I was playing Book 6 and I got to that part where Idia was saying what he discovered about Grim and then I was asking myself,
What are the things we know about Grim? Did we find something now? And now with Book 8 coming I'm even more curious about his lore and involvement in the story ( I don't think we saw Grim eating Malleus' blot stone ... yet )
We actually didn't learn anything new about Grim in book 7. Here's what we do know about Grim right now:
Birthday, age, and homeland are unknown.
He is 70 cm tall.
He's considered a first year student in Class A, seat 9.
He can breathe fire, though he tends to lack precision and his magic is sometimes described as "crude" by other characters.
He started the Gastronomy Club. Grim generally enjoys eating, with his favorite food being canned tuna and not disliking anything in particular (seeing as he'll eat even blot stones). His best subject is also listed as "eating".
His pet peeve is taking notes; he is not depicted as particularly studious.
His talent is escaping.
His best subject is Animal Linguistics.
He has a close relationship with Yuu, Ace, and Deuce--especially Yuu. Grim seems to be anxious when the topic of Yuu going home and leaving him alone in Twisted Wonderland comes up.
Crowley calls Grim a "direbeast", but it's not certain what Grim actually is. He does, however, take offense to being called a tanuki (or weasel, in EN).
He likes attention.
His dream is to be a world-class mage someday!
He is unable to recall memories of his family or his past, but reports the following: "I remember wakin' up hungry and alone. It was real cold. I was waitin' out there for someone to come get me for ages. What happened after that again? It's all so foggy..."
Idia confirms in book 6 that even though Grim doesn't seem powerful, there is complex ancient magic layered over each other. This makes it difficult to track blot accumulation. There seems to be "thousand year old" ancient sorcery involved.
Idia theorizes that Grim possesses a curse or a blessing similar to his own family's.
And while we haven't seen Grim eating Malleus's blot stone on screen, there's still definitely ominous implications! The current popular theory seems to posit Grim as a sorcerer's apprentice from long ago.
I love EVERY human!grim artwork I see but in my heart of hearts that is a six year old child not a teen /aff
Crossover fic has blessed my brain in that a eden-moth is just plop into twisted-wonderland as Yuu.
-Grim acts as the mouth and driving force? Moth has yet to collect enough candles to spend on chat (telepathy)
-'Child of man?' Yes, they are indeed a child made from the hands of man
-hates the name shrimpy once they know what they look like, too much like krill
-can play instrument, but only makes sounds of honks
-magic mirror can't see what their soul is? That is because they have yet to make one, they are still only a moth (a star trapped stone)
-they absolutely love Othro because he is like them!!!
-don't know how to return home? Because they haven't tried traveling through the gates to the realms yet
-the memories of the overbots and future events? That is just skykid mechanics
-the magic that makes them fly? Can slightly adjust to having super weak magic that they can only fly for a limited time (can't even cast a wind to stay afloat)
-helps with overblots by burning away the ink with candle
-likes Grim because he is a constant source of fire (ears) and he is grey like crab.
Have you ever seen an eel irl? Don't they have funny little teeth?
my eel brain actually started with me volunteering to assist on an eel feed at the pūkaha wildlife centre. knee-deep in large, writhing beasts trying to get at the food in my hands, i fell in love.
you're right, the longfin eels teeth are so small! you've got to look really close because it kinda looks like it's just a rough texture:
but that isn't the only type of eel teeth! Viper eels have a pretty iconic set of teeth
they feed on slippery critters so need some good grippers, while a moray like the snowflake eel which eats more crustaceans will have flatter teeth for crushing:
snipe eels have backwards facing teeth! you might have to squint to see these because theyre so tiny, but they function similar to a pythons- once you get in it'll be incredibly damaging to get out!
On a moshang kick but there's just something extremely compelling about the idea of Mobei Jun spending years expecting Shang Qinghua to betray him, getting impatient waiting for the axe to drop, deliberately creating opportunities for Shang Qinghua to betray him, still no betrayal happens, until eventually it gets to the point where Shang Qinghua has like, the fantastical demon king equivalent of Mobei Jun's credit card numbers and a joint account and free access to his bedroom and food and a great big cabinet full of poison and his detailed schedule and the exact time when he'll be bathing naked with no weapons under the moonlight at the one time every five years when all ice demons temporarily lose their powers for a full night and etc etc. Mobei Jun is doing trust falls (even though he doesn't know it) but Shang Qinghua just keeps catching him.
Until the whole lack of explicit communication and cultural differences thing explodes, and even then the big betrayal that finally happens is that Shang Qinghua saves Mobei Jun's life but then LEAVES HIM, he GOES AWAY, he doesn't even push Mobei into his own metaphorical abyss he just goes "this isn't worth putting up with anymore" and forces Mobei Jun to confront the fact that in his determination to be reassured he actually failed to prove himself to Shang Qinghua in return, which reduces Mobei Jun to a shattered wreck struggling to figure out how to fix it.
I'm looking at the only 15 groovied cards I have, and it's mostly Grim and Rook? (I don’t have enough candies to groovy the boys). I am trying to get the desk bestie achievement with all of them, so it's just back to back lessons. So much honey.
Would you like some, honey?
🍎♠️⚡️🐺🤖❤️
Though worded as a question, it was, in actuality, just warning for them.
(Cards shown are of level >50 so you can still see their faces, well for most of them)
Bonus: Ace trappola treatment ❤️ (reward for the ace stans that graciously sent me their lvled ace cards on twitter)
Everytime I see the Shang twins, I just want a comedy fanfic of og Qinghua trying to be conniving but also have to deal with the disaster that is his brother and boss's courting. Or at least Mobei-Jun vs in-law shenanigans on trying to court airplane.
When your brother wants to betray the powerful demon king you both work for but you know that's NOT going to end well so you try to convince him not to do it but he's also seen those LUSTFUL gazes you do to said demon and calls you out
I love gobbling on everyone's take on Yuu, it is great!
The diversity of twst OC's is so funny to me cause we have OC's that have accepted their fate and are just chilling, OC's that are genuinely tweaking, as in losing their mind because of all the overblots and the responsibilities pushed upon them by Crowley, OC's that have a love interest on a character from the cast(shipping), OC's that are slightly older then the majority of the cast and act as an older figure to all these troubled teenagers, OC's that are no better than the cast in terms of mental stability and OC's that are a combination of some of the characteristics from above 😭
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