Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-174.107.181.15-20161212232547

This is a pretty crazy theory I just came up with (And there's really no way to prove/disprove it, but food for thought...)

Lemme preface this by saying that I get inspiration from the weirdest sources. (Monster girls anyone?) So be prepared.

Anyway, after watching some YT vids, I notice that a lot of times, "Monster" includes Witches, who are mostly human but possess special (Usually described as magical) powers. This got me thinking... Supposing that the Faunus are actually descended from an earlier animal-hybrid species, the Monsters? Created by human science long ago (say, before Remnant was... a Remnant?), these creatures initially fought with humans... until some kind of event happened that wiped out huge numbers of both races, maybe a war, maybe some unrelated event. Regardless, both sides were sick of death by that point and attempted to go their separate ways.

This separation ended out of necessity when the Grimm appeared (It's clear that they make no distinction between Human and Faunus). Forced back together, the sundered kindreds inevitably bred and created the Faunus.

It's at this point where those "Witches" I mentioned earlier come in. Typically, they have powers and do... whatever else monsters do... but look human. I believe that the "Humans" of modern Remnant are actually descendants of these Witches, and that those powers are the forebearers of Semblances. Thus, there are actually far less true humans than anybody remembers.

Afternotes, this theory is pretty crazy and there's really no way to prove it (besides someone out-right saying it), but I just thought it up and wanted to get off my chest. Also, there probably are SOME true humans left, but "What if there are a lot less humans" didn't seem like as much of an eyecatcher, so... :/

Anyhow, cheers!

-Starch 