Talk:Sun Wukong/@comment-34724302-20180701110119/@comment-4010415-20180701170643

Personally, I headcanon that Sun is the child of a Faunus and a Human, and at a very young age, he lost his Faunus parent for whatever reason. His Human parent doesn't have very much in-depth knowledge about Faunus history, and that's why he didn't know the histories of the White Fang or Menagerie and needed Blake to tell him.

I think it'd be interesting, and I hope it's canon. It would certainly explain his lack of knowledge about Faunus history, especially if he and his Human parent were the type of Vacuans who travel from place to place instead of staying in one spot. If they had a group, maybe their group was all Human.

As for why he didn't just learn Faunus history at Haven, the way RWBY and JNPR were learning it in Beacon, maybe Haven doesn't really get deeper than the surface on teaching Faunus history, unlike Oobleck did. More of an American public school glossover of "This thing happened at this point in time, we didn't win, but still, go us, woohoo, anyway next lesson." The reason I say that is because Miles and Kerry have apparently said that Mistral is one of the less Faunus-friendly places, and that's why Ozpin put a Faunus as Haven's headmaster, in hopes that it could improve people's view on Faunus.

If the way Sun grew up lead to him being unable to really make friends with Faunus - due to being in an all-Human group and traveling around a lot - then it would also make sense as to why he was so excited about Blake being a Faunus. For once, he was making friends with someone like him.