Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-173.20.10.245-20131101064024/@comment-6863431-20140729070300

What if Roman, like many baddies before him, had gone through horrible discrimiation as a child for his Faunus heritage? Like to the point where some humans had mutilated his telltale parts so that he no longer looked like a Faunus. With this being done to him at such a young age, it is possible that it came across to him that Faunus were "less-thans" and did not deserve to hold a place with humans. This would explain why the police reports and Blake claim he is a human, as his Faunus characteristics would have been removed years before, and why he harbors such "distaste" for the White Fang members. He keeps the fact that he is a Faunus to himself, and personally hates the fact that he is an "animal." He hides it by being discriminatory towards other Faunus, cementing the idea that he is a human in the minds of everyone around him.

And such is my personal theory of "if Roman were a Faunus..."