Rufus
Unfortunately but not unsurprisingly, Rufus Weylin ends up following in his father's footsteps. In more ways than one, he becomes the same terrifying, brutal and cruel slaveowner Tom Weylin was, breaking apart families and easily treating slaves as something below human. Despite Dana's best efforts, he's become another product of the system. However, Dana did have an effect on him, although I do not believe it was a positive one. Rufus's initial sensitivity was always doomed to have been throttled by the detached heartlessness that inheriting a slave plantation demanded, but somehow persisted through Dana's influence. Yet the child's emotion, his empathy that Dana had tried to nurture, only became twisted and dark. Seeing Dana's marriage to Kevin had inspired a hope in Rufus that perhaps he could have something like that with Alice. Rufus's mommy and daddy issues just compounded with impossible desires for a love with Alice, which was a desire that coul...