Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-24994749-20140808215337/@comment-24994749-20141210131231

BenRG wrote: It's never been explicitly stated but, from the way Ozpin didn't qustion Blake's (fake?) backstory about coming from outside the Kindoms, faunus are just as much at risk from Grimm as humans. Remember, Ozpin knows she's a faunus and yet didn't question why a faunus from outside the Kingdoms needed to learn to fight to survive.

There could be several reasons why a faunus from outside of the kingdoms would still need to know how to fight:

1) If the communities are mixed (humans and faunus living togerther like in the kingdoms) then when the Grimm are attracted by the humans, the faunus will get targeted along the way.

2) If the faunus live on their own without humans, assuming Grimm see faunus like animals, Grimm have been stated to get into territorial conflict with animals. That means Grimms reclaim territories for themselves, if a faunus village wanted to settle down and grow food, recollect, haunt or herd, they could trigger a territorial dispute with a Grimm.

3) Conflict (war) with Other human or faunus groups.

4) Animal predators.