Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-30231626-20161015043220/@comment-5226885-20161016160503

After reading much of a previous thread that speculated on Jaune's true symbol, I came to the conclusion that the symbol was most likely the rabbit head seen on his pajamas. The headcanon I came up with to support this is that Jaune is of mixed heritage (human/faunus), with a rabbit-faunus mother. This would help explain his having seven sisters, who I also think may all be rabbit-fauna. Thus, being the only boy and human among the Arc children, he embraced the rabbit as part of his nature to better relate to his sisters, choosing to wear the rabbit onesie to the present day and adopting the rabbit as his personal symbol. Where he falls in the order of births among his sisters would change the interpretation of this from "fitting in with his older sisters" (youngest) to "being the big brother bunny for his younger sisters" (eldest) to "just another rabbit" (middle). Maybe his hiding it was similar to Blake's reasoning, except that it was his mixed heritage he wanted hidden. Of course, it is likely that his teammates saw the symbol in their room and so maybe it wasn't intentionally hidden by Jaune out of fear of racism but because it's pragmatic to wear a chestplate in battle and he didn't choose to put it everywhere or on everything. Perhaps he didn't choose for it be made public (to the audience at least) because he was trying to live up to his paternal, human legacy of the Arc name, thus choosing to use the Arc symbol while training rather than his personal symbol. I hope this is called upon in Volume 4, preferably in a backstory, flashback or even a visit home.