User blog comment:SomeoneYouUsedToKnow/SYUTK's V5E3 - "You're a Maiden, Oscar" - Impressions/Recap/@comment-34633327-20171101045850/@comment-25936766-20171101134052

True, Ilia might be worse in some ways. They both hate humans and would rather kill them all than help a tiny group of them, no matter how innocent they are or how many Faunus are within that group. But:

-Ilia's entire argument boils down to "HUMANS SCREWED US ALL AND NOW YOU WANT US TO HELP THEM?!?!". She refuses the idea of cooperation for/with "Humans" like a raving lunatic, ignoring all the Faunus students in Haven and acting like if Haven was 100% human-only.

Adam, meanwhile, is willing to work with humans to achieve his goals, as paradoxical as it is, even if it pisses off Sienna in the process. Though it took Cinder beating up his mooks in his camp in FF with her Quasi-Maiden powers to convince him.

-Ilia's "motivation" so far can be described as "SOME HUMANS ARE ASSHOLES, LET'S KILL THEM ALL", and while her reasons might be understandable, it's still very extreme and generalizing.

Adam, meanwhile, said that "Faunus are superior in every way, we should rule over humans!". Which is a fact. Faunus are literally Humans with some extra animal trait attached (which can have it's bonuses), and Night Vision in most cases. Anything humans can do Faunus can do just as well, or even better.

And Adam saying that Faunus could win a war against humanity? '''Also a fact. In fact, they already did, decades ago.''' The Faunus Rights Revolution. Precisely because of their physical/biological advantages, the Minority group kicked the ass of the "Ruling Majority". And that was back when they were discriminated.

Right now, Faunus have more equal access to stuff, including education and weapons, and the White Fang is a pretty-competent terrorist group good at guerilla, even without Salem's help. If there was another FRR, the result would be the same.

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Overall, Ilia is like Adam, but more irrational, more annoying, has worse arguments, and is either just as much or even more ignorant about some things as Adam is.

The only thing where Ilia is better than Adam, is personality, or at least attitude towards Blake. When she's not screaming, that is.