10-03-2017, 05:01 AM
(10-03-2017, 04:10 AM)irukandji Wrote:The mental institutions were telling her she was crazy and had to be locked up. Nick was telling her she wasn't and wouldn't. She can't stop being a grimm anymore than a wesen can stop woging under strenuous circumstances. She's had years of having to defend herself from those that attacked her. Now she knows and understands why she's had several tough years. I can understand why she didn't just fold her hands and do nothing. Nick could have told his aunt that being a Grimm wasn't in him and simply go back to being a cop and pretend he wasn't seeing what he saw. For a while he tried a modified version of this stance and failed. Trubel didn't have the luxury of being a newly formed Grimm seeing wesen for the first time.All she's known is years of killing just to stay alive. Once you become a Grimm, you can't switch it off. How do you expect someone with Trubel's background to suddenly become passive after six or seven years of killing? What kind of therapy could she go though to undo years of trauma while trying to force her to turn a blind eye against those wesen who are doing awful things?(10-02-2017, 09:54 PM)syscrash Wrote:Quote:I liked her, but I didn't particularly care for her story arc. In other words, the troubled teenager who's only alternative was to become a grimm. She had enough of a troubled past and violence. Nick and Juliette really screwed that up by not trying to give her a more normal life.The problem I see with that position is it does not address that fact. Trubel is a Grimm. She will always be a Grimm and what she does is normal. Even Nick who started of as a pacifist. As time went on he to became more of a Dēcapitāre. To me it was the episode where Nick killed Kenneth that Nick became just like Trubel. At that point he was over his aversion to killing.That was really evident when he threatened to kill the dream stealer.
Trubel has had a violent past. She's been in and out of mental institutions since she was a kid. So is the answer really, "oh hey, guess what? you can forget the mental institutions and your violent past because there was a reason for it all. You're a grimm."
You forget that Nick, his mother, and his aunt had a relatively normal life. They made the conscious choice to become abnormal when they decided being a grimm was more important than anything else.
Trubel didn't ever have the choice of deciding what was best for her. She didn't even have the choice of at least trying a normal life. Nick and Juliette are at fault for that. Big time.