Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-27819658-20161022023122/@comment-28111108-20161022223519

AlesterII wrote: Now I know your first thought is, shipping Blake and Yang and wanting to trash all over Adam. However let's put the rather...ravid shipping in the series and look at it from a more objective view point. Granted I like Adam but I want to set my biased aside to put the few points that want me to believe he can be saved from his dark path of human hatred.

- He wasn't always like this, as we learned from Blake in Volume two he wasn't a bad guy from the start. He became more violent over time until he stopped excusing his reason to kill people that by the time of the train bust, Adam was jaded and uncaring of innoccent bystandars in his war against humanity.

-He cares for the people under his command, as we saw when Cinder first approahced Adam. He did not care to put the lives of his men for "a human cause." He said his army was one of freedom fighters not some mercenary group for hire.

-He believes in his cause, to him what he does is justified. Fighting fire with fire like some people like to always say. Like a certain...ahem current political runer who wants to fight fire with fire and commit warcrimes. Adam is the very personification of fight fire with fire. He is fighting cruelty and hatred with more cruelty and hatred. People see it misguided but those same people are the ones that sometimes say fight fire with fire. Well there you have it that's the true face of fighitng fire wiht fire you create monsters from hatred and despair.

So with these three reasons i believe Adam can be put back in the path of...good or good-ish. My source on why this could work is Avatar the Last Air Bender. Zuko as we know wasn't a bad guy but simply had a shitty life and situation that led him to betraying his uncle and friends. I agree and wish something like this will happen. I feel that it's possible, but I'm unsure if it will really happen.

I have similar reasons for these, but I'll talk about them later if you're interested. (Kinda busy right now XD.) I will say tho, that he can be redeemed, he just needs to want to redeem. And I feel that's only gonna happen when he wakes up and realizes how far he has fallen and become regretful. I've also seen Adam's charcater and his story (what we have so far) is in a way tragic. One of the reasons why is because of how he doesn't truly know why Blake "betrayed" him. (Blake had the right to leave don't get me wrong, but Adam didn't understand why and that's how he got hurt.) I'd say he has the right to feel upset and hurt that Blake left him, (of course his actions in Vol.3 are wrong and not justified) and that communication was a problem in his and Blake's relationship that lead to their separation and falling out. What makes it tragic is that it all could have been avoided but it wasn't. A redemption would be a nice way to make up for what he has done and his own betrayal to Blake. (It also could fit with their fairytale allusion, if Blake tries to make Adam see the wrong in his actions and cause him change, like how the Beauty taught the Beast how to love again and saved him. idk I've got more to say, but I'll stop there for now. Hope this made sense.^ _ ^)