JJ's going to have a built-up pile of traumatic experiences on his plate before he even joins "the New Path."



the whole mess can be best summed up in a line by V ráchos Metaxas, Pyrrha's father, Who divorced her mother out of a disagreement over how Pyrrha was being raised and allowed to make herself into "a Thing" as he referred to it (and Pyrrha eventually realizes he was right)





"ENOUGH!" Vrachos suddenly roared. Pyrrha, Kokkino, Weiss and the others dropped into a stunned silence as the normally stoic healer stormed to his feet, his face a thundercloud of rage.

"All of you! going back and forth, recriminations and incomprehension and SELFISHNESS! SELFISHNESS! you should all be ashamed!"

He whirled to Kokkino, a finger in his ex-wife's face.

"YOU! with your ridiculous Lineage nonsense, your Warrior's cult and constantly propping up that Fireball of energy..." he snarled, jabbing a finger towards Lia "...without any thought about how the poor lad would come to see himself!"



"YOU!" he went on, whirling to Weiss "You, with your "education" with your "special training" with your "you can't coddle him because it will just make him dependent" not acknowledging that there is a LINE between "not coddling" and "outright neglecting" that you cross with liberal disregard for the well being of your OWN children, never mind my daughter's!"



"and YOU..." he said, turning to the wide-eyed face of Pyrrha at last "YOU who could never see that what the poor boy needed was his MOTHER'S LOVE, not this casual 'seeing him every once in a while' nonsense while he's shunted from place to place like a piece of forgotten luggage! it doesn't matter if YOU think he was loved and cared for, what matters is that JAUNE, YOUR SON, felt forgotten and neglected when he needed his family the most! did you ever even take the time to sit him down and explain what was happening? YOU ARE HIS MOTHER! it was YOUR duty to take care of him, this Huntsman council nonsense be damned!"



he stepped back, addressing the assembled Huntsmen an Huntresses with a voice full of scorn.



"You all spent years impressing upon him the "importance" of being a warrior, the "duty" of being a Huntsman, when THE POOR BOY COULD BARELY WALK! He couldn't even eat half the garbage you put in front of him! He could barely lift half his body weight! Instead of trying to find a way to turn him into YOU, maybe you should have put your combined intelligence to finding a place for HIM! Nurturing his incredible mind! impressing that his frailty didn't make him less of a man! you lambast that scumbag Acier Arc for trying to force Jaune to become a Huntsman while you were doing the exact same thing! and you took away his only friend to turn her into another piece of cannon fodder for the "common good!" he said the last, casting a scathing look at Coco and Velvet.



"All of you trying to find some explanation as to why the poor boy didn't end up the way you wanted him to, When it should have been obvious from the start that he wasn't going to fit into your little box of expectations! when it was YOUR actions that set him on this path in the first place!" the old man finished at last as, deflated, he sank back into his chair.



"can't you see..." he gasped, sounding almost agonized "...can't you see he was just a boy? a frightened boy, crying out for acceptance for who he was?"