Adam Moonlit

**Adam Moonlit**, publicly known as **Adam Solntse**, was a scientist in the Magic Kingdom Levianta and the first director of Project 'MA'. Manipulating Eve Zvezda and met with her failure, Adam fell in love with her and the two fled to the Millennium Tree Forest in Elphegort, marrying there. Adopting the fugitive Meta Salmhofer and her twin children, Hänsel and Gretel, Adam was killed by the twins after abandoning them years later.

## History

### Early Life

Adam was born alongside his sister Eve in the Magic Kingdom Levianta in BT 22, being the result of an experiment conducted by the scientist Horus Solntse on Queen Maria Moonlit. Despite Maria's protests that the babies were a virgin conception, the Leviantan senator Mirokel Loop Octopus hid their birth and had the infants abandoned to prevent a potential scandal.

Miraculously, Adam was rescued by a forest spirit named Catherine who carried him to the coast in her mouth (due to having the body of a whale). The baby was later found by a fisherman and the boy spent the next five years growing up in an orphanage.

One night, Adam's home was destroyed by a tsunami. Despite this, the young boy managed to survive and lived alone on the coast. He was occasionally visited by the forest spirit Catherine, coming to see her as his mother, while other humans who visited the coast treated him with hostility. One day, Adam was approached by the head of the Leviantan Royal Institute, Horus Solntse, who claimed he was there to adopt him by his real mother's orders. Though Catherine protested this and tried to stop Adam from leaving, Horus convinced him that she was an evil spirit and Adam angrily left his former mother behind.

Once in Horus' care, rather than being reunited with his mother, Adam was brought to live in the royal institute's research facility and stayed confined within it, forbidden to leave except for when out shopping. With Horus continually telling him to study more and work harder so he could meet his mother, Adam grew up well-educated but severely emotionally deprived. Although Adam was eventually adopted as Horus' son, he continued to ask him about his mother but was continually denied.

### To Fill the Emptiness

As Horus' health declined, he began employing various apprentices that Adam would work alongside, having become a skilled scientist. When Horus neared his death, he finally explained to Adam that his mother was Maria Moonlit. He also claimed that Maria had been forced to give Adam up and became a puppet of Senator Mirokel thanks to the brainwashing drug "Venom", created by Horus' apprentice Seth Twiright. Before departing to die alone, Horus had Adam agree to become the new head of the institute and gave him a list of allies who wished to overthrow Mirokel.

As head of the institute, Adam was left in charge of the ongoing "Next Queen Project" which would artificially produce the next queen of Levianta, though it lagged behind without Horus' guidance. One day, Adam suddenly received a vist from one of Horus' collaborators, Mirokel's oldest son Gwyn, forming a tentative alliance with him. Sometime after, Adam conversed with Gwyn at a bar about his family's prophetic dream ability and the corrupt state of the Leviantan government. During their conversation, Adam was approached by Seth Twiright, who had come to help with the Next Queen Project.

After Adam reluctantly allowed Seth to join the royal institute, the latter introduced him to the "god seed", a living liquid alleged to be derived from Levia-Behemo that the institute would use to artificially create powerful magic users. During their meeting, Adam confronted Seth on his role in creating the drug "Venom"; from this, he learned that Seth had created the recipe after being commissioned for it, but allegedly hadn't used it himself. In the wake of Queen Alice Merry-Go-Round's prophecy and the Next Queen Project being repurposed into "Project 'MA'", Adam decided to use the project to get revenge on Senator Mirokel for robbing him of a normal life with his mother, as well as to overthrow the current government and put himself in power.

With Project 'MA' underway, Adam put his own genetic material into the first doses of the god seed, hoping that the children born of the test subject would be biologically related to him. He additionally met with Gwyn and revealed that he was Maria Moonlit's son, detailing his plan to marry the project candidate and establish a hereditary monarchical line in Levianta with his children as the heirs. Once Gwyn agreed to help, Adam used Gwyn's associate Ace to find the recipe for Venom and obtain Mirokel's journal; through this, he learned that Seth was the retainer that had thrown him in the river long ago, and began plotting to eliminate him.

