Board Thread:General Grimm Discussion/@comment-3125844-20150318175203/@comment-26232195-20150322212359

(P) Macabros77 wrote: So do I. She did everything to help Nick. Now it's his turn. Juliette needs a long time to give away her heart, but when, it might be forever. Not like Adalind, who only fix her advantage.

I gave you a "thumbs up" for your description of the different Hexenbiest characters in terms of Greek Goddesses. Do you happen to know a story from Greek Mythology or elsewhere that parallels Juliette's? In Nick's case, it was his destiny to become a Grimm, so it was just a matter of him leaning to embrace that destiny. He's sort of a Luke Skywalker or King Arthur type, whose true identity was hidden for a long time. Juliette was his loyal partner who stood by him and even took great personal risk in order to help him regain his rightful role when it had been taken from him. She's been the target of many of his enemies who were trying to gain an advantage over him (and I do emphasize the word target - I've never thought of her as being just a hapless victim.) She's alway used whatever means were at her disposal both to support Nick and to protect herself but of course she has been at a distinct disadvantage because of her outsider status with respect to the Wesen world. Now, through no choice of her own and in fact by virtue of her heroic efforts her very essence has been transformed and her life given an entirely new direction that she would never have sought on her own. It was perhaps a predictable twist of irony that after all the effort she had made to accept Nick's world, he would now be having difficulty accepting her new status. And we have yet to see how her other friends are going to react to her change of life.

So anyway, I'm thinking there has to be some character from Greek mythology, Shakepeare, or whatever who has followed a similar trajectory. I've been wracking my brain but haven't come up with anything that's a good fit. I found a list of hero archetypes but none of them quite seemed to fit her situation. The closet I've been able to come up with is Iron Man from the Black Sabbath song, who was turned to steel and then rejected by mankind ... LOL.