(11-27-2015, 01:27 PM)jsgrimm45 Wrote:(11-27-2015, 12:13 PM)Belle Wrote: After all the episodes depicting hate groups and even the backlash from Monroe and Rosalee's own families pertaining to their mixed-wesen relationship, I am left wondering what kind of kids they would have.Hank and Nick ask that question of Monroe and Rosalee and to be honest I didn't understand the answer. Monroe said if a non wesen married a wesen the child would have a 50 chance of being wesen.
Obviously, half wesen and half human kids are wesen in cases like the Naiads and Folterseeles, but I can't remember an episode that showed what happens when two different types of wesen have kids.
On some of the Grimm wiki's they refer to different types of wesen as different species; however, different species generally can't cross-breed or produce only infertile offspring.
If instead of being like separate species, wesen are like different breeds of the same species, then you would expect their kids to be a mix of the parents' traits.
At the same time, if one wesen gene was dominant over another, you'd expect all their kids would look like one parent.
So I guess the real question is what kind of kids will Rosalee and Monroe have?
-Blutbad?
-Fuchsbau?
-Blutbad & Fuchsbau mix? (which I'm guessing would be kind of like a fox and wolf hybrid)
Of course, I am also curious to see what kind of traits Nick and Adalind's son will have, but in Kelley's case I'm pretty sure he's going to be a Grimm or else he would already be moving stuff with his mind like his sister Diana.
That he said (this is how I took it) if a wesen married a human but who had one wesen parent than the child would be wesen.
He did say but I couldn't remember what he called a child with Rosalee.
After that I was out of the loop.
Do you remember what episode that was in?
I'd really like to rewatch it to see what he says.
Reflecting on this I became even more curious because the wesen don't just seem to represent different species of animals; they represent different genera, families, orders, classes, phyla, and even kingdoms.
In a sense Rosalee and Monroe would probably have better chance of having a kid than some wesen couples because their wesen halves are both canids. This, however, makes me wonder about other more distant mixes.
Nick and Adalind's baby doesn't raise a lot of questions for me either because Nick is a grimm, which is almost like being a regular person and hexenbeasts also seem like regular humans who just happen to be possessed by spirits, which would make their genetics/reproduction basically the same as anyone else.
In other cases it doesn't seem nearly so simple...
The show has included wesen that are like insects, amphibians, reptiles, mammals, as well as those like the hexenbeasts that appear to have nothing to do with animals at all.
I have read some discussions of wesen "genetics", but they are not always consistent or logical and none really answer all the questions that can come up.
For example, what happens if a mammal like wesen tries to have kids with one that resembles an insect? or a fish?