Talk:Adam Taurus/@comment-62.231.136.5-20180201120305/@comment-62.231.136.5-20180207101116

Yes. Adam's motif similarities with Ruby and his extremist revolutionary character are what lead me to this conclusion. Adam's rose petals and the designs of their outfits are the most obvious, and Adam is also associated with some moon imagery: the connection that Summer and Ruby establishes between the moon and the rose,  a semblance named "Moonslice", and that his first use of his semblance took place with the shattered moon in the background. After all, while Monty Oum denied any family relation between Adam and Ruby, he didn't deny their thematic connection, only expressing that the difference was "scatter and wilt".

What's striking about the mindsets of extremists and revolutionaries is that they're often profoundly idealistic, fighting for an ideal of good that they hold sacrosanct and dear, and regarding that which opposes that ideal to be evil. While Adam and Ruby have different ideas of good and evil: Ruby's being far more positive; they are both idealists at heart. Where the difference lies, I see, is the difference between "scatter and wilt": scattering rose petals are still vibrant, reflecting Ruby's purity, and as her mother's character indicates, her self-sacrificing nature. A wilting rose, in contrast, has withered and blackened, reflecting Adam's idealism warped by bitterness and hate.