Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-4606441-20131101054911/@comment-3146930-20140520011023

13th madman wrote: I wasn't talking about that. I was talking about Ruby kicking herself up a building with Crescent rose back in episode 1. No doubt this is also how she got to the Nevermore ofscreen in episode 7. She seems to have attained almost flight, and if you had wings to help with manouvering or to slow descent then taking it a step further is easily within anime physics.

As for wherere the gun is mounted, that's a matter of what our purely hypothetical faunus actually looks like, and it's fairly apparent we both have different mental pictures. For the sake of something completely different though, why don't we have the guns attached to their legs instead?

Well in my mind, as far as a bird-Faunus would go, their arms would have to be completely bird-like just for a simple chance of using them as wings. Faunus seem to adapt traits from animals and have those parts in the same general area; so a cat has ears on their head and Blake has her cat ears in the same place, same for Velvet's ears and Sun's tail. So it would make sense that their arms would be wings instead of having wings on their back, similar to an angel for example. This character would also need tail feathers for control when in flight if they could fly at all.

The problem I have is that these important traits would make them too animal-like in my opinion. The Faunus we have seen so far only have small visible animal traits, like ears, horns, or tails; an entire set of wings just seems too much. As far as leg guns, I can't see it working just because if the recoil is enough to give this character lift, it would also be enough to completely through them off if they were firing at something.

I can also think of a few ways they got on the Nevermore besides using recoil. The feather appeared after Ruby cut down the tree so maybe it landed to inspect its destroyed nest, only for Ruby and Weiss to jump it. I also forgot that Ruby used the recoil of Crescent Rose to blast her on the roof in episode one.