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After getting through playing the game, one big thing that popped up for me personally was Rhys's physical tics and body language. He rubs the back of his neck often, particularly when anxious or nervous. He's got a horrible poker face - if he's startled, nervous, indecisive, or scared, it shows immediately. The cybernetics are a completely natural extension of himself, so natural that it takes until episode four for him to realize he should start hitting people with his robotic hand instead of his other one.

A lot of his dialogue choices also tend to spiral back to how the current situations apply to him, personally. My guess is it's more of a by-product of working at Hyperion in a cutthroat business environment than any genuine sense of self-absorbed narcissism, that's more Jack's department. Even when he's being nice and especially when he's stammering and trying to sound intimidating, he usually manages to loop the situation back to himself.

When he's bullshitting or trying to pull some snark, he's...not very good. He's not deadpan, he's not a fantastic liar, and he puts words together in such a way that his insults and threats manage to bizarrely come out as both precise and jumbled. The whole 'because you are a Wallethead' moment with Vasquez in episode two is a pretty good example of that. He stammers, he stumbles, he trips over his attempts to look and sound cool. When he has to explain the shit he fucked up, he does so in a pretty blustering, John McUnconvincing manner; he's trying to justify his bad decisions to himself as much as he is to the others.

Post-Helios, Rhys is thoroughly disillusioned with his former corporate dream. Even once he rebuilds Atlas, he's fully aware that he had to steal the rights to actually get to that point. A lot of his actions indicate that he's inwardly seething at himself for ever looking up to Jack - regardless of how friendly you are to the A.I. during gameplay, he did once see the man as his personal hero. And if you're taking him from before the final confrontation at the Vault, it's important to keep in mind that he believes that most of his friends are either dead or gone: he thinks Fiona and Sasha ditched him, he thinks Loader Bot perished at Helios, Vaughn has disappeared off the radar entirely, and he's probably beating himself up over the whole Jack fiasco that resulted in the deaths of thousands of people in Helios.

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