//Gatboss is great because it’s just two lunatics murdering people semi-strategically and I love that for them.
It’s also kinda cool/a neat touch in SRIV where Boss is like, VERY adamant they’re not Aisha and not TRYING to be ‘cause they knew her too and knew she was like, The Great Love of Johnny Gat’s Life(tm). I feel like they respect that because they saw it, y’know? They were there for that bit. That’s kinda vitally important and makes for a really interesting dynamic.
Aisha was an extremely talented, courageous, clever young woman and kinda the brakes, as best she could be. She grounded Johnny (not like in a GO TO UR ROOM way.... unless he’s into that zero judgment), brought him back to normalcy as much as that’s possible with a guy who, when he says “doin’ my thing”, he means wholesale slaughter. But you got to see it in SR2, where he might BITCH about it, but he’d do ANYTHING for her and they could go at it right in front of Playa and then just dial that shit back and get down to business.
Where Aisha and Gat were wonderfully complementary in an “I fill in what you’re missing” way, Gat and the boss are the perfect storm of kindred spirits. Everything they do is 11 because they’re in constant competition. You also get to hit all the classic tropes, like best friends to lovers, murder buddies, everyone thinks we’re crazy and we are but our love is genuine, desperate confession...
I don’t think of Gatboss as a rebound, just the next phase. Moving on’s not easy after that kind of horseshit. You never replace that one, special person. If you’re blessed enough to find ‘em, hold tight, y’know? But you can ease the pain a little, let it grow into a dull ache, and maybe find solace in a friend who GETS it.
idk I just love ‘em
