Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-226878-20141028201230/@comment-3257939-20141101215259

The only reason to believe that Yatsu is the WF Lt. is their similar models. However, that is not enough proof. There are lots of reasons to believe otherwise and the only way to counter them is by coming up with crazy speculation.

1.- Yatsuhashi has no tattoos. In the finale, we got a very good look at his entire model and he has not a single tattoo. And don't try to deny by saying that the armor actually covers them because if you check the armor, you can see that it kind of "floats" on his arm like how Pyrrha and Jaune wield their shields. This by itself proves entirely that Yatsu can't be the WF lt. unless you try to explain it with some crazy ideas like: He hides it with make up, his semblance is to hide things in his skin, he's actually a chameleon faunus or dust.

2.- Yatsuhashi is less than 22 years old. While 3 years is enough time to become a Lt, considering that Yatsu had to be in Beacon most of his time and couldn't help the WF in their plans most of their times because he had to be in class and with his team on their missions, Yatsu has not enough time to become a Lt. The only explanation for this is: Yatsuhashi is actually older than he looks. Which I personally think sounds very stupid. Not impossible but stupid regardless.

3.- Yatsuhashi was in Beacon. And nothing else has to be explained apart from the ways to counter this: Yatsuhashi's semblance is teleportation or Raven helped him to get in Beacon on time. However, the last one is unlikely because if Raven was truly helping the WF then how come she stopped Neo from killing Yang? Neo is scared of Raven and escaped as if she knew that the person in front of her is not someone she could talk to despite being her ally. She knew Raven would kill her if she had to. And also, if Raven can teleport people then she would have saved all those WF soldiers who died in those tunnels but instead, she abandon them. Why would she do that if she's on the same team as those faunus? Simple: She's not. So she has no reasons to help Yatsuhashi because he is not the WF Lt.