and 'til the day i die, yeah i'll break my back and why

- Day 0: Rhys wakes up, punches himself in the face, yells at Judy, finds Dumpy, finds out he has to share a bed with brats?? Everyone is brats. Wanders around and then sulks for a while. Doesn't eat.

- Night 0: ???

- Day 1: Meets the love of his life, tells him to fuck off. Gets his throat cut and a weapon in return. Alright then. Meets the love of his life again, gets in a fistfight. Stupid. Continues to not eat.

- Night 1: Goes back to his room after his shower, runs into Jeff. Pretends to sleep with everyone else. Wakes up, goes meets his co-workers. Argues with co-workers. Leaves them and heads to the Tech Lab. Makes friends with Judy. Hatches a plan. Finally goes the fuck to sleep.

- Day 2: Quick message to Judy. Feels better about his injuries. Finally decides to eat. It gets gay. He can live with that. Finds out he's a religious figure. Isn't quite sure how to feel about that. Ignores it. Slips out during the day to talk to Judy again. Continues to hatch a plan. Starts building a place to store his shit out of the way of everyone. Spends most of the day doing that. No one looks for him.

- Night 2: Charles gets got. Rhys takes off his foot and in his panic, takes the whole god damn foot and runs across the Complex to the Tech Lab while covered in blood. Hastily types out a message because he fucking took the foot?? He didn't mean to take the foot. Panics so much. Ends up trying to put it somewhere else in the Complex, maybe someone's bed? Runs back through, trips while running, foot ends up in the fountain. Rhys regrets his life choices. Leaves the foot in the fountain and runs off to take a shower. Runs back to his room and passed the fuck out.

- Day 3: Body discovered. Rhys doesn't really bother involving himself with it. Probably goes gets coffee. Trial happens. Falls asleep in his coffee. Doesn't really pay attention to the rest. Thinks about how pretty Jack is. Wishes Jack would kiss him. Continues to sleep during the trial. Someone gets executed. Continues to not care.

- Night 3: Now, he's awake! Goes hang out with the mafia and they all call him pretty and smart. Except for Ciel, who sucks. Afterwards, he hangs out with Luke for a while before going to bed.

- Day 4: Wakes up, eats corn for breakfast because he can't cook. Goes take a shower after because he feels dirty for agreeing to murder a child and talking to Alice. Runs into someone else's child. Gets Angel to agree to touch his body. Feels pretty good about himself. Heads back to the Tech Lab to store his First Aid Kit. Runs into his one true love again. Feelings are somehow admitted. Dokis happen. Feels good about himself some more. Talks to Adam, his future prodigy, for a bit. "Grieves" with Veronica. Feels weird about it so heads back to the lab. Stays there for a while and eats with his bae. Finds Jeff afterwards to yell at him and spit in his food. Later, goes finds Shijima with dessert. Gets ready for bed. Shares an intimate moment with Jack. Goes back to his room. Prepares for murder.

- Night 4: Murders a child. It was absolutely ridiculous and he sort of just stabbed her in the gut, freaked out and ran away while she bled out. Went to the bathrooms to puke before coming back to deal with her foot. Runs back to his room, passes the fuck out and tries not to ruin it.

- Day 5: He ruins it, of course. Spends the investigation morning making breakfast with Shijima and Lara. Tries to avoid the corpse of the child he murdered. Everything kind of sucks. The trial is an absolute mess because Rhys can't get it together enough to not be a nervous wreck for a moment. He spends the entire time just a few button presses away from losing it completely and the paranoia he deals with usually is increased tenfold. Faints and breaks Judy and it's all pretty stupid. Is absolutely sure he's going to get caught.

- Night 5: He doesn't get caught. He doesn't get any votes? This honestly freaks him out more than anything else because he doesn't understand why. Absconds mid-execution because he can't handle the tension and is eventually Jack tracks him down. Confess he's part of the staff to Jack and deals with the ramifications of that. Eventually has to get up and go deal with the rest of the staff members. Gets super drunk. Gets yelled at by Ciel and then becomes a bit more morally dubious in the process. Passes out.

