Manipulative Characters Novels & Stories

To be frank, his memory of Charlie was not that clear, but this illness made him recall the past. Charlie was a refined speculator and egoist. He carefully calculated his every move, whether it was making friends or doing things, so as to maximize the benefits and reduce the harm that he would experience. Additionally, he was good at disguise. He would be smiling even when facing an enemy, and just when his enemy thought he was admitting defeat and lowered his guard against him, Charlie would take the opportunity to stab him ruthlessly.

But his is said with a certain degree of playfulness. I stop for a moment, watching the grown ass man giggle at something so childish that he had done. Is he okay? I swear he acts like he is mental at times. Or maybe he’s perfectly fine. And this is just his attitude— I know him to be manipulative. He plays games on your mind, and will leave you disoriented. I hear of gambling games back in the human world, and I was opportune to sit through a few games, which at the end, got me in trouble with the King of Alkhemi. But what I learned from that, is that Lust is a master of gambling games. He is manipulating you each time he moves. If he was at the games, he would take your money and you would

There was a slight, almost imperceptible tension around his mouth that suggested the constant, controlled effort of being charming. His hands were different, too. They moved faster, more expressively. They were the hands of a speaker, a diplomat, a manipulator. When he shuffled the deck of cards yesterday, the movement was fluid and quick, designed to distract and entertain. Dmitri’s hands were built for gripping and holding fast; Ivan’s were built for convincing and releasing.

She is only being protective of her husband. The Alpha signaled to those holding the whip. He must have given up on the argument. He couldn't argue further with Morgan, he definitely will win. Beta Morgan and Lustrow posses almost the same attribute. Manipulative! Beta Morgan takes an ace in manipulating people and trying to convince them to do whatever they wish to do, same as Lustrow. Deceitful! They both have that attribute. They are both good at pulling the wool over once face, they can lead one by the nose.

Pretending to be pitiful, lowering herself on purpose, only to push others onto a moral pedestal, making them look cruel if they didn’t concede. Classic manipulative behavior. "What did you want to say? If there’s nothing else, I’m going back to my team." Adora stood up, seeing he still hadn’t gotten to the point. "Since Mom already spoke to you, you should know the situation we’re in. That guy—Brian Harlow—he’s been out in the world since he was a teen. “He’s done all kinds of jobs, served two years in the military, picked up some serious skills, and knows how to avoid surveillance.

The money-nexus reward manipulative behaviours and these can manifest in personal relationships as a societal cancer. Being manipulative is wearing the team jersey and playing only for yourself. In doing that you cheat yourself of the loving bonds and support a team can provide, of all the good feelings that make living so incredible. Manipulation can be a "flash bang," the moment they drop a bomb they create the most attractive "smoke and mirrors" they can conjure.

I couldn't see what she had done , but she had done something. " You have spent too much time away from your own kind Vee , you are forgetting what we are like. We do what we need to do to survive, we don't have remorse or feelings. It's always the next step, the next move. Tactics , manipulation and death are just a part of the package of having what we have inside of us. You got weak , you gave into the conception of happily ever after. The easiest kind to manipulate is those that dream of love and happiness. It makes them too hopeful that everything is a dream. It fucking isn't. Your parents were too soft on you. They didn't focus on their prodigy , too focused on those idiotic ideas of t

"Primary asset for manipulation. High probability of compliance if presented with the correct emotional stimulus." I felt like I was going to throw up. He’d been watching her before I even knew she existed. He’d mapped out her soul like it was a piece of real estate he was planning to develop. There was a whole section on how "easy she was to manipulate" through her sense of loyalty. I flipped to another section and saw my own name. Axel: Emotional Profile. "The subject's primary weakness is a protective instinct toward perceived innocents," the note said. "Can be steered through the introduction of a high-value emotional contaminant. Brielle Julliard serves as the perfect catalyst for his d

I could tell he was already getting uncomfortable. I settled my drink down, and gripped the armrest. “Hardest lesson I ever learned, but it showed me the true repulsive depths manipulators will stoop to in order to ensnare you in their sick webs of lies. If I so much as sniff out a lie, I cut 'em off at the knees before they get a chance to sink their claws in." “Alpha Kol, are you accusing me of something?” "Liars and manipulators are a special kind of evil as far as I'm concerned. They deserve nothing but the harshest judgment for preying on the good faith of others.”

The ultimate failure of a manufactured persona doesn't happen when a piece of hard data exposes its code in the dark; it occurs on the physical threshold of a locked room, where the polite, helpful script of an identity thief slowly runs out of automated words and begins to warp into a sharp, defensive screech of raw panic. When you lock a master manipulator out of the room where their destiny is being re-calculated, you strip them of the only fuel they have—your reaction—and force them to stand in the quiet until the teeth behind their engineered smile finally show.