Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-35941743-20190724191227/@comment-14909251-20190726053757

Wilfred J. Pemberley wrote: Yes. He. Was. He has far more (FAR MORE) in common with Gaston than he has with The Beast, and you know it.

Adam was always clearly identified with the Beast. His emblem is a rose, something that is included in the original fairy tale, and the name is the same one used for the Prince in the Disney film. Gaston is entirely a Disney creation with no connection to the original fairy tale and his feelings for Belle were always unrequited, unlike with Adam and Blake. The whole story of Beauty and the Beast centered around a "monster" who holds a woman captive and won't let go of her, but he changes so somehow they end up in love and live happily ever after. It is a subversion with Adam because it depicts that kind of relationship as what it would be considered today: a toxic and abusive relationship.

I've already refuted this multiple times.

You haven't really. What you have done is insist because their stories aren't exactly the same as their inspirations, then it means those inspirations aren't relevant to backstory. You mention Salem, but I can only presume you misunderstood me before when I brought that up. Salem is the Wicked Witch of the West in keeping with the Wizard of Oz references. However, she acts as Cinder's fairy godmother. She is not inspired by the fairy godmother.

1 - Since when do 'good v evil' stories forbid the use of 'always evil' characters? 2 - Since when is there a limit of 1 'always evil' character per series?

It is neither forbidden nor limited, but if you repeatedly have one-dimensional villains as the focus of a story it becomes stale and that is low-quality writing.