Editing Genius The Transgression/Chapter One: The Cosmos (section)

===Origins:===

Grimms are often born amidst violence, either personal or cultural. A country in the grips of revolution and war will birth Grimms, as will places plagued by unfairness, inequality, and great suffering. In more civilized places, Grimms catalyze through personal fury: threats to lives, livelihoods, or families, or merely seeing the injustice of the world every day until they dream of stopping it. Grimms are, of all the catalysts, most likely to come from outside the breeding pool, the result of a mortal trapped in an impossible situation who is forced 
to fight back.

Many Grimms are furious and temperamental throughout their youth and adolescence. Moody, dangerous, often irrational, they become soldiers, police officers, and brutal overseers. A life of discipline and service tempers some future Grimms, though their rage always burns beneath the surface. Grimms are the most likely geniuses to come from a military or combat tradition, though many come with extensive technical training, as pilots, cyber-crime specialists, or military engineers. Others seem never to learn, and find themselves trapped in low-prestige, high-stress technical jobs in their chosen field, working as EMTs, code monkeys, and construction workers. The least stable fall out of the technical world entirely, or never focus on those pursuits, and drift through life as unstable low-level criminals and violent thugs, though often ones so smart they never get caught.

Not all pre-Grimms are simply angry. Many are righteous, and channel their anger through their moral beliefs. Fulminating preachers, crusading lobbyists, and idealistic―if ruthless―lawyers are all likely candidates for this catalyst, and in safer parts of the world, where social violence replaces the physical sort, these Grimms are more common than the physically violent Whatever their origins, Grimms are aggressive, smart, and unwilling to accept the cruelties of the world without doing something about them.