Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-14138255-20140829002738/@comment-24106129-20140903062130

I think either most faunus we've seen are hybrid o thatr faunus animal traits are determined by gene expression(meaning some may or may not have tails, ears depending on their parent's features). Blake not having a tail would be another example of different trait expressoin. If you look back to the newscast in episode 1 the Faunus in the protest obviously expressed more than one faunus trait, perhaps meaning that if a rabbit Faunus had offspring with another rabbit faunus of a simliar genetic makeup it would produce a more rabbit-like Faunus as a result? Or that the Faunus in that protest simply drew heavier animal traits. Hard to determine, need to verify if Faunus are natural phenomenom first. I talked wtih Zolnir about the Faunus originally being weapons made to combat the Grimm (simliar to Kakas in Blazblue) but that was before RWBY even came out so I'm not sure how that theory would stand now.

@Andrew

Sometimes recessive traits outnumber dominant traits, even though dominant traits are statistically favorable-it boils down to who wants to get laid with who and if I had to pick between a girl with or without cat ears I'd personally opt for both...err favoring the cat ears more though.