I say this as a person running multiple World of Darkness games that fold into each other as part of a grand narrative, I know how I would do it.
This is how:
Per the episode with Horse, when Horse went off the rails doom prophecy he mentioned a list of beings. One of which. Was milklings. Changelings, in another word!
And in Grimal no Uta, she and Kitten talked about their history. How they met. How they got together and how they broke up. One thing that stood out to me is how Grimal chooses violence at the drop of a hat when honor is on the line. Hers, when someone at that rave grabbed her ass, or Kittens, when they passed that alley of heckling assholes. She's literally incapable of letting it go, right?
She's also really really fucking strong. I know people were suspecting her of being a ghoul, but I have to break it to you guys: a ghoul cannot hold back a werewolf with one hand. Not a chance. But a troll? Oh yes. A toll absolutely could.
So what the hell am I talking about? Well - a type of Changeling! The Knight in Shining Armor type of Changeling. Mechanically, Trolls get extra strength and extra health, right off the bat at character creation. They're stubborn to a fault - nothing interferes with their devotion to duty, and should they forsake that duty, their strength leaves them to wither, sicken and thus must find a way to atone in order to regain that strength.
(Is this sounding familiar yet?)
But a key aspect of Changelings is that they, because they carry a Fae Soul and are not truly human, are always othered. They have a rough time fitting in (a core theme of all the corebooks in WoD is 'belonging vs othering') and have stories that reflect this - like Grimal's parents. She barely mentions it in Grimal no Uta but that speaks loud enough to me to check the right box. It ended up drawing her to the supernatural. Like calls to like.
And the whole fight with Stig was about honor. It's the perfect time to pull a pick-yourself-up type of badass move like crawling out of her own grave. It's the perfect time to Dream Dance, finishing the Changeling Chrysalis into a troll, fully capable of picking that fight right back up where it left off before Stig lost it to Rage.
Additional Points in favor of my argument:
1. HtP team does not shy from showing us gore. We did not see Grimal's face. If it was fully crushed, wouldn't we have seen more of it?
2. The top half of her face, specifically, was tastefully shadowed. Trolls grow horns. They're also very blue.
3. The Yaoi Paddle is a type of club. Troll. Club. C'mooooooon
4. Stig can see spirits! A useful Gift of the Garou. When a Changeling Dances, they explode into so much Glamor (mechanically, this is their power source, like vampires to blood, but glamour is the stuff of art and dreams) that it not only is visible like a beacon but it also takes the shape of creatures and things. That'll be fully visible to Stig and, because of the next point, he might know what it means!
5. I believe Stig is a Galliard, which is the Werewolf Bard class, usually in charge of Social Matters, keeping an oral record of the caern/sept/pack's history, and maintain the morale of the pack. Most Galliard Gifts are heavily focused on Honor! We have a theme here, pitting two honorable supernaturals against each other in this fight. It could be a means to peace later on, because as we've established -
6. The D Family are not normal hunters. They're fully capable of befriending and recruiting what "ought" to be their prey. Big D in particular is very kind. Gives grace and dignity to those he crosses. This is best displayed in the very first episode, where he sat with the Kindred woman until sunrise. It makes more sense to me that the family continues to gather Supernatural allies rather than purely human, bog-standard hunters.
7. I also don't believe Kitten is human either. I believe Kitten is either Bastet (Cat version of the Garou) or descended from Bastet (called kinfolk). The Bastet native to Norfolk were not only nearly decimated by the Black Spiral Dancers (Wyrm-corrupted Garou, Pentex, etc) with the survivors also corrupted ... but they also have immense history with the Fae of the area.
So c'mon! Take my hand. Believe in Troll Grimal with me.
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