Talk:Grimm/@comment-69.125.128.105-20130823204314/@comment-10390252-20130823210629

@ Darkcloud1111,

I dispute that. Notice how the Beobears reacted to Yang's sudden Ragefire incident. There was a moment of confusion and even fear. There is some kind of advanced sentience at work there. All Pyrrha's exposition really says is that it is not like that of all other life on the RWBY world. Are they extra-terrestrial, like the Phantoms in Final Fantasy - The Spirits Within? Or even extra-dimensional?

The comparison to the Phantoms is an interesting one as the Phantoms were not 'evil' in the classical sense of the word. They were inheritly inimicable to life and driven by instinct to consume life-energy but there was never really any indication of any dark intent, just a wildly out-of-control feeding instinct. It is possible that the Grim are something like that - reacting instinctively to something they have either an instinctive need to destroy or consume. Not 'evil' in the classical sense of the word but rather evolutionary competitors to humanity for the same habitat.