Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-15374346-20130909001222/@comment-5482419-20130909072801

What about this: Faunus = male, Fauna = female, Faun = gender-neutral, Faunae = plural. That's how I've been doing it in these discussions.

Anyway, in regard to what's been said so far, I agree that Faunae are probably a widely varied bunch as to what degree of animal they are or appear to be - not just regarding aura, but the physical traits as well. One of the talking points that came up in "Blake's Humanity" is the likelihood of a Faun having two sets of ears, one animal pair and one human pair. I suggested that some Faunae have animal ears and some don't, the exact number depending on how genetic inheritance affected that particular trait; but barring the influence of toxic waste (and who knows, Dust may very well qualify), each Faun has only one set.

Aura might work the same way. In some Faunae the human side of their aura is stronger, and in others the animal presence is stronger; and in still others the two are more or less equal. Alternatively, the side that is stronger may be "the one you feed;" Blake alluded to two souls vying for control of one body, implying the outcome may at least in part be a consciously controllable decision.

--Signed, your resident overanalyst--