I just had a horrible thought:

Apparently, these HW people have the resources to completely erase a crime scene, bring a person back from what should have been a fatal wound, and completely reprogram someone, either through magic or good old-fashioned brainwashing techniques, to the point that they no longer even identify with the person they were before or feel anything for the people they knew in their previous life.

And we’ve talked a bit (a very small bit) about Trubel, why she’s working with them, etc. But…if they could reprogram Juliette completely in a matter of a few weeks, is there any reason they couldn’t do the same to Trubel in the months she was gone? Assuming she told Nick the truth, and they really did find her right after she left with Josh (is he even still alive????), how do we know they didn’t just lock her in that cell for months and do whatever they did to Juliette to her as well?

coldhottubcollector:

fuckyeahnickburkhardt:

…??? What? Adalind went through so much to get those powers back. I’m so… idK??????

Sorry that’s not very coherent but I think you’re picking up what I’m putting down, Grimmsters.

She also willingly gave them up. It was in the interest of self preservation, but still.

A very good point! Twice now she’s mentioned not wanting the powers back because she felt she couldn’t be a good mother with them. Which, as some others have suggested, really does make it seem as though those powers have a definite affect on the personality of the people who have them.

I think it’s safe to say hexen-suppressed Adalind is a different person in MANY ways from hexenbiest Adalind…whether through personal growth or because of the suppression itself. I’m interested to see how they build on this theme as the season goes on.

So my theory regarding hexengrimm babies (assuming such a child has even happened before this) is that normally, the grimm blood would overrule the hexenbiest and the kid would be a grimm, or even just plain human (like they almost cancel each other out, like maybe they’re opposing sides of the same magic, okay okay ignore me and my pet headcanon).

But in this case…who even knows? Because Adalind is way more than she was when Nick took her powers, and Nick is way more than HE was at that time, too. So who even knows.

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.

An Alternate Take on Trubel’s Mysterious Caller

So while ranting about Grimm with my sisters on facebook, the baby sis presented an interesting theory about Trubel’s mysterious phone call. With her permission, I am reposting the theory here (in a form more conducive to tumblr than facebook comments).

So when Trubel is in the car with Bud, a woman calls her. Not Nick. She lies to Bud and says it’s Nick, but we know it’s not. Little Sister’s theory is that it was Juliette who called Trubel, not Agent Chavez as popular fan interpretation suggests.

The basis for this theory? We saw throughout Juliette’s descent into Major Antagonist that she was conflicted at times. It was almost like there were two Juliettes: the angry, vengeful, blithely sadistic hexenbiest who liked her powers and the scared, confused, hurting woman who felt she was losing herself a little at a time. One of them wanted to be helped, to have this magic undone. The other wanted to keep the power, and use it to punish everyone who had hurt her, even her friends.

We also saw that the Juliette we know and love came most strongly to the surface in moments just after the hexenbiest had done something uncharacteristically vengeful or violent–trying to crush Adalind to death, blowing up a car, etc.

So the theory is that Juliette really was fighting hard against her hexenbiest side, but that it was too powerful for her. The hexenbiest would have gotten on that plane, but Juliette? Juliette came to the surface after Nick’s mother was dead, and she stayed long enough to do what she had to do.

She knew she was dangerous. She knew Nick could never forgive her for what she’d helped bring about. And she knew that the only hope of her being even partially cured had been destroyed. So…what if she wanted to die?

What if Trubel already knew that Juliette was a hexenbiest? What if Juliette had contacted her, turned to her in a moment of desperation when all her other friends failed her? It would certainly explain why Trubel failed to look completely fucking floored by the revelation. She barely looked surprised at all when they told her.

So Juliette comes to the surface and realizes that she’s finally done something there is no coming back from. It doesn’t matter if it wasn’t technically her or not. It feels like her. She has a feeling Nick won’t see a difference, even if she can stay in control long enough to really explain it to him.

Her only choices? Go with the Royals, and likely hurt more people…probably be used to hurt her friends again in the future. Stay in Portland and kill Nick. Or stay in Portland, and let Nick kill her. Because as far as she’s concerned, there is no option in which she gets to come back. She’s lost everything, burned every bridge.

