As fun as it would be to see a meltdown over having to watch his kin be killed by his husband, I don't think there's any characters like that in Dead Rising. It's been years since I played but the game is very comedic, you're not meant to really take the characters seriously, and they have very little backstory beyond midget clown on stilts, or crazy postman. (edit: same goes for the survivors, who are even more one note. they are basically names and faces and usually also absolute assholes)
I might be giving too much benefit of the doubt but I don't think he really understands 100% of this, idk if it's the idea of kinning, the plot of the game, or what. But I do think it's worth noting most of the comments on his post asking about kin stuff advised him against it, but the one single comment that urged him to accept this part of himself as if it was fact came from, surprise surprise, another waifuist. If you put yourself in that situation, it would make sense to want to trust someone from your own community who speaks confidently over ambiguous answers from strangers.
I'd also argue it's not the worst thing, the whole kinning thing. While I think he got pressured into it I don't see the harm in him identifying with the character so long as he doesn't idk get the notion of "drugging girls to impress someone is good" from it, and I don't think he is THAT dense. I actually think it COULD possibly be beneficial. Hear me out. It gives him a figure to project his issues onto which could possibly help communicating it. I get the impression that he doesn't like to communicate his issues in direct and literal therapy, he just discusses it in casual senses. If he went back into therapy, it could be a good way to communicate his problems if he doesn't feel comfortable directly discussing it. In addition, with the fan content, there's a lot of "redemption" content like I said, and taking on board positive messages from that could be helpful. Like, from what I've seen, people ship Nathan with Warren, some nice guy reject from the game, and illustrate that recovery since Nathan was groomed and abused by his mentor. Seeing those positive relationships and recovery from abuse COULD potentially be a good teaching tool. I think DRL would be more willing to listen to these concepts if they were illustrated with characters that aren't threatening, that aren't potentially dangerous real people. And it could be spun in a positive way. On the other hand, I don't think there's really any content that portrays the character as in the right, so I don't think it could be misconstrued. Everyone in the game calls nathan either an asshole or an asshole who needs help, there's not much room to misconstrue him as in the right.
tl;dr i don't know what i'm rambling about i have too many thoughts on this subject
