Board Thread:Grimm News/@comment-3125844-20151022211749/@comment-24399666-20151026171227

Bheadr27 wrote: Hehe, I always refers to his beeing grey as the 'Grimm-Woge' ^^

And it's on my wish-list as well...

Too bad he never got the chance to talk with his mother about it. I have my own theories regarding the "Grimm-woge" (heavily influenced by comments by the other crowd over at tv.com)... specifically, theories about why nobody ever talks about it. To me, that's actually even more interesting than what it is. Because I think they do see it... I see it in their faces... but they don't talk about it. Ever.

I think that Nick doesn't talk about it because he doesn't know about it (or rather, he doesn't know that it's an ongoing thing), and deep down, he doesn't want to know:

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Juliette: Did you run?

Nick: Yeah.

J: [concerned] You're not sweating.

N: I know. Weird, isn't it? [conversation ends here]

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I think that some deep instinct is telling Nick that he doesn't want to look further into this. It's the same instinct that convinces him (all evidence to the contrary) that Wesen are the strange ones, and the only "strange" thing about Grimms is that they have "the ability to see the truth." I think that somewhere, deep inside him, he knows that's not true, and he knows that the knowledge has to stay buried, because if it comes to the front, something bad will happen.

For starters, Grimms definitely seem to be the embodiment of "what doesn't kill you makes you stronger." (see Nick's superhearing, Zombie Nick, the fact that Trubel was much better off after her experience with the memory-stealing Wesen, and Kelly's mysterious abilities that Nick doesn't share).

I think that's just the beginning, though... I think that if Grimms evolve past a certain point, then they evolve into something else entirely. One person on tv.com (I forget who) postulated that Grimms are the harbingers of death, and that got me thinking that maybe Nick is evolving into something that is the origin of the Sensenmann myth? Or something like that. :)

My theory is that Hank, Sean, Monroe, and Rosalee, and maybe even Wu and Juliette, have known about Nick's "Grimm-woge" for a while, and they know why it's happening, and they have all agreed to not talk to Nick about it... for Nick's sake.

I hope that's the case, just because, well, it's interesting. :D But I would very much like to see some sort of confirmation like that. Something that fits, like Nick and Hank are talking to some Wesen, Nick goes grey for some reason (or even just randomly, like he did at the beginning), the Wesen looks like he might say something about it, and Hank surriptitiously shakes his head and motions as though to say, "No, don't say anything." That would keep me going, at least for a little while.

But, coming back to the original topic... an even better option (eventually) would be to actually find books that are written about Grimms, the same way Grimms write about Wesen. Maybe even a creation myth. Learning about a creation myth inside the universe, especially one that our Wesen leads actually believe in and/or is somehow proven to be true, would be awesome!