Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-173.20.10.245-20131101064024/@comment-226878-20140728014310

Darkcloud1111 wrote: I just don't see him as a Faunus, but if he was a Faunus and removed everything that made him a Faunus, then isn't he basically human? That's like saying since Michael Jackson's skin wasn't black anymore, he was basically Caucasian. It's disappointingly ignorant. If we find out that Roman is a Faunus who disavowed his heritage and had his "telltale" attributes removed or that something else caused him to lose those attributes, that goes a long way to address his origins and personality.

As to him eventually becoming something other than human. I don't think people can just "become" Faunus. But I've always suspected that Grimm start out as natural creatures and are otherwise magically altered. Maybe something darker and more powerful that Cinder will eventually turn Roman into a jackass Grimm... Or a Mulegrimm (lol... Milgram was the name of a social psychologist who enacted a "covert" experiment... that being he "hired" a bunch of participants without telling them he was only interested in studying their reactions to "torturing" people for being "wrong".)