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elegyofthemoon · 2 months

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(shakes tumblr) PLEASE TELL ME WHEN IM RAMBLING TOO LONG I CAN TAKE IT

anyways i'm going to continue the ramble here bc tumblr ate it:

But going back to the scene with Hope getting Alexander, like I don't know how to stress the idea that this group was a group that argued and fought early game and even split because they just couldn't see eye to eye on anything.

You get to that scene with Hope, who now lacks any reason to go on because at that point the only thing that he had going for him was the hatred and desire to kill Snow before he realized this was no way to live and it wouldn't save him from anything, and only finds that both as the youngest and least experienced, he felt more or less like a burden to the rest, even expressing the rest of the group to leave him behind.

This group who argued and fought early game all came together to protect Hope and assure him that he deserves to be here, just as anyone else does.

Like!!! That character development!!! The relationship building???? It's all so smooth and well done at that point that it felt so natural that they'd take care of each other. We are in this hellhole together, and we will get out of it together.

It's just!! I don't know. The charm that I have with this game is not in the battle system or the plot itself, but rather the characters and how human they all feel, and the relationship they build with one another. It's a really wonderful game if you're looking for something more character driven.

I need to replay this entire series at some point,, ahhh

#rambled too long about ff13 again in the tags that tumblr ate my tags....#SEE THIS IS WHY I SHOULD NEVER PLAY FF13 AGAIN I JUST START RAMBLING FOREVER ABOUT IT #listen!#i am a walking megaphone! if i can be loud and annoying about games i like and vortex someone into playing it! i will #snow plays ff13 #on a different note #oh wait did i say? i was playing 13-2 yesterday bc i was staring at hope for x hours :3 normal LAKSDJFAH #BUT ANYWAYS i saw snow again and was like 'you know..... i respect you now so you can have your name back.' so im thinking about changing m #screenname here LKAJSDHLF #NOT JUST BC OF THAT BUT STILL LMAO #i say 'please never bring up ff13 with me' but really i like talking about it and wish i was able to talk more about it #i may have the Shittiest memory ever and cannot remember everything about it but My God do i have love for it

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the-angst-lord · 5 years

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Just gonna get this out of the way.

Okay, a few things before Adam probably dies and the fandom rejoices because I think we can all agree at this point. Adam is a bad character, morally and in the narrative itself.

That being said.

Adam is currently written to be a mess of the negative ex-lover tropes. (I seriously think the staff forgot that he’s suppose to be in his early twenties and Blake is still a minor)

He can’t even be called a villain anymore because not even the writers respect his character enough to be called a threat. Literally, it feels like the writers are trying their best to write him out of the show because by doing so it’ll write away any negative implications his character has on the theme of being a Fanus.

The most present Adam, wants to murder Blake. Except that he’s taking a damn long time to do it, I guess because they wanted the allusion to a beast stalking their prey, but like, he could’ve just shot her on the train. His sword is also a gun after all. But I suppose a mecha fight isn’t enough, haveta finally deal with this character that no one likes, probably going to end up killing him because, I don’t know, metaphor for overcoming trauma. Except that’s not how it works, but I digress.

When in reality, it would be really simple to imply what built him up to be a fallen hero, villain, dickhead.

It goes back to a quote from Adam’s character short, and one moment from Final Fantasy 13 it reminded me of.

Warning, I’m going to talk about dark stuff, aligning with experimentation and slavery. If you’re not comfortable with that please do not read.

This is what I think Adam’s story should’ve been set as.

- Adam is from Atlus. We first see him as a child, at first uncertain to who this child is. They have a collar around their neck, and from behind a cage we see them look through the crack of a door, towards a red rose sitting on a desk. That’s all we get so far, just that he’d specifically from the place that we know does not treat Fanus well, from a time before the White Fang was an organization.

From that we jump to when Adam already has the mask on, having a more lighter demeanor, reserved, but quick witted at times. He was Blake’s mentor so would be someone person who had experience in combat, and was the one who had been working alongside Gera and Kali to bring equality for Fanus. What his character short should have portrayed was someone who looked up to Gera as a father figure. Building up their relationship as something that Adam treasured though not outwardly as to keep his composure.

We know nothing about Adam’s childhood, so it would be easy for him to find a sort of mentor figure in the leader of the White Fang. Vice Versa, Gera could’ve seen Adam as like a son, someone with great potential who could’ve led the White Fang should he decide to step down, something that Adam of the past should never wish to see. At that point, he would’ve not only been Blakes mentor, he would’ve been someone she looked up to as a Big Brother which makes more sense as to why Adam would care about Blake’s opinion.

The moment Gera decides to leave the White Fang is when Adam is betrayed for the first time. At this point, the rise of aggression is triggering a response from the humans, fear. And it does seem to be effective more than Gera’s methods, something that Kali assures him of. When Adam confronts Gera, he’s furious, asking why he’s abandoning his fanus brothers and sisters, and Gera just looks at him in disappointment. Saying that fear isn’t the way to bring Fanus equality, and that their actions will just hinder the cause. But that doesn’t sit well with Adam, because right in front of him is a man who is running away from something he cannot control. So he asks, is it because you can’t control the White Fang, or because you can’t control me?

