Board Thread:General Grimm Discussion/@comment-26516813-20151015022913/@comment-24399666-20151022204415

It's kind of hard to say. (minor spoilers from the synopses and previews of the first couple episodes):

It's pretty clear from the previews that Nick is going to spend quite some time looking for an outlet for his feelings, at least until his child is born. I doubt he'd take anything out on his friends (that would be out of character for him, plus it would lead to viewers not liking the protagonist very much), but that's not to say he won't push them away. He does have a history of doing that whenever he gets involved in something he thinks could get his friends in trouble.

I think that between the maelstorm he must be feeling after Juliette's betrayal, his mom's death, and then Juliette's death by Trubel's hand, he doesn't have any kind of closure anymore and will probably be searching for it. That will put him afoul of Chavez, at least temporarily, and therefore afoul of the FBI. Plus... I mentioned this earlier, but during their raid on the King's rental mansion in the season finale, Trubel was the only one who wore gloves. Not only did Nick and Hank not wear gloves, but at one point, Nick even ran up and down the stairs, using the railing the entire way. Hopefully the writers will address this. So this will likely also get Nick in trouble with the FBI, at least temporarily (I think Nick will eventually end up allied with Chavez, though, so she will likely cover it up). Nick would want to keep his friends as far away from that as possible, which for him, means pushing them away.

Indications are that Nick will either quit the PPD, get fired, or get put on an extended suspension, because apparently Hank is getting a new partner. That will change things right there between Nick and Hank.

After his kid (I'm going from the assumption that it is his) is born, I think his priorities will change, and his Grimm protective instincts will go into major overdrive. Not only is he a new father, but there's also all the unresolved grief he's feeling getting pored into that as well. It is possible that MonRosalee might get the brunt of it, since Nick simply doesn't have the emotional resources right now to combat his Grimm instincts (as I think he habitually always did around MonRosalee). I can easily see him not able to trust MonRosalee around his kid, and feeling guilty for that because he doesn't know why he feels that way, and pushing them away as a result.

I also think that after his kid is born, that kid is going to be half Grimm, half Zauberbiest, and since those are apparently two of the creatures in this world that are most feared, that kid is going to get targeted by a lot of groups that fear the unknown. This is why I think Nick will ally with Chavez; he'll be working with her, going on the offensive against these groups. Since she'll be working under the radar (not actually working for the FBI in this capacity), this could put Nick in trouble with everyone from the FBI to the Wesen Council. And again, he'd want MonRosalee as far removed from himself as possible.

Plus... he ignored his aunt's warnings and kept Juliette in his life, and look what happened! It's very possible that Nick might push everybody away for that reason alone.

I would like to think that, if there is a rift, it's due to Nick pushing his friends away through some misplaced sense of altruism, rather than the rift coming from their side. If there is a rift, I hope that it can be healed by, at the latest, episode 12. More than that would just be... not fun.