Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-4141313-20190112144055/@comment-4141313-20190114015605

Unfortunately, we don't have the time to see it. The Volume has only 2 Episodes left, and we still need to finish the fight with him, stop Cordovin, and get on the Airship and get to Atlas. Both fights will reasonably take an entire episode together, and we can't waste an entire episode, or even half of one, on a flashback for Adam, when he's either gonna die this volume, escape yet again and drag his plot on longer than it should.

If anything, not knowing makes it better, since what happened does no excuse his actions. By knowing the full details, not only does it arm the Adam apologists like EruptionFang with more amunition, it actually gives Adam, dare I say, some actual depth. We don't need to know how he got the brand since we can figure it out with basic deductive reasoning, racist SDC workers, and we already know how he started out in the White Fang. To explain further could either undermine what is already shown, make him unintentionally sympathetic, or be seen as pointless padding.

Adam's time in the limelight is over. Just let him die, so we can all move on and the show can return to focusing on the actual plot.