Talk:Faunus/@comment-85.76.80.74-20140415142915/@comment-3146930-20140415204441

I strongly disagree with this theory about the Faunus. One of the obvious flaws of this is the ethical ramifications. No company would ever get permission to perform human testing just so they could give humans animal ears or tails. Then if these test subjects did manage to escape somehow, the company responsible would be devastated and would do anything in their power to cover it up. Also considering the number of Faunus, enough to form an army, the company trying to make them would have had to have made thousands of them and all those experiments would have also had to have had tons of children. Another thing is that if the Faunus really are just humans that have had animal parts attached to them, you would think that they would want to be "cured" and have the parts removed.

Another aspect is technology. As advanced as technology appears in the series, the Faunus have been around for a long time, presumably for at least a hundred or more years. I suspect this as during Blake's explanation of the White Fang forming after the war, many of the weapons seem older based on the ones we see today. Many of the swords for example look similar to Jaune's sword, which was his great-great-grandfathers, so this war with the Faunus could have been a long time ago. Based on this, I don't think technology would have been advanced enough to create an entire species.