't bite me in the ass as much as it has currently. Seriosuly, I get up at 6:30 get home at 18-19(if everyone worked out well) and then have to take care of dinner and other house duties. Doesn't give a lot of time for writing.