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fuckyeahnickburkhardt:

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replied to your post “A WILD MEISNER APPEARS”

The only person I ever shipped Adalind with.

SAAAAME. Is it sad I have this glimmer of hope suddenly that now that he’s back, all this nonsense will be righted and they’ll end up together after all somehow?

I mean I just feel like…they brought out the best in each other, really.

How did they bring out the best in each other? They spent hardly any time together. Furthermore, Adalind resisted her Hexenbiest nature because of her love for Nick. Yes she has done some pretty awful stuff, but so has Juliette. I’d say that Juliette has done even worse stuff. She burned down the trailer, she got Kelly killed. Also, no way Meisner is just back. Unless there are a bunch of Meisner clones or something.

It’s true, they only spent a few days together. But those few days were packed with a lot. Meisner took care of Adalind. He helped her when she needed it the most, and asked her for nothing in return. I wonder how often she’s come across that in her life? Probably not often.

In the short time they spent together, they brought out a soft side in each other that we hadn’t seen before from either of them. Adalind trusted him with her life, and he didn’t let her down. I think it would be hard to say they didn’t leave a lasting impression with each other, too, considering he was thinking about her two years later, and the way she reacted when she heard his name.

As for the rest…I don’t think it’s accurate to say that Adalind resisted her Hexenbiest nature for Nick. She specifically said she wanted to be better for her unborn child. And to say that Juliette did worse things than Adalind is just…Juliette never raped anyone, I’ll leave it at that.

Here’s the thing about culpability: if Juliette is fully to blame for everything she did as a hexenbiest, then so is Adalind. But if you go with what the writers have done as of last season, being a hexenbiest in general–not just under the weird magical circumstances that led to Juliette’s transformation–causes a person to do horrible things that they would never do without that destructive influence. Which means if Adalind isn’t culpable for her actions while she was a hexenbiest, neither is Juliette.

But Adalind is still culpable for everything she did while she wasn’t a hexenbiest. Which included, in case anyone has forgotten, putting that gross spell on Juliette and Sean that, if it hadn’t been reversed, would have literally caused them to basically rape each other to death against their will. Oh, and also planning to sell her baby to people she didn’t know and who would do god knows what to it in order to get those powers back.

Juliette is no perfect saint, but there is both textual and subtextual proof that she is not fully culpable for her actions after she was transformed into a hexenbiest. Whereas Adalind? Lost her powers and kept right on doing things just as bad as she did when she had them.

But far more interesting to me is why comments about Adalind always, always end up getting replies that are about how Juliette is somehow worse. Even when the comment that was made isn’t remotely derogatory, accusatory, or otherwise negative toward Adalind. Like seriously…why is that?