Board Thread:General Grimm Discussion/@comment-86.145.40.63-20160616141202/@comment-197.91.184.209-20170905082828

He took her powers first and she had Diana in order to get them back and then Diana was taken from her. The point is, there are extenuating circumstances to everything that happened during that entire plot. It's not right but it's not black and white either, where Adalind is the big bad evil witch and Nick is the only victim. I haven't ignored how Kelly was conceived but Adalind was desperate to see her child again and Viktor told her to take Nick's powers if she ever wanted to see her child again. Obviously he lied and he tortured her after the deed, only letting her out when he deduced that Mama Kelly had Diana and he could use Adalind to get Diana back. Adalind had no intentions of ever returning to Portland to screw up Nick's life, literally or figuratively but Nick, his mother and the scoobies took her child away. She acted first as a desperate mother, not as a vindictive witch. People see her as the latter but there's more to Adalind's actions than sexually assaulting Nick for kicks and giggles.

The issue is that there was probably no other way for her to take Nick's powers but she couldn't do so as Adalind and so she used the image of his girlfriend to get close to him. It is what it is. Neither Nick nor Adalind can truly judge the other for all the horrible things they did to one another and they have worked through it to form a stable and healthy environment for their son, which was far more important than any injury they inflicted upon the other. They both set aside their animosity for a common goal and fell in love in the process, something neither planned or expected with their history.

We may not agree with everything about this couple but they both entered into this relationship with both eyes open and were mature enough to think of Kelly first instead of themselves and how much the other person hurt them in the past. They turned out to have a lot more in common than Nick ever did with Juliette, their desire for family/belonging. They found love and a safe haven in each other instead lingering hatred or resentment and thus did everything they could to hold on to it. That's a good thing imo.