Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-24032889-20190105161936/@comment-4141313-20190117032830

The Devil&#039;s Advocate WP wrote: Alhazad2003 wrote: I wouldn't say that, I'd say a visit to an SDC mine in Mantle would give us a good example of such. And the White Fang still has a branch in Atlas, so there's a chance they'll still be a threat once the heroes reach Atlas. But we clearly won't find out until Volume 7 or so, looking forward to it nonetheless. It really won't have the same impact. There is no struggle or conflict without some figure to agitate them. Adam was and is the only one who currently fills that role. Killing him off is essentially killing off that plot thread as little more than a side issue. Maybe it can be used to highlight how bad things are, but it won't be as central to the plot. Given the White Fang is pretty much her plot hook, it also makes it pretty hard to develop Blake further on that line unless people actually start recognizing her by reputation. Every other member of RWBY have their main plot hooks still in play.

SomeoneYouUsedToKnow wrote: Why? Sienna is dead and Adam outright told his followers to tell everyone. And then Adam himself abandoned the WF while they were being defeated by peasants, before outright massacring what was left at Anima. You see, this annoys me so much because the whole sequence of events makes no sense. Adam didn't "abandon" the White Fang at Haven. They abandoned him by surrendering rather than fighting. Even then he still fought, but it was pretty clear his only options were to stay and get captured or killed or escape and regroup. I can understand some viewing him as a coward, but the idea that the entire White Fang will now be against him for running from an unwinnable fight because he was abandoned and betrayed is a bit off to me. You do remember they only gave up after being surrounded and after Adam tried to blow all their asses up right? He tried to kill everyone there, including his own loyal followers, in order to spite humanity. And he's the only one who escaped.

What do you think the other members would think then if the only info they had to go on was by word of mouth, and they suddenly heard he bolted into the woods after a minor scuffle with his ex-abusee?

And again, not everyone is against him, only the ones in Mistral are. With the CCT down, none of the other members, as in whats left in Vale, the stragglers in Menagerie, and any in Atlas and Vacuo, are still loyal.

Plus, Adam is not Blake's entire plotline, nor is the Fang. Blake's plotline was always about the fight for equality between humans and faunus. The fang were simply a roadblock to that goal. While they are out of the way, another roadblock isn't, the SDC. If anything, this allows her plotline to intersect with Weiss' again, as both have big issues with the SDC.

Adam was a personal antagonist, yes, but to say without him Blake has no plotline is factually incorrect.