Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-71.17.68.254-20130907025506/@comment-3146930-20140303125210

121.222.20.63 wrote: so.... how do they KNOW that the grimm dont have souls?

is there a way to prove that they dont have souls?

maybe their souls are different to the other souls, kinda like the witches from soul eater.

they naturally gravitate towards chaos, however exceptions are able to be rarely found.

e.g. George the Gracious Grimm, the first grimm that doesnt want to kill all people.

of course he wont live very long, but he will show that grimm have the possibility of gaining what ammounts to a soul over time, meaning that all of the thousands of grimm killed would of had a chance to become something better.

First off we are told that Grimm don't have souls and as a result can't use Aura. Now this could just be speculation on the people of the RWBY world, but really think about that. Pyrrha has the ability to unlock a person's Aura with her own and seems to be Ms. Exposition when it comes to these topics. Anyway, a student is able to unlock Aura. What I'm getting at is that maybe the reason that Pyrrha knows Grimm don't have souls is because someone tried to unlock a Grimm's Aura before, but found nothing to unlock; no Aura, no soul.

Also simply because a Grimm is kind, that doesn't mean it has a soul. Cardin is a big jerk, but he does have a soul. Grimm in general seem to have the same level of intelligence, if not a little more, as the animals they represent. This could mean that Grimm can be trained, but once again it doesn't mean they have a soul.