Interesting philosophical perspective, but when Wash does the topic shift, Qrow leans back, the shit-eating grin fading. This, he'll answer seriously. He won't even deliberately obscure parts of it that are telling about himself; after all, he was just baiting Wash for fun. He does not actually feel a need to keep his experience in this kind of thing a secret.
"Job training, yeah. The Academy's got a full scope of classes for anyone to take. On the other hand, they're mostly optional, which makes sense for a group this diverse in abilities, but it's an oversight when we have people who pass up on training and end up in the field anyway. An easy fix would be to use the Initiation Test to gauge what courses are needed and enrol us mandatorily, but I guess that's a little too authoritarian for the Director."
That, Qrow will count as to her credit. After all, they're lacking a true contract except of necessity. It's best for her not to push the bounds of their obedience. At the same time, he'd like more pressure to make sure everyone here gets trained appropriately for the field missions they're going to be sent on, so it's also a lapse to him.
(This is why he later agrees to teach people without even asking about pay.)
"As far as intel, it's not bad, but it's not extensive, either. Last mission it felt like it came as a surprise to them. Which, given that it was caused by a tree suddenly turning giant and nearly stabbing us up here on the moon, it probably was. They gave us a dossier on all they'd found—information on some enemy monsters in the region, some details on the history of the town and its people that they could grab up, that kind of thing. But our people had to do most of the intelligence work once we hit the ground—" (tree) "—ourselves. The end result was that the first two thirds of the mission was gathering intel and narrowing down the relic's location, and the rest was disaster management and relic retrieval."
He adds, because he thinks Wash might find it useful, "If you want direct info on what the relic itself was like, you need to talk to a kid called Erika Mishima. She's the one that handled it directly."
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"Job training, yeah. The Academy's got a full scope of classes for anyone to take. On the other hand, they're mostly optional, which makes sense for a group this diverse in abilities, but it's an oversight when we have people who pass up on training and end up in the field anyway. An easy fix would be to use the Initiation Test to gauge what courses are needed and enrol us mandatorily, but I guess that's a little too authoritarian for the Director."
That, Qrow will count as to her credit. After all, they're lacking a true contract except of necessity. It's best for her not to push the bounds of their obedience. At the same time, he'd like more pressure to make sure everyone here gets trained appropriately for the field missions they're going to be sent on, so it's also a lapse to him.
(This is why he later agrees to teach people without even asking about pay.)
"As far as intel, it's not bad, but it's not extensive, either. Last mission it felt like it came as a surprise to them. Which, given that it was caused by a tree suddenly turning giant and nearly stabbing us up here on the moon, it probably was. They gave us a dossier on all they'd found—information on some enemy monsters in the region, some details on the history of the town and its people that they could grab up, that kind of thing. But our people had to do most of the intelligence work once we hit the ground—" (tree) "—ourselves. The end result was that the first two thirds of the mission was gathering intel and narrowing down the relic's location, and the rest was disaster management and relic retrieval."
He adds, because he thinks Wash might find it useful, "If you want direct info on what the relic itself was like, you need to talk to a kid called Erika Mishima. She's the one that handled it directly."