Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-4141313-20190112144055/@comment-14909251-20190124080624

I mean, to be fair, "shipping her with her abusive stalker" is basically what you are doing if you support the canonical ship of the original Beauty and the Beast story. Even Disney's introduction of Gaston only slightly mitigates that effect by having an abusive stalkery guy with no real redeeming or sympathetic features at all. Speaking of which, I'd say this episode makes Arryn's remarks about Adam being Gaston look even more like nonsensical headcanon that people wrongly took as some kind of canonical confirmation. He is, if anything, the anti-Gaston. That still puts him pretty firmly in Beast territory as a subversion of the more light-hearted portrayal.

Unlike Gaston he is not some perfect vision of the Faunus form, but is instead badly scarred on his face (on the same side as Weiss, which is just another reason why he should live long enough to interact with her). Again, unlike Gaston, Adam is not acting on a love that went unrequited. The scar also shows he was an object of hate and oppression, rather than being the most desirable bachelor around who experienced adversity. On top of all of this, he has extremely low self-esteem, but more a fiery determination driven by thoughts of revenge.