### Project 'MA'

As part of Project 'MA', the institute conducted a series of "Witch Hunts" to quickly acquire magically-powerful candidates. Despite Gwyn's objections, Adam decided to pursue the infamous Apocalypse member Meta Salmhofer, plotting for Seth to be killed during the trip. However, the plan backfired, leading to the deaths of every research involved besides Seth. Meta was later discarded as a potential candidate. Afterwards, Adam, Seth, Gwyn, and a unit of soldiers traveled to Held's Forest to seek another candidate, the "Witch of the Forest" who used her magical powers to protect the local inhabitants.

As they traveled, their entourage was attacked by Raisa Netsuma's army. While the soldiers fought them off, Adam and Seth were rescued by Eve Zvezda and brought back to her village, Nemu, where they were cared for by her father Raiou. The two scientists explained their purpose in coming and their suspicions that Eve herself was the Witch of the Forest they were looking for. When Seth eventually tested Eve, they found her magic levels to be too low. Once Seth departed later to receive proper medical treatment, Adam and Gwyn remained to continue their search, with Eve taking them to several villages nearby, to no avail.

As they prepared to return to Nemu, Adam began chatting with Eve before the two were interrupted by another attack from Raisa and her army, with Eve unleashing her power to defeat them. Upon arriving in Nemu, the two found all the village women, as well as Raiou, slaughtered by Meta's forces, while the village men were brainwashed into joining her. After a tense confrontation with Meta, reinforcements arrived from the capital and the Apocalypse members withdrew. With Eve revealed to be the witch they were looking for, and her home being destroyed, Adam took her along with him to the capital to admit her as a possible candidate. As part of this plan, he also began slipping Eve coffee mixed with the drug Venom, unaware that it had no effect on her.

After taking Eve to the research institute, Adam had her magic levels properly tested; with her powers charted as being more than high enough for the project, Adam prepared her for the ritual to get the current queen to "accept" her as a successor, downplaying the high risk involved to ensure Eve's cooperation. During the days they spent together afterward, Adam started getting closer with Eve as he helped her settle down in the capital, tutoring her on the history of Levianta and its politics. Before a month had passed, the two entered into a proper relationship, keeping it secret to avoid complications. As part of this, Adam promised Eve that they would get married after she became the new queen. During this time, he drank with Gwyn one night, complaining about how stressful the project was. The two also further discussed their plans for overthrowing the government once Eve became queen.

### Project Developments

Once Eve took part in the acceptance ritual, Adam awaited her turn, worrying for her safety after learning that another candidate, Zellana Chirclatia, had been killed during her own ritual. Eve ultimately returned unharmed, though she remembered little of what happened, and Adam successfully impregnated her with the god seed. Over the next several months, Gwyn made the preparations for their coup while Adam searched for Seth, who had vanished after Eve's initial pregnancy. On one occasion, Adam took Eve to the coast where he spent his childhood, reuniting and reconciling with his mother while also introducing her to his future wife.

Once Eve went into labor, Adam rushed to see her in Alicegrad, but was prevented from seeing her during the birthing. Once allowed inside, Adam realized that Eve's twin children were stillborn and the project was a failure; additionally, Eve was in complete denial of what had happened. Enraged, Adam confronted Seth about this, only for the latter to state that it was Adam's fault that this had happened. Afterwards, it was determined that Eve had become infertile and that she had gone insane from the shock.

Crushed with guilt, Adam went to drink at a bar and ruminated on what he had done. Gwyn soon arrived to discuss how they needed to start their plans over again, only for Adam to decide that he was giving up his desire for revenge. In order to prevent Gwyn from killing him off as a loose end, Adam fled from Levianta with Eve, going to Held's Forest and starting a new life there.

### Life in the Forest

After fleeing to Elphegort, Adam and Eve got married and made a small home in the forest, furnishing it with some of their belongings from Levianta. The two took up work here, with Adam foraging in the forest and occasionally traveling to other forest villages to sell their goods. While out, he would use the alias "Cain Daybreak" to stay hidden and protect himself from danger.

In EC 01, Adam greeted Eve as she returned from foraging fruit from various trees in the forest, confused when she was followed in by the former project candidate, Meta Salmhofer, and her infant children, Hänsel and Gretel. Although initially wary, he nonetheless allowed the three fugitives to stay with them. Over the years, Adam helped Meta raise her children while also using his skills as a scientist to help Eve recover mentally. Although he tried to teach Hänsel on numerous occasions, the boy failed to understand the complex topics he was taught.

