Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-14909251-20170522044827/@comment-14909251-20170529053849

SomeoneYouUsedToKnow wrote: No, I'm saying they will only give a specific response if someone asks what someone is specifically.

Otherwise, everyone focuses on what the character(s) look like. Like people do in real life. If you see a chinese person, you would say they are chinese at least in race, and not something like "scottish-korean-canadian chinese", even if they are scottish-korean-canadian chinese, unless it was the topic in itself.

It's not half-assing a response, DA. It's acting like a person does.

But on the other hand, they have half-assed responses in some ways before. So it's not entirely unexpected for them to give an answer that isn't exactly helpful. In a sense it is half-assed already in that the question was "Do humans and Faunus interbreed?" and Monty said "Maybe we've already seen them." Obviously, we have not seen anyone breeding, let alone interbreeding and we would have had that whole "maybe don't show this to the kids anymore" discussion much earlier were that true. However, as was the case when they said "we may have already seen one" about second-years (later revealed to be Velvet), I do not think he said that without thinking of a specific character.

Your argument only makes much sense if you don't know what the person's heritage is when you tell someone. Should you know someone is Scottish-Korean-Canadian Chinese, you may not say that, but you won't just say "Chinese" when you know it is more complicated. One could also make the argument that a quarter-Faunus character being in the main group is a bit too subtle of a plot device for RT. More plausible that they would conceive of a half-Faunus character first and only later think of more complicated mixing.