Character analysis: The rakehell

Managed to develop the profile of a minor character – although to be honest, he’s been going round and round in my head for days, whispering sweet nothings into my ear in a deep, mellifluous baritone…

I now have a rake. Except because he isn’t the anti-hero or a main character, he remains a dissolute and unrepentant libertine, trailing crushed coquettes in his sexy wake. But he is yummy. And maybe even a little cruel. Because he’s based off Tom Ford.

Observe specimen below.

Now, the real Tom Ford might be a lovely human being. But the fact remains that he is sex on legs and makes metrosexualism drip testosterone. And men that devastating are usually also destructive. In books. And because I’m not overly keen to reform my hardened, worldly character and reduce him to putty by chapter 30, he shall remain hawt, haughty, and horrible.

He will break hearts, and drive one in particular to the arms of The Friend. It’s the proverbial bad boy we all love to hate, but love even more to tame and be ravished by. I’m going to have so much fun writing about this one.