>>43494909i figured it helped explain why Oleana does what she does in the game and her fanatic loyalty to rose. it isn't explained at all in the game why she's so fixed on him and there's this one part near the end where she's going "lol nope you can't disturb my boss but here's the key to his office now FIGHT". Afterwards she notes that everything she's done was for his sake and one of her colleagues notes that the whole thing was probably her attempt to amuse him.
I think Rose would have come out better if he was that much of a scumbag in the game. In the game itself he comes across as more of a buffoon that doesn't listen but he always gets talked up as this Elon Musk genius/hero by Oleana when you get the impression that their dynamic is more like pic related.
The author missed a good opportunity with Bede in this one, they could have examined Bede getting booted from the challenge (Bede complained that Oleana simply used him and inplied it was her that set him up) but you look at how his attitude is shaping up to be like Oleana's and you pair that with her resentment of rose and herself (in that fic) and in some ways you could read it as her attempt to protect him from becoming like her
