Adam Murray

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> Adam, Mandela Catalogue Vol. 2

**Adam Murray** est un personnage principal du *Mandela Catalogue*, qui a été à l'origine un protagoniste de premier plan des actes 1 et 2 et est devenu l'antagoniste du Mandela Catalogue Vol. 333.

Lui et son ami Jonah Marshall étaient membres de la Bythorne Paranormal Society (BPS), un groupe d'enquête paranormal bon marché qui opère dans le comté de Bythorne mais qui s'est montré disposé à enquêter jusqu'au comté de Mandela.

Bien qu'il semble sincèrement croire au paranormal, on fait allusion au fait que sa motivation réelle à faire partie du BPS est de trouver où se trouve sa (à son insu) mère décédée, qui  s'est suicidée après l'avoir découvert mystérieusement disparaître dans 1992.

## Description

Adam est un homme à la peau claire avec des cheveux blonds et moelleux. On le voit portant un sweat à capuche noir avec le logo Bythorne Paranormal Society sur le dos et «BPS» sur le devant en haut à gauche.

Adam est une personne très franche et sérieuse, demandant souvent à Jonah d'être sérieux et s'énervant lorsqu'il ne le fait pas. Malgré cela, Adam s'est montré extrêmement imprudent dans les affaires concernant les Alternés, notamment lorsque la pensée du danger dans la maison Torres l'a incité à l'explorer davantage. Il s'est également montré impatient et grincheux.

Adam a une fascination intense pour les Alternés, ce qui expliquerait son comportement imprudent face à de tels cas. La raison de sa fascination peut provenir de la croyance qu'ils étaient liés à la disparition de sa mère et qu'il peut recevoir des réponses à travers ces cas.

## Personnalité

Adam se montre insouciant à l'égard de ce que les autres ressentent et peut être très inconscient de leur inconfort (comme l'a démontré sa première enquête avec Sarah). Ces traits ne font que s'amplifier à partir du Vol. 4, où il est apparemment devenu très hostile et hostile. Il continue même à exprimer son manque d'attention pour Jonah lorsque Sarah se confronte à lui à propos de sa mort et du manque d'émotion d'Adam qui l'entoure.

Sa personnalité a peut-être changé à ce qu'elle est maintenant à la suite de MAD, car Evelin dit qu'il était "le gars le plus gentil" dans sa déclaration MCPD. Cela pourrait également être une indication de son remplacement en tant qu'Alterné.

Lorsque l'Intruder lui révèle l'horrible vérité dans le Vol.4 selon laquelle "tu n'es pas le vrai toi", la stabilité d'Adam semble décliner rapidement, comme dans les événements de mandela catalyst on le retrouve en train de crier pour que Thatcher Davis le tue.

## Biography

### Intruder Alert

La première "apparition" d'Adam est dans Intruder Alert, où des représentations de son enlèvement et du suicide de Lynn sont illustrées dans le PSA après que l'intrus ait repris le signal. Une version déformée d'Ave Maria du chanteur castrat Alessandro Moreschi joue en arrière-plan pendant que cela se produit.

### 2009 Winter Break

Prior to Volume 2, the FBI had warranted Jonah and Adam's arrest. Throughout Volume 2, it is heavily implied that this warrant hadn't just been caused due to being associated with the possibly criminal-in-nature Bythorne Paranormal Society, but also for breaking and entering a USDTP building and stealing technology from there, thus breaking the Television and Mirror Destruction Order.

### The Mandela Catalogue Vol. 2

Adam, introduced as Victim 3, receives a phone call from an unnamed woman, claiming to hear the sounds of her dead cat Jonny. When his friend, Jonah, proposes it as a cat alternate Adam quickly shushes him, only for the woman to say she doesn't believe it to be an alternate, and that only his spirit roams the house and asks if the two can help him pass on, to which they agree after the promise of $500 a night for three nights.

After packing their stuff into their car trunk, the car fails to start. The two go over their options, either fix the car or steal "another one". Adam attempts to fix their car before they simply decide to steal a car.

