Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-24993958-20151106142232/@comment-26397825-20151119020138

ACWeapons wrote:

But of course the disguise isn't always perfect if someone were to carefully inspect. Most don't look into it that carefully. You said yourself that it isn't perfect and that close inspection can have him found out.

I'm not saying every Faunus is going to instantly know, including the ones who will take it as mocking. That was Phantom's schtick. I'm just saying that there is a small possibility that a Faunus will find out and take offense. All it takes is a surprise attack, the ears get damaged somehow and someone noticed that they don't bleed. Or maybe they get knocked off, or someone ruffles his hair in jest and dislodges them, or he is being bullied and they get pulled off his head, or at least moved in a way that proves that they are not real (since bullies have been shown in show to pull Faunus ears).

I'm not saying it absolutely has to happen. I'm pointing out some storytelling elements that could be interesting to play with from the fact that he is pretending to be a Faunus. Whether you do is up to you, but the elements are there, and the chances of them happening do exist.

To never face any chance of ever being found out by people other than his teammates makes for an unbelievable and quite frankly kind of boring story; where's the tension? Where's the drama? Where's the bullies who pick on Faunus, who would have no problems crowing to the rooftops that he is a human, and twisting the story in such a way that the real Faunus believe he's doing it to mock them, simply because it was the bullies who told them about it rather than himself?