Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-173.20.10.245-20131101064024/@comment-3146930-20140727162647

I don't see this holding any water. Besides his lack of any apparent animal features that would make him a Faunus, he is obviously racist toward them so unless he is a self-loathing Faunus, I don't see it happening. Also Blake refers to him as a human, so maybe she knows something about him as he is in the news. Sure we only have seen him appear on the news once in the first episode, but consider how much time has passed.

In the first episode when Roman appears, we see he was arrested before and the news reports on the failed attempts to arrest him. After the fight with Jaune and Cardin, Glynda mentions it has been weeks and later says transfer students would arrive for the festival in a few months. Then by Episode 16 and 17, students start arriving so it has been a few months. Roman mentions how his actions have the town scared so he is most likely on the news a lot and if he has a criminal record, it would most likely be mentioned that he is a Faunus, but Blake calls him a human.