Adam Moonlit

Adam Moonlit is a scientist of the Magic Kingdom Levianta and the first director of Project 'Ma'. After the project's failure, he fled with his lover, Eve Zvezda, and later became her husband.

Project 'Ma'
"You will now become the mother of gods: the Ma."

- Adam to Eve

At some point, the Leviantan Senate and Seth Twiright took Adam's mother, Maria Moonlit, away from him. Embittered, Adam sought vengeance against them. An excellent scientist, Adam was selected to lead the development of Project 'Ma' and found a suitable candidate for birthing the twin gods. Seeing the opportunity, Adam hoped to use the mother as a proxy for him to rule the country and get back at the ones who took away his mother. Selecting the witch Eve Zvezda from Nemu village, Adam was tempted and became Eve's lover, using the brainwashing drug "Venom" to seduce her. During this time, Adam held the confused Eve close, comforting her. She told Adam that she wanted to have a wedding in Held's Forest. As part of the project, Adam oversaw the procedure as Eve was injected with the god's seed and awaited the birth of the twin gods. However, due to Adam's miscalculations, the children were stillborn and the project was a failure. With all his hopes and ambitions lost, the distraught Adam grieved over what he had done to Eve and then realized that he had truly fallen in love with her.

Original Sin
"Listen, our children are already not part of this world. Please return these children to their real mother."

- Adam after seeing his wife's crime

Fleeing with his lover to Elphegort, the two hid in a small home in Held's Forest as woodcutters. He married Eve, telling her that he loved her and she reciprocated the sentiment. Some time later, in EC 001, Adam saw Eve return home one night and came to greet her. However, when he saw her hold two infants in her arms, a boy and a girl, he was horrified. With a grim face, Adam explained to his wife that their children were already dead and that she needed to return the twins to their real mother. After Eve screamed in realization of her crime, Adam told her she could fix it if she did it now. However, she retorted that it was too late, explaining how outside their home was a woman Eve killed who had a glass bottle of milk with her: the mother.

As a result, Adam kept the stolen children and raised them as his own. In EC 014, a year after the Levianta Catastrophe, the effects of the disaster spread to Elphegort, causing famines and pestilence. With a gloomy expression, Adam and his wife led their foster children deep into the forest before abandoning them and returning home. Later on, the twins managed to returned to their house and, hallucinating that his wife was a witch and he was her henchman, entered their home and killed them, Adam's foster son murdering the former scientist.

Legacy
The two corpses would eventually be discovered and a murder case was opened regarding their deaths. Centuries later in EC 505, Kyle Marlon was referred to by the Demon of Gluttony as the "Soul of Adam". Gear himself would also be referred to as the "Soul of Adam" by the Master of the Graveyard during the theater inhabitants' meeting in EC 998. While reviewing the "court case" transcriptions in the Theater, Gammon Octo queried if Adam's dying wish dwelled within the Marlon Spoon and manifested as Gear after the vessel awakened.

Personality and Traits
After losing his mother, Adam felt bitter towards the Leviantan Senate and despised Seth Twiright for his influence in her being taken away from him. Opportunistic, he recognized the possibilities Project 'Ma' presented and planned to use the next queen to achieve indirect rule to get back at Seth and the senate. After meeting Eve, Adam didn't hesitate to use Venom on her to enter a faux romance with the witch, using her as a means for his ambition. With the project's failure, Adam became distraught with how his miscalculations led to the collapse of his hopes and dreams.

Adam, although pursuing a relationship with Eve for selfish intentions, eventually came to care for her and the children she carried for him, even considering the artificial fetuses as his own offspring; as a result, his failure was compounded with guilt over Cain and Abel's deaths and having "ruined" Eve. With his escape from the Magic Kingdom, Adam settled with Eve in hopes to live a happy life with his beloved, even remembering her wish to be married in Held's Forest. Despite this, he felt dread when seeing his wife had stolen babies over her loss and begged her to return them. However, after learning the mother was dead, he accepted the children as their own to raise them and came to love them dearly as his own. When leaving them in the forest, he felt saddened and torn over the decision, although horrified by their return and monstrous aura.

Skills and Abilities
Adam was an excellent scientist, demonstrated by being selected for directing the first Project 'Ma' and overseeing Eve's development as a test subject. His capabilities extended to his utilization of the Venom drug to brainwash Eve, allowing him to more easily manipulate her for the project. Despite his knowledge, Adam's recklessness bred error in his judgment and would cause him to overlook possibly detrimental consequences to his actions.

Character Connections
Eve Moonlit: Adam's wife. Adam initially saw Eve just as a means of gaining power over the Senate, but over time grew to really love her. He experienced guilt for using her and causing her miscarriage, becoming subservient to the witch as a result; Adam also tried to act as Eve's voice of reason while she was under her delusions. While shocked by her crime, he continued to support and comfort his wife in raising their new children and, later, abandoning them.

Maria Moonlit: Adam's mother. Adam cared about Maria deeply, and he was angered by the Seth and Senate taking her away from him. Her disappearance motivated him to seek revenge, driving him to brainwash Eve.

Seth Twiright: A fellow scientist. Adam hated Seth due to the latter's role in his mother's disappearance. It was his desire to get revenge on Seth that motivated him to brainwash Eve. After running away to live in Elphegort, Adam dropped his desire for revenge.

Hänsel: Adam's foster son. Adam wished the best for Hänsel initially, urging Eve to take him back to his mother and raising him when it was explained this was impossible. While later becoming desperate enough to abandon the boy during the famine in Elphegort, Adam experienced great regret for doing so and was shocked when he returned.

Gretel: Adam's foster daughter. Adam wished the best for Gretel initially, urging Eve to take her back to her mother and raising her when it was explained this was impossible. While later becoming desperate enough to abandon the girl during the famine in Elphegort, Adam experienced great regret for doing so and was shocked when she returned.

Cain: Eve's biological child. While initially seeing Cain and Abel as means to gain leverage over the Senate, Adam came to care about them and consider them his own children as an extension of his love for Eve, regretting his part in their stillbirth.

Abel: Eve's biological child. While initially seeing Cain and Abel as means to gain leverage over the Senate, Adam came to care about them and consider them his own children as an extension of his love for Eve, regretting his part in their stillbirth.

Conceptualization and Origin

 * Adam Moonlit is inspired by Adam from Judeo-Christian mythology; like his biblical counterpart, although he does not commit the original sin himself, he is still very much a part of it.
 * The name "Adam" derives from Hebrew for "from the ground", linking him to Greed's original manifestation as The Soil as well as other characters portrayed by KAITO who are associated with Greed.

Curiosities

 * Both Kyle Marlon and Gear are referred to as the "Soul of Adam" by a woman related to the sin of Gluttony.

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