Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24772070-20170202222702/@comment-34633327-20170806082116

SpiritedDreaming wrote: No, when two faunus of different types have a kid, it can be anything, So Dog + Cat =\= either dog or cat, it could actually be a Snake. Or a Bull. Or a Bird. That's the problem; genetics and logic dictates that what you say would be the case, with the child simply utilising whatever genes the parents had, but they don't. They just...stick their hand in a hat full of animals and pull one out. I don't think I explained what I meant enough. What I meant was that when two different genus of Faunus mate (Dog and Cat), the "Faunus Gene" that is made is a mutation. The Dog's Faunus Gene and the Cat's Faunus Gene attempt to link like an A DNA base links to a T DNA base, but the conflicting Genus causes a mutation to occur in the Faunus Gene, overwritting the source material and drawing from another Genus in the Faunus Gene. In the case of this theory, the Faunus Gene contains EVERY Animal Genus imaginable, its just that each Gene has one Genus more prevalent than others that varies between people. Lets use Blake for example. If we used the Faunus Gene Idea, we would assume both Kali and Ghira's Gene's had Felis as the Dominent Genus, making Blake a Cat Faunus like them. The Gene however still possesses other Genus', just not awakened, hence latent. Let's say Kali had Blake with a different Faunus, a snake faunus for arguments sake. When Blake was still being devolped, Kali's Faunus Gene and the Snake's Faunus Gene would attempt to create a new Faunus Gene for Blake, much like linking DNA. The Felis Genus from Kali and the Ahaetulla Genus from the Snake would create a mutation though, the Faunus Gene drawing from a different Genus in this case, lets say the Sylvilagus Genus, making Blake a Cottontail Rabbit.

tl;dr: The "Faunus Gene" consists of every animal species there is, its just that each gene has a dominant species which determines a Faunus' animal. When different ones mate, the Gene mutates and draws from a latent species in the gene and makes a third species child.