Talk:Adrian Raines/@comment-37915141-20190429130547

"After a brief update from Gaius, he was forced to kill a nearby man to quench his bloodthirst; this, according to Adrian, is the only time he had murdered a human."

I played the book 30 times o far but he never mentioned this being the only time he killed a human. When did he claim this? Or did PB correct his claim by the time I got to play all the paths?

He himself talked about killing 3 times: at the rooftop after he Turned Lily (Celia, the woman he tried to Turn but had to kill because she became Feral, so she wasn't a human technically) in the ball train, and in the cabin. (And in chapter 2 when MC asks whether he ever killed anyone but he just replies yes but not anymore, he didn't tell a story.)

In the ball train diamond scene in chapter 8 when playing Truth or Dare you can choose to ask "What's it like to kill someone?". He says "I'll never forget the first time I killed. It was during the Revolutionary War. The Redcoat was much younger than me. Just a beardless boy when we met on the field of battle. He shot at me and missed. So I drove my bayonet into his chest." (This is not the same Redcoat that Gaius goaded him into killing since that wasn't on the battlefield, that REdcoat couldn't even fire in time and Adrian drained him not stab him.) Later he adds "That was the first time, anyway. Before it became routine." (He could've meant killing during the war and/or when he was devoted to Gaius.) So he seems to claim the exact opposite here.

Also, the scene where Gaius goaded him to kill the Redcoat was a fragment flashback, Adrian - and matter of fact even MC because she doesn't remember the pastry - doesn't even know that MC saw into his past. He never mentioned or referred to it (at least not in my playthroughs and I played all choices/paths). He only talked about what happened before Gaius Turned him. "Eleanor went out for water... and found more than she bargained for. [...] No [not a vampire - in reply to Kamilah]. A human. A wounded traveller, begging for help. She brought him inside to give him comfort and a place to rest, because that's the sort of woman she was. [...] But in the middle of the night, there was a terrible commotion. [...] He came for me next. We fought. He stabbed me, right in the chest... And I smashed his head open against the fireplace."