Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-11188061-20131022124840



The Grimm was once, normal animals with actual souls.



This line of thought has perhaps crossed everyone’s minds at some point, and I too believe the same thing. It is probably safe to assume that the Grimm are not born through natural means, and there are a few reasons that supported this line of thinking:

1)     The behavior of the Grimm. The few examples we have are examples enough to show that except for being more violent and destructive, these Grimm aren’t really that different from their living counterparts (if there are any). They are not hell bent at destroying mankind, as we’ve seen from the latest episode. The Red Sap – very likely the equivalent of honey in the RWBY world – easily attracted the Ursa’s attention away, even though Jaune was right in front of him. The King Tajitsu did not attack Jaune until he foolishly walked into its lair, and even then it wasn’t until he tried to grab onto the scorpion’s tail that it was finally enraged.



This clearly showed that the Grimm have living, almost soulful behavior. Had it not been stated clearly by Phyrra that the Grimm are soulless, I might even be led to believe that they are the natural animals in RWBY. But the Grimm however, are clearly different.



2)     There aren’t any natural ‘soulless’ mankind – Grimm-Man – that we’ve seen yet.  If the Grimm, if the soulless animals are indeed natural, then why aren’t there any ‘soulless’ man? After all, mankind are in the end simply creatures or animals that has achieved sentience first. So if there are natural Grimm-animals, then there had to be natural Grimm-man as well. So far we haven’t seen a single one however. You can’t even argue along the line that ‘sometimes, a soulless man is born’ because we obviously did not see or hear any mention at all of such a thing.



'''The Nature of the Grimm '''

I’m going to list a few characteristics of the Grimm we’ve seen so far:

1)     More violent, and more prone to destructive impulses.

2)     Soulless.

3)     Bigger and larger than what we would consider normal (though this is honestly poor standard, since everything in RWBY are pretty much non-standard), and it would seemed that the more exoskeleton the larger their sizes are. This is relative to the type of the Grimm.

4)     Has normal, animal-like instincts. For example, the Ursa is attracted to Red Sap. The Beowolves move in packs and seemed to be incredibly intelligent, as wolves originally are.

<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l1level1lfo2">5)     Their body evaporates into smoke and eventually disappears over time. This is connected to their soulless state, and it is probably safe to assume that they’re already dead. It is like zombies without that overpowering need to eat flesh and brains.

<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l1level1lfo2">6)     As soon as they receive a fatal blow, their body dissipates as it should have since a long time ago. This part is speculation, but I’ll assume that the more exoskeleton they have, the longer they retain their form.

<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd">This is going by the Red Trailer, where the no-mask Beowolves evaporated almost immediately after Ruby killed them.

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<p class="MsoNormal">'''Conclusion '''

<p class="MsoNormal">The Grimm are unnatural, and created through artificial means. In this case, only one theory makes sense: Someone – one of mankind, one with incredible lust of power – had created the Grimm.

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<p class="MsoNormal">This is the first part of the theory. I shall post a second part titled, ‘The Speculated True History of RWBY’ later on, just so that the readers could digest the information easier. <ac_metadata title="The Innocence of the Grimm"> </ac_metadata>