(06-04-2016, 12:22 PM)Karai9 Wrote:(06-04-2016, 05:58 AM)speakeasy Wrote: Probably was a connection of the evolutionary tree because both 'species' have a human form. What's odd to me is the proportion of Grimm to wesen that seems to be the case. It truly must be more difficult to produce a Grimm, maybe because offspring of Grimms don't necessarily becomes Grimms themselves, so even if the eye cone gene doesn't make a Grimm, something extra has to be there. Maybe it's even a condition, like prodigies.
Interesting, I think your right. But at the same time you can see that the condition of being a Grimm is extremely hereditary if not necessarily consistent. The Grimm genealogy book allegedly documents all Grimms and their lineage from the crested families.
Grimms also seem to tend to gravitate toward military lines of work. The Grimm templars for example and perhaps further on in history they served in various armies. The Royals and various other bodies of government seem to know of and value there existence. Hadrian's Wall for example, Even Renard manipulated Nick to a certain degree in to his services as a Grimm who keeps his wesen constituents in there place.
Also some Grimms like Trubel may have died of ignorance to their condition being orphaned or estranged from those who would be able to educate them.
Look at those orphaned wesen children, they had no idea what they were and it cost them.
I think the ratio of Grimms to Wesen used to be higher but Grimms have dwindled some much so that many wesen go there whole lives thinking it's a myth.
I'm counting on that book to answer questions about the stick and Nick's heredity, he may be related to Trubel, doesn't matter.
We agree on much, although Kelly and Marie seemed to have become free lance agents perhaps because the Royal families of western and eastern Europe lost their positions as rulers around the time of the two world wars - in fact and in fiction. Kelly took assignments from the Resistance (escorting Adalind to Portland was one). Don't think she was a member, though, maybe someone knows. However, Prince Renard has more than one complicated tie to Nick Burkhardt, imo, not the least important is his desire to have a Grimm on his side in his fight, and I do mean fight, against his treacherous family. But I agree that the Grimms we know about seemed well suited to order enforcement types of work.
Where we see a parting of the way in our thinking about Grimms is your ideas about their beginnings and how prolific they once were compared to today. I have a feeling they have always been few in numbers because nature designed them not only to kill aggressive wesen, but keep order among those who don't make trouble. Kinda like a sheep dog and the flock he tends to. Most likely there have always been more sheep than the breed of dog that tends them. That's actually a very poor hypothesis about Grimms and will be easy to dismantle, haha.
But it comes closest to what I believe are the roots and biological description of Grimms. Imo, they are an extremely rare breed who are nevertheless descendents of rare families who progenerated the lines.
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