Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-107.167.112.74-20170228120401/@comment-25936766-20170412165017

Terminus99 wrote:

1-@Someone: Come on Someone, Marcus was most likely an abusive father, or at least that's what we have been led to believe.

2-Anyway, let's assume for a second that he wasn't. If he wasn't then I would be okay with Adam's Human parent abusing and mistreating Adam and his Faunus parent. I just don't want Adam and Mercury to have very similar backstories. 1-Assume nothing until shown something that at least supports it more concretely. N

2-Why would they have "very similar backstories"? That line of thinking reduces the idea to it's most simple, to such an extent it loses it's meaning.

There's many kinds of abuse. The physical abuse, psychological abuse, the abuse done without realizing it, the abuse that only happens when someone gets drunk, and so on.

And the reasons behind the abuse can vary too. Let's assume Marcus was abusive. Let's assume Adam had an abusive parent too. Why assume they were both the same kind of abusive parent, for the same reason?

It's like saying Weiss and Ruby are very similar because they both decided to be Huntresses. While true, that idea reduces or ignores all the other elements.