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Finally.....

Grimm Title: Banshee.

''Animal Basis: Human (or Chimpanzee). Or something.''

Threat Level: Mid.

Description: The body, on the front, has a figure similar to a young human woman's, with long "hair" covering their face. The back however has multiple, bone-like spikes (slightly angled downwards) coming out of it, and their "hands" are long claws. Their feet is more similar to a velociraptor's than a human's, and their legs never stand upright until they reach adulthood. Their mouth is basically their entire face, which looks like a human woman's but without a lower jaw. When they are going to eat, both halves of the face open wide showing a full set of teeth in both sides. The mask is divided in each half of their face.

They are a reasonably-inteligent kind of Grimm not found near the kingdoms. They like to play with their prey before attacking it. The child Banshee prefer playing a game of "hide and seek", hiding in the environment and quickly surrounding the target before quickly running and jumping to pounce upon it. However, they tend to be rather noisy when moving and attacking, signaling their arrival.

The adult Banshees are more solitary, wandering alone or in small groups. Unlike the child versions, they are more calm, more passive, and learn to stand and walk upright. They become much better at psychological play, using the environment to distract or scare the target before attacking it. For example, hitting a tree to cause noise, cutting a branch, startling nearby birds without showing their presence. They attack one-by-one instead of all at once, and learn to stay more quiet when at it.

Although both childs and adults tend to go full-savage while devouring their target. Adult Banshees have also been noted to often drag their victims's corpses into the unknown, probably to eat them alone.

There have been cases of people finding a young woman crying or sobbing alone, only to discover it was a Banshee. However, no one knows if this is just an unfortunate coincidence, or if the Banshees do it on purpose.

Armouring: As they get older, the "hair", hands and feet become more armored, or at least become armored in a noticeable way. The back and most of the frontal body later follows, though they are not as armored as the hair, hands and feet. The teeth become a more pale white tone and become longer as well.

Strength: -High level of inteligence compared to most Grimm (shown so far).

-Skilled at inflicting fear on their targets.

-Eventually learns to use the environment to their advantage.

Weakness: -Lower-than-average armoring in most of the body.

-Child Banshees tend to make noise when attacking and playing with the victim, signaling their arrival and incoming attack.

-Depends on sneak attacks to eliminate their targets.

-Physically, not as strong as other Grimm races.

Inspiration: Those...chicken-like things from Dead Space 2, that always hid behind walls before jumping at you with a very, very loud scream.