-So have you heard about the people the CEO calls up?
-I’m not in the mood for rumors today-
-Not rumors this time! R&D can confirm it.
-Okay fine, what is it this time?
-So we both know that the CEO only calls up people who’ve done like, really bad since they started here, right? Like Billy in Accounting, and-
-Get to the point.
Right, so anyway, Rhys is real sweet to them, I hear. All polite smiles and coddling, like he’s gonna give them another chance.
-What’d you think he do? It’s not like he’s Handsome Jack.
-Like I said, all nice and stuff, but it’s to make them feel safe, when in reality they’re shit outta luck.
-So what happened?
-Last guy called up? A few R&D technicians saw the CEO lead him into the experimental skag enclosure and lock him in.
Rhys is much more ruthless in this AU, partly because of my own headcanons concerning Hyperion employees and what Rhys was like when he was still one. That, and yes, Handsome Jack rubbed off on him a little bit.