06-27-2017, 11:21 AM
(06-27-2017, 11:10 AM)rpmaluki Wrote: The Adalind back in S2 isn't really the Adalind at the end of S4/beginning of S5, who was making choice that would keep her son alive. Old Adalind took pleasure in messing with Nick's head like that scene at the jail cell. The Adalind around the time of Kelly's birth was tip toeing around Nick, not being manipulative like the old version. She couldn't afford to play games with him when she was still so dependent on him. She honestly didn't expect him to the her and Kelly in at the beginning of S5. The only time she wanted to ensnare a man to be a father (Viktor) was after she found out she was pregnant, so as to hide that Nick was Kelly's father. With Nick, everything she did was above board. As much as she wanted to be with Nick as the episodes progressed, she also wanted her independence, this was before their kiss and eventual bedding. If staying with Nick was the only thing she concerned herself with she wouldn't have left him for Diana at the end of S5. I know it's not easy to think she could be genuine but S5 and S6 Adalind is practically a different person to S1-S4 Adalind.
Adalind becoming soft and very motherly is about as much magic as she wielded during S5 and it was never with the intention to snare Nick.
From the very beginning, Adalind was the kind of person to manipulate AND to jump on the next convenient situation or person if it seemed to further her cause - herself. Even she says something to that effect, explaining to Rosalee why she didn't want to ever be a hexenbiest again - very self-centered.
She knew how to play the game whatever it was at the time. (Believe me, I had a friend who was just like this.) She knew - and wanted to be relieved of dealing with being a hexenbiest when she showed up pregnant with Nick's kid. She knew her days of manipulation etc. were coming to a close, so while she may have seemed incredibly virtuous for saying some of the things she did, like not betraying Nick while she was living with Renard and bonapart, it's still part and parcel to her hexenbiest days. She's no dummy. So while I admire her abilities, she doesn't exactly take the cake for virtue.
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-Sly & The Family Stone (Stand)
-Sly & The Family Stone (Stand)