Talk:Adam Taurus/@comment-36530241-20191009225842/@comment-26397825-20191011005644

I'm not sure where I victim blamed, considering I was just stating what the comic said happened, and how it portrayed Adam. I never said it was right, or that Blake was to blame. Just how the comic portrayed it.

I take everything not main show with a heavy heaping of salt; it doesn't matter if it's the DC comic or Amity Arena, it all meets the same skepticism from me. I know he was abusive and manipulative and Blake did the right thing by leaving.

Perhaps the misunderstanding here comes from the way I wrote it. I should have split

''There's a single scene about him 'revealing' that he wasn't crying over his fallen brethren because they died but rather because they fell too early to kill more humans, but mostly he's shown as a pretty sympathetic guy with the 'dark tragic backstory' that heroines in books and movies love, and totally not controlling or abusive, or even the one who initiated the relationship. That was apparently all Blake.  We all know how that turned out, don't we.''

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There's a single scene about him 'revealing' that he wasn't crying over his fallen brethren because they died but rather because they fell too early to kill more humans, but mostly he's shown as a pretty sympathetic guy with the 'dark tragic backstory' that heroines in books and movies love, and totally not controlling or abusive. ''Apparently he wasn't even the one who initiated the relationship. That was all Blake. We all know how that turned out, don't we.''

The point of my last sentence was to say that it ended badly for Blake, because she made a mistake. It was due to a misconception on her part, seeing Adam as a different man than he really was.

I will admit to being a little frustrated with Blake's characterisation in the chapter. She said to Yang that she was born into the White Fang, but the comic makes it seem like she lived like a princess on Menagerie until she saw Tall Dark and Tragic, sheltered from what was actually happening. It made her screaming at her parents, calling them cowards and running off to join the White Fang seem like a teenager throwing a temper tantrum, and that disappointed me.