Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-71.17.68.254-20130907025506/@comment-24374466-20140302234004

Huh, it seems some of my ideas aren't as unique as I previously thought. I've done some thinking on this subject, and I largely agree with some of these ideas. I just posted in another thread this idea.

Personally, I've been working on the idea that Grimm are essentially normal animals as far as their behavior. The idea of an overarching Grimm entity, mentioned in the speculation, is what drives them against humanity. The Grimm seem to have existed first and then humanity came along and started claiming territory.

To take it a step further, I even have the idea that the creatures of Grimm are merely corrupted animals that are forced to fight because their races have already lost against the Grimm.

To elaborate: I have the idea that the Grimm is like an opposite to the light. Souls are derived from light, and that was what animals and humans from. Grimm is an opposite: no soul, but not lesser. Dust and aura are derived from light, given to animals (and thus humans/faunus). Darkness took animals to fight back the invading light. The creatures eat and breed like they always did just on instinct, but have an overarching element that joins them against humanity. Similarly, this element organizes them in a hierarchy: greater darkness means greater danger, but not necessarily strength or intellegence specifically.

I touch on this in the origin section of this /r/RWBYOC post: Caribal, as well as this fanfic: A Legend Scattered, and this /r/RWBYOC post: Ivory Crown. That's my two cents, anyway.