Faunus

Faunus (singular Faunus) are one of the five intelligent races that inhabit Remnant. While Faunus resemble Humans, they are often easily distinguishable from the latter in that they possess the traits of animals.

Snake faunus that aren't completely pure will only present more strength, speed, endurance and a better sight, with some luck, a partial immunity to poison. However, their power relays on their eyes: green eyes giving the power to create illusions, call and control snakes (including King Taijitus), extreme flexibility, paralyzing poison (on claws) and lethal poison (on fangs); red eyes giving a lot more of strength and armored skin besides extreme flexibility; blue eyes giving total immunity to poison and toxins, extreme flexibility and antidote to any poison (on claws and fangs); yellow eyes giving a far more effective paralyzing poison (on claws and fangs) and extreme flexibility; and finally purple eyes giving a way more lethal poison (on claws and fangs) besides the extreme flexibility. There is also a special case when an impure snake faunus mates with a silver-eyed warrior, they give birth to a snake faunus capable of using all of the snake eyes.

Background
Faunus are similar to Humans, except for the fact that they share certain traits with animals. Some types of Faunus are more common than others, with some being extremely rare. Faunus with mammalian traits, in general, seem to be quite common.

Some, such as Ian Belladonna and Sierra Scarlatina, have been shown to have animal ears (in these cases, those of a cat and a rabbit, respectively); Faunus with animal ears also appear to have a set of Human ears. Other Faunus like Adam Taurus have been shown to have horns protruding from their heads. Some Faunus, such as Sun Wukong and Saanvi Khan may have tails. In some cases, a Faunus may have a trait that is not immediately apparent, such as Tukson's protractible claws. Some may even have traits that augment their mobility such as Yuma's bat wings presumably granting him natural flight capabilities. Arachnid Faunus such as Tyrian and Trifa possess the ability to secrete substances natural to their Faunus heritage, such as scorpion venom and spider silk, respectively.

In general, wings and mermaid-like fishtails are rather rare, and in the case of mermaid-like Faunus, the trait can be a disability by making it hard to walk. Thus, the Shallow Sea makes life manageable for mermaid-like Faunus.

Most faunus can only have a single physical trait in common with their animal but there are some cases where they have two or three traits in common. It has been stated that most Faunus have remarkable night vision, a trait that they use to great effect in combat.

In addition, Faunus have been shown on multiple occasions to possess other non-physical traits of the animals that they are based on. One such example is food preference.

However, the rarest kind of faunus is the snake one. Snake Faunus were confounded with humans since they didn't exhibit animal traits and their development in the world was far more complicated.

Early History
The origin of the Faunus was possible for the instincts dust which was created with the dust of the humans who had a magical link with a animal, though only a few knows it and most scientists still struggle to discover or understand anything about them. Despite what some might think, though, Faunus are not in fact as old as Humans, as they were not present during the time when the gods were on Remnant, only appearing after they had left.

Humans' discrimination toward Faunus began early, due to how startling Humans found it that Faunus looked and acted like them but had animalistic features that were sometimes frightening, such as fangs. This discrimination only grew through rumors and stories that spread fear and suspicion. It was not uncommon for Humans to chase Faunus out of their villages or even to hunt them down and kill them.

At some point in history, a village in Sanus fell under attack from the Creatures of Grimm, and its survival was thanks solely to the fact that Humans and Faunus worked together to defeat the invading Grimm. After this event, Humans grew to realize that Faunus were not that different from them after all. However, rather than treating them equally, Humans used the Faunus' differences from them to exploit and continue to discriminate against them.

Great War
After the end of the Great War, the Faunus were given equal rights and the continent of Menagerie as compensation for previous treatment. Some saw the gift of Menagerie as fair and just, while others saw it as a slap in the face from sore losers. Over time, it became apparent that Humanity was adamant about centralizing all Faunus there as a form of segregation.

