Talk:Adam Taurus/@comment-202.144.138.191-20170911073010/@comment-118.70.109.221-20170915171512

You can also connect the Beauty and the Beast allusion with his destructive idealism. The wilting rose represent his destructive ideals (Humans should be slain for justice for Faunus) his twisted self-righteousness, and how he fell from virtue and was turned into a monster by his anger against humanity. And the wilting rose also represents the monster he has become, as in the Beast.

Every time he uses his semblance, he uses it to destroy, and it leaves behind rose petals that wilt away. His semblance's power represents how his ideals destroy, and the wilting rose petals, reflecting his ideals corrupted and decayed by hate, also allude to the Enchanted Rose in showing how he immerses himself deeper in monstrosity and moves farther away from the redemption he's probably already irretrievably far from with every attack.

Well, Adam's tale is the reverse of the B&B Disney classic: The Beast develops from an egotistical and angry guy (reflecting the main villain Gaston) into a compassionate person when Belle enters his life, while Adam goes off the deep end (of a pool he was already quite deep in) and becomes a insanely angry, vengeful, emotionally abusive bastard who believes he himself was wronged when Blake leaves his life.

I'm not blaming Blake for leaving him, seeing Adam's callous disdain of humans pre-Volume 1. However I don't buy that Blake's relationship with Adam before RWBY was abusive. I cannot see Blake remembering him anything less than hatefully if it was, though I can see conflict that became more serious as their ideals diverged and Adam nurtured his misathropic beliefs and went further into darkness.

Speaking of the Beast, Adam's connection to the Beast is kinda clear among the fandom, and along with Blake's pretty official allusion to Belle, there is his wilting rose motif, being a horned Faunus, his Grimm mask that hides his face (and makes him the Beast), even his name may be referencing the (Disney) Beast's unofficial name, but where have the creators suggested this allusion for him as they did for Blake?