(05-15-2017, 03:38 PM)irukandji Wrote:(05-15-2017, 02:45 PM)Robyn Wrote: I think more than anything, Juliette was presented as being controlled/influenced by the Hexenbiest and quickly led down the dark path because there were only a few episodes before the season finale, which didn’t allow time for Juliette to struggle with her conscious for more than a few minutes.
After Adalind gave a hint to Rosalee about what it's like to live with a hexenbiest, I tended to believe her because I assumed that's what happened to Juliette. However, I find it interesting that while Adalind commented on this, Juliette/Eve actually never said a word about it.
And while Adalind may be telling the truth, she has never given any indication that the hexenbiest was ever in control. I just got the impression she was bad tempered and mean spirited and that was what controlled her more than any spirit.
Juliette, in my opinion, seems to be an orderly person who in my opinion, is mostly in control. Adalind, on the other hand, seems more sporadic and spur of the moment. I don't want to make this another Juliette versus Adalind thread, and I'm not pointing out that one outlook is better than another, only that they're different. If a hexenbiest spirit was in control of these women, I would think their actions would be similar in nature, yet they are often very different.
That tells me that each woman is in control and the hexenbiest spirit reports to them.
The Hexenbeist influence is to heighten the darkest impulses of the host. That can be different with each person. It's not so much a matter of literal control, but of insidious influence. For Adalind, it was a creeping progression of negativity. She was her mother's daughter. Raised to give sway to those same inclinations. That Hexenbeist devil on Adalind's shoulder, whispered for her to lean into the worst in herself. And the more you do, the more that voice grows. Even when the Beist was gone, her psyche was still bound up in the sea of darkness she had fallen into. And deep down that well she would have stayed, if not for the spark of light, Diana brought to her. For Juliette, the experience was more visceral. A rising tide of power and unwieldy emotion overwhelmed her. What percolates in those born a Hexenbeist, boils over in any who are made that way. Her Jealously, anger and frustration are amplified to the melting point. And the more she feels it, the more the Beist side nurtures it. Until she is nothing but a raw nerve. Too much for anyone to manage. Hadrian's Wall broke her down and built walls to contain what amounted to a overheating nuclear core. Some of that structure remains, even after it's fractured by her near death and encounter with the stick. And in the time since those walls were first constructed, the half-life of that fallout inside of her, has decreased. The two halves, wall and fire, can coexist now. Tempered by time and an understanding of what's inside of her, that she lacked when the wound was new. For Adalind, the situation is different. When she was pregnant with Diana, and the force returned, that power was divided. When Juliette became Adalind and reversed Nick's curse, Adalind's power was fractured yet again. Diana, Eve and Adalind are bonded by the same spirit. This is why they share a telepathic tether. When Adalind took the suppressant, she thought she was escaping a domineering presence in her life. She's terrified of it's return. But when the effects wear off, the power comes back, but her nature is unchanged. Unbeknownst to her, that voice in her ear was already silenced. By inadvertently giving away pieces of the Beist within, she was nullifying it's influence on her. Adalind gets to be her own woman, because that voice ended up in Juliette. Now, as Eve, she's tamed it in her own way.