Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-14909251-20170522044827

I was thinking about the fact that RT at one point said that we may have already seen a character that was half Faunus and half human. At the time many speculated it was Yang on account of Raven, her mother, wearing a Grimm mask similar to those worn by White Fang. More recently there was speculation it was Blake. Neither of those seems so plausible now given Qrow is Raven's twin brother and Blake's father is the former leader of the White Fang and current leader of Menagerie.

Since we know a half-Faunus is going to apparently just look like a human or like a Faunus, it means there is no reason to automatically rule out Sun and we don't know anything about his family unlike many other characters. However, what made me focus on this particularly is that would go a long way towards explaining some things about him.

Back at the end of Volume 1 Sun referred to the White Fang as "holier-than-thou creeps" and it has been suggested this is due to Vacuo's more permissive atmosphere. Yet, this actually makes even more sense if Sun is also not a full-blooded Faunus. He spoke of the White Fang as if it was a personal issue he had with them or, more accurately, they with him. No doubt the White Fang in its current orientation would not take kindly to half-breeds and see themselves as superior or consider such individuals lessers, perhaps even lesser than regular humans.

Were the White Fang to have any presence in Vacuo then it could be Sun personally experienced harassment from them or witnessed harassment from them towards one or both of his parents. This would be enough to explain his attitude regarding the group and maybe in some part play into his overall delinquency as a form of acting out from being disdained by both human and Faunus. 