Wesen Halloween party
Tanner enjoyed their halloween party. It was really fun to spend time with friends like this. It was sort of a strange halloween party, though, because everybody there went as themselves except for him. Sure - their faces were changed but it was their regular changed faces - so that wasn't much of a costume. He had gone as the creepy medieval doctor complete with cone shaped mask. Diana was right - he should have gone as an accountant...
And he especially had no idea why everybody else was so freaked out about Kelly and Chuck. They were just dressed as weird country hunters or something, Kelly had a huge axe and Chuck had a big old crossbow. Everybody else kept going on about their eyes their eyes - but they just looked solid black like always.
He had also figured out that Diana's costume wasn't a costume either, it was just her too.. But he *really* liked her that way, so that was fine.
It was a couple days after the party that Tanner finally hit Diana up about why everybody was going on about Kelly and Chuck's eyes at the party?
Diana told him that some people see their eyes change to black when their faces change.
He was curious did she see their eyes change? No. Ok, well neither did he. They were just always black like her dad's... So what was the big deal.
This took her a bit by surprise - and she answered the way she had been taught to answer "No, their eyes are blue, just like my mom's"...
"Huh, that's weird" he answered, "they must have some bad allergies or something," because he had never seen them blue like hers - always just black...
And it finally started sinking in... So she asked if he saw people's faces change sometimes when they got upset?
Of course, doesn't everybody? A lot of people's faces change like hers did when they get upset.. That's normal.
So she tested him with a partial wogue - and of course he saw her face change... He just always assumed it was normal.
How long had he seen people like this?
Forever. As long as he could remember.
Cool! Her too! She had learned that apparently some people were strange and *couldn't* see people's faces change and most said her dad's eyes looked just like her mom's eyes... It didn't make any sense to her either that people would say that.. His eyes were definitely not blue...
What's more - her brothers and sister saw things the way the two of them did... So for example Kelly and Chuck saw their own eyes as pure black like Dad's since their eyes had changed...
And that's when she took him over to Monroe's house to have "The Talk" about Wesen... Monroe pulled out one of Nick's spare Grimm books and showed him the pictures and names.
Tanner was completely surprised "You mean there's a name for this?"
"Of course...".
"Why?"
"Why what?"
Monroe found it surprisingly difficult to explain *why* this was special. Tanner didn't understand why people would bother going to the trouble of giving special names to something so completely normal and commonplace like this... It was literally the complete opposite discussion he expected to be having.
But... It was the same weird "Wesen" talk he remembered having with every single one of Nick's kids...
Those were strange discussions... Like when Diana first asked "Uncle Monroe, why doesn't dad's face change?" Or "Why does mom say dad's eyes are blue?" And of course all Nick's kids were disappointed and sort of confused to learn their faces might *not* change when they got older like their dad...
Tanner was actually more curious about why Diana's Dad's old books about these "Wesen" things were full of recipes... That was an even weirder discussion...
"Wait? Your dad and brothers eat people?"
"Huh? No. Grimms used to eat Wesen."
"But Wesen are just people."
"No, they aren't people, they just look like people until they change."
"Huh? What are they then."
"They're called Wesen. There are all sorts of different species of Wesen."
"Wait, they aren't people? They look like people. And they can have kids with... um... regular human people right?"
"Yeah, mostly."
"Huh. But the recipes? So these Wesen things like to eat eachother?"
"Um... Sometimes but not really as much anymore."
"Huh? Do you eat people?"
"No, but I have tried Wesen a few times."
"So you eat people?"
"No. Wesen aren't people."
"Then what are they, I mean you?"
"I'm not Wesen, I am a Hexenbiest. Like a witch. Wesen are the animal sort of things."
"So there's other stuff besides Wesen and people?"
"Yep."
"But these, uh, things can have kids with people - you said your dad is half human."
"Yeah, I am mixed. Zauberbiest, Hexenbiest, and human. I am also part Grimm too."
"Is the Grimm part from your Mom?"
"Yes, well, sort of. I got it from my Mom."
"So your mom is mixed too?"
"No. She isn't mixed. She is a pure Hexenbiest."
"Huh? Then where did the Grimm part come from?"
"From my dad Nick."
"Huh? I thought he wasn't your real dad?"
"He isn't"
"Is your mom related to him then?"
"No."
"Wait, so you are related to Nick - but your Mom and real Dad aren't, but you are related to him through her, but he isn't related to her, and he isn't your dad?"
"Yes."
"How does that work? And so are your brothers and sisters somehow your real brothers and sisters?"
"Sort of. I am related to their dad but they aren't related to my real Dad."
So you are related to their dad, and your real parents aren't?"
"Yes."
"Wow. That's confusing."
"Not really. I'm basically the same as you, Except you have more Grimm blood than I do."
"What? I am just a regular person."
"Nope. You are mixed just like us. You are half Zauberbiest half Grimm."
"No. I'm not Wesen or whatever it's called. I think I would know that. Ok, what's a Zauber-whatsit thing?"
"Zauberbiests and Grimms aren't Wesen. A Zauberbiest is a male version of a Hexenbiest. The female is a Hexenbiest like me. So your Mom must have been a Grimm."
"What? My Dad was a banker and my Mom was an elementary school teacher. They were just regular people. Their faces never changed and her eyes weren't black."
"Your blood doesn't lie. It's plain as the nose on your face. Maybe that's how you see Wesen and Grimms like we do. That's probably why you like it when I biest. Regular guys literally lose their minds."
"Really? That's weird. Well I like it. How about you come over here and be my bad little witch?"