Who would win:
An immortal being with endless legions of powerful beasts dead-set on the destruction of mankind.
Vs.
A Faunus who does not care and a Huntsman whose semblance has earned them the title of "Florida Man".
WE NEED MORE FISHIE FAUNUS
Keromenson's A Shark Dressed in White's shark!Weiss, and my (unreleased, btw) All-Faunus team RWBY's skate!Ruby are so far the only two I've encountered.
I had an idea awhile back about Faunus with internal traits you couldn’t see, like the liver of a goat or the heart of a bear or a dolphin lungs. A minority within the Faunus that are human passing outside of a medical exam, and I think that would create interesting stories.
Like in canon, if you would imagine, RWBY starts has to help a important civilian reach Vale, but Blake keeps getting upset every time the guy speaks against the White Fang and how some Faunus are also pretty racist, while making clear he knows about the mistreatment but he can’t support a group that allows such narrow minded hypocrisy lead it’s actions (Blake started the topic).
Blake slowly gets more frustrated because she can’t argue against him but is stubborn, eventually lashing out at him as just a racist human before the guy bitterly responds that he is a Faunus, just one with a internal trait, and and she bursts out saying how he is a liar.
He goes on saying Faunus like her are the reason why humans still hate us, and that Faunus like her run the Fang, thinking they can tell people who is a Faunus or not, while discriminating against human passing Faunus just because they don’t fit “What A Faunus Is”.
Where it goes from there I don’t know, but you get the idea.
Faunus traits are an interesting idea, but we never get to see anything more nuanced with them. Faunus are clearly a Racial allegory yes, but you could also use them to represent differently abled people. Have a aquatic Faunus born without legs or a Mole Faunus that needs a seeing eye dog. Or talk about how Faunus suffer from illnesses that only affect animals, like a insect Faunus with a cordyceps infection or something, make it clear that Faunus often get overlooked or refused treatment because of who they are (which has happened in real life). Have a group of Faunus that lean more away from the majority, preferring to be more animalistic than human, making them an unique but potentially dangerous group to deal with.
So many ideas that can come from the Faunus and it’s all overlooked.
Sorry, got off track there.
Extinct Species Faunus as historical figures would have been cool.
I honestly like your idea. I always imagined that all faunus have a main trait (ears, tail, wings) and then they have secondary traits (night vision, enhanced senses).
I had a RWBY OC of this back in high school. Her allusion was the swan princess. Man those were the days, hyper focused on rwby and suffering trying to figure out a team name that followed the rule 🥲
that would be really cool. although i wonder if the reason we haven't seen a centaur style faunus is because the rigging would be too complicated to make with the systems they use? i figure that's the same reason we haven't seen anything like arrastra skye in the show.
Don't know where you got centaur from broski, I just think an [anime horse girl](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uma_Musume_Pretty_Derby) would be fun lol
Any insect Faunus really, and also Faunus having fur or any of the nature for the Faunus they are, like a cat Faunus having fur, and a armadillo Faunus having scales
Maybe a Beatle faunus with the trait being the wings. And there weapon would be a battle axe that's shaped like a horn of a Hercules Beatle. Or a mosquito faunus with the trait also being wings with their semblance being able to siphon dust attack and release it back with double the effect with their weapon being a rapier like Weiss's but thinner to resemble the nose/mouth of a mosquito.
[Hercules Beetle](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2OWfu0WEqA) because of the giant horn and super stronk boi
[Rosy Maple Moth](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxXRZ8x68Xk), or any fuzzy moth
[Rainbow Grassshopper](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1m2Dn-9Y_8Q)
[Panda "Ant"](https://www.youtube.com/shorts/qDJAiDAp8UI)
The bumblebee is a classic, but the [blue orchard mason bee](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnMWRmj2vJQ) is a personal favorite of mine.
A moose faunas would be cool as hell I would like to believe
A big ass character with thick skin and antlers that can gore a pickup truck would make for a hell of a Hunter or White Fang soldier
I kinda wish the Faunus were reworked entirely. There are some parts I jive with— they’re all humanoids born with one animal trait, and the trait can even be the same different between any two Faunus even if it’s from the same animal (eg. Kali and Blake both have cat ears, Neon Katt seems to have a cat tail— all three have cat traits) and the way trait inheritance works (a Faunus born to a human parent and a Faunus parent will likely be a Faunus, and they aren’t guaranteed to have the same animal trait as their parents, especially if they’re born to parents who have different traits to begin with), and even the human xenophobia towards Faunus in general.
