Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-14138255-20160225225013/@comment-24198837-20160325004805

How can Raven be a faunus? I don't know, maybe:

1. Lighter Bones, because bird

2. Better Eyesight, because bird

3. Enhanced digestion, allowing her to survive off carrion and the like, because raven

4. Some sort of brain chemestry difference with various effects, because bird

5. The feather hair she visibly has

Or any multitude of other unseen animal traits, because she dosn't even have to be a bird faunus. It's like people forget that Faunus traits don't have to be ears, horns, or a tail. They can be subtle or downright undetectable unless revealed by the Faunus themselves.

Look at Tukson.

And that's not even mentioning her almost blatantly-intentional similarities to one of the show's most recognizable Faunus characters, her name, her visible animal trait, or that "Yang is the half-faunus hinted at during that one stream" theory, which, if true, makes everything fall nicely into place.

All of these hints can be argued and debated, but it makes far more sense for them to align than for them to not - and while a bunch of hints don't make something true, they're more than enough to put the theory far above immediate dismissal range.

TLDR: There's no proof that Raven is a Faunus, but there are hints at it, and nothing even comes close to proving that she's not.