Adam Troy Ross

""Your accosiate's former underling nearly killed Trevor Dillard and his partner earlier tonight. If he had, you would not be breathing.""

- ~Adam to Darren Mitchel

Summary
Adam Troy Ross, also known as Nameless and his fake alias Franklin Black, is the Primary Antagonist of the First Book of Reaper and a Minor Antagonist in the Second Book. He is the Archnemesis of Charlotte Nechita.

Appearance
Adam is a tall, pale, slender man with slicked back black hair and bright blue eyes. The fact that he normally wears a black business suit and white under-suit gives him one of the iconic general appearance types of the Devil.

When suited, he wears a blood red hooded leather suit adorned with golden parts, including, most prominently, a face-fitting golden mask that is fixed in an eternal wide smile, with black solid mesh in the mouth and black lenses in the eyes to hide his face completely while still giving him a full range of vision and ability to breathe. Due to his red and gold coloration, his suit gives him another of the generic appearance types of the Devil.

Personality
Adam is cold, collected and calculating, and always has a plan for everything long before that thing needs to be directly addressed by him. He has no qualms manipulating or opposing any faction he has knowledge of and he is incredibly sadistic and cruel in nature. In the past, these negative aspects of his personality seemed to be less prominent, likely due to him having a family back then.

Adam has been the way he is from birth, as he envelopes himself fully in his curiosity while treating any semblance of morality as an 'option'. Upon meeting Charlotte, he, like everyone else, immediately knew she was a Vampire. But rather than be intimidated, he was instead interested, and became hellbent on unleashing her true potential through any means necessary.

Adam has an intense and understandable obsession with Charlotte. On one hand, he has always been interested to fully see what she is capable of, on another, he wants to avenge his family, who she had killed during her days as a mass murderer. On yet another, he is simply a sadistic individual who sees Charlotte's broken and bitter self as an incredibly entertaining target of his schemes.

Adam also has something of a sense of humor, though it is dark humor that he often tells with a straight face behind a mask. He enjoys mocking others for anything they can be mocked for and he becomes enraged, confused and shocked when his plans don't come to fruition. He also despises those who would get in the way of his plans or his rivalry with Charlotte, and as such planned for REICH, the Sabertooth Clan and Beta-Sirius 's Scout Group to be destroyed from the start.

Powers and Abilities
Regeneration: Adam's Mutation is the ability to rapidly regenerate, and the only wound that ever didn't was a burn wound on his right eye. He can regenerate from any damage aside from this, including lost limbs, and he can sometimes regenerate in a matter of seconds.

Extreme Intellect: Adam's intelligence is almost godlike in the series, as Charlotte (Likely hyperbolically) describes his intellect as 'making a Supercomptuer look like absolute garbage'. Adam's feats of intelligence range from orchestrating the destruction of the three Factions in Book One to, related to the first point, adapting to the Crocatoan threat had had appeared. Adam's only intellectual rival is Reinhardt, whose Mutant is heightened intellect.

Expert Fighter: Adam is likely the best fighter in the series save for his and Charlotte's master Pirani, the only one who bests him in sword-fighting being Charlotte herself, along with possibly also Theodoric. He is well-versed in effectively every Asian fighting style, close or long-ranged, and he often uses many different types of weapons in his fights.

Eletero: Adam has Eletero like any other Human, and as such can use it if he needs to. His most prominent use is when he uses Schnitt des Dämonischen Lichts, his identical but blue version of Charlotte's Viațătranșă. He has yet to display other Eletero abilities.

Equipment
Nameless Suit: Adam's suit seems to almost have its own hammer-space with its number of perfectly hidden pockets and not so hidden straps. It is where Adam keeps all the rest of his equipment and it seems light, breathable, durable and almost skintight, not taking the padding into account. The hood is usually connected to the mask, which surrounds the head like a mold and is connected to the collar, keeping the hood or mask from flying off during battle.

Teufelkante: Literally translating to 'Devil's Edge', this is Adam's primary weapon. It is a golden-Tsuba'd, red-gripped, silver-bladed Nodachi that, like Charlotte's Katana Sabiazeiței, is indestructible. Due to his regeneration, peak human training and seemingly not caring how these weapons are meant to be used, Adam will use his Nodachi in one hand at most times, keeping a free hand for another weapon or a stronger-two-handed grip if either is needed.

Kunai: Adam has many Kunai, some of which are filled with a corrosive acid, some others of which explode, and yet still some others of which are chained together.

Kurasigama: Adam has multiple Kurasigama that he can use to bind and stab his opponents.

Wakizashi, Daisho and Katanas: Adam has many of these blades openly displayed on and strapped to his suit, sheathed of course.

Kukri and Kama: Adam has multiple of these as well.

Shurikens, Bows, Arrows and Chakrams: Adam has a few of some and a lot of others.

Trivia

 * 1) Adam's inspiration as a character lies in Prometheus and Deathstroke from The CW 's Arrow as well as Sōsuke Aizen from BLEACH. These inspirations came later, as the idea of Adam and Nameless came first before the inspirations. His name was likely subconsciously inspired from Adam Taurus, a Major Antagonist in Roosterteeth Production 's RWBY. Troy Ross and Taurus also share the similarity of being red colored, scarred, mask wearing Japanese styled swordsmen obsessed with a non-human heroine. However, all these similarities are coincidental, as Adam Taurus' name and general appearance were all the author knew when he first came up with Adam Troy Ross as a character.
 * 2) Adam's intellect is often told, not shown. Though he does form multiple complex plans in the series, he is often more hype then feats in terms of his smarts.
 * 3) This will likely be changed should the series ever get a revision.
 * 4) Adam's similarities with the Devil are unintentional, however are considered part of the creation process of the character regardless.
 * 5) Both Adam and Charlotte are chronologically older than most of the other characters in the series. However, Adam seems to biologically age faster than Charlotte for an unexplained reason. It may be due to a human's healing factor possibly being inferior to a Vampire's, which is likely.
 * 6) Adam shares similarities with Alexander Anderson from Hellsing:
 * 7) Both can regenerate.
 * 8) Both prefer blades.
 * 9) Both fight royal vampires.
 * 10) Both affiliate themselves with radical organizations.
 * 11) Both fight literal Neo-Nazis led by cyborgs in addition to their vampire archnemeses.