Ian Collins

**Ian Collins** was a minor supporting character in the Webtoon Rebirth. He was the older half-brother of Noah Collins, wife of Lena Collins and the biological father of Neo Collins and Iva Collins. He is deceased (and will stay that way).

Neo took his core, gaining fire manipulation from him.

## Background

His entire childhood is unknown, but bits of him from Noah's perspective are. He has been shown to actively mock Noah and his health, as well as engage in gossip, threats, and uglier activities. His father had notably called him both useless and a troublemaker. He was also known to be rather lazy and carefree, which ended in his dissatisfaction with their shared father and inheritance of the family company.

Ian was of the belief that the company was supposed to be his, and was thoroughly disappointed to learn that their father would instead have Noah inherit the company, making him irritable and aggressive for years to come.

## Appearance

Ian had short, messy black hair with bangs partially in his face and swept out of his eyes. He had blue eyes, and a warm complexion. He had wrinkles around his mouth and eyes, and in a past timeline, had also possessed a bit of stubble on his chin. In the current timeline, he dressed himself in a white work shirt, a black vest, a messy black tie that he was seen fidgeting with, black pants, and black shoes. With broad shoulders, a constant scowl, an aura of irritation, and many issues to nitpick, he made himself clearly unapproachable to the wary.

In his younger years, he used to wear ear piercings and a necklace. The clothing stayed largely the same, with the white work shirt sometimes switched for a black one and occasionally wearing a suit jacket in the past and other timelines. He was also thinner.

## Personality

Ian was a manipulative, hedonistic, and self-centered man during his life, as well as a source of trauma and abuse for many of his family for years, only being confronted and killed by Noah when he threw Neo in an attempt to save himself and scolded Noah for only caring now.

Ian had regularly shown to be quite overconfident in his abilities and arrogant over his position of social power, happily harassing Noah as children and as adult men. He has regularly displayed no remorse or care over threatening, endangering, and ruining others' lives and harming others, justifying himself by biting at others over their own flaws. Frequently irritable and aggressive, he has been seen yelling and hitting others, notably Lena, his beloathed wife.

Ian had also shown himself to be surprisingly intelligent, observant, and calm at times, demonstrated by him knowing how to push buttons to get his way, Noah's tricks with the media, and his skepticism towards Noah's behaviors, Wynter's story, and Parish's plan to turn Neo over to the government. He had also been known to lie, but seemingly not to keep secrets tightly wrapped.

## Relationships

### Noah Collins

Noah is Ian's little half-brother he made sure to live a sort of hell. They both mutually despise each other, with Noah showing no remorse to killing him and Ian actively screwing him over during his life. That much is obvious. He had also expressed extreme amounts of jealousy and irritation towards Noah, taking any and all opportunities to make him suffer. Dedicated for every single reason that could not be any more wrong, which Ian will prove to be possible, with a hate-filled smile.

### Parish Clement

One of Ian's affair partners and victims. He offered her an opportunity to ditch his little brother, claiming he was chosen to be the successor, which she naively accepted, resulting in her teenage pregnancy that he opposed. Due to his arranged marriage, he broke up with her, but came back to cheat with her more. Parish has expressed concern over his death, but it's unlikely Ian would do the same for her.

### Neo Collins

Ian's biological son and legal nephew, a product of his affair with Parish. Neither cares for the other, with Ian trying outright to murder him using an undead horde and Neo looking at him akin to air as well as blatantly stating he didn't care if the older man lived or not.

### Abel Collins

Ian's nephew. He doesn't care about him, and Abel doesn't respect him too much either. He notes Noah's odd behaviors towards Abel, and questions why he had to be paired with the boy, knowing he was Noah's favorite son. Abel only learned of his death months after it happened.

### Lena Brook

Ian's wife and victim of his many outbursts. He makes it explicitly clear he doesn't care for Lena's wellbeing, and Lena resents and fantasized about killing him under her fear and eggshell trotting. He had never tried to hide his affairs from her, likely not thinking of her at any point. She had considerably brightened with him gone permanently.

### Iva Collins

Ian's daughter, who is contrastingly loved by many when compared to her father. He has shown no care or affection towards or about her, even glaring at her when she was offered cake. She has shown some amount of curiosity towards his whereabouts, however, but her questions won't be answered truthfully, only faced with either lies or statements to not worry over it too much.

## Trivia

* Ian sends emails, not texts.
* He notably became lighter in the 3rd season, during flashbacks.
* Ian possesses traits indicative of Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD) and Antisocial Personality Disorder (ASPD), however it is possible (albeit a little unlikely) that he possesses neither.
	+ NPD: His entitled attitude, exploitation of others, arrogance, envy, and lack of empathy are reminiscent of NPD.
	+ ASPD: His irresponsibility, disregard for others, deceit, aggression, lack of empathy, and irritability are reminiscent of ASPD.

* Strangely, he ended up being one of the most important characters to the story, by sin of making Neo exist and trying to end him.
* In a past timeline, he regularly ditched his family to drink with friends after being recognized by Sanctuary.
* In a Q&A, the author said that he and Noah were never on good terms.