(RWBY Fables) Beacon Academy

Nora Valkyrie

Lie Ren-Valkyrie

Velvet Scarlatina

Coco Adel

Pyrrha Arc-Nikos

## Beacon Academy

Beacon Academy is a Huntsman Academy that is stationed at the center of the City of Vale within the very Kingdom of Vale. The Academy trains teams of huntsmen and huntresses to slay Grimm, various monsters that plague the world of Remnant and those who hide in the shadows.

It was once the center of attention during the darkest hours during the Vytal Festival that launched the night of the Battle for Beacon. Luckily with the efforts of all the Kingdom's present, save for the Kingdom of Vacuo of which most of their Huntsmen and student fled the scene, The Fall of Beacon was prevented.

The Headmaster of Beacon Academy during the events of RWBY Fables is Weiss Schnee.

### History

Following the end of the recorded Great War, Beacon Academy was founded in the Kingdom of Vale. Along with the other three Huntsmen Academies, Beacon was founded in order to train Huntsmen and Huntresses to slay the Creature of Grimm. In the 80 to 90 years following the founding of the Academies, Beacon has trained many Generations of Huntsmen and Huntresses, including Team STRQ, then Teams RWBY and JNPR.

In the past, there were those like Qrow and Raven Branwen who joined the academy to not become Huntsmen nor Huntresses. A few had ulterior motives like learning how to kill huntsmen and huntresses instead.

In addition, Vale's Cross Continential Transmit Tower, or CCT for short, which is also a vital means to provide long-distance communication across Remnant, is supposedly rumored to have been built in the center of the Academy.

## Description

Much like those before them, students with the aspiration to become either Huntsmen and Huntresses, whose sole duty is to keep the peace within the world of Remnant, strove to attend Beacon.

### **Students**

Beacon Academy is a residential or boarding-type school, with its students residing in the dormitories on campus. The school provides all living facilities, including hygiene, food, and laundry. However, the students are not restricted to the campus outside of lessons and are allowed to frequently spend their weekends in the City of Vale.

In order to be accepted into Beacon, students typically went to combat schools such as Signal Academy in order to prepare for the Academies rigorous entrance exam. There have been a few select students who have been invited into the academy after showing exceptional skill. However, attending previous combat schools isn't exactly a prerequisite, as some entrants were talented enough to pass the exam without transcripts.

### **Dress Code**

For the boys of Beacon Academy, the uniform consisted of black suits lined with gold, accompanied by a blue vest and a white shirt with a red tie.

For the girls of Beacon Academy, girls wear brown jacket lined with gold, accompanied by a tan vest and white shirt, but instead of a tie, they have a red ribbon tied at the collar with a red plaid skit, stockings of various length.

Students are given a sense of freedom to customize their attire to feel more comfortable at the Academy. The dress code is not held very strictly, as students sometimes wear something casual during classes, assemblies, and field trips.

### **Curriculum**

But the entry exams, news students are informed that they will be in selected teams of four for the four years they attend Beacon Academy.

After being accepted into Beacon Academy, new students then go through an initiation, after which they are ACTUALLY placed into their respective teams.

Students then attend lectures, given to them by the staff members of Beacon Academy like Professor Jaune Arc, on various topics intended to prepare them for theirb work, such as the different kinds of Grimm they might encounter.

Practical exercises are a significant part of the courses; of these, some of them are held in the Emerald Forest. Other out-of-campus activities includ field trips.

In addition, the curriculm includes sparring matches that pit students' skills either captured Grimm or against each other in a controlled environment.

Students are also sent on missions as part of their time and work study at the academy. First-year students are generally limited to lower-risk missions, such as accompanying detectives into the city and had to accompanied by a professional Huntsman or Huntresses on their first set of missions. The Upperclassmen were known to go on higher-risk missions. Additionally, Beacon provided more one-on-one time with veteran Huntsmen than other Academies.

### **Classes**

Classes at Beacon Academy operated at a 7:30am to 6pm schedule. The standard schedule for the students of Beacon is as follows.

* 7:30 am - Breakfast
* 8:00 am - Class
* 9:45 am - Class
* 11:45 am - Class
* 12:30 - Lunch
* 1:30 pm - Class
* 2:15 pm - Class
* 4:00 pm - Class
* 5:00 pm - Self-Directed Sparring
* 6:00 pm - Dinner

## Staff Members

### **Current Staff**

* Weiss Schnee - Headmistress, Former Combat Instructor
* Blake Belladonna - Vice Headmistress, Stealth and Security
* Jaune Arc - Grimm Studies and Military Strategy
* Nora Valkyrie - Fitness and Combat Simulations Instructor
* Coco Adel - Weapon Crafting and Upkeep and Dust Studies
* Lie Ren-Valkyrie - Aura Training
* Oscar Pine - Plant Science
* Velvet Scarlatina - Academic Classes ( Such as Math, Science, History etc )
* Pyrrha Nikos-Arc - Field Operations Instructor

## Location

Beacon Academy lies along the eastern edge of the City of Vale and has a wide river that runs through part of it. Vale Airships are used to transport new students to the academy.

A port is seen at the bottom of the cliffs next to Beacon Academy, providing a sense of naval transportation.

Beacon Academy's boundaries appear to extend rather far, including the large Emerald Forest and some surrounding terrain, such as the Beacon Cliff. The academy also held field trips in area such as the Forever Fall forest.