Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-4141313-20190119003858/@comment-17344148-20190125091403

HotSwappableGaming wrote: Erwin10nino wrote: HotSwappableGaming wrote: Correct, characters shouldn't make stupid mistakes in the moment - unless it's built up as such. And a character forgetting about their weapons despite having fought with them FOR YEARS is stupid. In volume 3, what did Yang do? If you're meaning the incident with Merc then you're comparing apples to football fields. It is highly possible for anyone to lose control of themselves when they are high with emotions. That includes training and whatnot.

Too angry? Too sad? Too jealous? Well, they can and will make one's own training nigh useless. So any "stupid decisions" made by any character, so long as it is the product of a peaked emotion, is reasonable. Why do you think that real-life people, the soldiers, drivers, and even teachers, have training in such a way that they can keep check of their emotions?

Take Psychologists for example, we will end up biased if our emotions can easily be swept away.

This is the same for characters in RWBY. Take Cordovan as an example. She's the elite of the base in Argus. The protector. However, she was able to control her rage against them so much so, that she was able to fend RWBY and Co. with ease.

Jaune, himself, displayed such action of irrationality. Remember Volume 1? He was able to stand up against the bully- one that he knew is a better fighter than he was, but did it because they would be targeting Pyrrha. High in anger, then adrenaline rush, he stopped them. Another instance was the recent one- his display of anger towards Oscar due to him having Ozpin inside his head. His anger, his fury, was channelled, and the rest became history. You're right, let me clarify. Characters shouldn't make stupid out-of-character mistakes. So like if Weiss saw Ironwood and went rage mode it's stupid. Or for a more apples to apples comparison, it would be like Weiss fighting some guy, Myrtenaster full of dust, and dying because she can't out sword fight him.

As I've said, Adam is a trained fighter - one of, if not THE best, fighters in the whole show. And we've seen him fight and use the rifle under duress before, too. Even as angry and panicked as he was, I don't believe that justifies this situation. Then this leads us to one possible explanation for Adam's OoC moment: he is still hung up about the recent past events.

Adam, from how we see of him, hates being weak. But with all recent events, the defeat at the Academy, the scene at the White Fang throne room, and with Blake's newfound attachment to her new cause, it made him felt weak. In a sense that he no longer has the power that he taught he had, and that he possessed for a while.

He no longer has the trust of the WF, which prompted him to kill them.

He was humiliated at the Academy and was forced to flee... possibly, this was a memory-triggering event, though we know not since we have Blake to answer it for us.

And of course, the "betrayal" he felt about Blake. Most probably, he thought that Blake shares the same viewpoint as he... and thus, why he is... to put it nicely, bitter towards her.

Well, theoretically, this would be the reason.