Adam Robertson (RoTA)

In the *"Rise of Team ARKS"* Saga, this version of **Adam Robertson** is the main protagonist.

## Biography

The main fanfic version of Adam, the Huntsman version is the most fleshed-out incarnation. He is the main protagonist of the *“**Rise of Team ARKS Saga**”*, or *RoTA* for short. Born to **Lisa Robertson** on the island of Patch, Adam is the younger brother, and **Split Aura** counterpart, to **Jamie** and the older brother to **Libby**. His **Semblances** are the power of **Speed** and **Aura Detection**, and he wields the sword-rifle **Deathcaliber**. Adam is known to let his fists and weapons do the talking, but he is also quite mentally gifted, being able to design a mechanism known as **Aura Locks**, which disable unauthorized Auras from using his weapon. This mechanism has been implemented into only three known weapons: Adam’s Deathcaliber, **Ryan Clougherty**’s **Stormblade**, and Jamie’s **Nightsting**. Due to his young age, Adam’s enemies constantly make the mistake of underestimating him and his family, but Adam always has a plan 15 steps in advance.

Adam and his family lived a rather peaceful life, until the day that Adam’s Aura got activated. Unbeknownst to Adam, he and his brother were born as Split-Aura Individuals, or SAIs for short. Due to his brother having been given the Dark half of the Aura, he embarked on a crusade against Adam, which tore the **Robertson family** apart. For 6 years, Adam and his adopted brother Ryan lived on the run, moving from one Huntsman Academy to the next, only depending on one another for survival. It was during this time, that the two had to take their first human life, defending themselves from a crazed classmate who attacked them. Eventually, the two enrolled into **Beacon Academy**, where they met **Ruby Rose** & **Weiss Schnee**, and reunited with **Shannon Mccafferty**, an old friend of Adam and Ryan from their childhood, who had moved away prior to the feud between the brothers. After the three got reacquainted, they passed the initiation into Beacon, during which Adam got partnered with a girl by the name of **Kayleigh Murphy**, and Ryan got partnered with Shannon.

After the initiation, Adam was named as the leader of **Team ARKS**, the group consisting of Adam, Ryan, Kayleigh and Shannon. After a couple days in school, Adam got into a confrontation with **Team CRDL** when he decided to help out a **Faunus** by the name of **Velvet Scarlatina**, which resulted in all four of his opponents being hospitalised for a time. Afterwards, Adam entered into a relationship with Ruby, who he had harbored a crush on. Instead of being expelled from Beacon due to his actions, Professor Ozpin decided to give him detention, which Adam ended up hating. The day after he hospitalized CRDL, Adam ran afoul of Weiss, but Ruby coerced him into repairing their friendship.

A few weeks later, Adam and his group of friends were called up to Ozpin’s office, where he revealed that Libby was joining Beacon. After his sister became acclimated to the school, Adam noticed a small robotic drone that had been following him around. Quickly disabling it, he showed it to Ozpin, who revealed the existence of an organisation that would cast a shadow over Adam for a large part of his life to come: **The Slicing Talons**. After this conversation, Adam was ambushed by CRDL on the way back to his dorm, and was knocked out. Later on, when his team went to visit him, Adam revealed that he had already healed his injuries. Afterwards, Adam took his team out for a day on the city.

During the team’s day out, they were attacked by a group of soldiers, which ARKS defeated, but the battle cost Kayleigh her stamina, forcing Ryan to take her to the hospital. After the battle was finished, Adam and Shannon interrogated the last soldier alive, who revealed that the Talons had hired them. After executing the man, Adam took Shannon to the hospital, where they reunited with their teammates. Taking Shannon and Ryan back to their dorm, Adam explained everything to Shannon, except the fact he was an SAI. Returning to the hospital, Adam found a diary belonging to Kayleigh, which revealed to Adam that his partner was in love with him. After the partners returned to the dorm, Adam was asked to speak with Ruby, which ended with Ruby breaking up with Adam.

The next day, after meeting three people by the names of **Cameron Goldie**, **Rachel Kirkwood** and **Penny Polendina**, followed by a Team ARKS sparring session, during which Adam and Ryan gave Kayleigh a weapon called **Flamebringer** to help with her Semblance of **Fire Control**, Adam and his group, consisting of Teams **RWBY**, **JNPR** & **CFVY** (Who had joined shortly after Libby joined), went to watch a movie at the cinema. On the way, Adam allowed **Yatsuhashi Daichi** of Team CFVY to date his little sister. Afterwards, just as the group was leaving the theatre, the building was bombed. Recovering from the blast, Adam found that his crew had returned to the school. After recovering, Adam took Ryan back to Beacon thanks to a call from Kayleigh, where they came into contact with an individual that looked eerily similar to Adam, who Kayleigh had warned them about. Getting into a brutal fight, Adam’s doppelganger managed to escape, but not before revealing Cameron and Rachel were in league with the Talons. Recovering from the fight, Adam explained everything to the whole group, including the fact that the doppelgänger was his brother Jamie, and he was the leader of the Talons, shocking everyone present. After explaining everything, Adam returned to the dorm with his team, and changed into a new outfit, due to his clothes being damaged in the fight. Declaring his intention to his team, he went to leave, but the group stopped him, and he declared them all as his family. Realising a few secrets, Adam explained a few other things to the group. After ending this conversation, Adam decided to talk to Kayleigh, where he revealed that he was in love with her. With that, Adam and Kayleigh started a romantic relationship.

