Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-24994749-20140808215337/@comment-14909251-20141209224532

Shadow at Morning wrote: I dunno, Advocate. Semblance seems to be the defining feature, at least to me, and both species have it. That seems to be the defining thing which separates Grimm targets from general life. Granted, there are all of the complications involved in the potential origins of the Faunus, both in the Long-Timeline and Short-Timeline. But given that the writers are freely acknowedging that mankind isn't special (Penny, an artificial lifeform, who presumably has a Semblance), it seems athematic to turn around and introduce homo sapiens elitism, when they're avoiding biological elitism. Well, it depends on why Grimm target humans in the first place. I have expressed my own views previously that the Faunus were the original inhabitants of much of Remnant, but that humans expunged them from various places to take their territory for themselves. That scenario could mean Grimm were specifically created or came into being to target humanity and they do not set out to target the Faunus because the Faunus are the original inhabitants of the world.