Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-24994749-20140808215337/@comment-24891101-20141209011806

I dunno, Advocate. Semblance seems to be the defining feature, at least to me, and both species have it. That seems to be the defining thing which separates Grimm targets from general life. Granted, there are all of the complications involved in the potential origins of the Faunus, both in the Long-Timeline and Short-Timeline. But given that the writers are freely acknowedging that mankind isn't special (Penny, an artificial lifeform, who presumably has a Semblance), it seems athematic to turn around and introduce homo sapiens elitism, when they're avoiding biological elitism.