User blog comment:Lexjacobson/Whose mother was she?/@comment-5293871-20120715031322

I agree with gaarmyvet that Kelly's motherhood is in doubt. It's the only way the Grimm heredity makes sense. In the pilot we are told (but no, we are not told, it is speculated by Monroe, who doesn't know everything about Grimm lore) that Nick is coming into his powers as a result of Marie's failing health; but if his mother is alive, why is he inheriting from his aunt? After the revelation that Marie left Farley Kolt after her sister died, I assumed that she inherited the legacy at that time from her older sister; that it was passed down more like a legal inheritance than a genetic one. But that can't be true. Since both sisters were Grimms at the same time, it seems more likely that all the children of a Grimm inherit on the parent's death, and pass it on to their children directly. So, given the timing, Marie has to have been Nick's birth mother.

As a side note, there is no way the Grimm brothers were the first Grimms - that is, the first people with those powers. For one thing, the Coins show that Wesen history goes back thousands of years. The brothers were born as late as the 1780s. What is the likelihood that this ability just randomly popped up a mere few hundred years ago? Secondly, there's the record from Tarantella of the Japanese 'Grimm'. If they do all come from a single lineage, it would have to be seriously old for the bloodline to have gotten that far. It would be far better to say that the brothers were simply the ones who became best known by publishing the stories, so Wesen started using their name to describe people like them.

Lastly, wasn't Sleeping Beauty wakened by true love's kiss? Which would make it Nick...or would it? Ok, I'm getting silly now.