You have no idea how happy I am to find someone with the same view on Tauradonna as I do! I ship it PRE SHOW. As in before the Black Trailer. Now it's extremely toxic, I agree. However I think that it started off very affectionate and mutual, but outside forces (The White Fang and treatment of the faunus) started to warp the Adam that Blake knew. So she cut her ties, but he obviously didn't like it, though was too far gone by then. Most think if you ship it, you ship it in the current timeline.
YES! Pre show ship! You’ve put it to words!
There isn’t really any canon proof that he was abusive towards her before she left him. Yes, during the Fall of Beacon he stabbed her in the stomach area, but that’s after she left him
In the Black Trailer, she left him on a whim. Of course she herself had thought about doing so before she decided to, but Adam probably doesn’t understand why she left him. (Personally I think why Blake left him was because when Cinder came to him asking him to fight for their cause Adam didn’t tell Blake about it. So because he was keeping things from her it lead her to figuring things out on her own and already knowing Adam’s hatred towards humans, made her afraid of him and she left. I don’t think Adam knew why she just left him like that. He just wants her back.)
Some spoilers for Volume 5 Chapter 13 below:
My thoughts on shipping Tauradonna in the current timeline are strange, but here’s the full extent to how I see it. Hopefully it makes sense
Adam loves Blake. As in, obsessive and possessive love for her. He wants her but can’t have her, which makes him want her more.He doesn’t want her to die. He wants to kill everyone she loves. It seems more like he wants her to feel alone and come running back to him so she wouldn’t be alone anymore. He’d get her back, and she wouldn’t have anyone else to run to. It’s a win-win for him.He seems to be one of those rare male yanderes.
Blake doesn’t love him, at least not anymore. I still think she cares about him, but she doesn’t love him.
And what has been sticking in my mind, furthering my conflicting feelings towards Tauradonna, is how they talk to each other in V5C13. The tone of their voices. When Blake confronts him and he looks up at her, his voice when he says her name sounds to me like he’s almost worried she’s there. His group were taking aim at her before Adam puts his arms out in front of them and tells them not to shoot at her. But then the tone of his voice changes in mere seconds. Blake’s tone of voice is soft, gentle, and almost sad when she speaks to him. It’s almost as if she’s trying to keep him calm. I get some headcanon ideas that while they were younger, Blake would always talk softly to him when he got angry to calm him down, and she was the only one able to do so.
Now…Do I want Tauradonna to become canon? HELL NOHELL TO THE NO.












