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PuffDragon wrote: 'If Blake is Half-Fauna...'

...she's also Half-Human. Ever notice that in fantasy literature there's always talk about Half-Elves, but never of Half-Humans (not even among Elves). I always wondered why.

And, just a side note, in not so distant times African-Americans (and American Indian, and...) were classified 'non-human', even though undisputedly they are.

Who's to say that similar is not also part of the racial issue in RWBY, if indeed trhere is one? Of course, it's also because we're humans and are writing from a human perspective. Ergo, we, as humans, identify Blake's presumed ethnicicity as 'half-Fauna'.

FWIW, I occasionally use the clumsier but less subjective term 'Fauna/Human Hybrid' instead.