Following the Levianta Catastrophe in EC 13, the effects of the disaster spread to Elphegort, causing many plants to begin withering away and leading to a famine. Because of this, Adam resorted to hunting animals within the forest as a source of food, though returning with less and less over time. Additionally, during this time, fragments of the Levia-Behemo dragon descended upon Adam and his wife as two lights and fused with their bodies.

In the following, Adam and Eve went behind Meta's back and abandoned their adopted children in the forest; they hoped that this would allow them to survive the famine through having less mouths to feed. With a gloomy expression, Adam and his wife led their foster children deep into the forest before abandoning them and returning to their home. In turmoil over this betrayal, Adam comforted Eve before deciding to go out and hunt once more. When he returned, he discovered that the twins had managed to find their way home. Immediately after this, he fended off Hänsel's attempt to attack him before being stabbed in the back by Meta; questioning if this was karma for his actions, he died soon after.

### The Salacious Count

*Main Article: Karchess Crim*

Following his death, Adam reincarnated as Count Karchess Crim in the Kingdom of Marlon in EC 110. Becoming a retainer for Queen Yufina Marlon, the two soon entered into an affair. In EC 136, he learned that Yufina had been abducted while on a trip to Asmodean; after months of intense searching, he eventually discovered her kidnapper, Duke Sateriasis Venomania, sneaking into his mansion and assassinating him with a golden knife later that year. He then eloped with Yufina, working with her to establish a legitimate Marlon with its original bloodline.

### The Loyal Chef

*Main Article: Josef Cucino*

In EC 277, Adam reincarnated as Josef Cucino, a famous chef who traveled across the Evillious region to hone his skills. Sometime in the EC 310s, he was hired on by Duke Muzuri Conchita to act as the personal chef of his only daughter, Banica. He remained loyal to her over the years, even as she contracted with the Angel of Temperance and began engaging in both starvation and cannibalistic activities. In EC 324, after upsetting his master, he was cursed by her to lose all interest in food, leading to him starving to death soon after.

### The Lucifenian Spy

*Main Article: Arkadi Rogze*

In EC 482, Adam was reincarnated as Arkadi Lucifen d'Autriche, the illegitimate child of King Arth Lucifen d'Autriche and Queen Prim Marlon. Discarded by his mother to hide her infidelity, Arkadi was raised and experimented on by Arth's court mage ESSENCE. Becoming obsessed with pleasing his father, Arkadi infiltrated the Kingdom of Marlon as a spy and, feigning amnesia, was adopted by Minister Presi Rogze.

Arkadi was eventually brought on as a servant at the royal castle, where he worked to undermine the reign of King Kyle Marlon. During the Marlon Revolution in EC 500, Arkadi killed his adoptive father before returning to King Arth in Lucifenia. Instated as the head of a secret spy unit, Arkadi assisted his half-siblings, Riliane and Alexiel in their witch hunt. Later given the Clockworker's Doll by ESSENCE, Arkadi took command of Retasan Fortress during Lucifenia's renewed expansion in EC 505, reviving the dead in a nearby cemetery and turning them into vampires.

Eventually forced to retreat, the assassin returned to his father in Lucifenia and joined him in his makeshift base at the Levin Church; at the same time, he built up their vampiric hordes in anticipation of Riliane's retaliation against them. During the ensuing battle, Arkadi's sanity began to slip, causing him to kill Arth before attacking Riliane and completely submitting to the Angel of Diligence. After being subdued and captured, he was killed by the mage ESSENCE.

### Reunion With An Angel

After his death, Arkadi's soul was drawn into the vessel of Diligence and the memories of his past lives were reawakened; immediately after, Adam realized that the angel within was actually his long-lost friend, Meta. He also learning about her ambitions to find Eve, enact the Court Ending, and restart the world to return to their former happy lives. Two weeks later, the two watched ESSENCE battle Germaine Avadonia and Yukina Freezis. When the mage suddenly tried to use the Marlon Spoon against Kyle, now under the name "Kay Viwirtz", the remorseful "Arkadi" used the Angel of Diligence's power to cancel out the Angel of Charity's Greed magic, saving the former king and defeating the magic.

