Thread:Bajarias.josef/@comment-26397825-20170112111223/@comment-25936766-20171008140731

SpiritedDreaming wrote: Having a sharper sense of smell as her Faunus trait is fine, but the whiskers shoudl either be there permanently or only when she's using her semblance, not just something that appears when she focuses her aura. Well, if she has "permanent whiskers", a sharper sense of smell "as a Faunus trait" isn't really fine since whiskers have nothing to do with smell.

But whiskers serve a function that would be just as, if not more, useful: Tactile Sensing. Particularly useful for animals who can't rely on sight at the time to navigate or find food.

Experiments have discovered that whiskers are required/contribute on: Object localization, orienting of the snout, detection of movement, texture discrimination, shape discrimination, exploration, thigmotaxis, locomotion, maintenance of equilibrium, maze learning, swimming, locating food pellets, locating food animals, and fighting.

For example, a cat's whiskers help them determine the width of gaps, and help locate objects not just by direct touch but also by sensing air currents. They also trigger blink reflexes.

IMO, it's better than smell.