My Adam....

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How I see/play/write Adam, quirks and insights into him as a person, friend and lover.  Player/Mun knowledge only.

• Grew up in Puritan England.
• Converted to Catholicism in Milan to marry his second wife, Maria.
• Still carries most of his religious upbringing close to his heart.
• Wants more than anything to be a hero.  He may have twisted ideas of what that means, but he truly wants that feeling back.
• Feels Hiro truly gave him both a mission and a destiny he has yet to fulfill--setting him on a life-course.
• Believes that his immortality as a gift makes him akin to God because of his religious upbringing and the Genesis story -- Adam and Eve ate of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. God did not cast them out of Eden solely for that disobedience, but to keep them from eating of the Tree of Life and becoming like God.  Genesis 3:22 - "And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever:" Adam takes that "become as one of us" very seriously, and that immortality was the final separation between God and man.  Having that, now, Adam believes he is either God or like of the Fallen Angels -- and better blasphemy than abomination. 

• Needs to be loved--more than loved, even. Needs to be adored, to feel like he is someone's hero. 
  
• Desperately needs someone to believe in him, to follow him, to need him, to listen to him and trust him.  If this is lacking, he will keep looking until he finds someone to fulfill that need.
• Identifies a bit too much with Jareth's, "Just fear me, love me, do as I say, and I will be your slave" line.  Could be his credo, honestly.
  

• Is a leader, by natural instinct and learned skill, and thus does not follow well.
• Does not share well at all. Believes that it is the first step to abandonment.
• Fears abandonment and betrayal, but believes that they are nearly inevitable.  Wants to be proven wrong.
• On a similar note -- Hiro was his first love--and he's convinced that pattern of love + betrayal + being rejected in favor of someone else is the defining pattern his love life follows. He's been proven right on that too many times.
• Suspects anyone who says they would choose him above everyone else is lying, but wants someone to genuinely put him first in their life more than nearly anything else--tying in to the need to be someone's hero, to be believed in.
• At the same time, wants someone who challenges him, questions, rather than just agreeing with him blindly.
• However, gets annoyed when questioned, making for a delicate balance.
• Would rather have disciples, but needs friends. 
  
• Doesn't know what to do with friends who are not disciples.

• Was tested, tortured and experimented on by the Company, to include the severing of multiple limbs without anesthesia--on the tame end.
  
• Is more traumatized by those 30 years than he will admit even to himself.
  
• Formed the Company with truly good intentions to both save the world and bring powered people together, to let them grow and learn about their powers in safety
• Honestly believe(s)(d) that pushing "restart" on the Earth was the best way to save it from the never ending wars, famines, plagues, energy crises, overpopulation, destruction of natural resources.

• Excluding RP developed relationships, has truly loved five people in his life: Hiro, Angelica, Diane, Angela and Peter.
• Believes Nathan is his son, even in 'verses where he has no proof of this.
• Seduced Elle Bishop when she was a teenager.  Maybe 18 as implied in canon, but possibly younger, and he was trying not to shock Peter. ;-)  I leave that up to the Elles I play with. *g*
  
• Cares about Elle (and in some RP universes truly loves her), and feels sorry that "his" Company was responsible for torturing her and making her what she is.
• Whether he loves her or not, is fairly obsessed with Elle in a Stockholm Syndrome way, no matter what universe he plays in.

• Drinks too much whiskey, knows it, and doesn't care.

Comments

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Oh, he's furious about it. He's torn into Angela viciously over it. That no one believed Peter, that Nathan didn't know he might be special.

[powered-otaku.livejournal.com]

Definitely. Seeing as both of their parents were members of the company, they should have been encouraged from day 1 to look for abilities. I can see the retisence in people like Maury, who may have married a normal person (ignoring his just plain bad parenting). I'm sure he was furious with both of them (but Arthur was gone at that point).

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Yes. He...gah. I don't know where the fight is anymore, but it's in one of their threads. He was livid, and taking it all out on her. It wasn't at all what he wanted for any of them.

[powered-otaku.livejournal.com]

If you look at the basic charter of the company, it actually is a beneficent one, but they obviously twisted it to their own ambitions once they got Adam out of the way. Another thing, I'm sure, that he nailed into Kaito's coffin.

[changehistory.livejournal.com]

*nods* Yeah, it really is. I mean, ok, Adam probably started the whole twisting with the virus, but even then--he meant the Company and the people and its children to survive and prosper and be safe and make others like them safe after, so. Yeah, I'm sure he did. He's so angry at all of them for that.

[powered-otaku.livejournal.com]

I'm sure he is. He's got to be so angry that they'd turned on everything he believed in. And everything he showed them, because he accepted them for what they were. That, probably more than anything else, has to gall him. That he taught them to be proud of who and what they were and then they shamed their children into hiding or not manifesting until they couldn't help themselves.

[changehistory.livejournal.com]

*nods* Yes. There is a lot of that. That more than anything is what he's taken Angela to task for again and again--what makes him angry.

[powered-otaku.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately, a little too late now. (Not that he could help it.)

[changehistory.livejournal.com]

Heh, yeah, it is, sadly.

[powered-otaku.livejournal.com]

One can only hope that the kids won't pass that particular lesson onto their own children.

[changehistory.livejournal.com]

Heh. If Adam has anything to say about it, they won't. Of course he's all "not that anyone listens to me anyway" at the moment, so. *pets him*

[powered-otaku.livejournal.com]

Awwww, Hiro listens to him. Usually.

[changehistory.livejournal.com]

LOL. Yeah, he does. Adam's just feeling frustrated.

[powered-otaku.livejournal.com]

I'm sure he is.