Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-89.142.252.18-20150801103140/@comment-25555436-20150801140309

Mine is above average, so I don't find it so funny, just stupid. However....

Faunus are half animal, half human beings that are not called animals because apparently a small extra pair of ears or night vision are enough to stop considering you human (Monty probably needed some more research on transhumanism).

That said, it could be possible, but it wouldn't be a natural Faunus. If one combines a Human with an Animal to make a half-human, half-animal hybrid or mutant, the result, thanks to the power of fiction, would be pretty similar to Faunus in that regard, though maybe without night vision and more animal traits and attitude.

However, there are 2 things to keep in mind:

1-It requires a great deal of technological advancement, unless they choose to go the Marvel/DC route and put blatant bullshit because "reasons". Why does it require such high tech? Right now, while making a "hybrid" is possible by doing just that through experiments and probably surgeries, it has only worked with a few species (like rabbits), and the results were pretty much the average human beings, no extra ears or fascination with carrots.

As such, it would require the tech to be much more advanced than ours. They need some method to effectively replace a Human's DNA with an animal, or at least add it, to an extent that actual physical and mental changes can appear.

2-With Faunus, I'm not sure but I seriously doubt it. It would involve removing part of their DNA. And could have nothing but disadvantages, including loss of internal or external organs, and vision problems, and as such no one would make such a thing. And even if it did have some practical physical advantages, let's be honest, most Faunus wouldn't like even the idea, which means no one would care enough to make it.