"Opzin, I know you want team balances, but this seems to be rather... one sided. One team is clearly more powerful than the other." Glynda told Ozpin as she spoke to him about the team placement, and Ozpin nodded.
"Balanced only refers to the teams themselves. Balance amongst the team should mean nobody is holding anyone back." Ozpin explained with a light smile on his face as he looked down at the papers that were showing the notes and papers that Glynda had collected.
Team Red Sun
Haru, Pyrrha, Yang, Blake = 133/ Team Average 31.5
Team White Moon
Weiss, Jaune, Ren, Nora = 74 / Team Average 18.5
Ruby Rose
"You see, by placing Haru, Pyrrha, Yang, and Blake together we have an already advanced team that is able to handle more now. By placing Weiss, Jaune, Ren, and Nora together they can grow more as a team and their strength will grow at a steadier rate. If you place a weak person in a team made for strength, the entire team falls apart and the team is held back." Ozpin explained his reasoning as he looked at team placements. Glynda could see where he was getting, but she wanted to point out that whatever team that Jaune was assigned to would be held back.
In her opinion, placing him with the Elite team would slow down the elites less and he would have the support to grow stronger.
Then again, being placed with people leagues ahead of him could backfire and he could get depressed and hold the team back even more.
"Ruby Rose hasn't been assigned a team." Glynda said, and Ozpin nodded with a slight frown.
"Yes, she is a problem... I can see her working well with either team. On a personal level, she has a higher ability than anyone on Team White Moon if it came to one on one, and she would be a great addition... at the same time, she is strong enough to not hold back Team Red Sun... I feel like she would be a great addition. She works well with her brother, and she would no doubt work well with Blake and Yang... Pyrrha can work well with others, so no issues." Ozpin mused out loud, mostly referring to why it was so hard to place Ruby on a team. The girl had great potential, and she was at her strongest when she was paired with her twin. Yet, she was not dependent on her twin to be strong. It was a hard thing to decide on, let her grow on her own, and make her lose the amazing thing she had with Haru by separating them... or let them stay together.
She could grow as a person on Team White Moon... but her true power and ability would only come out if she was on Team Red Sun.
Being on a team of higher level people would force her to get stronger as a person as well, but she might become dependent on her siblings... the same could be said before if she went to the other team. Her need for her brother might make her weak, or she might switch her dependence to somebody else who isn't suited to match her.
The safest bet was Team Red Sun, where she could bloom.
"That can wait, after doing some researching I learned something rather shocking." Glynda told Ozpin, who raised an eyebrow, before he sighed.
"Is this about Jaune?" Ozpin asked, and Glynda didn't seem surprised about him knowing.
"Yes, Jaune Arc never went to a training school, and he never took the exam needed to enter the academy... and unlike either Haru or Ruby Rose he wasn't approached by you for the school either... His transcripts say he is a highly coveted student... but after seeing him with my own eyes, and doing some research... Jaune Arc had lied his way into Beacon." Glynda told Ozpin with a truly angry sound to her voice. She took being a teacher at the academy seriously, and to even think of wasting her time teaching a student that wasn't suppose to be there... a student that SHOULD be somebody that had earned their way into the school, or had caught the eye of Ozpin himself.
"And?" Ozpin asked, and Glynda stopped and looked at him.
"And, I believe he should be expelled post haste. Then one of the more deserving students can take his spot. You must be furious that somebody snuck into your academy." Glynda said, and Ozpin took up out of his chair and walked over to the window and looked out at the academy below.
"Jaune Arc... his father was a great Hunstman, his grandfather was a great Huntsman, and the father of his grandfather was an even greater Huntsman who fought in the war. Trust me Glynda, if somebody managed to sneak into my school, I would be... peeved, but somebody like Jaune does not have the skills to sneak in here." Ozpin assured her, and Glynda looked at the back of his head for a second and frowned deeply.
Something about the way he said that... got under her skin.
