Talk:Blake Belladonna/@comment-14051892-20130803140706/@comment-10390252-20130805203737

I, personally, think that this is going to be the key to the Schnee Dust Corporation's "controversial labour forces". They genetically engineered a race of humans with animal genes (which sometimes express themselves as animal body parts like horns or ears). Because these beings were very obviously not 'human', they could be treated as expendable slaves because, by definition, they had no 'human' rights.

That worked perfectly fine up until they started fighting back, getting media savvy (protesting in front of the media) and, in the case of White Fang, beginning to bleed the SDC by attacking its commercial interests.

In my headcanon, the Fauna don't all have enhanced abilities over human baselines, nor do they all have recognisable 'animal' body parts. Some have one of the other, some have both and some have neither. The point is that, as they are genetically distinct from humans, a massive legal struggle is ongoing with the SDC insisting that they are no more 'human' or deserving of legal rights than draft animals (even a comparison with animals was fought by the SDC's lawyers as their bosses didn't want the expense of meeting animal welfare legislation).