Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24249713-20131205212144/@comment-25154376-20140724041225

@XDex

Perhaps, this is all speculation of course. The writers could always go with an Elder Scrolls approach to inter-race offspring; where whatever race the mother is, that is what the child is regardless of the father's race. All of these theories are also assuming Humans and Faunus are even close enough genetically to have viable offspring, which hasn't been addressed yet.

@MetallicaArcher

Yes, it's quite safe to assume Faunus-Human interbreeding is taboo. To make comparisons to real life we need look no further to back before the American Civil War; where slave owners often fathered children with young slave women, then subsequently never recognizing the child; thus preventing him from becoming shunned by the white community. The slave women would often marry soon after she found out she was pregnant, so she could plausibly claim the child was her newly-wed husband; thus preventing her from being shunned by the slave community.