Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24772070-20170202222702/@comment-34633327-20170806070408

SomeoneYouUsedToKnow wrote: You are looking at the problem from the wrong angle, and not taking into account some facts.

We do not know how the Faunus came to be. We do not know why they can only have 1 trait of X animal. And especially, we do not know why 2 Faunus of different species can have a child that is neither of those species.

That last detail is what you should focus on. They don't have to specifically explain how X Faunus can have Y "impossible" trait. But if they explain that last question, then we have an idea of the answers to the rest.

Once we know why Dog+Cat=Anything, even non-mammals like Snakes (which is already a middle finger to biology and genetics as we know it), we will know how people like Tyrian can have traits that are a middle finger to biology and genetics as we know it.

For example, if the answer to that question is effectively "Magic", then it magically answers your question about Tyrian; "it's Magic, it is not required to adhere to logic". Any specifics behind said "Magic", would actually help at finding out how/why Tyrian has a scorpion tail. I always thought it might be a latent gene of sorts that Faunus have drawn out. Like a "Faunus Gene" that is comprised of a small portion of animal DNA for each seperate Genus, with the trait they possess being which portion of animal DNA is most prevalent in the gene. Like say, Dog Faunus and Dog Faunus mate, the childs "Faunus Gene" is composed of mainly dog. Dog Faunus and Human Mate, The "Faunus Gene" is still dog. Dog Faunus and Cat Faunus mate, the "Faunus Gene" of the parents clash and mutate on the molecular level when mixed together into the offspring, the "Faunus Gene" having a different animal gene manifest in the process. I may be thinking about Punnett Squares too much in regards to this though.