He will need lots of therapy to fix the damage done by his sociopath uncle.
At this point I'm wondering if Chuck isn't a full blown psychopath.
Edit: You know what, let's break this down from the first google search article of psychopath I found
1)
"Psychopaths get bored easily" - Well no shit there, look at where Chuck frequents.
2)
" Psychopaths are very charming" - He charmed his nephew into joining the club, and when Ian couldn't convince Edwin, he took it upon himself to throw on the charm at Edwin to get him to join (to say nothing of the lack of empathy it would take to be motivated to do these things to these people.)
Clearly this is an additi
onal checkmark in the psychopathy box.
3)
"Pathological liars" - I'm not convinced on this one. Maybe others more familiar and who've played the story more recently than me can give explicit examples of him lying . That said, this doesn't rule it out. This is a story after all, and unless the story calls for Chuck to lie for a specific reason to suit the narrative, we'll never know about it as it would be irrelevant.
4)
"Psychopaths lack realistic long term goals." Direct quote from the article here - "While psychopaths are goal-driven, many take a carpe diem approach to long-term planning. They believe they need to live in the moment instead of planning for the future, although what goals they do have often are disconnected from any probably
[sic] future. They have an inability to ground their understanding of their lives in reality. "
I'd say that sums of the Chuck we know in the game pretty damn well. Enough said there.
5 -
"Psychopaths think they're superior" - Again, I think I'd file this one under the 'we don't know for sure because the story doesn't make this information relevant." That said, I think it would be hard to argue against this point. In fact, this point could be used to argue that every owner in PC is at least a borderline psychopath.
6 - "
Psychopaths can switch their empathy on and off" - He does this with Edwin and Ian constantly, and this is just the glimpses we get from Edwin's (our) POV. It's not hard to imagine just how often and consistently he does this in a place like PC, or with the girls that work there.
7 - Psychopaths have a bad temper - I think our definitions of 'temper' could differ here, but surely I'm not the only one here who would say this qualifies? We've seen Chuck get 'serious' a few times now. Perhaps that's his way of a losing his temper? (again, perhaps others with more fresh, specific examples could help shore up this point)
8 -
Psychopaths are sexually promiscuous
9 -
Psychopaths are impulsive or irresponsible - yep.
10 - Psychopaths were problematic as children - N/A
11 - Psychopaths engage in criminal behavior - yep.
Yeah the rest of these are no brainer and I'm bored.
But here's what I find most interesting about all this - I'm no longer actually convinced Kathleen is a psychopath.
I think she's just a sadist. A piece of shit person, certainly, but a bona-fide psychopath?
No, I think that designation might belong exclusively to our dear uncle Chuck.
FIN.