### The Lady of Light

*Main Article: Mayrana Weingartner*

After ESSENCE changed her name, first to "Zerel Hemm" and then to "Velda Coates", the mage began residing within a mansion in Rolled, Lucifenia. In EC 593, Velda replaced the corpse of Marx Felix's stillborn daughter with the doll and activated its power, causing Meta to believe she was Mayrana Felix; when this occurred, Adam's consciousness was forced to become dormant, slumbering within Mayrana's subconscious.

Fixated on marrying her beloved Kaspar Weingartner, Mayrana lapsed into depression during her loveless marriage to the philandering marquis. Comforted by Mia Rosenberg, the girl joined the criminal organization Père Noël that she was a part of, going by the alias "Third Nobility" and helping to support their illegal operations.

After Mia gave her the formula for the poison "Gift", Mayrana went on a psychopathic rampage, believing that she needed to help the tired and stressed people in her life. To this end, she used the poison to kill her husband and decimate the town of Toragay, Elphegort under the delusion of helping them. Suffering from the resurging memories of her past lives, Mayrana fled to Calgaround and created a refined "Seventh Gift". She then ingested this poison, unlocking the entirety of her former memories and deciding to head to the Millennium Tree Forest before "dying". Soon after, Adam's consciousness reawoke within the doll.

### Possessing His Love

Following Meta's soul being absorbed by the mage IR, Adam used the lingering power within the doll to call out to Velda. After the newly-appointed prime minister reclaimed the Clockworker's Doll, she stored the vessel in a hidden safe in her mansion. In late EC 609, Adam watched as Frederica Coates opened the safe and examined the items stored within. When she picked up the doll, Adam possessed her and forged a contract with her. Reading through her memories, Adam confirmed that the adopted girl was a reincarnation of Eve.

Shortly after Frederica awoke the next morning, Adam spoke to her, introducing himself as "Arkadi" and claming that he was her "guardian"; he then explained that only she could hear his voice and that they were now inseparable after she touched the doll. After this, Adam watched Frederica as she lived her life as Velda's adopted daughter, occasionally conversing with her. Sometime in mid EC 610, the two talked about Velda's ability as a mother, with Adam trying to warn Frederica that she was trying to use her, but to no avail.

While Velda and Frederica ate dinner at home on August 17, EC 610, Adam heard Velda tell her daughter about her inauguration ceremony as prime minister the next day, noting that there would be an after-party and that her friend Rin Chan was scheduled to sing during it. After Frederica attended the ceremony the following day, she returned to the Coates estate. Adam then convinced her to attend the after-party, talking to her about the history of the Lucifenian Palace where it was being held.

He directed her through the palace until she was greeted by Ward Lucif, listening in while the two discussed Rin Chan and the shady reputation of her manager, Ton Corpa. After Frederica's repeated failure to meet with Rin after she fled to the Corpa mansion following a "lip-syncing scandal", Adam talked her into forcing her way inside the mansion in early October of that year. Learning that the "Cirque de Lune" would be tented on the grounds before their performance in a few days, he had Frederica disguise herself as a clown to make getting in easier.

Before she left, she also removed the golden key from Velda's treasury and pocketed it, being told by Adam of its usefulness. Inside the mansion, they located Rin's room; finding it locked, Adam directed Frederica to use the key to open it. After finding Rin inside the room, she revealed how Ton planned to kill her after having murdered the singer she lip-synced with, Chansaux. Adam then watched the man himself appear and confront the teens; When Frederica failed to intimidate him, Adam took full control of his body for a brief period, disarming Ton and stabbing him in the back with his own knife.

### Defiant Consciousness

After Frederica escaped with Rin to her "aunt" Mia's home, they were intercepted by Velda and returned to the Coates estate. Adam watched as Velda revealed her position as the leader of Père Noël and coaxed her daughter into helping her "correct" the world as the organization's assassin, "Fifth Pierrot". Adam remained critical of the girl's involvement, though Frederica was convinced that she belonged in this role.

After Frederica rebuked him for his doubts, Adam silently listened as Velda directed her to hunt for the traitorous Seventh Magician hiding in the town. Over the following months, Adam watched while Frederica murdered random prostitutes throughout Rolled in search of her true target. After she murdered her eighth victim, he once again warned Frederica that she was being manipulated, telling her the story of his time as Arkadi Rogze, under the guise of it being the story of a boy he knew. When this story angered Frederica, Adam changed the topic to the girl's enjoyment of killing, though again failing to get through to her.

