Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-107.167.112.74-20170228120401/@comment-4010415-20170410014913

Yeah, pretty much exactly as SYUTK said.


 * Red Trailer had Red Like Roses refer to Blake as "Black the beast"
 * People saw Blake's silhouette on the end cards of the Red and White Trailers and immediately assumed she had cat ears.
 * Whenever I show someone the Black Trailer or I watch someone's first reaction to the Black Trailer, it's pretty common for them to automatically assume she has cat ears. They go "Is she a neko?" "Does she have cat ears?" and they might realize it's a bow and go "Oh nevermind."
 * Black Trailer had From Shadows, which goes on and on about the White Fang's struggle against discrimination/the Humans. It even had lines like "Treated like a worthless animal" and "Crushed by ruthless human rule"
 * At the end of the very first episode of volume 1, we get a short news report about these people called "Faunus", showing an image of people with animal ears and horns.

That news report had practically 50% of the fandom going "*Throws hands in the air* Blake is a Faunus! Her bow hides cat ears!" Meaning half the fandom had already guessed it from the first episode.

And then, in the second episode, Blake and Weiss have their first conversation, and Blake mentions the SDC being known for "controversial labor forces". Fans here on the wiki had already noticed Weiss' snowflake emblem on some of the cargo in the Black Trailer before the show started, so people jumped to "The labor forces are Faunus, and Blake and Adam were fighting against the SDC because of it!"

The only reason it took a while for us to decide if she had been in the White Fang or not is because whether the White Fang was full of humans or Faunus was kept vague until The Stray.