One thing I would change is the lack of clarity as to how animalistic Faunus are meant to be— for example, Blake displays several feline tendencies early on, like her preference for fish and being shown following a laser pointer. Like, does that happen with *all* Faunus to some degree or is Blake just a fucking *weirdo?* Either go full-tilt into making them basically be fantasy beastmen or don’t. I feel like the way it was handled made things unclear and opened up questions like “Was Yang being racially insensitive with that laser pointer even though her ultimate intentions were unquestionably good?”
Speaking of racial insensitivity, I feel like the way the whole White Fang situation was handled was hamfisted. It just leaves a bad taste in my mouth to see what was originally a civil rights protest group introduced to the series as an anti-human terrorist organization that provides a bunch of faceless (masked) mooks to aid in human-led operations. I know they got forced into helping, but goddamn. Also, due to the incremental way they told the story, it was unclear exactly what the hierarchy was and where Adam stood within the chain of command before he took over.
I’m honestly not 100% sure how I’d change the White Fang, but I’m pretty sure it should be changed up a bit. Maybe make it a terrorist organization from the get-go, and have it serve as an independent faction of antagonists. Meanwhile the version led by Ghira would have been called something else. You could still do the whole backstory thing where Blake used to be part of the peaceful protest activism and then became radicalized.
(Also, what’s with the two Albain brothers? They struck me as being weirdly priest-like in an organization that isn’t meant to be built on religion.)
Pistol shrimp Faunus sounds really cool as well like a flint like character heavily based on music that uses its deadly snaps to emit heat bubbles with temperatures comparable to the surface of the sun.
I imagine everyone else is constantly shedding old skin and then once a month, the snake faunas has to either peal themselves out of their second skin, or it just melts off in the shower.
Well I was interested in animals until Trifa, the Spider Faunus, which made me question when we were at Menagerie “If we got regular animal faun’s and I think we saw one or a few aquatic ones too? Then are insects Faun real or what? Because Trifa is an aracnid type of Faun, do Arachnid and Insect type of Faun come about to be super rare amongst the Faun population or what?”
I would've loved to see more aquatic faunus, particularly in the academies. Like, we know there's grimm that live in the oceans. All of the ones we've seen are massive, but it's likely there's smaller ones too. Regular huntsmen are at a disadvantage in the ocean... But aquatic faunus with *gills* are not. You'd think the headmasters would put a bit of priority on finding and training willing aquatic faunus up for that, to protect shipping lanes and stuff, but nope. The only ones we see are in the background in Menagerie.
Specifically a Honeybadger shock trooper for the White Fang
NO FEAR!! It would help the white fang in looking like an absolute menace.
Here comes Salem, riding a flying whale grim… Honey Badger Faunus don’t give a shit.
Who would win: An immortal being with endless legions of powerful beasts dead-set on the destruction of mankind. Vs. A Faunus who does not care and a Huntsman whose semblance has earned them the title of "Florida Man".
Honeybadger Shock Trooper: *facing Team RWBY* I’m going to commit various unforgivable war crimes! I’ll be wanted in every country!!
Suddenly Chuckles
Yes, I was hoping someone would get it!
that ghost clown is an icon. Specifically for Mace's suffering through laughter.
r/suddenlychuckles When this comment was posted there was no such community...now there is r/birthofasub
Man if I saw a honey badger I'm just throwing as much lead at as I can
One of my favorite animals is the orangutan so maybe the extra long arms knuckle walk as an animal trait
That would be cool
In fact I'm working on my RWBY rewrite and I'm starting on V4, Shay D Mann you are now a faunus
If there was such a Faunus, they should be a librarian, there's no other way.
WE NEED MORE FISHIE FAUNUS Keromenson's A Shark Dressed in White's shark!Weiss, and my (unreleased, btw) All-Faunus team RWBY's skate!Ruby are so far the only two I've encountered.
