Ooooo interesting. It appears the ghosts are appeased by Monroe’s mournful cello music. But I mean, who wouldn’t be?

The mysterious music-playing neighbor is Monroe! I KNEW IT.

Oops. I think your big yellow house is haunted, guys.

OF COURSE Juliette would look at a big, old yellow house and be like I LOVE IT. That is so her.

I am already aged, said he, my death is nigh, and I have wished to provide for you before my end. Money I have not, and what I now give you seems of little worth, but all depends on your making a sensible use of it.

Legacy

Waldsterben, Ch. 4 – Legacy

It’s strange how often things went missing, how doors would lock on their own, how all of the furniture in the living room moved about a foot to the right on its own, how the noises made him feel like there was something in the house with them.

And the idea of Adalind just doing everything she can to please her mother and make her proud just hurts.

This line:

“A bit of it [the white powder] smudged against her skin, but she refused to wipe it off, enjoying the gritty feel of it; it helped her keep Catherine’s touch in her memory longer.”

KILLS ME. Because now I’m picturing this sweet, innocent little girl who just wants her mother to be proud of her, who’s positively starved for affection and attention, doing everything she can to get any semblance of either from Catherine.

It would certainly explain a lot to me about how adamant Adalind is about being there for her children.

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.

This is incredibly sad, but I can totally see this being canon. What little we know about Adalind’s childhood and her relationship with her mother suggests she was treated more like a tool than a daughter for most of her life. I mean, her mother basically disowned her the second she lost her powers, so it just doesn’t seem that far-fetched.

Ooo it’s about a young Adalind.