by Dr. Casey » Sat Nov 12, 2005 4:41 pm
I don't think Rhue's really insane yet; psychosis is beginning to seep into him, and he's torn between letting it subdue him when he wants to and fighting against it when he doesn't, but he still generally has his bearings about him. He's never killed a person for no reason, after all. He's just become desensitized to death after seeing it so many times; he was shocked by all the death in the Baruccha cave, and showed his first homocidal tendencies soon afterwards ("You're lucky you were polite last night, though" to Kloe), and just the general shitiness of the game's events have obviously unnerved him (Just look at the first episode - he uses the vacant, narrow-eyed, bitter expression a total of six or seven times) and made him more willing to do something that doesn't really have much of an effect on him anymore. I mean, if we're mad, we don't have any problem with cussing a lot because it's not like the words scare us.
He does have crazy thoughts sometimes, like the Jopaga Mission in Episode 4 ("If I act fast enough, I can kill all of them before they get... wait, what am I thinking?") and more noteably the aftermath of the Ansgar Plunge ("You messed with the wrong guy at the wrong time, Ansgar. I've just been waiting for the perfect time to snap."), but just because one part of the brain is beginning to go crazy doesn't mean the core person is.
sqpat17 wrote:Slade: Maybe the sword flew over and landed in his chest. "Oof! Stabbed by two shadow swords in one week!" Okay, maybe not.