Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-4606441-20131101054911/@comment-3146930-20140519205323

13th madman wrote: if it's flight you want, then I feel the need to point out that a lot of characters have come close using recoil from weapons. Assuming this hypothetical faunus has wings, putting a gun in their hands would be quite sufficient to make them functional.

I don't really see that happening. The closest the characters came to flying was probably when they were launched off a cliff. Most of the characters just fell slowly, except for Weiss who has a Glyph that makes platforms for her to bounce off of. The next closest would probably be Yang, who used her gauntlets to give her some extra reach. Recoil from weapons does allow them to move quickly, but it isn't the same as flying as it only works for short bursts.

If you did give a bird-Faunus a gun of some kind, it would have to be mounted on his back or something because if he had it in his hand, he wouldn't be able to control his wings. Not to mention he would have to constantly aim behind him for propulsion, as he would be too heavy to fly on his own (taking into account a weapon, his own clothes/armor, and just the mass of his body [see hollow bones above]).