The next day, the ‘family’ attacked a Talons warehouse, slaughtering everyone inside. When they returned to Beacon, Adam and his family were almost arrested by **General Ironwood** of the **Atlesian Military**, who revealed he was in league with the Slicing Talons. Letting his anger control him, Adam eliminated the Atlesian soldiers, and cut off Ironwood’s hand. After Ironwood managed to escape, Adam and his crew cleaned up the soldier’s bodies.

A couple of months later, **Ozpin** called the crew up to his office, where he revealed that Rachel had betrayed the Talons. Accepting Rachel into the group, Adam learned from her that the Talons were preparing to attack Beacon, and would be arriving in less than a year. Unfortunately, Teams JNPR and CFVY didn’t take too well to Adam allowing Rachel into the group. A couple of days passed, before Adam decided to fight with Rachel against **Pyrrha Nikos** and Yatsuhashi to end the feud. Thankfully, Adam and Rachel won the fight, and the two teams re-entered the group. During the class with **Dr Oobleck** afterwards, Adam and Ryan managed to outsmart **Cardin Winchester**, before the team returned to their dorm, where Ryan revealed he had made **Thermobaric Ammo**, which Adam ordered him to use on him if he went rogue from the influence of Jamie’s Dark Aura after he absorbed it. After the team fell asleep, Adam snuck up to the roof, where he was confronted by Jamie, who asked him to stay alive until the final battle, before he disappeared. Afterwards, Adam was confronted by Kayleigh, who demanded an explanation, which he gave her. Returning to the dorm, Adam allowed her to sleep in the same bed as him.

The next day, Adam called for the group to have a so-called Partner’s Day, which he spent with Kayleigh, but he also managed to help his sister form her own team, this one called LPR (Leaper). Afterwards, he and his group stayed vigilant for the Talons, knowing they could attack anytime. One day, Adam and his team got involved in a massive food fight between the teams in his ‘family’, which Adam managed to win for his team. After they cleaned up, Ozpin revealed the existence of a Talon warehouse, which the crew attacked, but they found a terminal inside, which self-destructed, dazing Adam. After the explosion, Cameron revealed himself, and he and Adam had a confrontation, which ended with Cameron trying to kill Adam, but **Fox Alistair** took the shot instead, sacrificing himself for Adam, but also letting Cameron escape. Trying to save Fox’s life, Adam took him to the infirmary, but the doctors couldn’t save him. Begrudgingly, Adam decided to obey Fox’s last wish, which was to end his suffering, stabbing him through the heart. Angered at the loss of his friend, Adam declared to Professors Ozpin and **Goodwitch** that there wasn’t a power on Remnant that could stop him, effectively declaring war on both the Talons, and his brother.

When the time came for Fox’s burial, Adam decided not to attend, but he watched the service from a rooftop. After the funeral ended, he went to see the grave, where he encountered Fox’s parents. Explaining what had happened to their son to them, Adam was begged by Fox’s father to not let his thirst for revenge get the best of him, but Adam said it was already too late, as he gestured to Fox’s grave. Going to the gym to vent his anger, Adam was interrupted by Kayleigh, who took them back to their dorm room, and they consummated their relationship. Afterwards, Adam went to speak to Coco Adel, Fox’s girlfriend, who blamed him for her boyfriend’s death. Quickly making her see that Jamie was her real enemy, Adam returned to his dorm, where he revealed to his team his new plan of killing Jamie. Ozpin then called the ‘family’ up, where Adam explained the new plan. For the next few months, the crew remained at Beacon, training all day, only breaking for food and sleep.

One day, Ozpin called the crew up, where he gave a brief profile on all major Talon members, but he also revealed the existence of a Beacon mole by the name of **Craig Mccolgan**, as well as revealing that two new teams, one made up of former Talon members and the other a team of fellow **Huntsmen** students, wanted to join the fight against the Talons. Interviewing the two teams, known as **NEM** and **SSSN**, Adam allowed them to join the fight, but not before NEM revealed that his girlfriend Kayleigh was an SAI herself, with her Dark half being **Cinder Fall**, one of the members of the Talons. Returning to training, Adam helped Ozpin to rally more Huntsmen to the war, including Team CRDL. Eventually, Adam was told by Ozpin that the Talons had arrived, and that Adam could command the teachers for the war only. Finally, Adam rallied his troops, and sent them off to repel the Talons.