Gera doesn’t respond instead just walking away from him, similar to how Blake leaves in the Black trailer.

From then on, Adam is more aggressive and unrelenting. Everything that Gera taught him is thrown away as he becomes more self serving. It’s around this time that the White Fang adopts a similar kind of mask that Adam wears, signifying their transition to being a terrorist organization. He kills more, and just as before, has nothing but contempt for humanity. Yet throughout all of this, Blake is the only person who hasn’t abandoned him. She sided with him when her father left and is the only family he has left. So of course he’d lie to her, telling her that every action done in service towards spiting Gera was in service of their cause. At first she believes it, but isn’t fooled for long after that.

Once she leaves, just like her father, all Adam has left is the White Fang. He places all his time into protecting that, his hatred for humanity bubbling up more as there comes a chance to eradicate a city populated with them. But when he sees her again, it triggers all the anger festering inside him. He blames her for abandoning him, thus he lashes out, demeaning and terrifying her. Because now this is not the person she knew and looked up to, this person is a monster. So then he traumatizes her and Yang, but can’t let go of his hatred towards people he once considered family.

Once Blake returns to menagerie, Adam does call for their deaths. But he is more focused on making the Fanus the dominant race. His relationship to Hazel could’ve been interesting, if he’d acknowledge Hazel’s morality when it came to Sienna Kahn. That Hazel was just as complicit as he in the destruction of Becon, so why should another death matter to him. On the flip side Hazel making a jab of Adam supposedly garnering the loyalty of his followers, resulting in the betrayal of their own leader. Gera would’ve been hinted at as Adam would mention that every leader past betrayed their predecessor, so he would be no different.

When the White Fang are call to destroy the tower in Haven, it practically kills Adam to see Gera and Blake standing against him. That the people he considered family are standing against him now. He blames both Blake and Gera for being weak hearted and abandoning the cause once they saw something they couldn’t control. This overwhelming of emotions makes him sloppy, but it takes Gera, Sun, and Blake to all take him down, however, he still escapes.

During RWBY’s journey towards Atlus, we see that Adam is tracking Blake, not on a train, just tracking her. Once he gets her alone, he mocks how she’s not a true Fanus so long as she remain’s on the side of humans. That she preaches about equality of fanus yet does nothing to push back the injustice done to their people. He mocks her, saying that they’re alike, which she refutes, now fully seeing him as a monster. However Adam says was once just like her, that he believed in Gera’s peaceful methods, but ultimately they failed, just as she will. Blake would say that she wouldn’t make the same mistakes as her father, and Adam responds with that she already has, never fully understanding the full extent of injustice done to Fanus, and that Atlus will never be a safe place for their kind.

After that Blake and Yang defeat Adam. Easily handing him as a trade to cover up the giant battle that took place, after all he’s a fanus terrorist.

The last we see of Adam is an officer assuring the team that the Fanus will never cause harm again. And this relieves both Blake and Yang, however we see a hint of shock on Blakes face as she turns around to see a muzzle being placed on Adam’s face. However, Yang and the rest of the team reassure that they’re being cautious when handing him. To which she agrees, and that is the last they will see of Adam.

The final scene shows Adam being brought to his knees, surrounded by cages of Fanus, either Feral or cowering. All chained up with collars and muzzles. A scientist approaches him, his face not shown, only keeping a red rose in his breast pocket.

He examines Adam as one would livestock, a smile appearing on his face, “It would seem you’ve come back my love. Appears as though you’ve lost some of your quality, but there must be some use for you.”

The scene then switches to outside of the room, where there are only the sounds of violent tools cutting and drilling. This is the last we see of Adam, as he never returns, as indicated by the last rose falling from the vase of a now dead flower.

- Few notes.

-The term, “My love, acts as a phrase of used derogatorily.” As one would call a pet, “My love.” It’s meant to be insulting when Adam says it, rather than affectionate.

- “It’s time we stood up for ourselves. Our kind has been beaten, murdered, treated like dogs.

In this idea, there’s an implication of experimentation, that every fanus criminal is subjugated to this treatment because they don’t have the same rights as human, thusly they’re a legal gray area.

On the flip side, when capture while they’re young few are sold off as pets to the higher class of Atlus. When I first heard that line previously quoted, it reminded me of a scene from FF13, where the people are essentially pets to be used for the needs of, essentially, demi-Gods. They’re nurtured until they have use, and once their use is fulfilled they’re disposed of. In reality, the same would apply to exotic animals, being bought and sold off the black market when they’re young to rich people who enjoy the idea of them. But are eventually rid of once they’re grown and a hassle to take care of.

So since there’s no clear depiction of Fanus discrimination, I made it up, and look where that got us.

#midnight crackpot time #Adam's trash so I'm just recycling him #adam taurus #rwby

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