"He did score low for his IQ... but... no... you didn't." Glynda said with her eyes wide, having figured out quickly what was bothering her.
"Yes, Jaune is very lucky to have gotten his hands of some fake transcripts. He is even luckier that sometimes I don't check backgrounds very often." Ozpin told Glynda with amusement in his tone. She gasped when she realized how Jaune had gotten into the academy.
Jaune wasn't smart enough to use those transcripts on his own, that would mean he would also be smart enough to hack into the data of the school he was faking that he was from and making it seem he went there.
If he had turned those papers into... well anywhere, he would have been found out right away.
The fact that he got those papers in the first place was extremely suspicious.
Jaune had help, even if Jaune didn't know it. Jaune got in because Ozpin had been interested in him. Ozpin had sent those fake papers to Jaune, and knowing that the boy had the blood of a hunter in him he had bet on Jaune wanting to prove himself and sent in the papers with his name on them.
Jaune didn't sneak into Beacon, he thought he did but he didn't... Ozpin guided him to Beacon.
"You are playing a dangerous game, if the council gets wind of this you will be under strict watch." Glynda told Ozpin, who nodded without even so much as dropping his smile.
"I have made many mistakes in my life, if this is one of them or not has yet to be decided. Jaune has the potential to go far, as do many of this years promising students... sometimes the brightest diamonds will come from the darkest coals." Ozpin explained to his friend, ally, and employee. She looked down at the ground, not knowing what she should make of this. Ozpin was risking a lot doing what he was doing, and she understood that Ozpin was a risk taker.
"You are taking a bet on this coal turning into a diamond, and not becoming fuel for a flame instead." Glynda snapped back at Ozpin, and he calmly sipped at his cup of tea, unbothered by her protest.
"Once more, true. Children don't always inherit the abilities of their parents, and sometimes children surpass their parents. I like to consider myself an positive thinker. If Jaune doesn't show signs of improvement soon, I will have him expelled for 'sneaking' into Beacon. If he doesn't fit here, then there is no point being here." Ozpin assured Glynda, and she calmed down. She herself wasn't truly against Jaune as a person, and if he started to show improvement she would be willing to accept him as a student.
That was only if he showed that he really had potential.
Right now the boy was just a vessel for a large aura, and not even the largest of his class. Aura and potential had nothing to do with each other, because there were fighters who didn't even use aura.
"Back to the matter of Ruby Rose, with her 25.5 she ranks just slightly Lower-Upper Levels... just a tad above the above average point. Placing her is hard." Glynda admitted with a deeper frown.
"Ruby Rose is the niece of Qrow Branwen, one of the most dangerous men... though she isn't related like blood. She and her brother have both learned how to use one of the most dangerous weapons ever designed, and they have created their own styles and learned to mix those styles... without a doubt her potential is higher than her looks imply." Ozpin analyzed with a knowing tone to his voice. He had done his research, and he had gotten in touch with Qrow through their scrolls and used that to find out some interesting data about the Twin Roses Blooming under Moonlight.
They were known as the Twin Roses for short.
"Weapons can be learned by anyone with a proper, or improper teacher. With a proper master, even those with no potential can master the weapon given to them." Glynda corrected Ozpin, and Ozpin mentally agreed with her on half of that.
"She and her brother both have very beautiful eyes, don't they?" Ozpin commented, and Glynda looked at him strangely for half a second. "No, I'm not referring to color or shape... they have eyes of people that want to help others... just for the sake of helping. They are selfless souls, people truly made to be heros. They have very nice eyes... Ruby Rose will join Team Red Sun." Ozpin finished with his fingers touching his chin lightly.
"I see, very well." Glynda said, correcting her glasses which had fallen down her nose slightly.
At least Ozpin wasn't a pedophile like she had almost believed for a second.
"Well, then I guess it is time to go and announce the teams." Ozpin said with a slight smile on his face as he walked towards the elavator.
This was going to be an interesting few years.
Some very interesting students were attending his school after all.