kermapippurisaatana:

seainspace:

Reminder that Rhys is not a good person. His introduction lists “stabs in a few select backs” and a highly lucrative eridium mining deal that is implied to have been a true asshole-ish move (something about orphans? I can’t remember the line) and things that Vaughn lists as haunting his dreams every night. The stabs where most likely not physical but things that put people in shitty positions, getting them fired, going behind their back and so on.

Rhys reaction to Henderson dying? Lamenting all the time sucking up to the guy and worrying about getting spaced himself. One of his dialogue options for revenge is literally kill Vasquez.

Where Vaughn is actually worried about the skag you hit Rhys is actually very calm and dismissive about it, you can even have him ask if the car is okay.

He never feels bad about hurting people with the stun baton, hell he can intentionally leave Yvette to die in a jail cell, or even space her when the time comes. Almost every interaction he has features a selfish, condescending or even ruthless possible response and it gives the rest of his dialogue a feeling of manipulation. Because they are all ways Rhys could somewhat realistically respond to a situation.

Honestly there’s a reason Jack was Rhys hero, and Rhys has done everything in his power to style himself after him.

Rhys isn’t as physical as Jack was, he can be a bit naive and protects what he cares about in a less controlling way but there are a lot off parallels to be drawn there.

I have no problem seeing him shooting someone in the head if he felt that it was justified. He wouldn’t enjoy it like Jack would have, but he would be dismissive about it. In a “It was just a bandit” kind of way.

EDIT: Someone pointed out his lack of remorse over Helios to me so I thought I’d add the ask here as well.

anonymous asked:

To add on to your post about Rhys; he also doesn’t care about the hundreds of thousands of people he killed when he decided to crash helios. Like at all

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Yeah, depending on what you choose you get “It was worth it to kill you” or “it was horrible, that’s on me, but it was justified”. He kinda just goes on, justifying it too himself with “i didn’t have the time to do something else”, “i had no choice” and “jack couldn’t be allowed to live”. it’s real fucked up. he feels a bit guilty, sure, but even faced with the survivors he doesn’t really seem to fazed by the whole thing. sure we have a few months gap where we don’t know what happened in between but the way he just. picks up work again. it’s a very jack thing to do, justifying the death of thousands of people “for the greater good”.  I mean, he even uses their resources, walks around their base with no unease as they fucking bow to him.

What do you expect from a guy who got a several inches long metal rod jammed into the left side of his frontal lobe? Dude´s gonna have very poor judgement skills and probably some parts of his emotions screwed up, like his sense of empathy/sympathy.

But yeah, nobody is a good person in that universe. That´s what happens when literal murder isn´t a punishable crime and the law system is in general rather lacking.