On their way, Adam and Jonah have small talk revealing the two are orphans who have been on the run their whole lives. Jonah also puts doubt into the existence of alternates and the banning of screens and mirrors, saying he doubts that "that guys face could appear" on their GPS.

Upon arrival, Adam goes into the house alone in an attempt to contact Jonny to no avail. Adam ends the night after only finding a single locked door.

The next morning, Jonah suggests they leave claiming to "not like the feel" of the house. Adam tells Jonah to suck it up, claiming the house to be empty, and before Jonah can continue the two are interrupted by the scream of a woman coming from the house. Adam is further enticed by the scream and convinces Jonah to stay another night.

During the second night, strange happenings occur such as Jonah's voice coming from Adam's receiver repeatedly shouting "OH MY GOD, BEHIND YOU", which Adam is ironically undisturbed by. At some point, a voice interrupts them both, claiming to be watching them. As the two try to figure out what's happening, the scene cuts to a clip of the Beginners Bible, where Eve convinces Adam to take a bite from the forbidden fruit. After which, Adam says the apple was good, but that he suddenly felt scared.

### The Mandela Catalogue Vol. 333

Throughout this episode, Adam’s backstory and family is expanded upon. It is revealed that his parents divorced, leaving Lynn to care for him most of the time. The phone conversation between Lynn and Jude suggests that Adam was having unusually consistent patterns of crying for quite some time, which had left them both in confusion. During the phone conversation, Jude demonstrates hopelessness regarding Adam's odd behavior, and frustratingly suggests that Adam’s crying could just be from an “imaginary friend”, much to Lynn's confusion.

Later on, Adam gets kidnapped (As depicted in Intruder Alert), leading to his mother committing suicide. it is possible that Adam unknowingly spawned an alternate in his family’s house after watching “The Might of the Subconscious”.

### The Mandela Catalogue Vol. 4

We get a look into the origins of the Bythorne Paranormal Society, being traced back to June 11th, 2007 (During which BPS was a school club at the time). At some point, Adam sends an email to her, conveying that he also has an interest in the paranormal, along with prior experience. He was sworn in on July 10th as the co-founder of BPS.

A few nights later, Adam takes Sarah to the crime scene of an abandoned home in Mandela to record footage of the paranormal. Afterwards, Sarah is left distraught from what took place, in contrast to Adam's excitement over the footage. Sarah suggests that Adam will need someone else to record future investigations with, as she was not willing to participate in doing so anymore.

By present time, his attitude and personality are vastly different from Volume 2. He demonstrates himself being far more self-centered and having a huge disregard for his peers (Including Jonah), and doesn’t seem to care about anything but the footage he collected. He gets into an argument with Sarah over Jonah’s death with Sarah, who scolds him for his carelessness and tells him to make a memorial video for Jonah. Adam proceeds to hang up on her mid-sentence, prompting her to spite him regarding he and Evelin's breakup.

Near the mid-way point, another conversation between Adam and Sarah takes place regarding the memorial video. Adam initially sends a half-baked video, claiming afterwards he just sent the wrong file. This almost prompts Sarah to confront him regarding his personality change, before he sends the real video file. The file turns out to be horrifically corrupted, notably featuring an audio recording of Evelin's MCPD statement regarding Adam, alongside footage of Jonah succumbing in the moments before his death.

Near the end, Adam is contacted by what was presumed to be a Spam message, which ended up being 6. Although he dismisses the message at first (Even trying to reply with "fuck off"), 6 still manages to forcefully speak to him through video. During the consultation, 6 asks him if he remembers the night of his disappearance. 6 proceeds to give Adam a huge revelation about himself, stating that his skin is **"not his own"** and that he's **"not the real him".** 6 gets cut-off by a voicemail from Sarah, who had finally decided to confront him on his strange behavior (And the video). After questioning who he's talking to, she adjures him to call her back.

