04-26-2017, 08:56 AM
(04-25-2017, 08:15 PM)irukandji Wrote: Who does Adalind have the most reason to hate of all of the characters? My guess would be Renard.
Yet, what revenge has she exacted upon Renard? She hasn't touched a hair on his head.
There really was no reason to hate Nick for taking her powers. Nick was merely defending himself and Adalind knew that. If the logic is that Adalind was this level headed person simply seeking the key, then Adalind should have understood and backed off once she lost her powers. After all, it was a fight for the key. She lost. Yet she went after Juliette. Just as a side note, I didn't see this coma and subsequent memory loss as any big revenge on Nick. He left Juliette at one point, that's how concerned he was.
I do find it interesting that Adalind's revenge upon Juliette has been particularly complex and insidious. First she put her in a coma, one from which there was no obvious cure. But then, she added something else. If Juliette awoke, she would have no memory of Nick.
The sex spell was also particularly complex and insidious. Like the coma spell, Adalind twisted the spell so that it could not be reversed. But.....if it was reversed, Juliette would become a hexenbiest.
Of all the things Nick and Renard have done to Adalind, the only person's death that she wanted was....Juliette's.
There's a good deal of hatred there and it didn't just arise because Juliette became a hexenbiest.
Adalind's attempt to ally herself with the Royals was her way of striking at Renard. He didn't have Nick's vulnerabilities, and she's not typically one to attack someone directly. Considering the weirdness that resulted from Juliette's coma cure, Adalind certainly caused Renard his fair share of chaos. I remember her finding that particularly amusing.
Your assertion that Adalind shouldn't have hated Nick, may well be true. But it doesn't account for her state of mind. She wasn't exactly in a particularly rational place. Her entire world and sense of identity had been exploded. The hurt was personal, so hating Nick and everything associated with him was the easy outlet for her need for revenge. Since Juliette was the most important thing to Nick, it made her a juicy target. And as to the key, Adalind never gave a crap about it. It was just something Renard wanted, making his desire the extent of her personal feelings on the matter.
All of the traumas that befell Juliette, we're all about Nick. That's the tragedy in it. Whether Juliette woke from the coma or not, Adalind was taking something from him. The memories were all there, save for him. Juliette couldn't feel the pain of that loss because in place of that emotion, was a blank spot. Had it not been for the obsession with Renard, she could have ended up with a clean break from Nick. The Hexenbeist issue was a result of unforeseen consequences. Again, the goal was to take something from Nick. This time it wasn't about hate, but blackmail. Adalind had no great desire to steal his power. It was what the Royals wanted. That was the cost of seeing Diana again, (or so she was lead to believe). She didn't have the foggiest idea that it might result in Juliette becoming a Hexenbeist. If she had, that encounter in Nick and Juliette's living room probably wouldn't have happened. Adalind also didn't understand the profound effect it would have on herself. A further splintering of her Hexenbeist power and a baby Grimm we're definitely not intended.
The spells themselves were not invented by Adalind. They just did what they did, having been conceptualized by some Hexenbeist of the shrouded past. Exact consequences have always been somewhat nebulous. Adalind knew the intended effects and some potentialities, but having only read about these things or gained some insight from her mother, she couldn't predict every permutation. This is particularly true of the later spell. It was a course of action, taken with more urgency and less attention to detail. All she cared about was accomplishing the task and seeing her daughter again.
Certainly, by the time Adalind and Juliette have their big battle, there is substantial hate on both sides. They see each other as enemies. It's become essential nature at that point. Nothing had happened to sway them from this course. But none of this was because Adalind was somehow jealous of Juliette. She didn't want Nick. He was a Grimm, which made him her mortal enemy, just because that's the way it had always been. Juliette has been an extension of their conflict. The woman tragically stuck in the middle of an age old part of the Grimm legacy.