Talk:Adam Taurus/@comment-8562299-20190116121305/@comment-24018437-20190118002022

Here’s the thing though: a tragic backstory doesn’t excuse or justify their crimes. I can help make the characters seem more sympathic, and their goals and motives more understandeble. But it doesn’t justify or excuse their crimes.

Mercury and Adam took part in the Fall of Beacon. They, indirectly and directly, killed many innoscent people and weren’t afraid to repeat this if the Battle of Haven had turned in their favor. For Adam, we now know this wasn’t for the sake of justice or equeality, but out of spite and vengeance. And Mercury...Well, he doesn’t know any better.

Tragic? Certainly. Does it make us understand the characters better? Absolutely. Does that excuse ruining and ending so many innoscent lives? Hell no. Terrorists and criminals in the real world often don’t come from happy homes either. That doesn’t mean we should look the other way when they commit a crime, just because they have a sobstory.