As his army charged towards the war, Adam met Craig, who he welcomed into the ‘family’, and who joined Libby’s team, changing it from LPR to **CRPL** (Corporal). Taking out numerous Talon members, Adam came face to face with Jamie, who was accompanied by Cameron, Cinder and Ironwood. As he and his team faced off with the Talon members, Adam was stuck in a stalemate with Jamie, as Ryan managed to murder Cameron, and Shannon maimed Ironwood. As he went to attack Jamie, he saw Cinder was close to killing Kayleigh. Knocking Cinder back, Adam and Kayleigh faced off with their siblings, which ended with Kayleigh killing Cinder, and Adam wounding Jamie, but his brother recovered, and they both let their Auras control them, becoming the most powerful they could become. After managing to convince his brother to turn on Ironwood, Adam brutally murdered Jamie by crushing his heart, before murdering Ironwood, claiming the battle, which would go on to be called the Dark Aura Incident, for the Huntsmen. Finally, Adam absorbed his brother’s Aura, and became a **Complete Aura Individual**, but he collapsed from the exertion. A couple of days later, he regained consciousness, and re-joined his group, accepting Teams NEM and SSSN into the **‘family.’** After reporting to Ozpin (where he met **Councillor Shade**, an individual he didn’t much like), and training briefly in the gym, Adam was called by Shannon up to their dorm, where he discovered Ryan and Rachel had started a relationship, which the other three ARKS members gave their blessing to.

Eventually, the end of the school year came, and Adam asked Kayleigh to live with him at the **Robertson house**, seeing as her whole biological family was wiped out. Agreeing, Kayleigh joined the Robertson family. Before he left, Adam paid his respects to Fox’s grave, where he revealed that he believed the Talons weren’t finished off during the battle, and would return in the future. As he went to leave, Adam was encountered by Ozpin, who revealed that he wanted to talk to Adam at the start of the crew’s second year. Embracing Ozpin, Adam ran back to the ship, whereupon he and his ‘family’ flew back to Patch, where they met with Ryan’s parents, who Adam asked to return the key to the Robertson house to him. Showing Kayleigh the house, Adam was asked by Shannon what they would do next. Looking out the window, Adam admitted that while he didn’t know, he couldn’t wait to find out.

## Personality

The *RoTA* version of Adam, like all his other incarnations, is a man who is driven by his love for those he calls 'family', and who would even put his own life on the line to protect them. He is even willing to accept those not related to him by blood as 'family', simply for putting their own lives on the line to protect him during their first war against the Slicing Talons.

As is custom with Adam's other incarnations, the Huntsman version can be a joker, but his personality can change in the blink of an eye to one where he is cold, ruthless, and in some cases, even worse than his brother. A key example of this is when he brutally tortured a Talon soldier for information, then killed the man anyway. His dark side was only amplified when he absorbed his brother's Dark Aura, but he tries his best to keep from losing his temper.

Adam has proved that he isn't simply a soldier who smashes through every problem, as he takes the time to 'read' his opponents, and comes up with strategies in order to beat them, usually in the most severe way possible. He is even willing to go so far as to change his entire approach to a battle, as seen when he swore to kill Jamie after mercy-killing Fox Alistair, despite previously planning to arrest his brother.

After beating his brother, Adam has displayed that he has gained a slight ego of sorts, as when he discovered how to contact the Sisterhood of the Flame, he said, "There's one thing I forgot to tell you; I'm brilliant!"

## Abilities

* **Blur -** Adam's primary Semblance, Blur allows its user to move quickly from place to place. In design, this power is a combination of Ruby Rose's Speed and Elenora's Teleportation. Whenever Adam uses this ability, to his enemies, it looks like he vanishes in a blur, but in reality, he is moving extremely quickly, enough to kick up strong winds, before he appears in another position. He mostly uses this ability in conjunction with his innate strength, or with his weapon Deathcaliber to deliver a debilitating series of rapid blows.

## Crimes

* Mass Murder
* Kinslaying
* Torture

## Weaknesses

* **His 'Family'** - Adam's main weakness. For Adam, his biggest strength, as well as his greatest vulnerability, is the care he has for those that he calls 'family'. While his 'family' is the main reason that Adam continues his fight against the Talons, it is also a vulnerability that his enemies are more than willing to exploit, as Cameron demonstrated by his severe wounding of Fox during the Huntsmen's attack on the warehouse.

## Relationships

Adam has two pages detailing his relationships:

* For a simple list of his relationships, click **here**.
* For a more in-depth explanation of his relationships, click **here**.

## Quotes

For a list of all the *RoTA* incarnation of Adam's quotes, click **here**.