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Now our Jujubiest(OMG, i love say this, hahaha ) was gone, which female Grimm character do you guys think could be so perfect for our Avenger Grimm ? If a cossover was possible, I think Felicity, from Arrow, could be SO perfect for Nick, OMG *-* But for now… I am really in doubt between Adalind or Trubel(and here I go again with my obsession for Nick and Trubel, hahaha )

I personally can’t ship and will never condone Nick having a romantic relationship with Adalind, because she raped him at the end of season three (and in general has done nothing but harm and seek to harm him and those he cares about since the day they met). I don’t ship him with Trubel either, because they’re at least ten years apart in age, she’s very young (like 22), and he’s her mentor and in some ways her rescuer…it would be a power imbalance that I just couldn’t get over, and Trubel wouldn’t be in a position to give good consent under those circumstances.

And honestly I think it would take a very long time for Nick to come to a place where he’s ready to move on from Juliette. I mean…they were together for years. He loved her. He wanted to marry her. They saw each other every day, and were an integral part of each other’s lives for a long time. Not to mention he will probably always feel at least partially responsible for what happened to her. She was killed right in front of him, and she died drowning in her own blood, in his arms. That’s not something you get over really quickly, and I hope the writers realize that and give Nick the time he needs to really heal.

Not to mention, just from a personal perspective, I could definitely use a break from all the relationship drama on the show. There’s so much actual, interesting plot they haven’t even touched on. What about the keys? The coins? All the dire things hinted at in the first season and throughout the subsequent seasons, to do with the royals and the structure of the Wesen world, and the reasons Renard wanted Nick on his side?

For that matter, what about Renard’s entire character arc and all the stuff we don’t know about him yet? His hidden motivations? His ties to the Resistance? Oh yeah, hey! What about the resistance! And what’s going to happen with the royals now that–as far as we know–the entire line has been wiped out except for Diana and Sean? The last thing this show needs is another season of supernatural pregnancies and magic-fueled breakups. There’s plenty of plot to go around, if the writers will just use it.

Then there’s the fact that Nick’s dual jobs are both, on their own, not conducive to healthy, stable relationships. Being a homicide detective is a hard, dangerous job with long hours and constant uncertainty. That would put strain on any relationship, without the added layers of danger, duplicity, brutality, and secrecy being a Grimm brings to the table. I don’t see Nick just up and meeting someone who’s willing and able to handle all of that, who he’s willing to trust and get close to, any time soon. The odds are against him.

Every state is different when it comes to licenses. In Washington state where I live, it’s the last name and then below it is the first and middle names. Then in Texas they don’t even put the weight down. But the way the picture of Monroe’s license looks, it does appear Monroe is his last name. We typically don’t put commas after first names. I don’t know. Maybe Monroe just likes going by his last name. It’ll likely remain a mystery for some time.

I think canon has pretty much Jossed that tie-in photo, tbh. I mean…you have Frank and Alice (his parents) calling him Monroe. When’s the last time you met parents who called their child by his last name? That would be highly unusual.

Then you have their wedding. To be honest I think that was meant to be both a tease and a reveal, because prior to that, there was still some debate over whether Monroe was his first or last name (I mean, his parents could just be really weird right?).

But then you have the officiator at their wedding announcing them as Monroe and Rosalee…and we never get a last name. Which suggests by literally everything we know about names and weddings that we got both their first names but had the last name withheld (it also suggests that Rosalee took his last name, which means we have no idea what her last name is now as well).

So to me at least, that makes the tie-in photo explicitly non-canonical. His first name is Monroe. Will they ever tell us his last name? Well they made us wait three seasons to find out Wu’s first name and whether Monroe was even his first or last name or not…so somehow I see them drawing this little mystery out as long as they reasonably can.

Does Monroe even have a name other than Monroe? I mean, didn’t even his parents call him Monroe? I can’t remember.

They’ve never explicitly told us what Monroe’s other name is. We’re not even completely certain whether Monroe is a first name or a last name, although his parents calling him Monroe certainly seems to suggest it’s his first.

Which means not only do we not know Monroe’s last name, if Rosalee took his name when they got married we now have no idea what her last name is, either!

The whole “Eddie Monroe” thing goes back to the very start of Grimm fandom. There was some kind of behind-the-scenes feature in which his name was referenced as Eddie, but both the writers and Silas have since said that it is not canon, it was never canon…it was something a producer did for some strange reason.

As far as anyone but The Powers That Be (and his parents, I guess) know, he’s just Monroe.

You said you needed fic recs? Have you read Hotel California?

I have not! Although it was on a list I made of things I might want to read at some point, so congrats! Your rec just bumped it to the top!

So next week will be Hotel California by VampirePam, which is seven chapters long, so that will take us to almost to the end of August. In the meantime, I’d still love any of your fic recs, Grimmsters! We still have over two months of Ficblog Fridays to go after Hotel California, after all!

I’m the anon who dislikes Juliette (thanks for not hating me!) I agree about the pushing us to hate her and about Nick needing some sense of normalcy. About him being better off without her though maybe he wouldn’t have been at the start of the season (putting aside personal opinion, that would’ve ruined him) or at any other point but at the end of the season with the writers pushing her so hard in that direction and all she did, I think he’s better off not being with someone who caused him pain

I hear you, anon. A person who hurts you repeatedly and takes pleasure in it is not a person you want to stay in a relationship with. And although I think the nature of human interactions is that we inevitably cause each other pain at times, I do think that if Juliette survives, Nick might forgive her for the things she did but they could never be the way they were again, even if they actually talked everything out and both admitted the places they were at fault and the places they weren’t.

One could also argue it the other way, though: Juliette would have been better off without Nick. She would have been better off not being with someone who lied to her, repeatedly put her life in danger, dismissed her emotions whenever they weren’t convenient for him, and caused her a lot of physical harm as well as emotional pain for several years.

Their relationship was very cute at times, but at others it was one-sided and extremely unhealthy, since the very first season. Nick’s greatest flaw is his self-absorption and avoidance, while Juliette’s is/was that if she loved someone, she would be too accommodating of their wants and needs, to the point of ignoring her own. It was a toxic combination that would have torn them apart eventually, in my opinion. Her transformation and all that followed just hastened things along.

I’m still not over the fact that Juliette burned down Nick’s aunts trailer, I mean that’s his whole family history and all he has left of his aunt. It still hurts me (mainly cause of all of those books that went up in flames).

Believe me, the sight of all those books going up in flames hurt me too…but then I started to think about it a little more. Yeah, it’s the Grimms’ history…but a lot of it is a history of remorseless, unforgiving brutality and ruthless murder.

The Grimms are not a long line of people like Nick, remember. They weren’t feared because they were reasonable and compassionate. Even Nick has been shown at times to be horrified and disgusted by his ancestors’ actions.

So…on the one hand yes, Juliette burned down his trailer full of vital information but on the other, she didn’t by any means burn his family history. Nick’s family history is his memories of his aunt and his father and mother, most of which actually had nothing to do with the Wesen world and the Grimm legacy. 

There’s actually no reason whatsoever to think Nick had nothing of his family other than what was in that trailer. The “normal” things, like photo albums, cherished memories of the childhood he had with Marie? I doubt they were there. Why would they be? And why on earth would he value his family’s long history of blood and brutality over that?