Nadine

Hiii anon!

Yeah I do have an OC but I'm not sure if it's considered a self insert at this stage. I've given her the same name as me but changed her personality and a lot of other bits about her. She's not a Bell OC though but I may make another OC in the future as Bell.

I'm mainly working on her backstory and history now to check it's all time accurate and things, although I'm sure I'll miss something though I've got a few headcannons for how she interacts with the black ops crew both in Cold War and in BO6. I've also gotta work on her backstory with Adler as I've got an idea of how they met just nothing solid yet.

Does anyone have any drawing tips for drawing Adler? I've been trying for ages yet he just comes out on the paper looking like a potato with hair. Idk what it is but I just struggle drawing him so if anyone has any tips for me I'd appreciate it so much.

More Adler thoughts.

Where did the nickname America's Monster come from?

I haven't seen it specified anywhere regarding how he got this nickname other then his peers giving him the name. Not to mention I don't think I've once ever actually seen any of the team explicitly call him America's Monster or mention it unless I missed that bit somewhere.

I think with his manipulation skills and his overall ruthlessness on the field it may warrant the nickname with his reputation but I wonder where it actually originated from. What was it explicitly that he did to earn the title?

I have a couple of theories on how he got the nickname

I think it could have from something to do with Perseus most likely back in the 1960s when he was in Vietnam hunting him down the first time. It's obvious Adler has a hatred for Perseus and most likely as he continued hunting him down in Vietnam I'd imagine he'd get more and more annoyed that Perseus kept evading him that he'd start to resort to more violent and extreme measures to get the information and intel he needed to stop him. But other people saw it and thought he was getting pretty gruesome just to find the guy and gave him the nickname perhaps?

Another theory is with his work on Separation in the 70s. The drug causes induced schizophrenia for any of the subjects and just like with Bell and MK-Ultra, Adler manipulated their memories to get what he wanted no matter how painful or traumatic the whole experience was for Bell or the other subject exposed to this. But for Adler he was doing a job, and he most likely didn't care enough about the suffering he was causing in the process causing others to label him as America's Monster.

Either way the title most likely came from something brutal he did, he didn't just earn the title for nothing. But I feel like either his work in Vietnam or Separation could have contributed or possibly earned him the nickname.

I did have another theory but I'm not sure on it tbh I thought maybe after he got his scar some people could look at him as though he looks like some kind of monster and give him the nickname but I'm not too sure about that one.

Even then, as I mentioned, I've never heard anyone explicitly call Adler by that title to his face or others. Maybe he dislikes the nickname because of whatever memory or thing he did its accociated with it. Although, at the same time, given his reputation that he doesn't seem to hide, I can't see him being opposed or guilty about whatever he did to earn that title. I could probably see some of the other guys at the CIA using it to scare the rookies, specifically Woods, maybe.

Sometimes I still can't believe that Adler has me in such a tight chokehold that when Black Ops Cold War came out I wrote an entire dissertation a few years back in college on the who was to blame for the continuity of the Cold War.

The worst bit is I feel like he'd drop kick me or something because I argued it was America's fault. I feel like I'd have to run for my life to escape his wrath.

I've been thinking about this for ages but does Adler have photosensitivity?

People with blue eyes tend to be more sensitive to light because of less pigmentation in the eyes, so they don't have much protection from bright lights or UV radiation. Maybe that's why he always has sunglasses on, but over the years, he's adapted it into his fashion style?

I mean we tend to see him in lower lighting and the only time I've really seen him with out his sunglasses was in Hunting Season in the campaign and occasionally in some of his skins in Cold War. But in the hunting season, it was a bit dark with lower sun levels.

I'm pretty sure that his room in The Rook is also a bit dark too with a single lamp lit in the corner and in the Safehouse in Cold War but even then he still wears his sunglasses in the Cold War Safehouse.

Or when they infiltrate the KGB in Cold War (I forget what that missions called) and Belikov flashes the flashlight for Adler and Bell and Adler seems to put his hands up in front of his face as the light flashes on his face.

He's probably adapted it into his fashion sense too to not draw attention to the fact he has photosensitivity and an overall dislike for bright lights as they hurt his eyes.

I think it would be funny if his partner sometimes just plucked his sunglasses off to wear them or to tease him, and he just has to squint or cover his eyes because the sun irritates him but even then he cant help but find it cute how they just plucked them off his face. Or even if one day he misplaces them and he's just grumbling about the oncoming headache and eye pain he's getting from the bright lights and gets grumpy at the other operatives who tease him for misplacing them.

Hiiii!!!

Always nice to see more Adler fans!! 💙💙

Treyarch are just teasing us now ngl they drop Adler in the season 2 end cut scene and we just don't get a new skin???

Literally me seeing the battle pass :