Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-31496543-20170311162705/@comment-4010415-20170318104420

GreyStark wrote: Faunus can't turn into animals.

The Branwens and Yang have never displayed any Faunus traits

Monty specifically said that there no connection whatsoever between Rub and Adams emblems or their colour schemes. Here's the quote about that point from Ruby's trivia section- "Despite sharing similar emblems and a red-and-black color scheme, Monty confirmed that Ruby and Adam Taurus are not related to each other and that their emblems differ from each other in terms of "scatter and wilt"."

Flynt, Sun and Blake all have similar semblances but there aren't related.

Odds are Qrow turning into a bird is some sort of magic ^^^^ Grey is right.

There is absolutely positively nothing connecting Faunus and being able to turn into an animal. Just because Faunus have a single physical animal trait, that does not mean they can turn into animals. It's entirely possible that Qrow being able to turn into a crow is connected to a fairy tale or legend, just like the Silver-Eyed Warriors and the Maidens, and thus is magic, not a Faunus thing.

It has been shown that people can have similar Semblances without being related, just like in Grey's example of Blake, Sun, and Flynt all having clone Semblances that function differently.

And here is the tweet from Monty Oum about how Ruby and Adam are not related. He even outright states in the tweet "Ruby and Adam are not related."