- Day 6: Wakes up. Feels hella guilty over the day before. Goes apologizes to Bigby for his personality. Later, gets yelled at by Ava for his personality. Not a good day! Ends up in the fountain because both Jack and Angel suck. Gets to fixing Judy with Veronica that I forgot to tag because I'm an asshole. Overall, weird sucky day for Rhys, abloo abloo.

- Night 6: Adam murders Franziska with a weapon named after Rhys because Judy is a menace. Rhys spends the night working in the tech lab. He feels pretty good about himself, actually. Still doesn't get any fucking sleep.

- Day 7: Franziska's dead and Rhys spent the morning sleeping, for once. Continues to look sketchy and useless at the trial but genuinely feels bad when Adam confesses. Was rooting for you, kid! Has a moment with Adam at the trial and then regrets it all when Angel's forced to execute him. Two of his favorite people in the Complex, front and center. He doesn't like it. Meets Jack later and their relationship status turns from "It's Complicated" to "In A Relationship With". Also, gets a letter from Luke. Makes another plan.

- Night 7: Hangs out with staff and gets mad when Angel's name is thrown into the pile. No? No. Fuck that. Otherwise, grills Judy, finds out some plot stuff and tries to figure out what to do with it. Talks to Ciel later and feels a little more strung out. Good day quickly turning into bad day now. Feels upset enough to go crying to Jack about it. In a impulsive move, steals everyone's blankets just in case.

- Day 8: CIEL PHANTOMHIVE IS A DEAD MAN. This pisses him off. Increasing urge of panic because why did you give him his orders right before you went into hiding, you crazy child!! Rhys isn't really doing so well so has breakfast with Jack and Angel while trying not to unravel from paranoia. Where did Ciel go? Was it a good idea to tell Jack the truth? What's going to happen next? Jack shows up with some bad news. Rhys loses his fucking mind but distracts himself by making out with Jack. Whoops.

- Night 8: Freaks out and talks to Judy. It doesn't help, only confirms his suspicions -- that Jack is a traitor bitch and has been ratting him out to Elizabeth for forever. Says goodbye to Judy in a way. Immediately reports what he found to the staff. They're absolutely no help at all and can't guarantee his safety. With Ciel gone, no one to keep order except for Bigby who Rhys doesn't trust. Rhys decides to take matters into his own hands. The plan:

1) Set everything on fire.
2) Cause two controlled explosions in two different parts of the Complex.
3) Don't murder anyone because then he's still "innocent" technically.
4) Last ditch effort to use the collars as planned by the staff.

None of this works out because both Hitsugi and Mitsutada wake up anyway. Why did you guys have to wake up? He really didn't want you to wake up. In the process Rhys learns some things that he isn't quite able to handle, especially with how his life has been going so far. In his upset, ends up attacking some sleeping people and regretting it. Attacks more people to make up for it. Last ditch effort to throw the trail off himself by stabbing himself too. (It doesn't work.)

- Day 9: Oh, fuck his absolutely shitty life. And you know what? Fuck Jack too. Traitor bitch. Trial happens and it is a literal garbage fire. Jack throws him under the bus, Rhys wonders who the hell also murdered last night, no one seems to care because he accidentally made himself too obvious in an attempt to not be obvious. Becomes public enemy #1 and his life is absolutely the worst and the hardest and boo hoo hoo. Tries to find out why everything went to shit during the execution. It fails. He still doesn't know if he can trust what anyone's saying? Paranoia, paranoia, paranoia. Judy's the only person he can trust now, he realizes. Murders Jack. Almost kills Angel (would never have killed Angel but they don't need to know that). Gives up and offers his death to Alice.

- Night 9: Ciel intervenes. Rhys is not very happy about it. Like, increasingly not very happy about it. Is willing to murder himself with his own hands not very happy about it. But Ciel has news he can't just ignore so, they talk and Rhys agrees to help. In the process, Rhys realizes he likes Ciel a lot and since he has nothing left to lose anymore -- he'll throw his lot in with Ciel wholeheartedly. He's a dead man walking. He wasn't supposed to be alive. Why is he alive? This is purgatory for Rhys. Begins to get yelled at by his dead husband, wtf. Just stay dead, kids.

