Quote:Nick spent a morning using his detective skills and found out that Diana has no birth certificate anywhere. He did not know what to do after that.Adalind told Nick that Renard knew where Diana was and she feared he would use Diana to force her to do something she wouldn’t want to do. Nick didn’t offer Adalind any assurance that he’d help her get Diana back, keep her safe. He dropped the discussion and went back to sleep. Meisner told Nick that the Resistance had Diana before BC took her. Nick did not go to Adalind with this information. Again, Nick didn’t offer Adalind any assurance that he would help her get Diana from Renard/BC. Nick relied on Eve/HW to keep his son safe and went back to work.
Quote:In Bad Night , Nick says eight times that he wants his son back and he only includes Adalind once explicitly when talking with Renard. He does say "to protect the ones you love" which includes Adalind.Nick says eight times that he wants his son back and he only includes Adalind once...
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If the scenario had been BC only wanting Diana for her powers (the reason Kelly was adamant about taking her in the first place) and requiring Adalind to appease the powerful demon child; do you believe that Nick would have told Renard that was unacceptable and he’d do whatever was necessary to get Adalind and Diana back? Or would he have taken his son and returned home?
Quote:Nick: You have Adalind and my son. Doesn't exactly make you my friend.Kelly & Nick came for Diana. Kelly had no intention of leaving without her. Any friendship between Nick & Renard was irrelevant. Renard was given the choice to help them get Diana from Adalind, or not. He wasn’t offered any choice to agree or disagree with Kelly taking her.
Renard: Believe it or not, I know how you feel. Now, a couple years ago, I gave my daughter away to your mother because I trusted her and I trusted you.
Nick: You were asked.
Renard: I was asked, but I wasn't given much choice.
Nick: I wasn't given any.
Quote:Renard: Nick, sometimes the only way to protect the ones you love is to let them go.Kelly basically said the same thing to Adalind just before she left with her baby.
Quote:Nick: And sometimes the only way to protect the ones you love is to kill the people who threaten them.If only Renard had been willing to kill Kelly rather than give Diana to her.
Quote:Renard: What do you think? You were gonna settle down with Adalind, have a normal life? A Grimm and a Hexenbiest?What was Nick thinking? That he would continue playing house with a woman he didn’t trust, continue to keep secrets, never feel safe to share information with her? Have his friends continue invading and snooping around when Adalind wasn’t home? Did Nick assume that he and Kelly would be enough, and Adalind would eventually forget about Diana?
Twenty episodes of living together & raising their son, and Nick & Adalind didn’t trust each other enough to prevent this from happening. What was Nick thinking?
I don’t think Nick is obligated to love Adalind, or he’s a bad guy because he doesn’t. I just can’t make something out of nothing. If he doesn’t love her, he doesn’t. That’s just the way it is.
We can debate whether Nick loved Adalind or not, but Adalind stated more than once that she loved Nick. So had Nick told Adalind he was going to help her get Diana back, keep her safe, but they had to share all the information they had with each other; do you think Adalind would have come clean and trusted Nick to help bring Diana home? I do. Because she believes she loves Nick. And given a choice, I think she’d welcome any support Nick or anyone else offered.
"If my devils are to leave me, I am afraid my angels will take flight as well." Rainer Maria Rilke