So in a moment of lucidity, she calls Trubel. What does she say to her that makes Trubel look so grave? The conversation is short and mostly one-sided. “Listen to me. I’m going home. I know Nick will find me there. I know I can’t come back, there’s no forgiveness for what I’ve done. If he can’t do it, Trubel…I need you to.” Trubel would know what she meant. And she quietly voices her assent and hangs up. Lies to Bud, says it was Nick.

Then the confrontation at the house. Why else would she do that? Why else wouldn’t she get on that helicopter? The hexenbiest wanted revenge but she was also really gung-ho about her own survival. That ‘copter represented a chance to gather the strength to take them all out and come back next season ringing Hell’s bells in their faces. But she doesn’t do it. She goes…home. To face Nick. To tell him she didn’t mean for this to happen. To die.

She tells Nick to kill her, taunts him, attacks him…and he can’t do it. Like she knew he wouldn’t be able to, no matter what she had done. And that’s where Trubel comes in.

How else do you explain Trubel, who got so attached to Juliette, who adored Juliette, who found her harder to say goodbye to than anyone else in Portland…just putting two arrows in her chest like it’s nothing? Are we meant to believe that much has changed in the few short weeks Trubel was gone from Portland? Or does it make more sense to believe that Trubel acted completely within what we know of her character: she did what she had to do, what she was meant to do (stop dangerous Wesen and protect others), and she did it because Juliette asked her–maybe begged her–to do it if Nick couldn’t.

Personally, this is the best theory I’ve read all hiatus, and I’m not just saying that because she’s my sister. I think it actually explains a lot of things that otherwise don’t make much sense in the season four finale. Tell me what you guys think!

Character Study: Nick Burkhardt (Grimm):

lostinawop:

As a kid, Nick always felt different because he was able to notice things about other people, things no one else could see. But he made a huge effort to hide this ability, because above all he wanted to be loved and he was afraid the other kids would think he was ‘weird’. After his parents died, Nick was raised by his Aunt Marie. Nick loved his aunt, but he still longed for his mom and especially for his dad, and this feeling never really went away, as he always looked for a father figure, someone who would anchor and guide him. To complicate things, Nick and his aunt moved around quite a lot and, as a result, he grew up lacking a true sense of home. Since Aunt Marie tried very hard to hide his family heritage from him, they had no family traditions to speak of. His parents’ absence and the constant moving during his childhood and teenage years left Nick with an acute sense of helplessness, a feeling that he had no control over his life. It was partly this sense of helplessness which led him to become a cop.

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Since everyone keeps asking about my high school headcanon for Sean…

He’s not a foreign exchange student, technically, because at the end of the school year they get to go home. Sean wants to go home more than anything. He misses that big, drafty castle with its opulent furniture and hallways echoing with centuries of history. He misses his father, busy most of the time but always so jovial and glad to see him. He misses his Latin tutor and his brother and cousins.

He hates his ugly American school with its concrete walls painted in the garish school colors. The curriculum doesn’t offer Latin; it doesn’t even offer German. How anyone expects to learn anything in such a noisy, ugly place he will never comprehend.

Most of all, he hates his classmates. They’re all loud, uncouth, ill-mannered…and they keep asking him to say things over and over again, and then doing terrible imitations of his accent.

So Sean puts his head down and works very hard on eradicating every trace of Austria from his voice. At the end of a year, he sounds almost like a native. By the end of the second year, everyone seems to have forgotten that he was ever an “exotic” foreign boy.

But Sean never forgets that he was chased from his home, and he can never quite find a place in his new school…because he can’t let go of what he’s lost.

aboutnici
replied to your post “If Nick and Adalind do become a thing I might end up dying of laughter…”

Luke and Laura did it on General Hospital!

Which was also gross. Listen, I don’t care how many times it has been done (way too fucking many) or how successful it proved to be with viewers, having a rape victim fall in love with his/her rapist is fucked up in the extreme.

It’s also worth bearing in mind that possibly part of the reason this trope does have success with viewers is that like 95% of the things we’re conditioned to find romantic are part of rape culture. Sexual violence and nonconsent are endemic to heterosexual romance tropes.

That’s why people find Adalind and Nick’s behavior toward one another erotic and romantic. Not because it is in any way either, but because our cultural attitude towards sex conditions us to see violence and interpret it as passion, and to forgive/excuse/erase rapists’ crimes easily.

