Alrighty. Back from vacay. Let’s break this down piece by piece. Not gonna use any PM info because that’s playing dirty.

[quote=@tobiax]
One- but this is minor since it'll be resolved once you PM us, is I have no idea how the Semblance works
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This is fair. Can’t send the PM rn since busy but the TLDR is just selectively activated attraction/repulsion centered around stuff with his aura injected in it. It’s not super elaborate.

[quote=@tobiax]
Secondly- and this is more important- Atlas would never allow a Dust thief to be extradited. Like, ever. You do remember who runs the country, right?
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Pre-Fall Ironwood isn’t the paranoid militant Ironwood, you know. He’s reasonable before the world goes to shit. Yang assaulted Mercury, and he believed the illusion claim. Even afterwards, Weiss attacks a civilian because she was slighted, and he takes her side. He’s shown to be understanding of other people. A stressed out minor sticking to his guns is not hard to pick up on, and even someone like him ought to understand lack of cooperation etc in this case.

Regardless, I’m aware I can solve this problem by changing one name, so I’m only going to answer the question you posed and not talk about it further.

[quote=@tobiax]
Plus, I don't think Vacuo would want a known, violent Dust thief at Shade- being that Shade is the only form of authority they have. It sort of goes against the mutual-cooperation-to-avoid-death culture that Vacuo seems to have.
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There is no contradiction with Vacuo or Shade’s spirit. Vacuo doesn’t care who you are. That’s the point of Vacuo. It’s in the maxim: “If you can survive here, you can be here.” There is no ambiguity there. It’s even in your OP. It’s also pretty clearly stated most Vacuans don’t care about the law, and being a criminal doesn’t preclude working together to avoid death in the first place. Logically, the icon of the area should bear some similarities to the area itself.

But for the sake of it, let’s say Shade operates on a similar order as other academies and otherwise isn’t influenced by the spirit of the nation. Beacon Academy has allowed: two murder and pillage bandits who only became huntsmen to know how to beat huntsmen, a fresh White Fang defect, and a cheater that got in despite heavy implications Ozpin was aware. This does not include the antagonists because I can’t imagine they entered through normal channels.

Shade is explicitly less rigid than Beacon. Therefore...

[quote=@tobiax]
Though his strengths could use with some more elaboration, whether in his personality, backstory, or on their own.[/quote]
You’re talking about his Level 10 Rogue class skills, I imagine. Which, to be fair, I skimped out on that yeah. But everything else is pretty explicit about how and why, or there’s enough elsewhere to figure out how and why.

[quote=@Lemons]
he's still a hot piece of ass
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Yes, I do believe that’s why I chose that picture.