Talk:Adam Taurus/@comment-202.144.138.191-20170911073010

Symbolically I believe both Adam's and Ruby's association with roses allude to both their romantic and idealistic viewpoints of their worlds. In Ruby's case, it's her naivety and optimism and idealistic heroism, and in Adam's case, its how he sees everything as black and white, for and against, and ally or enemy in his simplistic and intransigent judgement on the world.

With his romantic viewpoint, fueled by hate, he doesn't look beyond Faunus and non-Faunus being good and bad respectively in judging people, which is why he is furious with Faunus who side against, or not for, the White Fang, seeing humans as no different to Grimm. I don't think he's posessive towards Blake in a stalker ex-boyfriend yandere sense; I think his feelings regarding her, the closest person in his life, for being traitorous from his perspective to her and his race, and above all for rejecting everything he deeply believes in, go far more deep than her rejection of him. The wilting roses of his Semblance reflect how his ideals are warped by his bitterness and hate, yet he still clings to this red tinted view, and destroys everything through them.

Well, those are my two cents.

Personally, I believe all crimes are redeemable, as remorse is a penance far more powerful than anything anyone can inflict on you: its the character, not the crime, that determines redemption. Sadly, I don't think Adam is a character that would wake up to his nature anytime soon.