Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-25479664-20161122145839

(NOTE: Much of this speculation hinders around a lack of available information and logical thinking, rather than direct evidence. As such, don't expect 100% lore-friendliness. If I make a mistake, feel free to point it out)

I've been wondering lately about the potential origins of the faunus, and how closely related they are to humans. Given time to speculate, I have come up with 4 possibilities:

1) Faunus are (naturally) mutated/evolved humans. This is probably one of the more likely ones, but basically this theory states that the faunus are humans who have mutated traits of existing animals, either taking them due to their environment (i.e. if they lived far out in the wilderness) or just through random mutation. These mutant groups then stuck together and eventually became a completely different species (Homo faunus)

2) Faunus appeared alongside humans. This is another likely possibility; basically what if the faunus were born as a completely different species from humans, popping into existence around the same time. Yes its boring, but it isn't really messy as some of these other theories

3) Faunus are human lab experiments. Self explanitory, basically this theory states that the faunus are some sort of human lab experiment created to combat the grimm (or something of the sort). Then they were either released, or escaped and eventually formed their own group. Its a bit messy in terms of lore though, so I wouldn't hold your breath for this one

4) Fanus were the origonal inhabitants of Remnant. This once gets a bit complicated, but it could make sense. Basically, what if the Faunus pre-dated humans as the dominant intelligent species on Remnant. Then the humans show up (somehow) and become the dominant species. This theory has a few holes, but it makes more sense when combined with the theory that Remanant is a seperate planet/moon that humans colonized after fleeing from what we now see as Remnant's moon.

Note that I do not take credit for any of these theories. I am sure that they have all been proposed by someone else at some point (and I know that the "humans fled to Remnant" and "faunus are lab experiments" theories have been proposed by other people before) 