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Who was your inspiration for Adam? Like, was there anything he's based off of?

So! Confession time - before I made Adam two years ago I really didn't like Team Flare all that much.

I thought they were forgettable, bland in all the wrong areas and equally cartoony in all the wrong areas. I don't remember exactly what inspired me to make this blog but writing Adam and fleshing out the complexities of Flare beyond their baseline characterization of "rich people want things to stay beautiful" made me appreciate them a lot more and has made Adam one of my best-realised irredeemable muses. 

Adam's actually got a few main inspirations, insofar as his characterization goes! The main thing for me was getting into the mindset and mannerisms of someone who is both willing to end the world and believes it to be the only sane, valid response to the problems they saw.

To that end a good chunk of how I began to contextualise and write Adam came from both Marvel's Thanos and Dragonball Super's Zamasu. I won't go into a deep-dive for these two but suffice to say they both have their reasons to cause mass genocide (on a far larger scale than Adam) and neither view themselves as the bad guy for doing so.

Adam also wasn't initially written with Rainbow Rocket in mind (however much I loved the idea) but eventually it became his mainline 'verse, so there's some differences in how I write him compared to those early days!

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[kalosinflames]

She sniffs, squints in disgust. " ... You reek. "

He pauses mid-step. He stares at her, looking over his shades to do so. For a moment his eyes burn and he considers a thousand and one insults to throw at her way.

But he’s in public. He puts on a smile, that sort of smile that makes your skin crawl. It was sharp fangs behind tight lips.

“Pardon you, madamoselle?”