History Recap / RWBYVolume6CharacterShort

* ComplainingAboutRescuesTheyDontLike: In one of the flashbacks, Ghira is travelling with other Faunus, but is assaulted ''en route'' by armed humans who tried to kill them. While Ghira unsuccessfully attempts to calm the situation down peacefully, he is struck by bullets fired from human guns. In response, Sienna gives Adam permission to strike back at the humans. Adam takes them on single-handedly and defeats the majority of them. However, one of the humans goes for Ghira directly and is killed by Adam's strike. Ghira chastises him for what he sees as unnecessary bloodshed but Sienna chastises Ghira in return, stating Ghira is being ungrateful because Adam just acted heroically. The other Faunus present side with Sienna and cheer Adam's actions leaving Ghira isolated in his beliefs.

* AsskickingLeadsToAuthority: The short opens during a time period where Ghira Belladonna is still in charge of the White Fang. Despite that, he's barely in the short because it's either Adam or Sienna who lead the raids and engage in most of the fighting. The only scene that Ghira is in, he doesn't fight because he's trying to calm the conflict down. It's left to Adam to save the Faunus single-handedly. After a time skip to when Sienna has replaced Ghira as leader, she compliments Adam's performance on missions, gives him control of the Vale branch, and tells him that if he keeps going like this, he'll wind up at the right-hand of her throne in no time.

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: The short opens during a time period where Ghira Belladonna is still in charge of the White Fang. Despite that, he's barely in the short because it's either Adam or Sienna who lead the raids and engage in most of the fighting. The only scene that Ghira is in, he doesn't fight because he's trying to calm the conflict down. It's left to Adam to save the Faunus single-handedly. After a time skip to when Sienna has replaced Ghira as leader, she compliments Adam's performance on missions, gives him control of the Vale branch, and tells him that if he keeps going like this, he'll wind up at the right-hand of her throne in no time.

An exploration of Adam's rise through the ranks of the White Fang, and how he strayed from the path being of a Faunus rights activist.

Willing to strike down anyone who gets in the way of his twisted version of justice, Adam has declared to fight for the rights of his people, but over the years he's strayed further and further from these idealistic claims.

He's a dangerous combination of ferocity and delusion whose only goal is to torment his ex-partner, Blake Belladonna, whom he considers to be responsible for his fall from power.

[[caption-width-right:350:A tyrant's rise to power was not without manipulation. Without battle. Without bloodshed.]]

!Volume 6 Character Short: Adam Taurus
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* SeriesContinuityError: In [[Recap/RWBYV1E16BlackAndWhite Volume 1]], Blake tells Sun that the original White Fang leader stepped down five years before the series begins. In [[Recap/RWBYV4E5Menagerie Volume 4]], the former leader is confirmed to be Blake's father, Ghira. Blake begins the series as a seventeen-year-old, making her twelve years old when her father steps down. Ilia is introduced in Volume 4 as a close friend of Blake's and is implied to be around the same age as her. The Volume 6 character short depicts the last days of Ghira's leadership of the White Fang, and shows that Ilia is serving under him at that time. However, Ilia's character model is no different to her Volume 4 appearance, meaning that she looks much older than twelve. Either the character model was wrong for the short, or the timeline for Ghira's abdication was different to Blake's Volume 1 statement.