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RWBY ORGN: Broken Glass (Part 2)
Genre: Adventure/Drama
Pairs: None
Parody: RWBY
AU-Type: Canon-eqsue AU
Tags: Origin Re-write, Challenge Fic, How to make a tragic villain, It's Adam's turn
Part 2 – Clawing Out
"Mr. Tarsus…I'm terribly sorry about the incident. I had no idea that one of my managers would even get angry enough to…disfigure your face."
"It doesn't matter…I don't have any intention of going back to work." Adam said with a hollow look on his face.
His district manager looked at Adam in shock. What the manager did not know was Adam was well-aware that the manager who branded his face was not even being fired for the offense. No, he had 'seniority' and job security. The fact that this was being swept under the rug was something Adam could not take. The rich human stamps out on the poor faunus…not like Adam had any money to sue. He could barely afford his hospital room.
He was not the only one under the heels of the rich. Cinder was feeling the same resentment. Her new mother and her escaped Mistral to Atlas. Personally, Cinder wished they had went to Vale, but Ella saw Atlas as a shining beacon of hope. Personally, whoever took her that was a lie. The apartment building they stayed in was crappy, and Cinder could see her mother was being overworked like everyone else who lived there. Their landlord was from the upper city and like the rest of the folk up there…was uncaring.
Cinder returned home from school coming up to the steps of the building only to see a taxi roll up. Out came the discharged Adam who had an angry look on his face. Cinder immediately moved out of his way as he slowly marched up the stairs. Cinder sadly lived on the same floor as Adam and went up while keeping her distance. The landlord was around today and Cinder simply went ahead inside leaving him and Adam alone. Not even before she shut her door, she had the landlord laying into him. Cinder went ahead to get some sleep…
Ella was walking home late into the night exhausted from another long shift from the hotel job. She came home to police and the military surrounding the place. She found a sleepy Cinder outside in her pajamas as Ella ran up to her asking what happened.
"M'am. One of your neighbors went postal. Landlord and a few other people on that floor are dead…the murder is done. Whoever it was left 'Down with Human Oppression' written in blood. Your daughter is the only survivor." A huntsman said before looking her over. "Rhodes."
"Ella." She said gently.
Adam was already gearing to leave Mantle and Atlas behind to set sights for Mistral. He was done being the whipping boy and he was ready to join the White Fang. He took out one thing from his knapsack, an eerie eyemask…Grimmlike in design. It had originally belonged to Ella. He had liked the design, but Ella wanted to toss it citing it reminded her of 'dark points in her life'. He had asked her if he could have it.
"If you really want it, fine…just don't wear it around me. I need to get rid of it anyway…it gives me the creeps."
He tried it on glancing at his reflection…and he had a wicked smirk already seeing himself as the new face of the White Fang. He just needed some new threads.
(A/N: Figured seeing that Adam and Cinder were both at Atlas at one point. I kept it simple because that was all we needed for Adam. Nothing convoluted…just one man going off the deep end and willingly jumping down to the dark place. This would jank the Adam short, but that was crap anyway so…*shrugs*)