Board Thread:General Grimm Discussion/@comment-5301811-20170309023146

This is a theory that's been circulating in my head a for a while, but was given a slight bit backup by the beginning of "The Son Also Rises." Beware, as it's a somewhat...odd theory for this show. I've tried to have it make as much sense as possible, so here it goes:

Millions of years ago, there was a coalition of alien species. Each species was led by a progenitor, the first member of that race who seeded their genetic materiel to create their species, whose members were identical to their progenitor but not as powerful.

They came across our planet, Earth, at some point during those millions of years ago. It was the first planet inhabited by intelligent life that they had discovered outside their own galaxy. They found the early humans, and were disgusted by us because of how alien we appeared. However, they saw no challenge in using their advanced technology to wipe out such a primitive, barbaric race, so they decided to create a new creature by combining the genes of humans and all of their species. The reasoning behind this was that, by combining our genes with all of theirs, humans would eventually be bred out. These hybrids were the actual “pureblood” Wesen, as they were a combination of our species and all of the alien species. They couldn't shift between forms as they only had their natural hybrid form, and they possessed a more animalistic nature due to the rather unstable combination of early human and alien genes. It is this more animalistic nature and appearance that the Ewig Woge causes, and it is actually from the genetic material of the pureblood Wesen that the modern animals that some Wesen look like (e.g., the horned toad for the Furis Rubian) evolved from. One form of pureblood Wesen was the original form of the Grimm, with its deathly pale skin and hideous, skeletal appearance.

Now, things were okay for many years, but the pureblood Wesen's outbreeding of humanity was not going anywhere near as quickly as had been hoped. The purebloods themselves eventually became restless due to some of the decisions made by the progenitors. They were beginning to have their own sense of identity, which the progenitors did not like, as they saw the purebloods as their direct and chosen descendants. They weren't too happy about the creation and deployment of the Wechselbalg, either, because no citizen in history has liked secret police, but the Wechselbag were seen as going a bit too far with their murdering of others to take their forms and knowledge. And then there was the fact that the pureblood Grimms were chosen to be genetically modified so their blood could remove the pureblood Magischesbiest's abilities to manipulate matter using biologically created energy fields. It was viewed by both humans and purebloods as outright favoritism, and the progenitors' stated reasons being “the Magischebiests were too dangerous” didn't help much since the Magischebiests weren't exactly running around and using their powers to commit terrorism or anything of the sort. Of course, the pureblood Grimms had no problem with being favored to protect against the Magischebiests.

But then came the most unspeakable crime by the progenitors of all. The Killing of the Krampus.

The province of the pureblood Krampus had its government suddenly overthrown by a collection of extremist citizens and generals. They wished to secede from the rule of the progenitors, and once they had asserted their power, they opened up the communications to list the crimes committed by the progenitors, including those mentioned above. The progenitors were none too happy about this, so they responded with a mass bombardment of the entire province. Once the whole place had been bombed from orbit to Hell and back, millions of troops from the progenitors' own species were sent in. They were given specific orders–kill everyone even if they surrender, until there is only one Krampus left. This meant that all Krampus in other parts of the world would also be killed

It was a long and bloody task, but eventually, only one Krampus was left alive in the whole world. He was taken to the Headquarter Ship where every progenitor met, and they proceeded to have their scientists genetically modify the last Krampus so as to force him to change into a human form, have him not be able to change back into his Krampus form until a year later, have him change into his human form once that day passed, and modified his genes so his Krampus condition could only be passed on several generations later. And just to pile it on, they also removed every memory he had of the Krampus people and him being one. This would also result in him being the first Wesen as we know it.

The almost complete annihilation of the Krampus was meant to serve as a point by the progenitors–they had created the pureblood Wesen, and they could just as easily wipe them out. It was also meant to tell the humans that they needed to hurry along with their own extinction. The response, however, was one of utmost rage and defiance by both the humans and purebloods. Even the pureblood Grimm were horrified by the destruction of the Krampus race. The human and pureblood citizens of the world demanded that their governments and militaries do something, and they did. Every Earthly province's government declared themselves to be at war with the empire of the progenitors, and told their militaries to join the citizens in taking up arms and revolting.

For several decades, Earth and the progenitors' empire fought a massive war. Billions of lives were lost in total, and the progenitors often used orbital bombardment to destroy entire provinces. Eventually, though, the humans and pureblood Wesen were able to hijack ships which they used to take over several of the orbital cannons. They used these to destroy several of the progenitors' capital ships, which resulted in a ceasefire where the progenitors decided to let Earth become its own independent planet, as well as giving them the remaining orbital cannons in the planet's orbit. The progenitors were also forced to leave the solar system, and all troops in our solar system were called back.

With the war finally over and Earth independent, a golden age arose. In the arts, in science, in government, and in relations between humans and pureblood Wesen. Humans and purebloods married and had children with each other more and more, resulting in Wesen as we know them today, with the ability to shift between human and Wesen forms and the loss of their more animalistic appearances and behaviors. This intermingling went so far as to create several forms of hybrid Wesen, such as the Manticore, a result of many generations of breeding between Lowen and scorpion Wesen. Even the Grimms bred with humans and other Wesen more and more. To the dismay of many in their species, this would lead to their gene pool becoming so diluted that the later generations of Grimms would lose their ability to woge voluntarily, only shifting into their gruesome skeletal forms when experiencing an incredibly high amount of anger, and with their eyes only becoming black when they saw other Wesen woge.

Thousands of years later, however, things were beginning to return to an unstable state. The Grimm population was enraged with what their people had become, cursing their ancestors' desires to “overcome prejudice” and being so quick and eager to mix with humans and other Wesen. As such, more and more Grimms became involved in Grimm Militias, heavily armed and ruthless hate groups/terrorist organizations who desired a return to “Grimm Purity” and, above all, an independent nation for the Grimms. Several human-majority nations' governments were accused of lending support to the Militias. Hate crimes grew ever more common, until they finally reached a breaking point when a nation that had no human or Wesen type-majority had its government's leaders assassinated by Grimm Militiamen. The states accused of supporting the Militias stated their support for the new government of that country, and then came out in support of the Militias themselves. The new government and Militias around the world demanded that all of the other countries in the world recognize them and grant special rights to their Grimm populations. When the other countries refused to do so, the Grimm extremist nation and their human allies bombarded them with nuclear weapons and their orbital cannons. What was left of the other nations retaliated with their own stockpiles of nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons, and of course, their own orbital cannons. In just a few days, the world was broken. Billions of humans and Wesen perished in the blink of an eye, and every country in the world was destroyed. The war was short but nightmarishly destructive, the Killing of the Krampus on a global scale. Nothing was left of the once magnificent cities and nations of the world, and the advanced technology that the humans and Wesen possessed was lost, ground into dust just like all of the cities that had existed. All of the former cultures were gone, and now that people had to fight to survive with what little they had left in an enormous nuclear winter with so many parts of the world poisoned, the memories of the world that had existed became little more than elaborate stories of beasts and gods.



It's taken over a million years, but the progenitors have finally decided to check back on our solar system after it's been quiet for so long. They have found a world where all memory of them has been wiped out, where the Wesen are completely different and the humans don't know that they exist. The demonic skull-faced figure is the progenitor of the Grimms, and he has finally decided that now is the right time for his coalition to take back what is rightfully theirs. He will turn his own children back into the glory that they once were, and once he's done observing the world through the portals from the coalition's capital world, he will lead the other progenitors and their troops into taking back Earth... 