Katagawa Jr is such a fun character to think about cause there's so much you can assume not just about him but also the Maliwan family as a whole based on his design and what little we actually know about him
I can't imagine he has a whole lot of loyalty for Maliwan itself cause he really did seem to care more about the Zanara than anything else. The barcode tattoo on the back of his neck? The ECHOeye (a whole eyeball compared to Rhys' lense) with a big M on it? He didn't get those to market Maliwan. He got them to show his father he's dedicated to the company and get ahead of the rest of his siblings who got a head-start due to him being younger
There's no actual family at Maliwan. Kat and his siblings are just cogs in the machine. Parental love? Never heard of it. You either dedicate your life to this company or you're not a Katagawa
Here comes Atlas, a small but growing corporation vulnerable to attacks and perfect for a merger to prove to Kat's father just how much he deserves his attention and praise. Oh, the CEO used to be a Hyperion lackey? He knows what it's like to give his life to a company ("family") that doesn't care for him? But somehow he got out. He made a name for himself, literally ripping out his Hyperion branding and giving himself his own, and now he holds the adoration by many, something Katagawa couldn't even get from his own father
On top of that Rhys is around the same age, at least compared to the old coots that are in charge of the other major corporations out there. He's so cool. Imagine being friends with that guy. But the Katagawa family doesn't do friendship, nor love, nor anything remotely fond
Katagawa doesn't know how to befriend people, much less someone who's supposed to be his rival. Getting to know Rhys, stalking him and learning about all his favorite foods and favorite theme parks didn't do the trick so really, what choice does he have other than to force a friendship with a siege? He needs Atlas to impress his father anyway. Rhys becoming part of the Maliwan family, not as a sibling but as a friend, and having no choice but to be around Kat is a nice bonus
Rhys doesn't budge however, not even as Katagawa destroys the things he loves and threatens to cut him in half. He's rejecting him, just like his father, and that hurts. Then this little asshole actually goes out of his way to destroy something Kat loves for a change. It's not enough to take over Promethea and Atlas anymore, Rhys needs to hurt too
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men will get mildly annoyed with a woman and abandon her in clearly unsafe situations as "punishment" like that's normal
like. i very much walked away from him to go home by myself
(because i re-organised and re-arranged my whole birthday trip down to london (at the expense of something i would have liked to do and would have been both very funny and deeply satisfyig) and changed the dates and everything to accomodate him and he threw that in my face
but regardless you still fucking check don't you. like. hello.
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AU where Josh manages to grab onto Nigel’s hand at the last moment that night on the train and both of them fall out. AU where Nigel has been dead the entire time but Alex Forbes doesn’t know that; where the trauma of watching his friend fall to his death combined with the realisation he was complicit in the death of another causes his mind to fracture.
He doesn’t remember making it back to his dorm room that night, only remembers waking up to the news that Josh and Nigel were was dead. All of Nigel’s things have been moved to another room, of course they have, because Nigel was gone, dead, all his fault, his fault trouble.
AU where Alex takes the train one night to the Colbie house because Nigel asks him to, because he feels this innate and intense need to try and better understand this boy he got killed; where he finds the card and the books and Nigel’s red bible, and begins to understand.
AU where the body of Susan turns up one morning, and the police question Alex about it, but there’s no way it was him, because he was late; he was late, and by the time he showed up at the cinema, she was waiting for him still, sweet Susan, with her kind eyes and kinder heart, she had waited for him and she didn’t even suspect anything until the very second before he struck gone.
AU where Alex finds the letter he wrote Nigel wrote, inviting him to his house that night, where Alex sees the Colbies arguing through the window; where he wrestles the gun from John and shoots him to kill him because he read the journals, knows that this man has been hurting Nigel his whole life and he wanted him dead protect Nigel.
AU where Nigel confronts Alex at the train yard that night, where he forces Alex to remember everything he did, everything Alex did; where he forces Alex to pull the trigger and kill off the version of Nigel he’s been carrying around in his mind, where Alex dies that night right along with him and Jack is born instead.
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Listen, sometimes in life you’ve just gotta ignore canon, and even certain headcanons/AUs you don’t like or agree with and come up with your own/a version of the thing you like. As a form of self-care. This is a moral I live by, I think anyone who knows me knows at this point.
But for all that is good and decent in the world, you still absolutely need to be respectful towards others, even if what they made does not gel with you, personally. Especially if they’re the original creator(s) of the original, canon work.
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God when my friend and I played Borderlands 3 together for the first time, maybe a little after a certain character died, we paused the game and ranted about all the bad things about the game for like an hour I’m not joking. It took forever for us to actually get the energy to finish it lol I haven’t touched it since
i found out the death happened like five days after the game came out and literally didn't play it until my friends and followers begged me for like 2 years later LMFAO.
solid 3/10 experience and even the gameplay is miserable half the time
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so i totally forgot to freak out about the fact that rhys is coming to dan's live show in may!! i mean i very much did freak out, but not here on my blog. i guess i was waiting for someone to post the instagram announcement, which, y'know, i could have done myself as soon as i realised it was slipping through the cracks, but unfortunately i'm a lazy bitch 🙈
anyway!! i'm soooooo excited about this!!! it was really only a matter of time before rhys would be a guest on We Can Be Weirdos, wasn't it. And it's soooo cool that dan is making it special by having him at his first(?) live recording.
i can't go, unfortunately (and now it's sold out anyway), but i'm hoping to catch some snippets in the form of eye witness accounts, and i can't WAIT to listen to the edit when it comes out.
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