𝒞𝒽𝒶𝒹

Classy but foolish, chivalrous yet self-centered, and confident while in the confines of his shell, one might agree Chad is a book full of inconsistencies. Despite his grand (and confusing) personality, he struggles unknowingly with his own individualism, which ironically is exactly what makes him so enticing. Here is an established man who looks like he knows exactly who he is and what he wants, yet selfishly rejoices that he is still air-headed enough to let everyone around him suffer for the success of his own goals. Being smart is his vice—as a natural-born leader, intelligence and charisma coexist in the same vessel, but being too much so suggests he can’t play the victim. A perfect balance between knowing and not knowing must be maintained.

Chad is, to an extent, relatively materialistic. Pursuing fame and fortune is an extensive game that he plays, and while he’s smart enough to acknowledge that fact, he still speaks down on those blinded by riches and acts aversively when asked about his own. He is a cat who chases the red light (knowing it’s but a toy); his entertainment coming not only from the red light itself, but from the human puppeteering it, and their shared knowledge of the light’s deception. He enjoys the numbing feeling of delusion that the light brings (while he is willingly blinded by it).

Many aspects of his character are built on a foundation of lies, yet his exterior can’t be so easily dubbed as a facade; it is an ever-changing and ever-growing manifestation of who he thinks he should be. Is kneeling to any form of honesty the heinous crime he makes it out to be? Perhaps if he were raised religious instead of ‘marginally Catholic’ the underlying guilt of his dishonesty would’ve put him in a chokehold.