I also think heteronormativity comes into play in the way people ship Nick and Adalind in spite of all the very good reasons not to (and it’s not the only ship in Grimm where this is a problem, mind…just the example at hand and possibly one of the more egregious ones). Just as we’re trained to ignore sexual and romantic cues between same-sex couples and view these as exclusively platonic, we’re also trained to view all interactions between men and women in light of their romantic potential.

Intertwine heternormativity with rape culture, and we’re not trained to shut that “everything between men/women is romance or could be romance” lens off when rape becomes a part of the narrative. If anything, we’re trained to throw that right in there with all this other stuff (fighting, grabbing someone’s arm during an argument, threatening violence, enjoying causing each other pain/discomfort, etc) that should not, by any reasonable or healthy definition, be viewed as romantic.

And that. is. seriously. fucked. up.

Grimm Thoughts

rutrexing15:

fuckyeahnickburkhardt:

rutrexing15:

sexytrekkie:

I know everyone is still feeling from the whole Juliette situation, but I can’t stop thinking about the fact that the King said the Queen is dead, and then the King is murdered. Does that mean Viktor is now King? I WANT TO SEE THAT SO BAD!! He killed mayor players, the Verat…

I completely agree Viktor should be the next king. And he will be brilliant and it will be bloody. Viktor will kill anybody who challenges him for the throne. Which I imagine will happen considering that there are seven royal families and Viktor was not the related to King Fredrick. So one of more members or other families might be pissed that they weren’t tapped for next to be king. And Sean should have a legitimate claim to the throne considering he is the late king’s blood son. Even if he is a bastard he still is the son of the king meaning that he has the right to ascend to the throne. In these matters usually only the kings blood matters. So next season could be very interesting with the Royals and who is going to be the next king. I hope the writers go with this kind of story line.

If Sean challenged for the throne, he would only get it if he had the military force to essentially overthrow the Rightful King. British history is scattered with bastards and bastard cousins seven times removed who thought they had a rightful claim, but they don’t. The line of succession only goes through legitimate sons, then legitimate daughters, then it goes wider to cousins or uncles etc. Sean therefore has no rightful claim, and neither has Diana, but the Royal Family are making an exception to her because of her powers. They could also pass her off as Eric’s-through-a-secret-marriage now that he’s dead. But considering her power no one is going to put up much of a fuss.

The British royal line of succession was very complicated – a generation or so back, a King had to abdicate because he wanted to marry a divorced woman. It’s only in 2010 or thereabouts that the first British Royal married someone not of Royal blood who wasn’t a Duchess of Somewhere-or-Other. The 21st century and people were still concerned about the bloodline of the Royal Family, and they barely do anything anymore.

The rules of who gets to be King are very complicated in Britain, considering how weird monarchy is the world over, I would expect it to be the same in Austria – though their exact rules of succession are more than likely that not different to ours, they’re probably just as weird.

Of course, the rules in Grimm might be entirely different – but if Sean had a legit claim, he would have a)been included with the main family socially, which Sean says he wasn’t and b) wouldn’t be referred to as a bastard. Repeatedly. Bastards literally have no claim to their father’s estate, heritage or standing, which is why it was so shameful to be or be called one.

Knowing Grimm, they are probably going to pull a fast one and prove me wrong, though. I still don’t trust half of what comes out of Sean’s mouth.

This is a good point the only reason I think Sean has any sort of claim to the throne is because the Royals have such a weird system set up. With seven royal families and one king. Now Sean is the only one left with a direct bloodline of the King. While Viktor is should be the next in line due to how there system seems to be set up, Viktor is not related to the king (I believe I remember him calling the King Uncle but I am thinking that it is only an honorary title, might not be). Honestly I kind of expect them to have Sean try to disrupt the royals and give the resistance enough time to eliminate the some of the royal families. I don’t expect Sean to actually become King.

They never actually clarified that there was only one king, did they? There are seven families and we’ve only met/heard about one king…but then we’ve only met or heard about one of the families mostly too, so that makes sense.

I always took king to mean head of that particular royal family. There could very well be six other kings/queens/heads/top dogs, one for each of the other houses, unless I just missed something. We just haven’t heard much about them, or really much at all about the state of the Wesen world outside of Western Europe and the U.S.

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