anyone wanna hear what adam actually had to go through at the SDC? no? awesome, sit down, it’s story time.
on adam’s first day there, he was given a serial number (032213) in place of his name. anyone who knows this serial number and/or uses it to refer to him is someone he can’t let live.
he was given a single meal every day, usually made up of barely nutritious grains with very little meat/protein
within the first week, adam broke his hand on one of the machines. he should have been given time to heal but instead the SDC simply wrapped his hand and sent him back to work
sleeping arrangements were two to a bed, a single blanket, and a single pillow
constant verbal abuse from the guards and other human workers there, as well as physical abuse at the drop of a hat. they had to have reasons to hit the workers, but they could come up with reasons very quickly. adam suffered several black eyes and at one point a broken rib because of it
there were constant fights in the cafeteria over food, and adam hardly won being as young as he was. he found himself licking blood off his lips for food more often than not
there was a policy that worked not unlike solitary confinement that allowed the humans at the SDC to lock up the faunus workers at any given point for whatever they saw fit. adam spent almost two weeks locked away in pitch blackness with no sound and a meal even more scarce than usual
he would often be grabbed by his horns and dragged around or steered from place to place
let’s not forget of course his brand, which was given to him after he tried to start a riot within the workers in order to escape. when he was just over ten years old, adam was held down and the SDC branded him, officially making him their legal property and blinding him in one eye in the process. this is also where his semblance manifested, and halfway through the experience, he stopped feeling the pain
adam was on high alert after that and any tiny thing done wrong warranted a beating or another trip into confinement
it took adam nearly four years to get out of the SDC. he was around the age of eleven when he jumped ship to menagerie