When Frederica went to investigate a women's sancutary on February 11, EC 611, Adam watched while the owner led the girl to Isabel Ismael; he then witnessed her confirm that Isabel was Seventh Magician before attempting to kill her. After she was brainwashed by the unmasked Yuzette's Chastity magic, Adam took over and stabbed Yuzette, taunting her as she died. He then returned control to Frederica, commenting that she should collect the Venom Sword before she left.

When she began to leave, Adam urged her to kill the owner as well so that no witnesses would be left. Despite her reluctance, Frederica agreed, only for Adam to recognize the owner as IR and stop her, explaining that he knew her. IR promised to keep the girl's murder a secret in exchange for a meeting with Velda, introducing herself as "Third Nobility". Ignoring Adam's insistence that she was lying about her identity, Frederica agreed to the deal.

Adam observed as Velda and Frederica met with IR at the sanctuary two days later, listening to the "Lady of Light" claim that she took over IR's body when the mage attempted to use the Swap Technique on her. After she proved she could use Meta's powerful brainwashing, both her and Lich were recruited into Père Noël as the new "Seventh Magician" and "Eighth Sniper". IR then suggested that "Arkadi" be the new "Fourth Shadow", though Adam declined.

### New Père Noël

Over the following months, Adam rarely spoke to Frederica. After the girl was tasked by Ward Lucif with killing Nob Nicole during a diplomatic meeting, he watched as the job was complicated by a pair of investigators who barged in during the meeting, revealing Ward's plot and his secret identity as the fugitive Kaidor Weingartner. As Velda signaled her daughter to kill Ward instead, Adam commented on this and suggested that Velda was looking to sacrifice both her and Ward. Paralyzed with indecision, the two watched Ward as he was arrested and taken away.

Late at night on September 9, Velda sent Frederica to stay at an inn in Rolled while she dealt with the people looking into her connections with Ward, Adam noting that this was out of fear that she would leak information about Père Noël. Soon after, Seventh Magician and Eighth Sniper suddenly arrived, and Adam listened as the mage offered Frederica a chance to escape with her before things completely fell apart. As he commented on IR's warning, Adam learned that the mage could hear his voice and argued that she wasn't the real "Lady of Light".

Afterwards, Adam returned to the dimension within the Clockworker's Doll while Frederica slept that night. As he pondered whether he should teach Frederica how to weaponize the "Purio Disease" or the vampirism powers, he quickly decided not to. As he noticed that the girl's soul was watching him, he quickly blocked her perception of him. From there on, Adam continued to watch Frederica's day-to-day life, as well as how she relayed IR's betrayal to Velda. Bickering with her about Velda's true nature, the girl forced Adam to be quiet.

Adam silently watched as Frederica began secretly murdering those who opposed Velda. After Frederica was shot through the heart by Lich on December 26, EC 611, and subsequently buried, Adam waited within the girl's grave for a month until Velda placed the doll and a pair of clothes by his tombstone. After the mage left for her planned duel with IR and Lich at Merrigod Plateau, Adam decided that this was something that he needed to see.

### Duel of Merrigod Plateau

Around 2AM the next morning, Adam woke the girl up after fully healing her injury. Once she dug her way out of the grave, Adam explained to Frederica how she was still alive, realizing during their conversation that she still had no memory of her past lives. He then rushed her to get ready and begin traveling to meet up with Velda, warning her that Velda was likely fighting with IR and Lich there. After reaching the Apocalypse Cliffs several hours later, Adam led Frederica into a cavern with the glow of fire within.

As Frederica entered the cavern and approached its main chamber, Adam commented on the glowing white flames and explained how her mother Velda was a mage with white flames as her signature. As she entered the main chamber, she joined Velda in her fight, being healed by Adam's angelic power as Lich attempted to kill her again. Adam then watched as the fight raged on for the next two hours.

After Lich used Grim the End to finally kill Frederica, Adam brought her soul into the doll to join him. After her spirit awoke, Adam welcomed his lover back, with Frederica regaining all her memories and recognizing him as her former husband. After the two joyously reunited, they watched as Velda discarded her human vessel and self-destruct her red cat body, dragging everyone caught in the blast into Seventh Magician's inner psychological world.

