Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-14138255-20140815002519/@comment-226878-20140822071447

I think it possible that Faunus derive of a Semblance offshoot. A semblance to enhance one's senses with the accidental side effect of being born with visible animal traits. We know that no two Semblances are identical but some can be alike (Ruby/Oobleck, Blake/Sun), maybe the Faunus are an "inactive/involuntary" subset of Semblance that can exist simultaneously with one's active semblance (so Blake has cat senses and her Shadow Semblance). This may be the first sign of interbreeding. Perhaps originally, the Faunus didn't have "extraordinary" Semblances, their's being simply their animal senses, then they began to interbreed with those whose Semblances were almost Dust-magical in nature and suddenly you have Faunus who also had super-Semblances.