Stark contrasts make up Adam's life:
rules define being a soldier for The Reestablishment
but chaos rules the outside world;
emotions dictate his close relationship with James
but confusion looms over Adam when confronted with
the reality that Warner shares any sort of DNA with him;
how can someone so vile, so treacherous, so blonde
share any sort of blood?
Medically speaking, it should make sense:
Adam's father is also Warner's,
they are connected by a tragic past
tortured by abuse
and rebuilt by sheer force of will.
Some would they are nothing alike:
Adam is anchored by his family,
(James motivates for a compassionate life,
nothing and no one will get
in the way of their brotherhood)
Anchored by morality
(it was skewed, once,
by brutal regime-induced brainwashing;
Soldiership defines the world
Much differently and civilian life
although a laborious, emotionally-charged transition,
is a breath of fresh air
for freedom feels good when
nothing else went right)
and kept afloat by aspirations
(Warner's icy exterior
keeps everyone out:
what fuels a man who's more monster than man?)
Adam can't decipher how to untangle himself
from the anger of this revelation,
the pain exacerbated by loneliness
by bottling up the secret,
by coping with the fear and the anger,
the resentment and the deceit of it
all alone.
But he's free from the grips
of The Reestablishment's
expectations of masculinity
now that he's no soldier boy
and that's better than
brotherhood with Warner.