Talk:Adam Taurus/@comment-99.88.187.122-20191027142732/@comment-24489996-20191102171613

The thing is with Adam, he was heavily tied to the racism plot, and since Miles and Kerry confessed they didn't know how to write a racism plot (probably because their only major minority had died), they had to go a different direction - rewriting every aspect, thus including new characters to compensate, like Sienna - despite Blake confirming the leader of the White Fang was another guy in the earlier volumes. Thus, Adam was given the abusive ex-boyfriend sub-plot, because not only was that easier to them, even though they used scenes personally approved by Monty in V3E7 that pointed otherwise, but it made them "woke" and pandered to fans who hated Adam's appearance in Volume 3 during the invasion when he hit and threatened Blake, which later gained traction as it was used as "shipping fuel" for Bumblebee. Didn't help Arryn and Barb with throwing even more fuel to this methaphorical infernal shitstorm.

People say that Illia was what Adam supposed to be, and I kinda believe them considering that it's rather objectively bad to portray a victim of racism as an abusive ex who solely existed to focus on a girl rather than fighting for his people, especially when: in the previous volume, he rejected the offer to go after her in favor of aiding in the cause and when we barely see any evidence of racism to begin with, other than word of mouth. They admitted they didn't know how to write the racism plot, plus they needed to meet their LGBT quota, thus Illia was born.

There's a reason why people believe in two different iterations of Adam: Monty!Adam - which prioritized dealing with faunus racism and discrimination over Blake, and M&K!Adam - who would focus solely on Blake, sacrificing everything just to "have her back".