Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-14407885-20140122040630/@comment-82.12.156.248-20140122212417

I doubt we've seen them on-screen. The background characters mentioned in the thread seem far too generic to be at some point made an integral part of the show. I imagine the "Aayeeup!" guy will likely become a running gag. A few observations though from we know so far:

- Velvet doesn't sound like she is the leader of her team. In the blog post Monty made about the Battle Gear Design comp, Monty mentions that her team values her skills and that they have fought many missions together. To me this sounds like Velvet is an asset to the team, rather than a leader.

- Monty also makes mention that Velvet gets on with her teammates and again, that they value her abilities. This also suggests to me that she may be the only Faunus on her team. Which could potentially rule out a few character designs/choices (since the majority of the Faunus we have seen have their name and personality inspired by a character in literature [be it fiction or mythology] of the same species as their Faunus nature.

- Tying in to the above point. If I end up being wrong, it also works the other way. If Velvet WAS to have a Faunus teammate or two... or three then it could be possible to look toward shared reference (since common themes exist for Team RWBY, Team JNPR and Team CRDL it can be assumed that, if we were to get an all or majorlity Faunus team they could share the taking of their name and potential characteristics from popular children's novels.*

- Finally, from what we've seen of Velvet, she seems very passive, friendly and a little awkward by nature. If she's accepted by her team then it possibly rules out a number of personalities and characteristics that her team could have... as well as a select few tropes since it can be assumed that those who accept her either share her personality (such as Ruby), are generally friendly (such as Yang) or are passive when it comes to judging people (such as Blake)