Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-4830106-20131108040231/@comment-82.12.156.248-20140212063406

Andrew S-997 wrote: Very true. I forgot about all that real-world-controversy stuff... I assumed that people would just look past it, as RWBY is a work of fiction, and in it's own, unique universe (With a 15-year-old Gun-Sythe master. God(s) don't seem that out-of-question). I mean, it would all be for storytelling purposes, right?

I just can't see the Grimm, a force of world-wrecking pure evil, just "appearing" without something much greater at play. The opening narriation did say that the world was initially without Grimm, If I remember correctly.

That is, unless what Pyrrah said was not simplified, rather, is the 100%, as-specific-as-it-gets truth, "They are the darkness, and we are the light". I just always assumed that she dumbed it down for Jaune. "Man, born from dust, was strong, wise, and resourceful, but he was born into an unforgiving world. An inevitable darkness - creatures of destruction; the creatures of Grimm - set their sights on man and all of his creations. These forces clashed, and it seemed the darkness was intent on returning man's brief existence to the void."

That quote taken from the intro makes it sound like the Grimm are just a fact of the world, already in existence but not actually present until man was in a position of power. Perhaps the Grimm hibernate and were merely reacting to their place at the top of the food chain being threatened.

What if the Grimm are merely creatures of habit and instincts? They fight humans because they need to survive, just like why humans fight them. We've never actually seen or heard of a creature of Grimm attacking humans or faunus kind outside of the Grimm's own environment, on the contrary the Tajitu, Nevermore and Deathstalker only actually attacked when their domain was entered by humans (or at least I'm assuming that was the case with the Nevermore since we don't see how Weiss or Ruby actually ended up riding it.

It looked like the Deathstalker was living in peace and quiet in the cave until Jaune and Pyrrha awakened it and the beowolves have only attacked when humans are deep in their territory (Ruby in the Red trailer, Ruby and Weiss in the initiation arc.

Alternatively the idea that they are by-product of an element of yin, darknes and that dust is the element of yang, light is intriguing. Perhaps both elements maintain balance of good and evil in the world. When dust birthed beast, the darkness birthed the Grimm. When the Grimm started slaughtering beast, dust birthed humans to counteract the force, and a balance has been struck for now. The worrying thing about this theory is: If Cinder is trying to instigate a war between humans and Grimm then what happens if the element of yin believes that darkness's place in the world is waning? Dust introduced humans to combat the Grimm, something more powerful, more destructive would be neccessary to combat humanity...

Of course it is possible that there could be a Mother Grimm, a birther of chaos that the creatures of Grimm view as their deity of sorts. Perhaps the Grimm themselves seldom interact outside of her influence and they primarily see one another as just more competition but don't attack out of a mutual, unwritten agreement (basically they live in peace just like we do, despite differences and the danger we pose to one another, we out of some psychological pact that occured at some point in history have decided not to murder one another, which over time became a law common to most if not all existing cultures.