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   Charlie Stross (cstross@wandering.shop)'s status on Sunday, 03-Nov-2024 22:15:48 JST Charlie Stross

   #PennedPossibilities Is your antagonist/villain one to be loyal in relationships, or are they likely to quickly move from one bond to another?

   (Talking about a work-in-progress): he's an SFnal remix of an actual no-shit real person, Ignaz Trebitsch-Lincoln: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Ignaz_Trebitsch_Lincoln

   (Rationalwiki's entry is more entertaining than wikipedia's, and is quite accurate.)

   I had difficulty making him plausible in a space opera! Because like many other narcissistic psychopaths he was larger than life.