Whenever a character is described this way, it leaves me wondering "why?" It's about as much characterization as "thoughtless bimbo." If you need a bad guy, a stronger novel gives the motivations for the bad guy to be bad, or to think he's doing the right thing, or why he took the bribes because his mom was dying of a disease he couldn't afford the medicine for, or his wife just divorced him and he couldn't maintain his lifestyle *and* pay the child support and he didn't see how taking bribes would hurt others, after all, everyone did it, or something.
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Whenever a character is described this way, it leaves me wondering "why?" It's about as much characterization as "thoughtless bimbo." If you need a bad guy, a stronger novel gives the motivations for the bad guy to be bad, or to think he's doing the right thing, or why he took the bribes because his mom was dying of a disease he couldn't afford the medicine for, or his wife just divorced him and he couldn't maintain his lifestyle *and* pay the child support and he didn't see how taking bribes would hurt others, after all, everyone did it, or something.
--Beth