Moah Ideahs
Posted: Tue Feb 09, 2016 9:21 pm
I've been thinking about Rupert Isaacs and how little I've done with him in this iteration of the Hopeverse. I was playing Mad Max, last night, and Chumbucket's devotion to the Magnum Opus (e.g. Max's new car after the Interceptor gets junked) kind of reminded me of Isaacs' devotion towards Rendell. The main difference is, of course, that one man's object of devotion is a hunk of cold steel, the other is a sentient being.
I figure Isaacs has a breaking point he hasn't discovered, a point where worshipping Rendell or working with him becomes inconceivable. He has to have some kind of nugget of calcified ethics waiting in the back of his mind, something that would make him look at one of Rendell's schemes and go No way, that's it, I'm proud of what I've created, but I need to GTFO right now, for my own well-being's sake.
So what would happen if Isaacs asked the more shadowy elements of our stable (as in, the least likely to nuke their careers if they're discovered) to break him out of Chimera Row?
All this time, he's almost only just been a name or a vague face in the back of my mind, and I'm starting to get a sense for the man. He's still unhinged after all these years and it doesn't really show, but the therapy sessions and meetings with the warden are starting to chip away at his mindless devotion to Greg. He would've done plenty of things to himself and others on Rendell's orders - but now he's starting to rethink things...
Maybe it's sanity creeping back in, maybe it's just another ploy to access a research facility as a free man.
I figure Isaacs has a breaking point he hasn't discovered, a point where worshipping Rendell or working with him becomes inconceivable. He has to have some kind of nugget of calcified ethics waiting in the back of his mind, something that would make him look at one of Rendell's schemes and go No way, that's it, I'm proud of what I've created, but I need to GTFO right now, for my own well-being's sake.
So what would happen if Isaacs asked the more shadowy elements of our stable (as in, the least likely to nuke their careers if they're discovered) to break him out of Chimera Row?
All this time, he's almost only just been a name or a vague face in the back of my mind, and I'm starting to get a sense for the man. He's still unhinged after all these years and it doesn't really show, but the therapy sessions and meetings with the warden are starting to chip away at his mindless devotion to Greg. He would've done plenty of things to himself and others on Rendell's orders - but now he's starting to rethink things...
Maybe it's sanity creeping back in, maybe it's just another ploy to access a research facility as a free man.