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MiniDaggers wrote: I presume it connects to his allusion.

There was a wilting rose in beauty and the beast after all and he does allude to the Beast. ^^^^^^^

Adam alludes to the Beast from Beauty and the Beast. The Beast had a rose that was wilting, and when the last petal fell from it, the curse that had been placed on him would become permanent. He needed to find someone to love who would love him in return before the rose finished wilting, or he'd be stuck as a beast forever.

Blake alludes to Belle (the "beauty" in Beauty and the Beast), by the way.

As for the anon saying his symbol doesn't have any connection to anything about him - if I recall, both times we've seen him use his Semblance so far (Black Trailer, Heroes and Monsters), the red color that fills the screen appears (and I think disappears?) with sort of a rose petal pattern along the edges. So, there's your in-show connection.

The characters don't necessarily have to have their symbol connect to anything about them anyway. Glynda's symbol is a tiara, and we've never seen anything connected to that. Ren's symbol is a lotus flower, and we've never seen anything connected to that either.