Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-3257939-20140105070225/@comment-74.133.194.109-20140710215450

Darkcloud1111 wrote: Christopherweeblingjr wrote: 124.186.102.12 wrote: Darkcloud1111 wrote: Also keep in mind that even a Hunter in training can unlock a person's Aura and the Aura comes from the soul. I'm sure somewhere down the line, a person tried to see if they could unlock the Aura of a Grimm and found nothing inside of it, confirming they had no soul. what if they just didnt try hard enough?

e.g. Ruby does it by accident and is able to make it work, showing that every single grimm they have killed had a soul.

bonus points if....

A. the grimmm were brainwashed or otherwise provoked into atacking the other species

B. the Grimm are otherwise peaceful beings (their appearence could of been warped with whatever changed them, or could be a battle mode)

C. whenever a grimm gets killed by a hunter, their soul gets destroyed. e.g. quincy arrow effect (it even mostly has the same animation C is destroyed by the laws of physics, particularly Energy Cannot be Created or Destroyed.  I'm all for B.

Also, remember when the pack of Beowulfs surrounded Weiss, why didn't they just go in for the kill? She was out numbered.

Monty, I hope you're reading this, this is good stuff.

In real life, wolves will normally surround their prey and wait for an opening. The the alpha of a pack feels that the prey is too dangerous or one of them could get hurt in the process, they will either give up or wait for an opening. When the Beowolves surrounded her, they were preventing her from escaping and growling at her to try and frighten her, waiting until she made a mistake so they could take her down. If she put up too much of a fight, they would have eventually retreated as she would have been too much trouble. At least this is how real wolves hunt...Animal Planet.

As far as C goes, Grimm seem to spoke when killed, but their bodies aren't completely destroyed considering certain things said by the cast. The smoke we see however could be their essence being transferred to other nearby Grimm, resulting in Alpha-Beowolves and Ursa Majors; their power never vanishing, just moving to another host. Pyrrha calls them the manifestation of anonymity after all, meaning they may not be alive, but more like physical representations of facelessness (hence the masks they all wear, they lack a face and any individuality). Beowolves don't retreat unless they are physically unable to fight back or fire is present. Maybe the Grimm do have souls but something is devouring their soul making them highly volatile. Perhaps this "Soul Eater" is the puppet master behind everything.