Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-14138255-20161211174540/@comment-30530552-20161224170934

SomeoneYouUsedToKnow wrote: I don't see what's so unbelievable of Ren surviving a massacre. It's pretty common in fiction, and not really unheard of in real life, for people, particularly young children, to survive things like that.

Sometimes it's through luck, other times because they find a good hiding spot where they see their parents and friends get slaughtered, and so on. That being said, if this was the case he must've had some damned good control of his emotions, because otherwise the Grimm likely would've found him through his own fear. [Tastes like chicken, from what I've heard.] Working with kids as often as I do, when they get scared of something they blubber until there's no tomorrow, so...that probably means it was driven off before it could get to him, in any case, providing option 2) is the correct backstory representation.