Board Thread:General Grimm Discussion/@comment-98.117.68.195-20150503215639/@comment-5083222-20160118142631

What is with the Nick bashing?

Nick never liked Adalind, that is true. The first time he saw her was not him "scouting the view" but Hank trying to get him to use his "powers of perception" to "cold read" people on the street. As it was Hank who told Nick to check out the "pretty blonde", that was Hank getting Nick to look at her.

The idea that Nick was looking at her because of any other reason than she woged is a joke. If I saw anyone do that, male, female, any gender inbetween, from haute couture to urban dreg, I'd be looking a long time as well

Nick became "interested" in Adalind not for any sense of entitlement, fashion, nor beauty. From the first moment, Nick knew she was nothing but trouble. He saw her when she went to kill Aunt Marie. As he's forgiven, but not forgotten, that Capt. Renard was the one who sent Adalind to kill his aunt, Nick forgave, and still not forgotten what she did, Adalind as well.

Now Nick has a baby with Adalind. No, Nick did not want this at all BUT the fact is Nick does have a child with her.

Perhaps some have no clue just how much pull a woman who has given birth to your child has over most men. It is strong. You'll move the world to help her raise that child. You'll protect her even when she was wrong and you know how wrong she is. Nick stepped up to the plate he didn't want, that a manipulative little witch with a capital "B" set up against his will and to his credit, is doing the best he can.

What Nick is being beaten up over is for waht many say they want men to be: Responsible. Even though Nick was duped into having relations with Adalind, even though he loved Juliette with all his heart and would have died for her, Nick put his feelings aside to "do the right thing" with his child and the mother of said child.

If Nick were to kill Adalind and send his child to an orphanage, who'd like Nick?

That there are those blaming Nick shows that the standard is a man is always wrong, no matter what we do.