Board Thread:General Grimm Discussion/@comment-86.145.40.63-20160616141202/@comment-33528609-20181001173424

What I like about Adalind is that she changed her mind. She chose to keep Diana because she fell in love with her baby. The reason she wanted to sell Diana in the first place was to get her powers back after her mother and Sean basically threw her out like yesterday's trash because Nick took her powers away. At the time, she was desperate to get them back because she measured her sense of self worth with being a hexenbiest (she was only useful to them as one, they didn't actually care about her as an individual) and so she used Diana (a royal baby) as a means to an end. While pregnant she had a change of heart, not many people get to this point, especially on their own and it made me rethink how I saw her. People make mistakes all of the time, I feel what counts at the end of the day, is rectifying them. She made a mistake with selling Diana BUT in the end, she chose to keep her baby ultimately putting a target on her back. Adalind began the show by making horrible choices and she ended the show making the best decisions (mainly for her children) and that's why I love her. It's called growth and something that's rare to see these days.

Nick and Adalind are my two favourites on this show but it wasn't always like this. Before Diana, I HATED Adalind so much, I didn't think it was possible to hate a fictional character as much as I did but it was her love for Diana that made me soften towards her. It was the first time she stopped being selfish/self centred. She was still bitchy Adalind but one that actually cared for someone beyond herself. If the show ended with Adalind running away with Diana to the middle of nowhere, living under a false name (like Nick's mother was supposed to make happen originally) I would have been happy. I didn't want or even expect tNick and Adalind to end up together. As much as they were thrown together by circumstances, pitting them against one another, I could have lived with them never ever crossing paths again but then Kelly, Nick and Renard had the bright idea of stealing Diana away from Adalind. A horrible mistake.

Now that they are together, just as Monroe and as well as Eve told Nick in the mirror world, perhaps it was all meant to be. Their lives went down a predetermined path. Nick and Juliette couldn't make it work while Nick and Adalind, no matter what the did to one another, or the time and distance between, always found a way back into each other's lives, first as enemies and lastly as lovers.