Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-6192846-20150822000535/@comment-146.113.74.251-20150924231211

1. Adam might have blamed himself, sure. It would be his fault. But the reason he quit the project was because his love for Eve allowed him to realize how power-hungry and cruel he had been, and he gave up his quest for vengeance/ruling the country. If he hadn't loved Eve, he would have stayed on. Consider how many failures Seth had and yet was still allowed to continue the project. The point is that Seth had no way of knowing that Adam would quit once Eve was a failure.

2. Adam has no reason to take advice from Seth on how to control Eve. Considering he hates him and doesn't trust him, it's unlikely that he would use a mysterious drug that Seth recommended without at least testing it first. It's possible he didn't know all the side effects, but it's unlikely that it was by Seth's efforts alone Eve was made infertile.

3. We do not know for a fact that Eve looks like Maria or is related to her at all. Literally the only thing that have in common is that they share a Miku, which could mean any number of things--one theory I have thrown out there is that she's a Miku because she becomes one later as Master o the Court, similar to how Elluka is a Luka because she (or Levia anyway) takes Lukana's body later. At this stage of the game it's indicative of nothing.

4. Adam could have fallen for Eve as they were spending time together. His manipulations ranged from the drug to legitimately spending time with her and getting to know her so that she didn't realize she was being used. During this period he could have slowly come to love her for who she really was, and only realized his true feelings upon seeing what a mess he'd made of her life. As he wasn't driven partially insane by the events of the project, whereas Eve, muddled by the drug, was, it suggests he was sober and aware of his actions when he left.

5. The odds of Seth being able to sabotage Cain and Able do seem pretty low, considering the time frame and his then-lower authority in the project.

Personally I think it's more that he saw an opportunity when Adam left and took it, not that he personally engineered events. There's evidence to suggest you can infect already born people with Malice, so perhaps his plan was originally to get close to the twins and infect them when they were young, before Levia and Behemo got in them.

I would also like to point out that all of this is unsubstantiated theory. There is a possiblity of it being true but nothing that can conclusively state it one way or the other. I personally recommend any further focus on it be moved to an appropriate discussion thread, and this one kept for actual album/OSS content, possibly having these replies copy and pasted over.