Reminds me a lot of Riley from BTVS, in the sense that the writers seem to have some confusing soft spot for the dude, despite the character being truly terrible. Rufus Humphrey is the father of Dan and Jenny Humphrey, and the ex-husband of Alison Humphrey and Lily van der Woodsen. Watching the OG show for the first time and have been truly taken aback at just how terrible of a character he is. One would imagine that if a washed up rock star was given an opportunity to send his son to school, he’d take it if it was actually about Dan, but alas, Rufus only truly cares for himself. An artist, she currently lives away from her family in Hudson, New York. Well spoiler, he doesn’t, and when he finds out Lily plans on giving him an inconsequential (to her, huge for him) amount of money via fake dividends each month so his son can attend the school he’s dreamed about, he freaks out on her. Rufus Humphrey is the father of Dan and Jenny Humphrey, and the ex-husband of Alison Humphrey and Lily van der Woodsen. Alison Humphrey (named Jeanette Humphrey in the novels) is the ex-wife of Rufus Humphrey and the mother to Dan and Jenny Humphrey. He transferred to Simpson from the University of Tennessee.

In season 2, when Lily offers him money for Dan to go to Yale, he refuses because ‘he will find a way’. Rufus Humphrey (24) F - College: Humphrey is entering his second season play for the Red Hawks.

Rufus walks away from every encounter with the smuggest sense of self importance, always so sure that it’s everyone else who’s wrong, not him. It makes sense that he is Dan’s father, two inordinately selfish men with virtually no ability to empathize.

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