Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-3257939-20140521172812/@comment-11188061-20140523034527

Hah...

Don't you see the contradiction? The way you describe the Grimm, it's as if they have a soul.

Okay, let's describe it your way, if only to make you betetr understand things. Say that they're drawn to strong souls and they want to eliminate it, or feed on it, or whatever.

Then why the hell aren't they attacking humans right now?

Note that the world is still largely populated by the Grimm, and that no matter how well equiped mankind are there's only so many Hunters. If the Grimm's sole purpose in this world is to destroy everything that has a soul, then why haven't they thrown everything they had at the human now? They're soulless, they can't think for themselves. If they're truly zombies who can only follow their base instinct, and their basest instinct is the destruction of all soulful things, then I cannot imagine why they're holding back. A soulless thing should not have the conscience to hold back its basic instinct; it would've sought to destroy mankind at all cost until one side is extinct, which was obviously not the case.

Therefore, the best explanation is that their base instinct isn't to destroy soulful beings to begin with. They're just there, like random monsters in an RPG game. Go too close and they'll attack you, but it is not their purpose to destroy all of mankind, or humans and Faunus won't have the extra forces to spend on warring each other to begin with.

During the Grimm Wars, when the Grimm supposedly massed their forces and tried to eliminate them from existence, the ommitted part from history should be that someone has a hand behind the Grimm's actions, or otherwise it simply does not tally with the current situation. The situation in the past, we can imagine, was like 99% Grimm and 1% human near the end of it. If the Grimm wasn't serious and focused by a hand, the humans would not be forced to such a desperate situation to begin with. That whatever Will behind the Grimm disappeared was the reason, and the Grimm stopped attacking and went on to do their own things, that mankind could finally establish themselves, grow in numbers, and become the powerhouse they are now.