Board Thread:General Grimm Discussion/@comment-25875828-20150326203429/@comment-26232195-20150327013900

Syscrash53 wrote: That is the one.

As I watch what Juliette is going through that passage keeps coming to mind. Juliette being a hexenbiest is her destiny and not a curse. Because she was not born a hexenbiest she is not predisposed to beng evil. Like Nick because he was not raised as a Grimm he does not follow the path of other Grimms.

When she decided to help Nick get his Grimm back. It seemed more like she was wishing she could help her friends, but helping Nick was the next best thing.

How about if in her heart she was wishing see was wesen so she could help her friends. And well the hat granted her wish. (there is more to that hat then we have seen)

Being a hexenbiest has saved Juliette three times. If it helps save one of her friends. Juliette might change her view. That is an interesting way to think about. I'm also of the mind that Juliette was somehow predisposed to becoming a Hexenbiest. I'm more inclined to think of it as some kind of genetic predilection that made her transformation into a Hexenbiest possible but, I do like the idea of the hat having selected her in some way - I don't think the two points of view are necessarily incompatible.

But I especially like your idea that somehow Juliette subconsciously wished that she could become more powerful in order to help her friends and that made her vulnerable in some sense. It's almost a Faustian bargain - letting this dark force into your soul in order to do good, only to find that the force has a will of its own and begins to corrupt your actions. The question is whether Juliette's inner goodness will have the strength to subdue the Biest and not be consumed by it. I'm betting that eventually Juliette will prevail. I still think that contrary to what others have said, Juliette has always been one of the strongest characters on the show because she's been able to deal with all of this without having any special powers - before now that is.