Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-14138255-20141017020106/@comment-226878-20141020065923

Demons exist to incite conflict. Generally, when the demons disappear, all conflict and chaos subsides and peace and order reign. In stories, mobs are an aspect used to give the main character an excuse to grind, but the main enemy will always be his own kin (humans, in most cases). If the mobs were removed, the enemy would still exist, but most of what's left for the character to do is talk and try to make his way in the world until the next adversary becomes apparent. Basically, I'm saying that if the Grimm have no point of origin, then they have no purpose aside from giving Hunters something to fight, which in itself begs the question: Were the Grimm created so the Hunters could fight them?

The extended lyrics to It's Time ask if (supposedly) the students are just weapons in a war. Perhaps the Grimm are the same, created by the inhabitants of the Unnamed Kingdom (wyvern-shaped). The lyrics ask "were we meant to fight and die?" We can't go off of the WoR and other human statements as to the inherent intelligence of the Grimm as it will always be colored from Human bias. It's still yet possible that the Grimm do possess a sense of self-awareness enough to question what they are doing, but perhaps it is less apparent in the younger generations. GlassGolem wrote: No, it was going to be called metamorphosis in the original Japanese too - it's not a mistranslation.

It was a mistranslation for Americans to use the word "Evolution". I must confess to not staying on top of my science, but your idea of what the theory of evolution is doesn't seem to be the current one - it's changed over time.