- Day 10: So, he's pre-death. He's in a state of limbo. He's in hiding. What does he do now? He decides that if he and Ciel are going to get everyone out of here, he needs to make contacts. Who does he talk to? The people who hate him, of course. Luke comes through with the BBS, which nixes his need to build Luke his robot. This helps Rhys make contact and he figures since they hate him already, maybe they'll listen to him and work with him. What better ally is the one that you know will stab you in the back? Especially when your information is good. In the process, Luke and Rhys have a long talk about the state of things. And if that all doesn't work, at least one guy likes him enough to hear him out. On top of that, he comes up with a peace offering and talks to Judy about how it's all weighing on him a bit. Feels satisfied afterwards, maybe this will work in the end?

- Night 10: It clearly does not work.

- Day 11: Like, super doesn't. Rhys feels kind of ill about it and ends up talking to Ciel some more. They're both dead men walking, they shouldn't have to lie to each other, right? Right! They come up with a plan for the trial. Rhys heads over to Judy to talk about said plan and learn as much as he can. Then, he goes does his job. And it sort of works! Except no one listens to them again and Rhys has to use his back up plan. Sorry, Ciel.

- Night 11: He left a letter for Ciel. And an apology for Angel.

- Day 12: Reunited and it doesn't feel so good, but at least they're on even ground again. Rhys realizes how tired he is. Makes one last ditch effort anyway. Reunites with a friend in the process.

- Night 12: In a weird twist of events, Ciel, Jeff, and Alice save the day.

- Day 13: Rhys would never say it, but he's relieved. He's intensely relieved that Ciel is okay and Angel is okay and they're all getting out of there. Does he express it well? Of course not. Like really, he's a terrible human being. But it's done, everything is done, and he's genuinely kind of happy. So, you know, that's nice. Plus he gets to live out in the digital afterlife for the next hundred years until he makes Judy sentient enough to get all the dead into synths.

But that's... for later!

MISCELLANEOUS:

- Rhys' employee file
- Rhys' memory bank
- Rhys' list of projects/inventory
- Description of Rhys' cubbyhole post-his death

Rhys is going to spend most of his nighttime activities holed up in the tech lab, making stuff. Some of it is to help the Scientists out, some of it will just be left for others to See What Happens. I'll use this post to keep track of what items he's taken from the commissary and what he's working on at the moment.

INVENTORY:
- (x1) Baseball Bat
- (x1) Roll of Duct Tape
- (x2) Battery
- (x1) Scalpel
- (x1) Glue
- (x1) Can of Yellow Paint
- (ALL OF THE) Cans of Peaches
- (x4) First Aid Kits
- (x2) Packs of Cigarettes
- (x2) Bottles of Vodka
- (x2) Bottles of Antifreeze
- (x2) Ankle Monitors
- (x4) Asprin
- (x1) Day Tripper
- (x3) Blankets
- (x1) False Purple Eye

PROJECTS:
- Rewire monitors to rig bat into electric bat for tool to murder. ABANDONED
- Pull panel out of wall in Tech Lab to create small unmonitored space to store his goods and hide when needed. FINISHED
- Remove excess wiring to create storage compartment in metal arm to keep scalpel and other small weapons on him at all times. FINISHED
- Fix Dumpy and rehost Luke's consciousness into his system to keep for the rest of the game. ABANDONED
- Suicide pact shock collars rewired from the ankle monitors and worked to go around two people's throats. If Person A's heart level spikes, Person B's collar administers electric shocks in conjunction. If Person A dies, Person B is shocked to death. FINISHED
- Working to unlock inaccessible doors in the Operation Offices on third level. FINISHED

[ hellooooo, marinette! wherever you happen to be on this fine graveyard like day, you're about to be bothered by a very whiny noodle. marinette wouldn't know it but rhys hasn't really done much of... anything during his death until very recently, mostly because he was Tragic and Angsting. now he is no longer so tragic but the cost is... pretty damn high.

it's actually pretty obvious too when rhys approaches dressed not in his usual suit, by in jack's stupid godawful yellow sweater and his slacks. why is rhys wearing that sweater? someone help rhys. ]

Hey, Marinette. You have a second? We need to talk. I mean, of course you have a second, you're freggin' dead for crying out loud.