Faunus Rights Revolution
In recent history, Humans began countermanding the equal rights won by the Faunus in the Great War and attempted to confine all Faunus to Menagerie. The Faunus began to revolt against this, and thus the Faunus Rights Revolution began. Given that Faunus live amongst the Humans in the present day, it can be deduced that the Faunus were at least successful in both reclaiming their rights and preventing their confinement to Menagerie. While still being able to live anywhere on Remnant, including the four Kingdoms, there are Faunus who still live on Menagerie, seeing it as a safe haven.

Arise of the Beacons of Darkness
Apparently in times of peace, Salem made her first move in centuries to get the world peace she had dreamed of, the one that could only be achieved by domination. With the help of the Beacons of Darkness led by her adoptive son Duncan Crystal got to form a new empire called the Shadow Kingdom in the Darklands and in just 5 years they had the most advanced kingdom and the only one with acces to the Dark Cross Continental Transmit System created by Allan Crystal which worked with Satellites.

Also, the group Dark Redemption got a partial control of the kingdom of Vale, while the Reborn group succeded in taking control of a part of Atlas. Meanwhile the Fallen Fang got more influence in most part of Menagerie and Vacuo; the Covenant worked hard on the improvement of their forces and represented a great support to the Beacons of Darkness. Normally the Hot Road used is immunity to traffic weapons or anything the Beacons needed.

Modern Day
Today, Faunus are able to live in the Six Kingdoms, where agriculture, industry and life may continue with the new alliance with the Creatures of Grimm and the equal treatment with humans.

Thanks to the Beacons of Darkness' influence crimes and deaths had dropped drastically since everyone either respects or fear their new kings and authorities making it impossible for a faunus to be mistreated.

The world is said to be in an unprecedented state of peace, there are no racial tensions or crimes in their perfect world, the immoral practices had disappeared, as well as agitation from rebel groups.

The most poupulated kingdom by faunus is still Menagerie even though the main kingdoms are noted an increase of the faunus population in their territories and the least populated by faunus is the Shadow Kingdom.

Early History
If little is known about the origin of Faunus, snake faunus are a complete mystery. Nobody know when they first appeared but what is really complicated with them is that they don't exhibit any kind of animal trait or posses an ability, such as the camouflage of a chamaleon faunus. For centuries they lived among humans, don't even knowing they were in fact faunus, all what people knew was that there was a select group of people that was stronger, faster and with far better sight, besides resistance against toxins and poison. That group was called the "Children of God" since they were improved humans so they had good positions in society during the medieval, but this superiority feeling gave them a god complex and used their "power" to step over everyone.

Alliance Silver God
As the "Children of God" gained power and notoriety, they called the attention of another privileged group, the "Silver-Eyed Warriors", who was the opposite, as they were noble warriors that used their ocular powers to protect all of the people from the Grimm's attacks. The "Children of God" declared war against the "Silver-Eyed Warriors" in an attempt to get rid of them and be the most powerful group in Remnant, however, they were clearly in disadvantage as the silver ones had the love of the people, after years of war, the "Children of God" were finally between the wall and sword but they had one last trick, the fear they had already spread on people and they began announcing drought and catastrophes if they continued their path, quickly recovering their position but with a new perspective, the "Children of God" offered a fake mercy to the "Silver-Eyed Warriors" in an event called "The Alliance Silver God". The second group accepted but not out of fear, but to keep in line the first group from the inside.

The Cursed Eye
Many years after the alliance was formed, both of the groups fused into one officially and short after, the first children Half Child of God and Half Silver-Eyed Warrior were born and their aura were incredibly powerful and were adored by the rest of humans and faunus as the true descendants of God. The alliance "Silver God" earned even more influence in Remnant until one day, one of these new members developed green eyes that looked like the ones of a snake, they started investigating as a rare case but then all of the children started developing the eyes as well. They got more and more power with the time, developing other eyes color when they applied a different level of aura intensity in their eyes, all seemed like good news, their people had a lot more of power but the members of "Silver Eyed Warriors" thought it was terrible, with all that power, the ego of the "Children of God" increased and became even worse than before. A couple generations later the Silver God consisted of three kind of people: the one with the perfect body, the one with the perfect eyes and the perfect ones, but there was a bad news, since the second generation, the new children couldn't change their eyes color and instead had a predetermined aura intensity in their eyes, giving them just one possible color, soon it caused internal wars for dominance and racism between each other. It was obvious they couldn't coexist so each group of people with different eyes got separated and formed their own groups.

