#but since that implies ruben isnt dead bc how else would he send it

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Of course it would be Ruben to think more about reading and learning instead of avenging his own death, lol. Just fast forward a decade, "Oh yeah, I should probably do something about Ian". I'm sure if Ruben was a ghost, would he be more focused on getting his murder solved rather than tormenting Ian, but you know him better, what do you think?

honestly i think that ruben, if he had died and gone ghost, would primarily focus on finding a way of making sure that jason gets cured and by that means getting rid of ian, not so much as vengeance but out of a sense of sheer necessity: ian knows who his family are. he has no reason to hurt ruben’s family at this point, if ruben is already out of the picture, but what if one of them goes digging for answers and gets in trouble? or if they just go looking for another chemist to replace him with and the same thing happens to someone else? not worth the risk. but i don’t think he’s a tormenting I Will Haunt You kind of person.

oooh. ghost story with ruben where he thinks his unfinished business is making sure that jason gets cured so that ian is gone and can never hurt anyone again, but then after that happens ruben doesn’t like, disappear into the afterlife or whatever and it’s because his unfinished business is actually just one real good haunting of jason where he’s like “you used me and manipulated me and i deserved better”, but it takes ghost ruben a long time to really understand that he did deserve better, bc the real unfinished business was all the deep-seated psychological issues about ruben’s self-worth

then he magically comes back to life anyway bc thinking about ruben being dead is too too sad