Considering how Camp Here And There has been consistent on using food as a metaphor for love, then does that mean that in Diagnostic Papers Stained With Soup, when Adam accepts food from Sydney in his moment of vulnerability, he is accepting human love? He later denies it of course, but we see that the day did have some effect on him considering his clear sentimentality towards Natsume’s false horns that he made for him even if he denies it. Of course, this is Adam we’re talking about so I don’t mean to imply that we’re going to see him become fully redeemed or anything like that, he is a representation of the worst aspects of the other characters. However, while those things can’t be vanquished, they can be reigned in and manage. And this is the episode where despite his denial, Adam does begin to show signs of becoming more human. Maybe love from humans isn’t entirely awful. Maybe becoming one isn’t entirely awful. Maybe we’ll eventually see Adam fall from the power that he holds over the other’s mental states and embrace humanity, however reluctantly.