Dominance
The alliance "Silver God" dissolved into seven groups, since their eyes looked like the ones of a snake, most of them took names based on it. "Elapids" who were users of the green snake eye; "Boids" who possesed the red snake eye; "Colubrids" who could access the blue snake eye; "Pythons" who exhibit the yellow snake eye; "Viperids" who used the purple snake eye; "Silver-Eyed Warriors" who kept the original silver eyes; and finally the "Pure Ones" who didn't have any special eye but kept their improved body.

The people started believing all those groups were evil and sent by the Death so they started being hunted and executed, which ruined economically to some of the groups, but as if it wasn't bad enough, the groups declared a war between each other for dominance, the only one that didn't want a war were the "Silver-Eyed Warriors" but still got involved in it. After years the first one to be eliminated were the "Pure Ones" as they didn't stand a chance against any of the other groups and the "Silver-Eyed Warriors" dispersed as they didn't want all of them to die in the same place with no survivors like the "Pure Ones". Successively the groups fell to each other, "Colubrids" elimined "Pitonids" and "Viperids" as they had the advantage thanks to their total immunity to poison; "Boids" annihiled "Colubrids" fairly easy and there was a time of peace as the Boids didn't dare to go against "Elapids" and "Elapids" didn't want to take any risk of losing. Meanwhile the "Silver-Eyed Warriors" were executed one by one by the people that once loved them until just a small group survived because they started supressing their powers and surprisingly with their aura under control, people couldn't tell those weren't just gray eyes. Almost a century and a half later, "Elapids" finally attacked "Boids" when a leader fool enough thought their illusions were enough to defeat them, of courses he didn't consider that the "Boids" had the triple of people in their group, however "Elapids" survived but at a big cost, "Boids" weren't idiots and they targeted all of the females first so "Elapids" couldn't continue reproducing, just a few females survived but they weren't enough to save the race and soon it ended, the last pure Elapid died way before the Great War" and then the only legacy left by the legendary group were hybrids of Elapids and other kinds of faunus. Ironically, the last powerful group with a special eye ended returning to being just a "Pure One".

Spark of Power
The next generations were obsessed with recovering their powers, while others went insane and started killing each other. It just a took a few years until the last family of "Elapids" was the Ophidia family, Koba tried desperately to revive the powers of their race, having three kids with different mothers with special conditions, one was a crocodile faunus with though body, the second was an wolf faunus as he heard some rumors about them being a lot stronger than they let out (Obviously, confusing them with Lycans) and finally a strong human, getting frustrated with the last one as it was the worst of them all, not even showing the perfect body characteristics. However, this human was Summer Rose, a "Silver-Eyed Warrior" and they accidentally reactivated the powers of the snake faunus, and as the first generation, it took time to manifest the eyes and flexibility, unfortunately for the kid, since he was half human, his body suffered a temporal block in his abilities, don't allowing him to even have the body of the "Pure Ones". Years later, this boy who went by the name of Kobura Rose dominated the green eyes and after train with someone who knew the secret story of the snake faunus, he got to control all of the eyes colors.

Modern Day
The only confirmed pure snake faunus is Kobura, an elite in the society built by the Beacons, he was convinced by his girlfriend Rem to try and have a kid, saying she would be strong enough to give birth to his child, with the help of the Covenant, they get to awaken the snake eyes on the fetus, confirming a new member of the snake faunus race, since Kobura was a descendant from the "Elapids" it is a 95% probable, their child will only have access to the green snake eye. Also the Covenant analyzed the snake faunus and they have their opinions divided not knowing if they are truly faunus since they are the only kind that doesn't manifest an animal trait naturally and only do it if they get involved with a silver-eyed warrior at some point, besides the powers and abilities they get are far more developed than any snake that exist; on top of that, they have claws, something a snake couldn't have. At this point they are only called snake faunus because that's how they called themselves.