Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-30231626-20161015043220/@comment-5226885-20161016171542

SomeoneYouUsedToKnow wrote: Mandalorkian wrote: The headcanon I came up with to support this is that Jaune is of mixed heritage (human/faunus), with a rabbit-faunus mother. This would help explain his having seven sisters, who I also think may all be rabbit-fauna. 1-Having a rabbit symbol doesn't mean he is a rabbit faunus, not at all.

2-You don't need to be part rabbit to have many children. I have a friend with dozens of uncles and aunts, and I'm pretty sure his family is human.

Maybe his hiding it was similar to Blake's reasoning, except that it was his mixed heritage he wanted hidden. Except that no one would ever assume that X person is a half-faunus simply for having a rabbit symbol.

Cardin has a bird symbol, and so does his team. No one thinks they're faunus.

I know that there is no guarantee, but the speculation thread I read before also mentioned that Monty Oum had said that there was a person already introduced who was of mixed heritage. With the speculation that the symbol was a rabbit, I simply connected Jaune's possible symbol, his known family information, and the words of Monty Oum to mean that Jaune is possibly that person of mixed heritage. Besides, Monty explained that if a human and a faunus have a child together, the child would be either human or faunus, not a hybrid. Thus, Jaune would be genetically human and no one would guess at his faunus heritage without evidence.

Having more than three children was a common occurence in families across the world (in cultures that could support that many), but we don't know the norm for Remnant. Perhaps the Kingdoms, living within a limited safe space, would have the norm be 1-3 children for every couple, so that the population doesn't rise too fast and cause a shortage of supplies, but stay at a safe level that replenishes the losses from Grimm and crime. I always thought that 3 children were the safest maximum for parents to have, based on being the middle of three, but it's true that there were families with much more. I think my paternal grandfather had several siblings more than me, but apparently my paternal grandparents suggested my parents stop after their third. And my grandparents only had two children, eight years apart. So the matter isn't just about the number of children being the norm, but also fertility. Rabbits are associated with fertility and Jaune has seven sisters, so his parents having eight children seems very fertile to me. We may have different ideas of normality based on our knowledge and experiences, but I just see Jaune having such a large family as being indicative of his possible Faunus heritage.

It's true that not everyone with an animal symbol is a faunus and vice versa, but I simply took all the above information and thought, "why not?" Until we know for absolutely certain through either the RT crew or the show, we can guess all we want.