Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-24147497-20131109050134/@comment-4010415-20160430214613

"I'm glad you asked, Deery" is confirmation that he's human. He needed to win the White Fang over and get them to listen to him. If he was a Faunus, he could've said "Actually, I'm a Faunus, like you guys" and could've proven it. Instead, he's a human, so his only way of winning them over was to sweet talk them with "Humans... are the worst. Case in point. *Gestures to himself*" (more confirmation he's human) and to tell them, basically, "I'm not the kind of human you should be mad at. Be mad at the humans who're in charge! I can give you weapons to take them out!"