Aswang

An **Aswang** is a sub-species of Wesen divided into multiple sub-types. They are known as the apex predators of the Wesen food chain and are feared by other Wesen, Grimms, Espers, Royals, and Kehrseite-Schlich-Kennen alike. They are known to have conquered most of the Wesen race at some point and had ruled over the Wesen for around a few thousand years. Their empire had since secretly ruled over Wesen and their race is ruled by the Aswang King, the head of the seventh Royal Family.

## History

The Aswangs were known to have enslaved the Filipinos many years ago prior to the series in secret, keeping them in Barangays. The Aswang King, ruler of thousands of variants of the same country, had subjugated many Multiversal Barangays in secret to feast on Human flesh and rival the rogue Vampires who were known to be far more powerful than them. The Aswang King ruled over all the Multiverses for years beginning from the rise of the Roman Empire (27 BC). In order to control the Wesen population all over the world, the Aswang King would then orchestrate the recruitment of six Royal Families from every Wesen-centered universe: the Ptolemites of Egypt (Recruited 28 B.C.), the Eriksons of Canada (Recruited 1010), the Higashikatas of Japan (recruited 1192), the Cuscos of Peru (recruited 1438), the Tu'i-Tu'i of Tonga (Recruited 1765), and the Kronenbergs of Austria, (Recruited 1867). This was successful for many years only for Spanish Grimms to appears in various versions of his empire to free the people from the rule of the Aswangs leading to the current events of the series.

## Aswang King and the Royal Families

An Aswang King or Aswang Queen is a title shared by the Emperor of all Wesen. They are the true head of the Seven Royal Families. The first six Royal Families have variants of themselves found in different Wesen-centered universes and are mostly made up of Humans. However, the seventh Royal Family had acted as the one pulling the strings in the original Grimm series, which is the Joestar Family of Earth-Prince. There is only one version of the Seventh Royal Family and can only be found on Earth-Prince. They are the only group of Royals known for being primarily made of Wesen. The former King of Aswangs was King Joseph Joestar, who was assassinated many years ago. The current and only heir is the Higashikata family of Earth-Prince fathered by Miguel Josuke Higashikata.

## Vampiric Aswangs

The Vampiric Aswang, or the Vampiric Tiktik (Aswang= Asin (Salt) and Bawang (Garlic)) is the most common race of Aswang found in and native to the Philippine islands. They are humans who are some sort of hybrid Wesen, having attributes of a dog, a bat, a cat, and a monkey while having attributes of a monotreme. The Vampiric Aswang's gene is stated by Rick to be based on an ancient monotreme that hasn't been discovered yet. In the novel series, it was shown by many characters that Vampiric Aswangs are incredibly feared by most Wesen species, except for Wildesheers, Blutbaden, Siegebarstes, Jagerbars, and a few other apex predatory Wesen. Most Wesen and Stand-Users fear Vampiric Aswangs and the Author stated that they are apex predators in the Philippines.

The Vampiric Aswangs known as the JoJos of Earth-Prince are also hinted to be the seventh royal family in the novel series, who were the main antagonistic force in the first four seasons of the TV series, Grimm.

### Appearance

Vampiric Aswangs are very tall and have dark blue fur. They have black eyeballs and blue irises. They have black needle-like teeth, a dog or wolf's head, upright cat ears,  a monkey tail, bat wings, and a hunched back.

### Behavior

These Aswangs particularly seem to be labeled as violent and savage beings in history. But in reality, Aswangs are known to be incredibly humble, calm, silent, introverted, playful, and intelligent.

Vampiric Aswangs are particularly solitary. However, Aswangs particularly live in families, having a partner for life and around one to four children. They also excessively groom each other if they are a family. Often, Vampiric Aswangs would have their leader to be the female member of the family, often known as the Alpha-Female. The female would rear the nest while the male would serve and work for the family. The Alpha-Female, often the mother, would be often more territorial than the male and are shown to be very jealous when their mates are with other men.

When injured, stressed, or expressing a strong emotion, they purr in order to ease their pain.

Vampiric Aswangs are also known to be incredibly powerful and war-like. They are known as a race of soldiers and warriors, known to be incredibly brutal in battle.

Aswangs often snarl when they are in fights. When woged, vampiric aswangs raise their tails and hiss when to assert dominance. They also raise their fur.

Vampiric Aswangs also tick their wings when others of their kind are nearby. They tick their wings also to intimidate their opponents, especially if they are not one of their kind.

Often, aswangs in a family, called a flock, groom each other very well in their woged forms.

In hunting, aswangs hunt their packs and often sniff the air for food and use their night vision. They are known to observe their prey and pounce at them, being ambush fights, then fly away.

