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How 100% certain is it the bio sister he reached out to us his real bio sister? IIRC he tried contacting his bio dad before it all went south. So probably confirmed. Still, on the off chance he got the wrong bio family that would be a revelation.Yeah, if you gaze long into the lolbyss, the lolbyss gazes into you.
But he had a twin sister who didn't have the deformity. His mother kept her, and now she's a reasonably successful photographer or something in Hollywood. You can say it's shitty that his mother gave away the disabled twin, but he went to a pretty good home. Just not one where he'd be handed an opportunity to get in "the biz" like his apparently-connected birth family gave his sister.
That's a big part of why he wanted to sue his bio-sis, in my opinion. It's not just that she hurt his feelings, though that's the excuse he uses publicly. He figured she could introduce him to the right people (whether that's true or not) and help him get the fame and fortune he's entitled to. Unfortunately, he has a disability so he's been discriminated against by "important" people literally since birth.
He was already insane during high school what with the kill listI think you're onto something. I believe that prior to finding his birth family and discovering they were moderately successful Hollywood types, Russ seemed content with being a hotshot SLC paralegal and naughty Mormon who went to the strippers. He was still a shitty, narcissistic muppet who figured the world owed him something and needed to be punished for denying it to him, but he wasn't quite so insane. Then around the time his bishop broke the news to him that he might not get married in this lifetime (and he became fixated on prostitution as a concept) he also discovered that instead of being a mover and shaker in California, he was instead sentenced to a life in small-town Wyoming with a very religious family.
That could be a difficult realization for better, stronger, smarter people than Russ. It makes a lot of sense. And the root of all his plights is that he can't move his face. Add in his sense of entitlement from growing up being able to demand special treatment on account of his disability, his delusions of adequacy as a paralegal, and his bizarre misunderstanding of how music works and assumption he's an undiscovered talent, and you have this perfect storm of bovine exceptionalism we know and love.
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I had the creepist dream of Russ. I was indoors playing darts (badly) with my fam. I went out the backyard and Russ was there, shambling over to me like a zombie screeching about kiwi orchards and his plights. He caught up to me and began strangling me. I tried to struggle but I couldn't shake him off. His knobby hands were wrapped around my throat and I could hear his wet sex offender breath right in my ear.
Then I woke up and realised the pressure on my neck was me sleeping on my hands
Then I woke up and realised the pressure on my neck was me sleeping on my hands