Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-27745396-20170121095751

We have now had two faunus with special skills that can be seen either as their semblances or just natural faunus traits. Tyrian and Ilia.

Tyrian is scorpion faunus and, as most of you probably knew, scorpions are (at least most of  them) poisonous and therefore we could say that his poison is just part of his faunus trait. But we have also seen how Tyrian's eyes turn purple every time he is trying to poison some one, something that also Yang can do whenever activating her  semblance.

Then there is Ilia, a chameleon faunus. Unless she has some other trait that we can't simply see (like Tukson and his claws) the only faunus trait she has is her ability to change her colours, something that would have been seen as a semblance if she wasn't a faunus.

So what is the difference and how can you detect if faunus' trait is their semblance or just something they are born with? And is it unfair if someone has two semblance like abilities when most of the characters have just one? 