07-30-2015, 05:57 PM
"Juliette embraced her hexenbiest"
This statement (or something similar) has been appearing more and more frequently. No offense to anyone, but I have yet to see any elaboration on how one goes about embracing one's inner hexenbiest.
So I thought it would be fun to examine this topic. While thinking about it, I thought I would also ask some questions for discussion.
First, can a person really embrace something so foreign? Just for a moment, go back to your teenage years (for those of you who are not teenagers now). I know of nothing, not even older age, that was as foreign to me as the event of teenagehood.
Did you embrace your inner teenage conflicts and outer hormonal changes? Or did you shrug your shoulders as teenagehood came upon you, realizing there was not a damn thing you could do about it?
So what about the hexenbiest? When it became part of Juliette was it an infant? Was it a juvenile? Was it ageless? And if ageless, I ask you to consider the following. Why then do there seem to be such major differences between Adalind (clearly squirrelly) and the older hexenbiests such as Elizabeth, Catherine and Henrietta? Compared to the squirrelly Adalind, these hexenbiests appear calm and stately.
I look at an embrace as just that. You accept it, but are able to push it away when you've had enough. Can a person really do that with a hexenbiest spirit? Or is a person who becomes newly initiated a prisoner of the hexenbiest?
If hexenbiest goes from infant to juvenile to adult to aged, how would an infant/juvenile hexenbiest look at murder? The same as a young child? In short, the ramifications of taking another life cannot be grasped? Hexenadler pointed out that Juliette does not apologize to Nick for his mother's death. If she was the equivalent of a child in the hexenbiest world, would she be expected to?
What about her reactions with Nick and the Scooby gang? Is it really an addiction to power we're seeing or is a child with a new toy?
This reminds me of one of my all time favorite Star Trek TOS episodes. 'Charlie X' is about a teenager who's parents died in a strange world and left Charlie alone. Aliens took pity on him and shared their powers with him so he could survive. But Charlie was a teenager with dangerous powers that could not be taken from him. Captain Kirk (in an absolutely redeeming role from his continual prime directive violating) actually forms a relationship with Charlie, much like a father. But in the end, teenagehood and superpowers don't mix. Charlie is forcibly taken away from a potentially beneficial relationship with humans. He's made to live his life alone with the aliens. As he struggles to stay with the humans up until the very end, he cries out that he cannot even touch them.
Charlie could not embrace the powers that he had. They were a part of his being. As he was immature, so his use of those powers would reflect his immaturity. Because he can never be among humans, he will never gain the maturity that humans get with experience. He will always be dangerous.
This statement (or something similar) has been appearing more and more frequently. No offense to anyone, but I have yet to see any elaboration on how one goes about embracing one's inner hexenbiest.
So I thought it would be fun to examine this topic. While thinking about it, I thought I would also ask some questions for discussion.
First, can a person really embrace something so foreign? Just for a moment, go back to your teenage years (for those of you who are not teenagers now). I know of nothing, not even older age, that was as foreign to me as the event of teenagehood.
Did you embrace your inner teenage conflicts and outer hormonal changes? Or did you shrug your shoulders as teenagehood came upon you, realizing there was not a damn thing you could do about it?
So what about the hexenbiest? When it became part of Juliette was it an infant? Was it a juvenile? Was it ageless? And if ageless, I ask you to consider the following. Why then do there seem to be such major differences between Adalind (clearly squirrelly) and the older hexenbiests such as Elizabeth, Catherine and Henrietta? Compared to the squirrelly Adalind, these hexenbiests appear calm and stately.
I look at an embrace as just that. You accept it, but are able to push it away when you've had enough. Can a person really do that with a hexenbiest spirit? Or is a person who becomes newly initiated a prisoner of the hexenbiest?
If hexenbiest goes from infant to juvenile to adult to aged, how would an infant/juvenile hexenbiest look at murder? The same as a young child? In short, the ramifications of taking another life cannot be grasped? Hexenadler pointed out that Juliette does not apologize to Nick for his mother's death. If she was the equivalent of a child in the hexenbiest world, would she be expected to?
What about her reactions with Nick and the Scooby gang? Is it really an addiction to power we're seeing or is a child with a new toy?
This reminds me of one of my all time favorite Star Trek TOS episodes. 'Charlie X' is about a teenager who's parents died in a strange world and left Charlie alone. Aliens took pity on him and shared their powers with him so he could survive. But Charlie was a teenager with dangerous powers that could not be taken from him. Captain Kirk (in an absolutely redeeming role from his continual prime directive violating) actually forms a relationship with Charlie, much like a father. But in the end, teenagehood and superpowers don't mix. Charlie is forcibly taken away from a potentially beneficial relationship with humans. He's made to live his life alone with the aliens. As he struggles to stay with the humans up until the very end, he cries out that he cannot even touch them.
Charlie could not embrace the powers that he had. They were a part of his being. As he was immature, so his use of those powers would reflect his immaturity. Because he can never be among humans, he will never gain the maturity that humans get with experience. He will always be dangerous.