Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-4830106-20130810030606/@comment-24994749-20140628220833

I might be wrong with my low impression of the Renmant humans, but while faunus seem to have no legal constraints preventing them to walk around freely on the streets or attending higher level academies (like Beacon), they are also still reclaiming things like civil rights, being under paid in comparison to humans, refused service at shops and being openly bullied because of their race with none moving a finger to stand up or looking surprised, so I wouldn't put it past a human royalty to refuse to acknowledge a faunus one. I agree that, in our present world having all the governments agree on not to recognise one would be nearly impossible but when you reduce the number of countries to 4 and add a recent history of racism from the ruling linage of those 4 countries, then it doesn't sound so unlikely.

And I wouldn't even be sure about the education part. Beacon does accept faunus and, unless Velvet's backstory reveals she got there in some other form, lower combat schools should do it too for a faunus to be able to arrive to Beacon level to begin with. But this could totally depend on how the education system of the Kingdom of Vale works. It could be totally Ozpin's decision to allow faunus (the history class had a certain pro-faunus undertone when the teacher was speaking about the war) like how Lupin got to attend Hogwarts in Harry Potter because Dumbledore happened to be the principal and he wasn't a jerk to werewolves.