Adam: I just helped you.
Velvet: You didn't help anyone! You never do! You just wanted to hurt them. It's obvious! You didn't want to stop a fight happening, you wanted to start one.
Adam: And you wanted to roll over. Interesting tactic.
Velvet: I'm not a violent maniac like you.
Adam: No. You're a victim. You play the victim and wait for someone else to come save you. Be it your teammate or a teacher. You outsource the responsibility to them, and force them to be the violent one, all so you can sit in an ivory tower. And I guess you've made it my turn today. Maybe if you'd taken care of it yourself, this `violent maniac` wouldn't have had to step in.
Velvet: I didn't ask you to…
Adam: No. You didn't. And if it were just you, I'd have left you to suffer for rolling on your back like a damned dog! But it's not just you, is it? It's every other faunus those four ever meet, because you're teaching them that faunus won't do shit in return. Teaching them they won't be punished for this.
Velvet: So what? I should throw everything away and become a terrorist? Take hostages and kill them like you do, Adam Taurus? You didn't even change your name!
Adam: Because I'm not afraid,unlike you. If they want to come after me, let them. I'll stand up for the faunus where you won't.
Velvet: You stand up for no one. You've done nothing but make life harder for us.
Adam: At least I tried. Tell me, Velvet. What have you done for the faunus? How far have you pushed faunus rights by cowering away from every human who looks at you the wrong way? Maybe I am a monster, but I will never be a bystander like you. I won't sit back and watch as a faunus is beaten down. If that makes me worse than you then so be it. It's a price I'll gladly pay.
—'Chapter 8'
Adam: I was at one of your shows once.
Weiss: As a guest or…?
Adam: Our goal was to kidnap you.
Weiss: I am going to assume you were not turned away by the beauty of my song, driven to sympathy and left in a moment of questioning your motives before deciding to leave?
Adam: Your sister's security was too tight. The mission was called off.
—'Chapter 27'
