Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-27144409-20170705210718/@comment-24534644-20170727171249

I'm fine with the revelation of some faunus having invertebrate traits, because even considering the fallacy regarding humans being vertebrate and how the two should be incompatible, in the end all you're doing is adding a weirdly-shaped tail or a few eyes or whatever.

My issue comes from the idea of giving a character completely new limbs altogether. I.e. additional arms, additional legs, or indeed, fully functional wings. Because there's slightly altering the body to have a part reminiscent of an animal, and then there's altering the base physiology altogether. A tail isn't that much of a stretch, because there ARE humans out there born with tiny little tail nubs, and even without that humans are related to monkeys, who have tails. But additional arms? Wings? Do you have any idea what you'd have to do to the entire skeletal and muscular system of a person in order to support something like that? It's not as easy as media makes it out to be.