When Elluka Chirclatia, Levia, Behemo, Lich, and Meta confronted one another in Behemo's mental world, Adam entered from the outside and interrupted the reignited duel, seeking to take Meta's soul into the doll again. As the fight continued regardless of this threat, the resulting magical blast caused the souls of Elluka, Behemo, and Meta to fuse into MA. At the same time, Adam and Eve's souls were forced out of the doll, soon after ending up inside the Glass of Conchita. Waking up immediately after, Adam noticed a familiar face: his foster mother Catherine. Catching up with her, he learned that she was serving a new master now.

Reuniting with their former master, Banica Conchita, they agreed to help her with her goal of carrying out the Graveyard Ending by killing every "lesser being" in the world and turning them into food for the "higher beings". At the same time, the angel and her servants agreed that they needed to find a contractor to help them accomplish this.

### Graveyard Restaurant

At some point in the early tenth century EC, Adam took on a physical body, having learned the secret of how to create "mud doll" bodies from Meta, and experimenting with this on his fellow servants Phaser and Catherine. He then began working for the restaurant "Graveyard" created by his master in Holy Levianta as its chef.

When the director of the USE Dark Star Bureau, Garrick Lucif, had the restaurant shut down and seized the wine glass vessel in EC 978, Adam fled the establishment with Catherine and evaded the authorities. Later breaking into Garrick's home, the two demanded that Garrick release their master, with Adam becoming enraged when Ward Zero shot him in the stomach. Reluctantly standing by as Catherine explained the situation, he watched as the glass was given to her and she was brought into it to speak with Banica, being given orders to serve Garrick from then on.

The two servants then became part of the organization PN. Later on, he had a brief conversation with another member, Feng Li, inquiring him about his animal body and how it was affected by his human soul. After the outbreak of the Leviantan Civil War in EC 983, Adam fled Garrick's mansion during the ensuing conflict. He then joined his master Banica and the other servants in Evil's Theater, where they took up residence with its other strange inhabitants.

### Evil's Theater

Once Banica took on a physical body and declared herself the "Master of the Graveyard", Adam and Eve continued to serve her, tearing apart any intruders to the theater and preparing them as meals for the other inhabitants. After Adam encountered the mage MA's assistant Postman, he discovered that the latter could not express any emotion or will due to his body and soul not being connected. Wanting to help him, he gave up his original body to Postman and created a new one for himself.

In EC 990, the servants encountered Gammon Okuto, with Adam letting him escape due to his resemblance to his former comrade, Gwyn Loop Octopus. Attending his trial conducted by the Master of the Court, he watched as Postman, now going by the title "Waiter", hired him on as a choreman. Eight years later, in EC 998, he attended the "trial" called by the Master of the Court to discuss the whereabouts of the vessel of Patience. After MA claimed that it was in the hands of the Master of the Hellish Yard, the servants declared that they should begin searching for her.

### End of the World

Adam was killed in EC 999 when the world was destroyed by the weapon "Atonement". In the illusory Conchita mansion, he joined his wife Eve in serving Banica while they all discussed their plans going forward. When Tasan Party soldiers arrived with a Black Box, the two servants captured and interrogated one under their master's orders. After reporting their findings, the four traveled to the rebuilt Evil's Theater; Adam and Eve later fled the theater with Phaser and Catherine after MA absorbed Banica. Later resting under a tree, he watched the confrontation between Mora Viwirtz, Themis Sudou, and MA occurred. Hearing Eater Sabella singing the Clockwork Lullaby, he discussed both with Eve before joining the god in singing.

After MA was defeated, Adam and Eve finally reunited with Meta, acting surprised when she introduced the undead Ron Grapple to them; unsure of their future, they brought the two newcomers in as servants. As the four humans discussed how they would enact the Graveyard Ending with Banica and the former forest spirits, they learned that their master had allied with the still-active Seth and obtained a Black Box capable of bringing them to parallel worlds. She then declared that she would travel to a new world and use it as the staging ground for the fated Graveyard Ending.

After creating new bodies for himself and the other servants, Adam discovered several strange-looking records and played them on a jukebox in the newly-built "Evil's Theater II", though stopped after Banica declared that they would be leaving very soon. When their ship left the Evillious world, they were attacked by MA's "ghost", causing the ship to malfunction and nearly crash; however, they all managed to survive and reach the parallel world safely.