### Mandela Catalyst

In the middle of a conversation between Sarah and Evelin regarding Adam and his behavior (In the apparent aftermath of Vol. 4), the video cuts to an interaction between Adam and Evelin with the name "IMG\_003.mov". In this interaction, Adam tells Evelin to come closer to her doorway in order to show her something, much to her concern. (what is presumably) A police broadcast proceeds to play, as Evelin's lamp turns on, revealing the Preacher in her doorway. Evelin, distressed by this point, asks who it is, with no response. Her lamp turns on and off a few more times, before it cuts to the leaked Bythorne Hospital camera audio.

Near the end of the video, an Thatcher is seen walking around Adam's home, entering his bedroom to find him sitting back against his nightstand. According to the date, this has been recorded at the 16th of January 2009, 3 days after the death of Jonah (as shown in Adam's video in Vol. 4), where the events of Vol. 2 seem to have occurred. Thatcher proceeds to drop the camera on the floor as screaming is heard, which seems to be coming from Adam due to the almost in-sync mouth movement. As the camera is lying on the floor, he can be heard crying/scared, whispering "fucking kill me, please fucking kill me, please there is someone-" before continuing to scream. Adam is seen making abnormal facial gestures, with his pupils glowing white and mouth elongating, which closely resembles the Preacher's face. The reason why Adam is screaming is due to his bones breaking (according to Ty himself), which explains why he sits mostly motionless on the ground.

While Adam is screaming, several negative pictures of him with the caption "Suspect Identified" scroll down as the sound glitches. In the end, a corrupted version of the smiley face from the "Toddler Stress Assessment" video (in the remade Vol. 1) is shown while Adam is screaming for help, then the video ends. Notably, there is a bleach bottle laying on the floor, which would suggest that Adam had attempted to commit suicide as a result of the revelation. If so, It's unknown whether or not the attempt was successful.

## Speculation

* Some infer that Adam's similarities with the Preacher in the final scene of Mandela Catalyst may signify a connection between the two, some even claim that they're one and the same.
* The Intruder refers to Adam as two separate people in his speech at the end of Volume 4; "Him", the baby he snatched in 1992 who is referred solely by pronouns, and "Murray", the Adam we follow throughout the series. The implications of this particular usage of grammar may indicate that the original Adam Murray died in 1992, and that we are indeed following a "copy" of him.
* It is theorized that Adam's bones are breaking as his "Alternate Form" starts to activate.
* It is still unconfirmed if the real Adam Murray is still out there, or has been dead since 6 took him away.
* It is speculated the version of Adam we were following the whole time may be dying as his bones are being broken in Mandela Catalyst, however this wouldn't make sense as he is the main character (source: Ty VOD and Alex's Wendigoon interview), and since he is an alternate it may just be his awakening into a full alternate.

## Trivia

* The character of Adam takes heavy inspiration from the biblical figure of the same name. In the bible, Adam reluctantly eats the forbidden fruit growing in the Garden of Eden, in comparison to Adam Murray who, against better judgment, enters the basement.
* He is one of the 3% survivors of Metaphysical Awareness Disorder.
* Alex Kister has stated that Adam is important (to the point of being a main character) on his Instagram stories.
* In Volume 4, Adam’s birthdate is revealed to be January 18th, 1988, seen on his parents’ divorce paperwork from the MCPD archives.
* According to a voicemail to Sarah in 2007, Adam attended Werksha High School, but grew up in Mandela County.
* In his first debut, many people thought his hair was dark brown or black.
* His name was originally going to be Steven, while Jonah was going to be named Paul.
* Ty, the Actor of Adam, has confirmed that the person walking around Adam's home is in fact Thatcher. Quote: "...he (Alex) wanted to make their (Thatcher and Adams) first interaction kinda stick in people's brains..."
* Adam was said to be infant in 1992, but given that he was born in 1988.
	+ Infants are 1 year olds and Adam would mathematically be 4 years old in 1992 and in vol. 4's length time, he would be 20 years old.

## Gallery

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