Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-4141313-20190119003858/@comment-14909251-20190126215043

SomeoneYouUsedToKnow wrote: I find it funny how everyone loves to say Adam's dead after being stabbed in the chest and back and hitting a rock before falling down a river...

...While Cinder got punched in the face with a lightning punch, then got her body covered in ice, then remained unconscious underwater for who knows how long, and still lived. Without Aura. The only good argument for him being dead and not Cinder is that it would be repetitive to have two characters in back-to-back Volumes fall from a cliff into water and then survive. However, an easy way to get around that is for Adam to not save himself. Cinder pulled herself out of the water and made her own way to safety, killing a hapless citizen on the way. One thing we can all say with certainty is that Adam is not getting out of anything under his own power.

Chishio's scenario is too cliché and takes him out of the action for a while by keeping him on Anima, but a way they can do it that is more interesting is to have him recovered by one of the inevitable evacuation ships or planes heading out of Argus due to the Grimm attack. Someone sees a body in the water, pulls him out of the water, finds that he still has a very weak pulse, gets him immediate medical treatment from a person on board, and he then spends a very long time recuperating.

How they avoid the cliché is something I mentioned previously and that is for the people to recover him to see the SDC brand on his face and decide they need to "return" him to those they presume are his employers. Then in the Atlas arc we have Adam, barely recovered from his brush with death, forced into harsh employment in Mantle alongside other Faunus workers. If people really want to see how Faunus are mistreated, the best way to do it might well be to show something so brutal that we begin to sympathize with Adam of all characters and even see the good in him a little as he may intervene to help other Faunus.

Far as the idea he received mortal wounds, judging by the positioning of the wounds on his body, it is likely that neither his lungs nor heart were pierced provided Faunus anatomy is similar to human anatomy. Mind you, those are still very bad wounds and if he had fallen flat there on the ground then he would have definitely bled out long before anyone could find him. The thing about falling into ice cold water is that it actually serves to keep him alive longer and it seems they are right near the ocean so him being noticed by a boat is not outlandish.

I still very much do not like the idea of Adam being dead in this Volume and a big part of that is I have no idea what they are going to do with Blake after this that would be worth our time. People have argued this or that, but it all boils down to Blake being there for exposition rather than participation. Even if there is a faction of the White Fang active in Atlas, why are we supposed to care? All the major characters we know who are connected to it have flipped, died, or been imprisoned. Unless Adam is really alive and shows up in Atlas, there is no reason for us to care or for Blake to be involved. They would have to introduce new characters that we are somehow supposed to care about with zero buildup.

The one thread I can see them pulling is revealing some of her White Fang history and it not being very good. Right now, "stole some stuff" isn't gonna cut it either. Unless Atlas arrests her and put her in prison upon her arrival, that kind frivolous transgression is not gonna work. None of that would really do anything for the Faunus side of things unless they force her into prison labor. Yet none of that really jives well. Only way that works is if all of them get arrested on arrival, which would be extremely odd if they had just come from saving Argus from a massive Grimm attack.