When their nest or flock is in danger, aswangs sniff the air and listen closely to their environment.

In human society, they are shown to be incredibly jealous, especially the females, often being angry at their partners more than their plausible lovers. They also show to be incredibly family-oriented and keep close ties as a family. They also show to have goosebumps when fighting.

### Culture

Vampiric Aswangs are known to have a secret underground society known to live silently within human society. These aswangs very much want to be humans and are very peaceful unless provoked.

Naturally, Vampiric Aswangs are known to be mostly political people, because they have a sense of duty in the world, mostly due to their families. Often, they become advocates, teachers, lawyers, politicians, law enforcers, etc. They are known to be wise and hardworking people because of their experience with disciplining their own family, especially the women. However, hybrids tend to have different traits. For example, Gabrielle JoJo, a hybrid, is known to be incredibly lazy (but in reality is just easily burnt-out) but tries hard to be hardworking. This is because of her hybrid genes.

There are also vampiric aswangs known as Wieder Vampiric Aswangs, who are vegan, take pills, and do a certain exercise and diet to keep very healthy and avoid violent outbursts. Miguel JoJo and Gabrielle JoJo are examples of this.

There is also a certain hierarchy to the vampiric aswangs. There is someone who rules all known races of Aswangs who is a Vampiric Aswang. He is known as the Aswang Monarch. Every Universe has a different king or queen. In Earth-Grimm, the Aswang King is Aswang Queen Gabrielle JoJo after Miguel JoJo killed Salvi (and Miguel JoJo is technically Salvi's son). After Miguel JoJo's death, Gabrielle was crowned Aswang Queen. In Earth-Prince, the Aswang Prince is Josuke Higashikata, who does not wish to be crowned. In Earth-Wesen, the Aswang Queen is Victoria JoJo. In Earth-WORLD,  the Aswang Princess is Victoria JoJo.

### Food

They are known to be incredibly picky with their food, often favor livers, hearts, fetuses, and raw meat, and at times eat human meat. But many aswangs of the newer generation eat cooked and spiced food. Aswangs also have a particular tongue for bitter foods. When eating, they can use their long forked tongues to liquefy and suck foods.

### Mortality and Lifespan

They live for around 18,000 years and are young for the majority of their lives.

### Reproduction

Vampiric Aswangs tend to find "angry-but-silent" types. Often, vampiric aswangs find those who are quiet to be charismatic and attractive. Often, females are very jealous of their mates and protective of their children. Males also display these feelings, but not to the females' extent.

This attraction to the "angry-but-silent types" causes them to be often attracted to their natural predator: Grimms. Strangely enough, even though it was once forbidden for them to fall in love and mate with a Grimm, later generations seem to allow this behavior (much to the annoyance of the parents who came from the previous generation) and they have shown to have significant positive and healthy relationships as the Grimms often show their lovable and sweeter sides to the Aswangs, who show their secretive passions to the Grimm partner that they show to no one else.

Vampiric Aswangs give birth at the third month of their pregnancy. Some of them lay eggs as part of an evolutionary mutation.

## Other Aswang Races

### Ghoulish Tiktik

A ghoul-like Aswang who are known for eating their firstborn grandchildren as tradition. They no longer practice this in the 2050s, however, and they are now well-known to be cooks.

### Manananggal

First encountered by Gabrielle in Part 11: JoJoRock. They are a type of Aswang who could detach the upper half of their bodies from their lower half and can turn their intestines into thousands of wriggly tentacles. They were once known for feeding on stranger's fetuses.

### Mangkukulam

An Aswang related to the Hexenbiest. Known to practice magic.

### Amalanhig

A failed Aswang. They become zombie-like and usually feast on Human flesh like non-sentient animals.

### Mambabarang

First encountered by Gabrielle in Part 11: JoJoRock. Known for having the ability to transfer insects and objects inside of people's body.

### Wakwak

First encountered by the Pines Twins in Part 15: Weather Report Grimm. They are known as a sister race of Vampiric Tiktiks. However, Wakwaks are known to be more mellow but smarter. They are actually deadly,though. They were once known to feast on Humans as well before the Spaniards came.

## Trivia

* The Aswang King seemed to have recruited the six royal families who seem to be hinted as remnants of the last royal families of Egypt (Ptolemy), the Incas (Hanan Qusqu), the Tonga Empire (Tu'i), and the Holy Roman Empire/Austria (Habsburg-Lorraine). However, the Higashikatas might have been a Shadow Shogunate in Japan and the Eriksons may have just descended from Leif Erikson, the Viking discoverer of the Americas.