Something else to potentially think about is how August, Chuck, and Kathleen compare in relation to the endings particularly if you choose to be "good".
I don't believe there are good endings to be had with either one of them. They all have to go for a good ending involving the club.
Kathleen is obvious, she has already has shown her hands with her sadistic nature and her human experiment in the basement.
'Uncle' Chuck hides his motives well, but i think there are already plenty of hints, that he isn't a good guy. More in another post.
And honestly i always thought August gets off the hook too easily in this thread, probably because he is the future father-in-law to alot of peoplesEdwin.
Lets call out August for what he really is:
He is the manager of a black company working their employees to the bone, he is the overseer cracking the whip on a cottonfield, and the soldier who "just followed orders, because it was his job" to do.
August is in just for the money, if it is true what he wants us to believe, just another business, just another job.
Without people like him literally any greater atrocity in human history would not have been possible, without people like him every criminal organization would crumble and fall. They keep the gears running in a machine which swallows people and spits them out as a shadow of their former self, if at all.
Every single day in the last 30+ years, he could have decided to stop, walk away and start anew, and every single day in last 30+ years he instead opted for oppression, violence, drugs (strictly as part of the business, ofc) and exploiting women. And all this without remorse or second thoughts.
It's a little over a year, since he discovered his feelings for his (only?) child, which is truth to be told, damn late. And instead of securing her a better life, he is basically blackmailing her into this grim business, just to have her close to him.
I call that an asshole of a father and a miserable human being.
Regarding the three owners we have the choice between the plague, cholera and a piece of crap.