Victim had a community, and if he'd stayed in touch with them he might not've fallen as far as he did. But his connections have suffered as much as his business, ever since he lost Mitsi. Most of the surviving employees left the company, and we can see Victim's distain for them on his conspiracy wall. Many of those employees were from the village where he and Mitsi had built a life together. There are no signs that he's even left Rocket since Mitsi's death, let alone visited their home.
(I will also note that the design and movement of the villagers is very similar to Mitsi's; visually Victim was always the odd one out, though story-wise none of the villagers seemed to care or even notice. I used to suggest that Victim's connection to the village community might've been fostered through Mitsi; and that when she died, his connection to that community died with her. I don't follow this idea as solidly anymore but I think it still has merit.)
Victim has effecively been sitting in an echo-chamber of his own design for the last several years, and the only company he's had besides his own thoughts has been the numerous clones of the single employee who stuck around—
(and honestly, the fact that he stuck around has yet to be explained. The clones make sense; either nobody new wanted to work at Rocket, or Victim didn't want to hire anyone new. But why did this dude stay when everyone else left?)
—and Agent. The one who actually witnessed Mitsi's death. The one person besides Victim who, out of everything and everyone that was lost in the massacre, seems to be most torn up about Mitsi's death specifically. The right-hand man who has wholeheartedly supported every step of Victim's journey to becoming Hacker, no matter what it took, no matter where it led them.
Their dynamic is fascinating, honestly. Victim trusts Agent to have his back and to be where he can't. The recruitment of the mercenaries was fully headed by Agent, Victim had no role in that selection process. Agent's support is what enables Victim to go down the path that he does; Victim makes so many choices, and Agent is right behind him every time, because he wants the same thing Victim does, at least regarding Mitsi: revenge, and then resurrection when that becomes an option. In turn, Agent trusts Victim's leadership and goals. Even when Agent first learns that ressuractuon is possible, he defers to Victim's revenge plan until Victim's own goals shift to ressurection. When Hacker returns from the PC with Dark alongside him, Agent goes along with it, no questions asked.
The loyalty is unquestionable. They are exactly what the other needs, and it makes them both worse people, though not to each other. Agent does awful things to others, in Victim's service. Victim does awful things to others, with Agent's support. And neither of them care or notice who they have become in this grief-driven pursuit.
Whether you see the color gang as mentally 10-years-old or not, the fact is that they were innocent. The worst they've done against Rocket is tresspass and get in the way; they haven't hurt anyone, nor have they tried to take anything. (Heck, Orange didn't even try to stop them from capturing Chosen until after the mercenaries shot at him just for being in Chosen's company, and not even willfully at that!) But from the way Agent fights them, you'd think he has personal beef; he's needlessly brutal and vicious, even going so far as to replicate one of the most well-remembered moments in AvA1. And Victim? Victim pays them no regard outside of how they might get him closer to Alan, and then to Mitsi. Red, Green, and Blue may as well not exist for all Victim cares, Yellow exists to supply information about the cursor's presence and is then forgotten about, and Orange's reveal as the person behind the green beam that shook the city several years ago is just a momentary distraction until Dark draws Victim's attention to Orange's revive power, at which point Orange becomes nothing more or less to Victim than a functional battery.
Neither of them react to Dark's violence against the color gang. The clones aren't shy about roughing up the color gang themselves, but even they react with shock and hesitance to Agent's violence against the color gang, let alone Dark's.
(I don't know how aware Agent is of Victim's history with Alan. It's possible that, to Agent, the cursor is just an origin point for Mitsi's supposed murderer. Or maybe Agent knows more than that. Regardless, I've pondered before how Victim's pursuit of vengeance doesn't seem to gain any momentum until he realizes that his past abuser and Mitsi's supposed murderer are connected. I'd even say that Victim wasn't interested in revenge against Alan at all, until he began wanting revenge against Chosen. I used to suggest that Victim was pursuing revenge against Alan through Chosen; or that, in Victim's mind, the connection between them made one culpable for the other's crimes by association. I still find it interesting that Victim isn't made aware of the possibility of ressurection until after he's forced to realize that, even with all the power at a stickfigure's disposal, he has no hope of ever touching Alan. Whatever the case, I believe that Agent would've followed Victim no matter what, just because this was what Victim wanted to do with the grief they do share.)
I want to talk about the others too but that's all I've got for now XD
