Rock the manipulator
Rock believes that the only way to efficiently manage heroes is by ruling with an iron fist. Rock also believes and likes to be in control. He likes to know everything, and we see how controlling he gets when it concerns ghostblade and even Yang cheng's lives.
Something about him most likely wanting to know everything that his heroes do or him thinking that he has them all figured out and trapped in a corner just to be surprised to realise that he doesn't and sees them doing something that confuses him. If the theory that ghostblade can't talk due to his power is true, essentially making him a "ghost" or a "silent killer" him being on a phone call won't make any sense and would definitely raise alarm bells to Rock.
There's something so ironic about Rock acting as if he fully understands humans, but in reality, he can never know what someone is thinking 100% of the time, and he can't control what someone will do 100% of the time he can only influence and manipulate people to a certain extent. This is seen both in episodes 7 and 14 with him not knowing why ghostblade is in a call and being upset that his management technique didn't work to him trying to manipulate and set up a game to get E-soul to the point he is now just for it to be revealed that Uncle Rock actually sent one of the brothers to kill yang cheng and instead he killed shang chao. Setting up the game as Rock calls, it doesn't guarantee order, and neither does it guarantee obedience, making people do what you want them to do all of the time, people will fight against their fates whether they succeed or not is another question.
As much as Rock may believe that things will fall into place if a game is set in place this is not always the case with his plan for E-soul backfiring but its him that adapts to these changes and exploits them to his advantage with him encouraging yang cheng to fight og E-soul and then taking yang cheng and making him the new E-soul which is completely different to his original plan which was to eliminate yang cheng and maintain E-soul's status.
Furthermore, Rock's behaviour is both controlling and suffocating. I wonder if he even let's his heroes terminate their contracts? It seems that Mr. zac, the leader of fomo, is the only one who let's heroes terminate their contracts with treeman also doing the same thing as MG and controlling their heroes through a contract I wonder if Mr Rock makes them sign a contract that lasts a lifetime explaining why OG E-soul was still a hero even at his old age and him withdrawing from any hero activity and becoming a cash grab.
Rock's beliefs and behaviour are contrasted by Mr. Zac's own beliefs who has loose regulations on his app FOMO and believes in giving everyone a chance at being a hero while also being the first hero agency to let a hero terminate their contract within the story. Mr. Zac seems to also introduce this young vs. old generational conflict with the way he and Rock interact, having clearly opposing views and ideas with uncle Rock having a conversation with another person talking about how they had to watch e-soul win fight after fight to become a hero and now the new e-soul can just be cleared like that and be promoted through the use of social media and other technology. To me, it seems like Rock is aware that times have changed and he does adapt because he needs to be but he clearly doesn't like it at all and he shows that through his conflict with Mr. Zac.
My biggest question concerning Rock is why is he doing all of this? Why go to such extreme lengths for all of this? It's not a monetary reason he has all the money he can dream of but he still goes to such extreme lengths, taking care of an orphan and then even getting his own boba shop which he actually is seen working tirelessly on but why?
