(02-26-2018, 09:39 PM)irukandji Wrote: If Juliette was part of Nick's character profile, then the series did a poor job of making that evident. She should have been near the top of his character profile then and as such, marriage should have never been removed from the table.I don’t think Juliette was presented as Nick’s first priority. If she was he would have told her about the Grimm/Wesen world and allowed her to make her own decision about her life, or, he would have ended the relationship to remove her from the dangers of his Grimm world.
Even when he lost his powers and had the opportunity to prove how important Juliette was to him, Nick passed up on the opportunity. He hedged around and acted like moving away, marrying Juliette, and raising children was desirable. But then he shifted gears and admitted that he liked being a grimm and was pissed that it was taken from him. In my opinion, that does not suggest that Juliette was part of Nick's character profile.
I think the whole significant other in Nick's life was more of a scale. In other words, the grimm life continually measured against a normal life. The grimm life always wins.
As for being rooted, I'm not sure why Renard would make such a statement. There was no indication from Nick himself that he was going to leave Portland if Juliette passed. He was on the job before he ever met Juliette, he had a house, a circle of admiring scoobies to ease his grief and his grimness which he loved above all else. To me, it seems those are indications that Nick intended to reside permanently in Portland.
Nick wanted to be with Juliette, and would have married her if she’d gone along with it, but he never expressed that he was willing to give up the Grimm life if she accepted his proposal. A committed relationship and strong friendships were utilized to keep Nick in one place, but Nick wasn’t presented as cherishing Juliette above all else.
As you said, the Grimm life always wins, which Nick pretty much confirmed when he told Adalind in S5 that he and Juliette had a chance for a normal life and they chose not to take it. And Juliette later substantiated the ‘Grimm comes first’ premise when she told Nick in S6 that she now understood him in a way she couldn’t when human.
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