The Hound

**The Hound** is a species of Grimm from the planet Remnant, and is the species of Grimmoire.

## Appearance

The Hound is a canine-like Grimm composed of a semi-liquid body that is black. Like other Grimm species, it has bone armor covering its body, particularly the skull piece, spikes on the shoulders, and spinal blades, along with its claws and extra teeth. The skull piece has red markings on it and a visible nose, but no eyes.

When standing upright, the Hound is incredibly tall and lanky.

Inside the Hound resides its host. The original host was a Silver Eyed Fox Faunus, who had horrendous scarring on the right side of his face. The second host was Alan Nomaly in the form of Grimmoire, when the Simplicitrix unintentionally was infected with a sample of the Hound's gooey body. As both hosts have been male, it is unknown if the Hound appears differently with a female host.

Grimmoire looks the same as the Hound, but with the Simplicitrix symbol on his forehead.

## Behavior

The Hound's human nature sets it apart from other Grimm, so much so that its mere presence scared off a group of Sabyr. The Hound's intelligence allowed it to use Penny Polendina and Oscar Pine as shields to prevent their friends from attacking it in fear of hurting them.

Unlike the Grimm of the wild, the Hound remains under Salem's command, not hunting without being told to do so.

## Powers

* The Hound has incredible tracking skills based off of smelling even the slightest scent of its target, such as being able to go after Oscar Pine through just the scent of him on the Relic of Knowledge, even though by that point the scent of Neopolitan or Cinder Fall would have been more prevalent.
* The Hound has enhanced hearing, speed, and strength.
* The most useful tool of the Hound is its inherent human nature due to being a cross between humanity and Grimm. As such, the Hound is far more intelligent than other Grimm, as stated above with using more sadistic, manipulative tactics such as threatening to hurt loved ones, and even more importantly, it has the ability to speak.
	+ It is possible that this human nature is part of what allowed the Hound to initially survive Ruby Rose's Silver Eyes.
* The Hound's semi-liquid body is capable of shapeshifting. It was seen being able to extend its reach with its arms, take an upright stance, grow wings, and grow a third arm.

## Weaknesses

* The Hound is blind, leading it to need to rely on its other senses, much like a Vulpimancer. If its other senses fail, it will be at a disadvantage.
* The Hound has no free will, unlike the Grimm of the wild, being totally under Salem's control. Technically, all Grimm can be commanded by Salem, but most not within her presence don't follow her commands regardless. The Hound, however, remains under her control.
* The Hound can go to the incorrect target if its sense of smell is thrown off, such as when it attacked Ruby and Alan, as well as trying to hunt Whitley Schnee, due to them having Penny's "blood" on them when it was searching for her.

## Notable Variants of the Hound

* The Hound
* Grimmoire *(the Simplicitrix's DNA sample of the Hound)*

## Gallery

The Hound standing like a personThe Hound's wingsThe Hound's host, a Fox FaunusGrimmoire
## Trivia

* The Hound is the only species thus far to be scanned into the Simplicitrix, for a few reasons. The first is that the Simplicitrix of *The RWBYA Adventures* has the scan feature, unlike the one in the main series. The second is the context in which it happened; the Hound attacked Big Chill by knocking him in the Simplicitrix, which left behind a bit of the Hound's tar body inside the device, causing it to malfunction while trying to process the new sample. This malfunction prevented Alan from transforming, and the Grimm's nature increased his anger and negativity tenfold, as seen with an increase in his already high hostility towards Harriet Bree, or when Lie Ren used his Semblance to read Alan's emotions, seeing motionless black petals all around him.
	+ Additionally, the Simplicitrix's otherworldly technology (referring to both it being made by an alien and coming from another universe) allowed Alan, a non-Silver Eyed person, to become the transformation, the Silver Eyes otherwise being shown to be a necessary factor in creating a being like the Hound. This much seemed to surprise even Salem.
* It is theorized that the same process that created the Hound from the Fox Faunus happened to Summer Rose, which is why Salem wants Ruby alive. However, this has not yet been confirmed, just speculated even in-universe.
* Unless Salem has another Hound lying in wait, the species is technically extinct. Team AWBRN, Whitley, and Willow Schnee killed the original, while Grimmoire was destroyed by Oscar using the kinetic energy stored up in The Long Memory, allowing Alan to be free from the form, and removing it from his device entirely.