I would rather Nick be single, or else be involved for some new character. But since the writers so clearly set it up that it would either be Juliette or Adalind (and confirmed this in interviews) I guess what I’m saying is that I understand why people would ship Nick and Adalind. I don’t like it, what she did was gross and wrong, but the entire thing with all three of them is so messed up and not handled very well by the show.

I wouldn’t want Nick to suddenly become involved with a new character here at the very end. That would seem…cheap and rushed and out-of-nowhere, to me. There wouldn’t really be time to develop the character or the relationship well and take care of all the other stuff they need to answer and deal with.

I will say this: I do understand why people would ship Nick and Adalind, both before and after the rape at the end of season 3. I understand as in comprehend, not as in agree with, support, condone, or ship it myself.

I understand it for two reasons: 1) we are trained from birth by the things we see portrayed in media to process antagonism, dominance, violence, and aggression as evidence of passion rather than abuse, and 2) we are not trained to think critically about the importance and nature of true consent, or to see men as potential victims of rape and women as potential perpetrators.

I can also definitely agree that the show hasn’t handled either relationship perfectly or even very well, and they definitely screwed up with the way they explained hexenbiest powers and the way they supposedly affect people. They broke their own continuity in that regard, and they’ve made it so their two main contenders for Nick’s affections at the end are a woman who doesn’t deserve him and a woman he doesn’t deserve.

Nadalind as a ship is unsalvageable from the standpoint of being healthy or positive in any way. Even if you argue that she did what she did under duress and because she was a hexenbiest, there are things in canon that contradict both conclusions and it doesn’t change the fact that Nick was still violated.

And even as much as I love Silverhardt, I can fully acknowledge that the writers would have to do a whole lot of work to make anything between them remotely healthy again…work I’m not convinced they really have time to do. Nick’s tendency to deceive Juliette and dismiss her feelings whenever convenient for him was a problem from like the third or fourth episode of the first season, and one they’ve never fully addressed.

Still, at the end of the day I know it’s going to be one or the other of the two. And in that context, I can wrap my head around Nick ending up with someone he needs to work on his relationship with over his ending up someone who literally raped him as well as one of his best friends, any day of the week.