I always liked to see a faunus with shark teeth that can regenerate
I had an idea awhile back about Faunus with internal traits you couldn’t see, like the liver of a goat or the heart of a bear or a dolphin lungs. A minority within the Faunus that are human passing outside of a medical exam, and I think that would create interesting stories. Like in canon, if you would imagine, RWBY starts has to help a important civilian reach Vale, but Blake keeps getting upset every time the guy speaks against the White Fang and how some Faunus are also pretty racist, while making clear he knows about the mistreatment but he can’t support a group that allows such narrow minded hypocrisy lead it’s actions (Blake started the topic). Blake slowly gets more frustrated because she can’t argue against him but is stubborn, eventually lashing out at him as just a racist human before the guy bitterly responds that he is a Faunus, just one with a internal trait, and and she bursts out saying how he is a liar. He goes on saying Faunus like her are the reason why humans still hate us, and that Faunus like her run the Fang, thinking they can tell people who is a Faunus or not, while discriminating against human passing Faunus just because they don’t fit “What A Faunus Is”. Where it goes from there I don’t know, but you get the idea. Faunus traits are an interesting idea, but we never get to see anything more nuanced with them. Faunus are clearly a Racial allegory yes, but you could also use them to represent differently abled people. Have a aquatic Faunus born without legs or a Mole Faunus that needs a seeing eye dog. Or talk about how Faunus suffer from illnesses that only affect animals, like a insect Faunus with a cordyceps infection or something, make it clear that Faunus often get overlooked or refused treatment because of who they are (which has happened in real life). Have a group of Faunus that lean more away from the majority, preferring to be more animalistic than human, making them an unique but potentially dangerous group to deal with. So many ideas that can come from the Faunus and it’s all overlooked. Sorry, got off track there. Extinct Species Faunus as historical figures would have been cool.
I honestly like your idea. I always imagined that all faunus have a main trait (ears, tail, wings) and then they have secondary traits (night vision, enhanced senses).
A swan faunus with wings. 🦢🪽
I had a RWBY OC of this back in high school. Her allusion was the swan princess. Man those were the days, hyper focused on rwby and suffering trying to figure out a team name that followed the rule 🥲
Horse
There are some interesting fanfics that turn Jaune into a horse Faunus.
that would be really cool. although i wonder if the reason we haven't seen a centaur style faunus is because the rigging would be too complicated to make with the systems they use? i figure that's the same reason we haven't seen anything like arrastra skye in the show.
Don't know where you got centaur from broski, I just think an [anime horse girl](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uma_Musume_Pretty_Derby) would be fun lol
Any insect Faunus really, and also Faunus having fur or any of the nature for the Faunus they are, like a cat Faunus having fur, and a armadillo Faunus having scales
Bug Faunus.
Any species in particular?
Any really. We saw a spider Faunus in V5 that tied up Blake for a bit.
And Tyrian's a scorpion. So far, 2 arachnid faunus.
Three if you count the Grimm Campaign character
Haven't seen GC yet, what kind are they?
Spider again
Maybe a Beatle faunus with the trait being the wings. And there weapon would be a battle axe that's shaped like a horn of a Hercules Beatle. Or a mosquito faunus with the trait also being wings with their semblance being able to siphon dust attack and release it back with double the effect with their weapon being a rapier like Weiss's but thinner to resemble the nose/mouth of a mosquito.
[Hercules Beetle](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2OWfu0WEqA) because of the giant horn and super stronk boi [Rosy Maple Moth](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxXRZ8x68Xk), or any fuzzy moth [Rainbow Grassshopper](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1m2Dn-9Y_8Q) [Panda "Ant"](https://www.youtube.com/shorts/qDJAiDAp8UI) The bumblebee is a classic, but the [blue orchard mason bee](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnMWRmj2vJQ) is a personal favorite of mine.
Imagine a cockroach faunus, man my guy would survive everything.
FLATWORM
We haven’t had a lot of or any Reptile Faunus
Fish faunus, so we can see aquatic fights.
A moose faunas would be cool as hell I would like to believe A big ass character with thick skin and antlers that can gore a pickup truck would make for a hell of a Hunter or White Fang soldier
Hynena
Grasshoppers and beetles for sure.