## Skills and Abilities

Adam was an excellent scientist, raised under Horus' tutelage and a prodigy in his field. He took part in many studies of the Second Period's technology, known to the public as "relics", while also having experience with human experimentation due to the Next Queen Project and the later Project 'MA'. He was also a master manipulator, using the people and resources he had on hand for his own benefit. Despite this, he lacked knowledge in several areas which led to serious mistakes, while also lacking a natural charisma and thus making his manipulations more difficult.

Outside of his scientific studies, Adam also possessed a great amount of magical power, but could not perform any spells due to not being properly trained. Additionally, after joining Meta in the Clockworker's Doll, he was able to borrow her angelic power and act in her place, wielding her powers of possession, contracting with hosts, and communicating telepathically; however, he could not contract with a host if they had no inherent feelings of diligence. He also had the same weaknesses as other angels, able to be magically sealed within the vessel. Due to his former contract with the Angel of Diligence, he could conjure small illusions and manipulate the poison Gift.

Adam was able to reincarnate, his soul destined to be reborn along with Eve in an identical body every few centuries. However, if either of his fated parents had a child before he was born, he would be incarnated in that body on his own. As he possessed the combined experience of his various incarnations, he was skilled in cooking, assassination, and espionage.

## Character Connections

Eve Moonlit: Adam's wife and long-lost sister. Unaware of their sibling relationship, Adam grew to care about her and found peace through their companionship. He thus felt guilty after her miscarriage, due to being partly responsible, subsequently dedicating himself to making the rest of their lives as peaceful and happy as he could. After his death, Adam continued to encounter her throughout his various lives, trying to reunite with her again.

Catherine: Adam's adoptive mother. Adam came to see her as a mother figure after she rescued him as an infant and raised him for many years. Although temporarily believing that she was actually evil, he became remorseful about their parting and was happy to meet with her again years later. Centuries after his death, he reunited with her and joined her in serving the new Angel of Temperance.

Horus Solntse: Adam's adoptive father. Adam greatly resented his cruel upbringing at Horus' hands, hating his father and seeing him as a deceiver. Despite this, he also respected Horus and had no problem utilizing the resources the man gave him shortly before his disappearance and later death. He then went on to succeed him as the head of the royal institute.

Seth Twiright: A fellow scientist. Though unaware of him being the true identity of "Horus", Adam hated Seth due to his role in his mother's disappearance; his desire to get revenge on him motivated Adam to attempt to brainwash Eve. After he met Seth again a millennium later following his death, he seemed to drop his desires for revenge and tolerated working alongside him once again.

Maria Moonlit: Adam's birth mother. Although never knowing her, Adam was acutely affected by her absence and longed to meet with her someday. This led him to develop a desire for revenge against those who had taken him away from her.

Gwyn Loop Octopus: Adam's co-conspirator. He cooperated with Gwyn as part of his plot to overthrow the government, with both conspiring to betray and kill each other as loose ends afterwards. Despite this, the two often went out drinking together, with Adam confiding in Gwyn his frustrations while carrying out their respective plans.

Meta Salmhofer: A previous candidate of Project 'MA' and Adam's friend. Initially wanting her to be the test subject for Project 'MA', he abandoned this when he realized how dangerous she was. Years later, he was willing to hide her and her children in his home, though not above abandoning her children when they became a burden. After his death, he became determined to reunite with her and atone for his actions in life.

Karchess Crim: One of Adam's reincarnations. He passed on his appearance to Karchess, as well as a feeling of connection towards anyone resembling Eve or Meta, such as the royal princess Maylis Beelzenia.

Josef Cucino: One of Adam's reincarnations. He passed on his appearance to Josef, as well as a feeling of connection towards anyone resembling Eve or Meta, such as the thief Platonic or the duke Banica Conchita.

Arkadi Rogze: One of Adam's reincarnations. He passed on a similar appearance to Arkadi, as well as a feeling of connection towards anyone resembling Eve or Meta and an inherent loyalty to his parental figures.

Master of the Court: A fellow member of Evil's Theater. Although initially treating her coldly, he became completely devoted to her after learning that she was a reincarnation of his mother Maria. Despite this, he did not agree with her ultimate goal of uniting the vessels of virtue and was annoyed by the "trials" she held.