Sky Striker Ace, but Symphogear

Adam himself appeared to be an artificially made doll. Her attack had not destroyed his core; it had only torn open a gap, exposing the mechanical-looking machinery inside.

"A doll... You dare call me a doll, and in that condescending tone? Damn it! Something must be wrong! Why would the gods favor an incomplete thing like you over me?"

While Raye was analyzing him, Adam finally came to his senses. Once he grasped the situation and heard her words, anger surged within him.

Adam at Full Power

Adam's true identity was a discarded doll made before the era of the Prehistoric Civilization—the prototype for "humanity."

He had been discarded because he was "already complete to the point of perfection."

Adam possessed every function and capability his creators had sought, but nothing beyond them.

His creators had therefore judged that he had "no potential for progress" and set aside the question of formally adopting him as "humanity."

He was scheduled for destruction, but before that could happen, Adam broke free and fled. His creators had lost interest in him and did not pursue him, allowing him to hide in the shadows of history.

Afterward, his feelings toward his creators hardened into a single ambition: to surpass the incomplete species they had formally adopted—humanity—and stand equal to the creators themselves.

But there was something he found even more intolerable: the existence of a human girl named Raye.

She was his complete opposite.

Adam had been born powerful, perfected beyond any possibility of further progress. She had been born frail in the extreme, yet faced almost no barriers to growth.

Before meeting Raye, Adam had sustained his pride with the belief that his perfect self was naturally stronger than the incomplete masses.

But when he encountered her in the Prehistoric Civilization and watched