Monroe (Grimm)

Monroe is the tritagonist of the fantasy TV show Grimm. He is a close friend of Nick Burkhardt, being the first Wesen that Nick established contact with. He is a Blutbad (a wolf-like Wesen), albeit a reformed one who keeps his violent nature in check and lives peacefully as a clockmaker. Despite Grimms and Blutbaden being sworn enemies, Monroe helped Nick understand what he is and served as a valuable source of information regarding other Wesen and their culture. He would later aid Nick and Hank Griffin as a police informant and undercover investigator of sorts, alongside his friend, turned girlfriend, and eventually wife; Rosalee Calvert.
Him and Rosalee would go on to have triplets.
==Personality==
Monroe is a Wieder Blutbad, abstaining from a life of violence and keeping himself under control through a regiment of exercise, drugs and a vegetarian diet. He has proven to be a friendly person, as he bore little to no hostility towards Nick upon meeting him, subsequently learning that he was a Grimm, and then being wrongly suspected as a kidnapper. Despite Monroe's reluctance, he has helped Nick when dealing with other Wesen, being his only source of information following the death of his aunt, and eventually becoming a trusted friend and partner.
A loner at the start of the series, Monroe can be rather awkward if not eccentric at times. Despite his strength as a Blutbad, he is sometimes prone to nervous tics and reactions, such as shaking, going off on tangents, and pacing up and down. He can be long-winded when it comes to getting the point across, particularly if the topic at hand is a difficult one, yet also can also be straightforward, when necessary, sometimes not really helping by being so. In spite of all this however, Monroe does his best to be social when the situation calls for it, being able to blend in with crowds and groups of people, as well as adopting certain personas on the fly in order to investigate undercover.
Monroe possesses many wolf-like personality traits akin to a Blutbad. He is civil, affable and highly loyal towards his friends and family, being cheerful and good-natured, while also being intelligent and adaptable towards oncoming threats despite his nerves sometimes coming onto him. On the flip side, despite coming off as awkward and timid at times, he has a strong protective side, flying into a ferocious rage whenever anyone he cares for is threatened or harmed: being fierce at best, and outright vicious at worst. He also does his best with Wesen who are naturally afraid of him, though he has no qualm with intimidating others when necessary.
Monroe is greatly in love with Rosalee, a Fuchsbau (fox-like Wesen), and has no problem with intermarriage between different Wesen races, provided it's healthy. This was seen when he fiercely defended Rosalee from his parents following their shock and disgust upon learning what she was. Aside from protecting Rosalee on several occasions, this love and devotion was best demonstrated during his statement against the Wesenrein council, saying that nothing in life is pure and isn't meant to be, that there's nothing to stop things from becoming messy and complicated, but saying that there is purity in his love for Rosalee while feeling sympathy for the Wesenrein council being unable to understand them.
Monroe does possess a vengeful side however, particularly when his friends are harmed or killed. When a Bauerschwein (a pig-like Wesen that are long-time enemies of Blutbaden) chef was poisoning Blutbaden with exotic mushrooms, Monroe slowly began to let his anger consume him, telling Nick that he would deal with him if he wouldn't. In an earlier case with another Bauerschwein, Peter Orson, Monroe held a strong grudge against him for killing his friend, Hap, almost attacking him when the two met once again. In both these scenarios, Monroe's anger gave way to his prejudice against Bauerschwein, specifically when they target Blutbaden, and he nearly let his anger fly off the handle in both circumstances. In both these cases however, Monroe was able to look past his hatred and do the right thing.
Monroe also exhibits a milder prejudice towards some other Wesen, albeit sometimes with justification and hardly with any malice. Rather, he is aware of the bad reputations that some Wesen carry in spite of that that his own kind does. This has been shown with Fuschbau, at least warning Nick that they bite when meeting Freddy Calvert (Rosalee’s now deceased brother). Siegbarste (ogre-like Wesen), calling them the worst and remarking on their habits of carrying grudges to the grave, and Klaustreich (alley cat-like Wesen), warning Nick to sleep with one eye open when learning that he met one, though this was likely and mostly in part due to a nasty incident he had with one in high school.
Monroe is also exceedingly brave despite having his own fears, and has put his life on the line in many scenarios to help Nick with Wesen that needed to be brought to justice, or otherwise be dealt with. Even when a group of Reapers attacked him for helping Nick and following another attempt on his life, one where his ex-girlfriend Angelina was killed, Monroe did not end his friendship with the Grimm, instead staying by his side and never wavering with his loyalty.
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== Trivia ==
* Monroe is his family name. When Rosalee goes to the obstetrician for a check up, the monitor says "Rosalee Calvert-Monroe"
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