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Adam Monroe || Heroes || 1/?
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Character: Adam Monroe
Fandom: Heroes
Character Notes:
History: Adam is born in England, but later moves to Japan. He's probably in his twenties or so in 1671 when his powers manifest. Hiro goes back in time 400 years to feudal Japan where he meets his childhood hero, Takezo Kensei. This man is truly Adam Monroe, but he tells Hiro he took the name Kensei because it means swordmaster. Hiro thinks he has altered/destroyed the timestream as Kensei is a coward who hires mercenaries to fight in his place. He says that if they survive, he pays them a healthy wage. Hiro is not satisfied by this at all, telling Adam that he must defeat Whitebeard and marry the swordsmith's daughter, Yaeko. Yaeko chooses this moment to approach Adam and punch him in the face for taking his father's sword without saving him, as per the arrangement. She takes the sword and says she will fight Whitebeard herself and rescue her father.
Hiro trails after Kensei, slowly befriending him and convincing him to follow the path laid out by the legend of Takezo Kensei by telling Adam he will be very rich if he listens to him. Though even after agreeing, Adam shows much more interest in Yaeko than any other aspect of the legends. This is much to Hiro's chagrin according to the scrolls he leaves for Ando, because he too has fallen for the swordsmith's daughter. In order to get Yaeko to fall for Adam and restore the time-space continuum, Hiro dresses in Kensei's armor, and pledges to Yaeko beneath the cherry blossom trees that he will save Japan.
Adam Monroe || Heroes || 2/?
Adam goes to Whitebeard's camp to defeat him only to discover that he has guns, and Hiro knows they must destroy any trace of them in order to put History back on track. He tells Kensei to do just that, but when Yaeko is shot at he teleports her to safety leaving Adam on his own. After rescuing Yaeko's father, he goes to find them and find them he does. They are kissing under the cherry blossom trees and it is here Adam truly becomes a villain instead of merely a coward. He vows to destroy everything that Hiro holds dear and goes back into Whitebeard's camp, this time as his ally.
Hiro pursues him and they fight in a tent of gunpowder. It sets off an explosion and Hiro escapes, leaving Adam to die. He goes to Yaeko and tells her though he loves her, he must return to his own time. She says she understands, though she loves him too, and she will tell the stories of Takezo Kensei until her dying day. It is in this way that Hiro becomes his own hero.
When he does return to present day, his father has just been murdered. He goes back in time to reveal his father's murderer. It is none other than Adam himself. He didn't die in that explosion 400 years ago as Hiro had thought and his invulnerability has kept him from aging or dying for the duration.
The viewer discovers that Adam was one of the founders of the Company, along with Angela Petrelli and Kaito Nakamura. And of course, Linderman who is dead by this point in the series. After each one he kills, Adam leaves behind a picture of them cut out from the original Founders' photograph, the Symbol (which is also featured on his sword and the Petrelli's law practice among other things) drawn in red across their faces.
Because he can heal like Claire, his blood is a healing serum, and he uses it to save Nathan Petrelli after Peter goes nuclear and gives his brother terrible burns. This act of heroism leads Peter to trust Adam, even after he murders Victoria Pratt (another founder) right in front of him. Adam tells Peter of a strain of the Shanti virus (a virus the Founders created while trying to discover a cure for people with abilities) that will kill 93% of the world's population (as Peter sees it when he accidentally jumps ahead in time one year). Unbeknownst to Peter, Adam actually intends to release the virus as he tried 30 years ago and thus why he got locked up in the first place (how he meets Peter). He thinks that by wiping humanity from the face of the Earth and starting over with the 7% they have left, it will allow for the greater good and be akin to the flood of Noah's Ark. Or at least that's the reason he cites, it's much more likely he merely wants revenge and is generally evil.
However when Victoria Pratt lets slip (well, through telepathy) that Strain 138 is at Primatech, Adam and Peter travel there as Peter's the only one who can open the vault. He does so with telekinesis but Hiro, Nathan and Matt all meet the pair there. Matt attempts to stop Peter with telepathy and Nathan with simple, human empathy as his brother. Hiro stops time and tries to kill Adam, but Peter stops him. While Matt delays Peter outside the vault Adam makes his way inside and retrieves the vial. However, Hiro follows him in and teleports him back to Japan. As the vial falls through the air, Peter stops it and destroys it.
Hiro traps Adam in a coffin over the grave of his own father, who Adam murdered. I will be playing him from this canon point, and his dead phone will be able to access the Community.
Also in Adam's history, not on the show but considered canon nonetheless, is the legend of the Ten Brides of Takezo Kensei. Over his >400 year span, he has indeed had 10 wives and 2 children. While trapped in the grave, he says the eleventh will come for him. There is much speculation as to whether he was married or if this is merely a statement of the future. Either way, Adam dies before this is revealed.
Adam Monroe || Heroes || 3/?
When he's first introduced in 2x01 we see that he's cowardly and sure loves his alcohol, and seems to have nothing redeeming about him whatever. How could this be the hero Hiro has been talking about all this time? Adam says when they first meet, "I've never been called a hero before." Only, in Japanese. He rarely seems to have a care in the world beyond money, sex or fame.
