Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26073173-20170526204239/@comment-28288412-20170526212508

The recruits he won over with a speech proving his lack of loyalty to humans, proof of competency and ability to deliver in the form of the paladin procurement and probably the Lieutenant's introduction showing the WF vouched for him as well. Nothing really saying it was so unlikely it had to be the special ability of a semblance.

Roman getting underneath Blake's skin doesn't exactly seem that difficult, Blake was quite easy to agitate back then with anything related to the WF AKA her past.

They followed him because their boss told them to follow him. If Cinder didn't get Adam to make them? They'd probably kill him, or at least kick his ass, immediately after an animal quip.