Hmmmm I always take Adam as a Typical Japanese Yakuza man AKA, If he owes you a favor, no matter how big or small, he will find a way to repay it. So I really want to see the scene that Team RWBY is in trouble, and out of nowhere Adam came to save the day. After that, he be like, walk past everyone(even Weiss), straight up to Ruby and say. "Now we're even." And gone away. Everyone belike WTF Just because Ruby saved him once before.
🥮: i totally get the yakuza imagery! especially cus the floral sorta pattern he has in his first design looks likes a yakuza tattoo!
below is a small drabble based on the scenario you gave me! i like exploring the dynamic between Adam and Ruby a lot. They feel like long lost siblings to me ଘ(੭*ˊᵕˋ)੭* ੈ♡‧₊˚
There was a small miscalculation Adam made when he raided the recent Schnee Dust delivery point, and now he was curled up in a dark alleyway hissing to himself as he wrapped his ripped up shirt around his bleeding wound.
"Bunch of softies... all of them," he groans to himself as his head rests against the brick. Maybe because he was in so much pain putting pressure on the wound he hadn't yet noticed the short girl looking curiously at him.
"Whatcha doin'?" Ruby chirped innocently, tilting her head to try to get a look at what he was clutching, "Oh gee! You're bleeding out!? Do you need an ambulance? Uhm..uhm... oh god, I wish Weiss or someone was here..."
Thanks to the fact that his mask was off and his iconic White Fang attire ripped up to bandage his wounds, she seemed to have no idea she was talking to a notorious criminal.
"Kid, shut up... please." He grunts, trying to stand up and walk past her as if he didn't have an open wound actively bleeding out. She panics, holding him up when he stumbles.
"Hey! I'm 16! Old enough to help, right?"
His eyes narrowed at her naievete and happy nature, but he wasn't really in the state to fight or argue.
"How the hell could you help? You don't even look like you know what a-" he coughs up a bit of blood, heaving a dry metallic taste in his throat.
"Stop talking, mister! It's only gonna make your injury more painful!"
"Mister..?" he mutters under his breath in disbelief. Did she think he was like...old? He wasn't that... whatever.
"Yeah..? Are you not... a mister? I didn't mean to assume!" she flusters, almost dropping him to the floor. He groans, limping and she hurriedly catches up to him and drops him off at some shady spot in town where he was waiting to get picked up.
"Just go. I'll be fine." He sighs, trying to push the insistently helpful Ruby away. She pouts.
"Someone's going to pick me up, so stop worrying alright?" Adam flicks her forehead surprisingly tenderly for a man who claimed to hate all humans. Ruby reluctantly leaves him, albeit she very loudly looks over her shoulder to check on him every few seconds. Granted, it grated his nerves, but there was a sincerity to it that he couldn't help but find... nice.
And now, flash forward a few weeks, Team RWBY find themselves in a dilemma. Surrounded by Grimm far above their weight class and without any convenient tricks or adults around to help them. They're beaten bloody and worn out from the relentless attritional nature of the nonstop swarm. They seemed to have stumbled into a nest of some sort and the fighting seemed endless.
"This is why we should've left when we all heard that weird sound..!" Blake hisses, her swords clashing against sharp claws.
"Now really isn't the time for pointing fingers..!" Yang says in that slightly panicked but still lighthearted tone she always kept about her.
Ruby, however, was not able to banter and talk quite so easily. Her scythe had run out of ammo, and swinging it around like a melee weapon was not her preferred choice of battling. With a ferocious growl, she finds her scythe in the jaws of a huge Grimm, and she struggles to stop the fangs from sinking into her as the wretched scent of dead meat and its saliva permeates her nose.
"Ugh..!" She winces. None of her teammates have the time nor space to help her. But, miraculously, the Grimm falls to the ground. Disappearing in a flurry of rose petals. Her eyes grow wide and they shoot up to see the notorious White Fang mask and that striking red hair.
"We're even now, kid." He ruffles her hair, almost playfully. She reminded him of the other little orphan kids he had to take care of in the White Fang.
"Y-Y-You're White Fang..?!"
He smirks, snorting as a click of his sword kills all the Grimm. Shooting them all in their fatal spots instantly, and Team RWBY's eyes all shoot towards the perpetrator. Blake almost falls to her knees in fear just seeing him.
Weiss speaks up first,
"What the hell business does a White Fang member have saving us?"
Adam turned around slowly to see Weiss. Schnee. His scar twitched violently, but he kept his sword sheathed. Without another look toward Blake, knowing that he'd probably do something he'd regret, he walks away, leaving medical supplies and ammo in Ruby's hands. She was still standing there in utter shock and confusion.
"W-Wow... That White Fang guy... he saved our butts!" Ruby chirped, "Who would've thought, huh?"
Blake grimaced, utterly baffled by his actions, but decided not to say anything so as not to expose her relation to him.
"Yeah...that was weird." Yang scratches her face a bit confused, but grateful nonetheless.
