Talk:Ruby Rose/@comment-38621229-20190224030056/@comment-38621229-20190224135436

Given these points, I'm willing to concede that the silver eyes probably only affect Grimm. I 'd forgotten about the fact that Salem was magical before she had Grimm in her and that she was exposed to the Silver Eyes without apparent effect. There are ways to explain this away - for example, that the God Light simply had more control over his powers and willed them only to affect Grimm and not his brother and other magical creatures in the vicinity - but that is stretching things and it is simplest to assume that the SE are Grimm-specific. I still find it intriguing to explore the question of what it means that magic was the gift of the God of Darkness. I wonder if that means that the RWBY writers are inclining their mythology a bit more towards Eastern conceptions of good/evil where each one defines and is defined by the other, so that coexistence is both possible and necessary. The God of Darkness may not be one-dimensionally evil. Though, truth be told, both of the gods are jerks. The idea of them coming back to live with humans, even if humans passed their judgment, sounds pretty horrible.