03-30-2015, 03:16 PM
(03-30-2015, 08:40 AM)Adriano Neres Rodrigues Wrote: Just an ideia/suggestion about this conversation... Sean is form the royal family and in the show all royals that showed up (Sean include) were very manipulative. Many wesens (and even grimms) work or worked for the royals and aparentelly the royals see themselves as superior than othe others, seen the wesens , for exemple, as some kind of servents or something like that. This way, Sean maybe prefer (or believes) that using his royal blood is more powerful and persuasive than using Z power.
(03-29-2015, 06:10 AM)speakeasy Wrote: I was trying to suggest some possible traits of the Zauberbiest side of the witchlike wesen family in my explanation, but being a Royal would add to Renard's desire or ability to persuade others to his cause. Back in the day, the armies of the seven Royal families were made up of Wesen, who were controlled by Grimms, who were in turn hired by the Royals to police them. So I see what you mean about the Royal connection attributing to Sean's ideas about being a leader of men; a sort of feeling of privilege of class he may have. Now you mention it, could be he's a real contender to rise to power considering his background and heritage...
(03-30-2015, 02:19 PM)Samsarillian Wrote: As far as I can tell, the royals are supposed to be exactly what royalty in the real world is. NORMAL people with a superiority complex. The are born rich and privileged and believing that makes them better than the person standing next to them.
To be fair the historic royalty were better educated, trained to lead, to think strategically and that they were responsible for the lives under them. They still took and do take advantage of their positions and wealth. "Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely" was originally meant about them.
Oh, I wasn't suggesting that the Captain's having Royal blood gives him any extra-human abilities, I agree that they are ordinary homo sapiens just like the rest of us. As you say, it's an unattractive feature of the human condition that too often one group need to look down on another in order to gauge its own value and the so-called upper classes seem especially vulnerable to this problem.
Okay, I don't get that feeling from Renard, he just comes across as very confident in his own skin, not superior. But...when Mia Gaudot asked him when he was coming back to Vienna, he told her he would come on his own terms. His objections to the families' global plans are on record; he's against their ideas about a restoration of the ruling classes in the extreme, but I do feel he wants to return to his European roots in a more democratic way. But he can't get there without the Resistance and Nick, and he'll need other support, too, imo. Straying off-topic again.
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