Board Thread:General Grimm Discussion/@comment-283842-20150406082713

Characteristics:

Can physically interact with matter/people (Hold hands with Children and "tussles" with Nick)

While on land she can appear on camera and is visible to everyone who sees her

Can seemingly vanish while completely submerged underwater (happens twice in the episode "La Llorona")

Theory: It seems that she can only "teleport" through water. In the episode, the only examples of her "vanishing" are after she is after she is completely submerged in water. At the beginning of the episode she is seen walking into the River, she doesn't disappear until completely submerged. And seen is then seen walking away with the child on shore, this doesn't mean she teleported onto land, but she could have quickly transported herself very close to shore. All of her appearances have always been in very close proximity to water.

 My theory is that she is mistakenly classified as a ghost, but instead is a wesen that can woge to different degrees (like how the Jägerbar can Woge into a humanoid bear or completely into a bear).

Her ghost children have a very distinct ghostly appearance. They translucent and rise and sink from the water. Whereas the woman is never seen displaying a translucent appearance and she walks into and out water.

Nick chokes her out. A ghost would not be choked out; to be choked out acknowledges life and the need of oxygen circulation through the body.

<p style="margin:12pt0in;line-height:16.5pt;"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;">I believe that she is a type of an unclassified aquatic Wesen (perhaps even a fish). In the tussle at the end of the episode between Nick and The Woman, Nick chokes her out. I believe he cut off the blood supply to her head and she fainted. As she floated/sunk she regained consciousness and woged into her "highest" level. Why did she vanish to Nick? Well first, have you tried to see something underwater without googles (not in a clean pool, but in a river) and add in the fact that is was night... if she where to start drifting away he would definitely start losing visibility on her, now at the edge of visible distance she woged into something small it would appear that she vanished.

<p style="margin:12pt0in;line-height:16.5pt;"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;">How her backstory fits with this, well if she is an aquatic wesen that can breathe Air in human form and water in woged form, perhaps she accidently drowned her own children while was trying to teach her children to do the same things she can (perhaps the were half human). <ac_metadata title="Characteristics of &quot;The Woman&quot; and a theory about her as an unclassified Wesen." related_topics="The Woman"> </ac_metadata>