User blog:WeissSchnee/Character Blog: Adam Edition

The star of today’s character blog is. . . Adam. Expecting Yang? Her edition will be posted. . .  soon. It’s taking quite a bit longer to analyse Miss Xiao Long than the other characters.



So. . . Adam. It would be quite easy to characterise Adam as a bad guy, or as a possible antagonist of the series and think no more about it. However, if we take a moment to look a little closer, we may see that Adam’s character isn’t so black and white (no pun intended . . . well, maybe a little bit).



I think Adam is driven by a real desire to reclaim whatever was taken from he and Blake, and I think this desire has blinded him and made him very single minded, unable to focus on anything else but getting back was taken.



This single focus has led to him seemingly doing whatever it takes, regardless of morality or the law. This is shown when he seemingly has no regard what so ever for the lives of the crew members on the Black Cargo Train.



Adam is a talented fighter, and uses his Ninjato with great speed and precision. Then there’s his “seeing red” ability. I think it’s a little soon to speculate on this, but I think it’s safe to say it’s a form of energy or life force absorption. When Adam absorbs the energy from an enemy, I think perhaps it increases his own power, allowing him to reduce an enemy to rose petals. I also think that maybe the over use of this ability, or being born with it, had rendered Adam blind or damaged his eye sight to the point he has to wear a mask.



So, to wrap things up, I think Adam is still very much a mystery and it will be interesting to see what wins out in the end, his friendship with Blake or his need for revenge.