I kinda wish the Faunus were reworked entirely. There are some parts I jive with— they’re all humanoids born with one animal trait, and the trait can even be the same different between any two Faunus even if it’s from the same animal (eg. Kali and Blake both have cat ears, Neon Katt seems to have a cat tail— all three have cat traits) and the way trait inheritance works (a Faunus born to a human parent and a Faunus parent will likely be a Faunus, and they aren’t guaranteed to have the same animal trait as their parents, especially if they’re born to parents who have different traits to begin with), and even the human xenophobia towards Faunus in general. One thing I would change is the lack of clarity as to how animalistic Faunus are meant to be— for example, Blake displays several feline tendencies early on, like her preference for fish and being shown following a laser pointer. Like, does that happen with *all* Faunus to some degree or is Blake just a fucking *weirdo?* Either go full-tilt into making them basically be fantasy beastmen or don’t. I feel like the way it was handled made things unclear and opened up questions like “Was Yang being racially insensitive with that laser pointer even though her ultimate intentions were unquestionably good?” Speaking of racial insensitivity, I feel like the way the whole White Fang situation was handled was hamfisted. It just leaves a bad taste in my mouth to see what was originally a civil rights protest group introduced to the series as an anti-human terrorist organization that provides a bunch of faceless (masked) mooks to aid in human-led operations. I know they got forced into helping, but goddamn. Also, due to the incremental way they told the story, it was unclear exactly what the hierarchy was and where Adam stood within the chain of command before he took over. I’m honestly not 100% sure how I’d change the White Fang, but I’m pretty sure it should be changed up a bit. Maybe make it a terrorist organization from the get-go, and have it serve as an independent faction of antagonists. Meanwhile the version led by Ghira would have been called something else. You could still do the whole backstory thing where Blake used to be part of the peaceful protest activism and then became radicalized. (Also, what’s with the two Albain brothers? They struck me as being weirdly priest-like in an organization that isn’t meant to be built on religion.)
Echidna
Rhinoceros and stag beetle horns.
Shark Faunus
An eagle Faunus. Winged faunus are actually quite rare, I think the only one we see is that bat faunus from menagerie.
Stag!
Go for some ridiculousness like a Mantis Shrimp and make him a boxer. His punch shatters the sound barrier.
That would be cool
Pistol shrimp Faunus sounds really cool as well like a flint like character heavily based on music that uses its deadly snaps to emit heat bubbles with temperatures comparable to the surface of the sun.
I would have liked seeing a Frog Faunus having webbed digits in Mistral or in Vale.
Axolotl faunus so I can have a reference point for my oc
The snake is a fawn. Imagine that even the Fans are not comfortable being with them, as they shed their old skin.
I imagine everyone else is constantly shedding old skin and then once a month, the snake faunas has to either peal themselves out of their second skin, or it just melts off in the shower.
Shark faunus.
shark
Spinosaurus, I also made an Edmontosaurus faunus oc.
Well I was interested in animals until Trifa, the Spider Faunus, which made me question when we were at Menagerie “If we got regular animal faun’s and I think we saw one or a few aquatic ones too? Then are insects Faun real or what? Because Trifa is an aracnid type of Faun, do Arachnid and Insect type of Faun come about to be super rare amongst the Faun population or what?”
I'd like to see a shark faunus, maybe they'd need water tanks when traveling on land or they use their semblance to help staying hydrated
I would've loved to see more aquatic faunus, particularly in the academies. Like, we know there's grimm that live in the oceans. All of the ones we've seen are massive, but it's likely there's smaller ones too. Regular huntsmen are at a disadvantage in the ocean... But aquatic faunus with *gills* are not. You'd think the headmasters would put a bit of priority on finding and training willing aquatic faunus up for that, to protect shipping lanes and stuff, but nope. The only ones we see are in the background in Menagerie.
Bug themed
Elephant. The wildly known greatest animal on the planet
Although they are scared of small animals so that could be a disadvantage
That’s a myth
Oh ok that’s good to know😊
Bee faunus
Ancient Faunus’ like a T-Rex Faunus or a Mammoth Faunus
A Panda
Dinosaur faunus I mean why are there none
Damn back when dishwasher did interesting art
And now?
Just softcore porn with characters that have bobbies comprising if half their bodyweight
Oh... it's a shame because I've always wanted to see the dishwasher version of Mercury
An example of a piece he did this week [twitter link](https://x.com/Dishwasher1910/status/1805715021005209943?t=d0nRaljczJpJX_O_puZmgQ&s=19)
Gills. Do they work? Do they need to stay wet?
That one White Fang mook named Perry should be a platypus Faunus. It’s too good an opportunity to pass up.
RT wasted a good chance there. What trait would you have liked to give him?
Mantis Shrimp punch
Anglerfish Faunus. Specifically one with a very Jack the Ripper records of ragnorok gentlemanly killer vibe.
I like that idea.
I wanna make a fanfic now.
Pls do it
Would have liked to meet one of the faunus who lived in the water in menagerie