Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-25857155-20150116082950/@comment-71.34.90.183-20150211023828

Maybe its because I read Lovecraft, but the Grimm always strike me as a little... Cthonic. So, I think that the Grimm are not native to the planet. Possibly a colony, from a “Bio-roid”(a spices that alters itself to the environment, the novels Gene Wars, Dreamcatcher, and the movie The Thing are good examples) civilization. I also think that Humans, are also not native. I don't have any concrete proof of this but here it goes.

1. Grimm don't need to eat and do not have souls, but they can eat. They prey exclusive on Humans and Faunus. This means that they gain sustenance by some other means, but are not immediately poisoned by unfamiliar proteins or bacteria.

2. Grimm aren’t in conflict with plants of animals. They do interact with animals, but not as part of the food chain. Further more they adapt to there given environment, we don’t really see this but Oobleck says “Subterranean Grimm” rather then just Grimm. Suggesting that these Grimm are different from other types of Grimm.

3. Grimm are not sexually dimorphic, and maybe completely sexless. Suggesting that they do not reproduce in the usual way.

4. Remnant is referred to as a planet, not as a world.

5. The Faunus are genetically smiler to/compatible with Humans. Species that that close normally compete with one another into extinction.

6. The fact that they say “Species” rather than “Race”. Suggesting that they have specialized scientific knowledge. Something that a civilization literally “4 lost battles” away from extinction might not have time to achieve.

7. The Faunus them selves reminds me of nothing more then the Underpeople from Cordwainer Smith's(terrible name but a good writer) Sci-fi series. This also explains their origin, and why “Faunus Labor”, might be considered a bad thing by the White Fang.

I could go on for a pit more, but I'd just be grasping at straws, and this is full of enough speculation. So, that my 5 cents worth.