Tag: hexenbiest

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fuckyeahnickburkhardt:

YES. FINALLY. CONFIRMATION.

Being a hexenbiest fundamentally alters the mind and emotions of the person. Adalind is literally TERRIFIED of having those powers back

If this is true – can the writers try not to have the other characters constantly bash Juliette every episode? It makes it so hard to swallow as realistic given Juliette went bad over 2 episodes and then the writers made it so she can’t ever be redeemed. It feels imbalanced in the writing of Juliette vs Adalind. I know a lot of folks hated Juliette but she was fundamentally a good person at heart. So if Adalind gets the “she was only bad because HB”, then it’d be nice if the show acknowledged that with Juliette. But I guess they cannot do that because Adalind is the reason why this happened to Juliette and they are trying to make Adalind the good one now.

I hate Saint/sinner writing. 😦

Yes, this. This is all I want. If they’re going to redeem Adalind based on the notion that she wasn’t herself or wasn’t in control when she did all the terrible things she’s done, they need to stop throwing Juliette under the bus, too.

They’ve been hinting at this for a awhile I can’t help but think – what about Sean Renard? He’s a zauberbiest, which is the same thing except gendery. Renard isn’t all evil and murdery and he has his powers.

Only Renard has pointed out several times they are not the same thing, like when Juliette went to him for help after she changed.

Actually, Renard has been pretty murdery in the past. He killed people in season one, including his own cousin. He facilitated human trafficking for that horrible fighting ring until they stepped outside his rules for who they kidnapped.

He was also the mastermind behind a lot of Adalind’s early actions, including the attacks on Aunt Marie and Hank.

It was only after he underwent that purification spell to save Juliette that he started to become nicer and less shady (which he only did because she tied Nick to Portland and he wanted Nick where he could keep an eye on him and have a chance to get at the key he had).

Okay, I feel like I need to make this clear:

If being a hexenbiest just in general causes people to have no moral compass, to be violent and sadistic with no control over their actions, then both Juliette and Adalind have done bad things that they would never have done if completely in control of themselves.

(Although I think it’s important to note that Adalind did a lot of horrible things during the time when she was without her powers as well, so I’m not sure we know for certain what she would or wouldn’t do or her own free will.)

But it doesn’t make the people they’ve hurt less hurt, less angry. And it doesn’t make them any less likely to associate that pain with the person who did the hurting. Which means Nick having a relationship with Adalind would be massively unhealthy and bad for him, and probably bad for her, too.

Just like Nick having any relationship with Juliette in her current state would be bad for them both–and non-consensual, since Juliette is programmed to take orders, not make her own choices.

Ooooo interesting.

So, there’s been speculation in fandom before about how hexenbiest powers actually work and where they come from. I find the notion that it’s some inborn ability that has to be brought out by a ritual intriguing. It kind of ties it all together for me.

It also kind of plays into that idea of grimm and hexenbiest being more than just the normal level of grimm/wesen antagonism built by history, but actually some fundamentally opposing forces. They’re each other’s kryptonite, in a way, and the idea that they both also are born with the potential but have that potential realized in some specific and mysterious way just makes it seem even more like their origins might actually be similar.

I need to know more about the first grimm and the first hexenbiest, stat.