Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-35455126-20190501031644/@comment-27745396-20190505094244

I would be okay with both ex or close friend, but making Adam so badly obsessesed with her in canon was a mistake.

Keep the "faunus are the superior race" and "the only way humans can be forgiven is by putting them through same suffering as us" mentality and show us that charming personality who managed to get so large amount of people behind him that no one bat an eye when he decided to kill the leader of WF.

The SDC was also a good idea, but it's clear it wasn't part of his character from the beginning since he never showed a personal grudges towards the company or Schnees. So ranting about Weiss at the end of V3 and making him notice her during the battle in Heaven and Weiss seeing the scar on Adam's face. Maybe Adam could even sending people to try and assassinate her during first two volumes? It could also be used to drive both Weiss getting over Blake being ex WF member problem, show Weiss the damage SDC has caused and/or continue her talk about how WF has been killing her family, friends and SDC's partnes for years.

Adam's semblance is a bit dumb. Perhaps it could have been explained that he's able to store kinetic energy in metal and then release it at once? It would explain the sword, especially if we add that it has been enforced with dust (explains the colour) so it won't break while storing/releasing the energy. This way Adam could use anything made out of metal as "powerful weapon". Or maybe it would be better to claim that the energy storing thing is completelly a thing the sword itself can do (again dust logic) and give Adam some completelly different semblance.