However, he has shown the capacity for redemption several times. More so 400 years ago, the implication being he's been jaded by time and being an evil bastard for that long, but he still does show that he can genuinely care about others. This does seem to mostly revolve around women forever, see: his ten wives.
Before he sees Hiro betray him, he considers him a close friend, and thanks Hiro for showing him how to be a good man. But when he sees Hiro kiss Yaeko, he completely snaps and he never truly recovered from that blow. This could be because Hiro leaves him to die just after that, but one thing we know is that Adam would have become a villain with or without Hiro. Adam only got a taste of redemption because Hiro went back in time, and without him he would've continued to be a bad guy. So perhaps if Hiro hadn't betrayed him, he would have become a hero and gone on to be the Kensei of legend, but it's unlikely. Even when being heroic, he's mostly looking out for himself.
And again in the instance of saving Nathan. He does this only to win the trust of Peter so he can continue murdering people and searching for the virus that will kill all of humanity. He has kind of an obsession with it.
In the graphic novels, he stays with most of his wives until they die. One he even stays with for 62 years, Angelica, to whom he imparts his secret (that he can't die). However one of his wives betrays him and she and her lover try to kill him. He comes back that night and kills them both in their sleep. So while he shows a penchant for love and even rarely trusts others, his penchant for revenge and ruthlessness is greater, and overall he is truly ruled by his own self-interest.
He tends to think his life is harder than anyone else's and that he doesn't deserve the wrath that falls down on him. Basically any consequence in his life, he thinks he shouldn't have to endure. And he mercilessly manipulates people into believing he's a good guy time in and out.
Adam Monroe || Heroes || 4/?
But in regards to Adam's ability, there doesn't seem to be a "sweet spot" and he is therefore able to be killed by any blow to the head that would take out his brain. This might be something that was overlooked in writing, though maybe it's more likely that Claire's ability evolved from Adam's and therefore is more "advanced" and renders her even more difficult to kill. [Another really stupid theory is that Adam is Claire's ancestor/he's related to the Petrellis. Who cares this much about Heroes, seriously.]
Additional Links:
- http://heroeswiki.com/Adam_Monroe
- the official Takezo Kensei documentary: http://yamagatofellowship.org/videoPlayer.shtml?mea=148635
- The Ten Brides of Takezo Kensei (as per the graphic novels): http://heroeswiki.com/The_Ten_Brides_of_Takezo_Kensei
- and just more bs about Kensei if I haven't said enough already: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mythology_of_Heroes#The_Legend_of_Takezo_Kensei
First Person (entry type): Video;
[Adam's face is illuminated only by the blue electronic glow of his cellphone, but he's frowning at it and turning it every which way.]
How in the blazes.... I've been down here for days, how does this still have battery life.
[Adam blinks a few times before righting the phone and realizing belatedly that it's recording him. His expression of dull confusion immediately turns to that of desperate. He speaks slowly and deliberately in case someone really can see this video,]
If anyone is seeing this, I'm trapped in a coffin. Buried alive! And it's as awful as it sounds.... A terrible villain has done this to me, and I fear for my death. I'm running out of air, you see.
I know what you're thinking: a man who was buried alive must truly deserve his fate. Well, children... I don't. It was a conspiracy against me. An evil plot to release an epidemic on this world.
Sound ridiculous? Perhaps, but it is also the truth, I swear to you. I was only trying to save the world. With me six feet under, it doubtlessly still needs saving.
[the feed cuts him off and he weeps delicately into his satin-lined casket.]
Adam Monroe || Heroes || 5/5!
It's been weeks, and he can't count the number of times he's died. All false promises; each one maddening him further. A torture so acute he can feel its claws deep in him at every time of day. Not that he knows what time of day it is.
His legs have long gone numb, atrophying from their immobilization, and Adam's given up on trying to move them - it only makes the pain worse when he does. He prays to every god he can think of to take his life away, to overlook the centuries of evil and have mercy on his soul. He is unsurprised that none of them answer his desperate call.
He's almost impressed by Hiro's cruelty, and he knows his timing is inopportune, but 400 years has certainly given Hiro a certain fire he didn't have before. Or perhaps, Adam muses, it was murdering his father that changed him. Poetic justice, in his eyes. Adam became a villain because Hiro stole what he loved most, and now HIro could feel the same pain. It was the only thing that could give him comfort in his infinite confinement.
Adam isn't sure anymore, the difference between waking up and resurrection. They both bring sharp pain from trying to breathe stale air long recycled. But this morning is different; this morning he will be free.
"My wife will come for me..." he murmurs, delirious in his endless loop of death and lack of oxygen. Surely she would find him, and love him, as none of the others had.
It is his fate to be rescued, he knows with unwavering certainty, and it's only as he breaks through his reverie that the pain starts. His hands are raw and freely bleeding as he claws at the lid of his casket. He feels like a man possessed, incapable of holding himself back or changing his own course.
Surely he was not strong enough to dig out six feet of compressed Earth over his head, but could he not heal from anything? He wasn't thinking anymore, adrenaline indistinguishable from intent, and as his fingers felt the cool breeze and open air of the graveyard above he could not be stopped. He would walk free again.
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