Dr Jacques COULARDEAU

TO BE OR NOT TO BE A GRIMM-HUNTED WESEN

https://jacquescoulardeau.medium.com/to-be-or-not-to-be-a-grimm-hunted-wesen-0dd532754917

This series, Grimm, has little to do with the Grimm Brothers, except the name. The stories are not the Grimm Brothers’ fairy tales, mostly bad fairies, actually. The good ones are just the cleaning ladies of the mess created by the bad ones. But these Grimms, and in the plural mind you, are rooted into the old Templar order of the Crusades who would have seized and brought back some “magic” and “powerful” staff from Constantinople or around, a staff that looks a lot like Moses’ staff.

But the whole series turns around humanity being a composite meta-species with plain humans who have no choice but to make do with their simple, superficial body and look. You are what you look and you cannot change your looks, not really at least, not at will, on a whim. Then you have the doppelgangers, or Wesen, who are normal humans when they are not stressed or put under duress, and animals otherwise. This animal nature varies from one individual to the next, and the various Wesen subspecies are just plain animals, wolves hunt sheep, dragons spit flames and fire and grill the other subspecies, etc. Very funny. The Grimms are beyond since they are humans and cannot change their looks, except with some black, white, red, or green magic, but they have the ability to see the animal nature of the Wesen, this animal species that is divided into many subspecies, when these Wesen get slightly stressed, whereas the humans cannot see them then, except if they are attacked by these Wesen. Simple, isn’t it?

And of course, the staff was stolen by some satanic, devilish, Luciferian monster who cannot really do what it wants because a slither of wood has been retained by seven Grimms who were Templar Knights in the Crusades in the 13^th century, of course 13^th. Our local modern and living Grimm, Nick, has managed to find and recuperate this slither of wood and the Monster who stole the staff comes after Nick and others to recapture the slither. Simple, Doctor Watson, isn’t it? But no Sherlock will be necessary. Nick will do it by killing everyone around him in a nightmare that will enable him to recuperate the staff, make it whole with the slither and finally destroy the monster. Ash to ash, dust to dust, dirt to dirt, earth to earth. Another of the dual commandments from the Old Testament like an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, a magic ball for a witchy ball, and many other things enumerated, one for one. And when he wakes up from this nightmare everyone has been resuscitated, and they get ready for business as usual

 At times slightly childish, but always entertaining. But it’s good when you reach the end and you can leave these people and let them have their happy life with plenty of all sorts of hybrid or mongrel children.

Éditions La Dondaine, Medium.com, 2023

# posted by Dr. Jacques COULARDEAU @ 3:09 AM