Klaus Wicker's Links
Dewey is treated less as a member of the crew and more as a pet. A very large, very stupid pet. Still, Dewey is extremely loyal. They follow Klaus’ orders to a tee, for better or worse. If Dewey does something “wrong”, Klaus knows it’s because he didn’t explain it correctly. Not that that prevents Klaus from yelling at Dewey for screwing up. He still needs to prove that he’s in control. Klaus never intended to make any sort of alliance with Dewey. Their partnership only got started because the Mirror Temple was in Dewey’s territory, and Klaus wanted it for himself.
While he finds her constant state of panic and never ending stream of paranoia fueled conspiracies irritating, Klaus finds Fennel to be the most trustworthy and valuable member of his crew. When she’s actually calm, he enjoys her company. She’s smart, and a lot of the time she has really good ideas; although he’d never admit that. Half the time, he takes credit for Fennel’s ideas and makes her think he was the one to come up with them in the first place.
Because of Fennel’s various underlying mental issues, as well as her curse, Klaus has taken to threatening her in order to ensure her cooperation. She’s valuable. Without her, Klaus would lose half his client base. Maybe more. Fennel is very easy to manipulate, so getting her to stick around is easy. Still, he constantly exercises his control over her.
Klaus and Spades’ relationship is strictly professional. He finds her addictions to be detrimental to his operation, causing some resentment. Her tendency to steal money and product from the crew is also a major issue. If it weren’t for her luck and her ability to negotiate, he would have killed her by now. She’s also extremely good with numbers; something Klaus doesn’t want to deal with.
Spades is Klaus’ biggest source of irritation. She hates taking orders and often makes sudden changes in plans, if she doesn’t abandon them all together. She’s also extremely hard to manipulate, and has an ego almost as big as his own. They’re an unstoppable force vs an immovable object. If they didn’t share the same goals, they’d more or less be enemies.
Klaus and Spades relationship is more or less strictly professional. She can’t stand his personality, and she finds his use of drugs to be a major irritation. For someone in a position of power like he is, he should really be more responsible. You can’t get anything done in the midst of a hallucinogenic high, and she’s damn near positive one day it’ll end up getting him killed.
That being said, she does find Klaus at least somewhat entertaining. When he’s on a high she can get away with messing with him without getting in trouble for it. She also uses it as an excuse to “borrow” things from the crew’s storage he wouldn’t normally give her access to.