Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-25396609-20160125214134/@comment-25396609-20160808023420

My bad, i meant non-sapient. Was distracted and got my words mix up. Grimm are very much sentient; they have senses, they can interpret the world around them, and they have instincts. The building blocks of sentience.

What they lack is sapience; knowledge, the ability for self-thought. The ability to understand the world around them beyond simple instinct and learned behaviour.

It is the ability to understand that makes it so a non-sapient entity would be unlikely to have foresight; without the ability to understand it would be far beyond unlikely for it to have such an ability.

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As for the mesmerizing thing; the animals that do things like that use those abilities on other animals; creatures which are incapable of higher thought. They have simple minds which are more easily distracted by outside sources, even when they are in immediate danger. Humans, on the other hand; the exclusive prey of grimm, have that capacity, we are sapient, and we are more able to make our own decisions than animals.

We aren't guided by instinct alone, and thus not as susceptible to to the  forms of mesmerization often attributed to serpents.