as someone who legally changed their name to rhys BECAUSE of tftbl and bl3. uh, yeah, you Absolutely should continue being critical of how both the fandom and devs handle strongfork's character.
the woobifying especially gets to me. like!! dude, he's also a literal fucking war criminal. he did the eridian mining deal. he's a corporate asshat. we see he treats his employees poorly in ntftbl! he's Not a good person.
but also i feel like your favorite borderlands character should be more of a "who is your favorite war criminal" thing than constantly trying to justify that they're moral and right in everything. everyone in this series is awful. that's kinda the whole point.
EXACTLYYY I feel as though many people forget Rhys was like, genuinely not a very good person for Most of TFTBL. His intention was fully to kill Vasquez for what he did, and if He hadn't killed Henderson first, Rhys probably would've done it to become CEO. He was money hungry and Way too willing to cheat his way through the system if it meant he'd be at the top, so much so that he literally enlists AI Jack to help him further. And speaking of which, have we perhaps forgotten his biggest idol pre-betrayal was Handsome Jack too ? Or that he participated in eridium mining operations ? Or how willing he is to drop everything (Including his friends) like a Quokka Mother dropping its succulent baby to escape a predator ? I feel like all of these are such interesting attributes to explore but people almost never do which pisses me off.
I don't even mean to incite he's the ~worst~ guy in Borderlands (lmao imagine) but like you said, this is the War Crimes Georg videogame, nobody is exactly Good. Just because a character demonstrates evil or good attributes doesn't mean they're inherently only one thing, they've got more to them and you just have to look closer to see it. BIRD UP and love it's nuances or DIE in a STATE OF DENIAL !!!!!
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