Every time I re-listen to Archive 81 Season 2 Episode 7 I feel like my brain is going to shatter because it's abundantly clear that Rat had no intentions of leaving with Dan and in saying he would 'if' Dan left, it nails the final nail in the coffin for me thinking Rat just wanted to convert Dan because he's clearly very lonely and misguided, but most importantly, actively detrimental to the point he was almost convinced that he could get Dan to leave his personhood behind

Rat took advantage of Dan and I struggle to see how this could be read any other way