Ego and Pride

Wheaton is a novel built on psychological warfare, misinformation, and control. In this world, narratives are weapons, perception is power, and victimhood can be manufactured to manipulate. No character embodies this better than Madame Louise O'Marathi-Klainert known simply as Lulu.

Lulu is both a performer and a predator. She crafts her image to survive, using charm, fear, and calculated vulnerability. Beneath her polished exterior is a ruthless strategist, driven by pride, burdened by trauma, with an insatiable hunger for relevance. She wants to be remembered for her military skill, her political clout, and her usefulness. And she will do anything to ensure that happens.

She says she collaborates. In truth, she competes. Her softness is a weapon. Her weakness is vanity. Lulu craves recognition, not just survival, and that craving blinds her to how disposable she truly is. She manipulates others by playing the victim, yet she knows full well what Wheaton does to the useless.

Lulu is a shifting force: honeypot, tactician, aristocrat. She's as performative as she is precise, turning her past pain into performance and her survival into art. Like Medea, Lady Macbeth, and Amy Dunne, she blends femininity with menace, control with spectacle.

Her goal is sovereignty: to wield influence without allegiance. She doesn’t want a seat at the table; she wants to own the room. Whether she succeeds or survives is the novel’s open question.

She isn’t a role model. She’s a warning.

Will she survive?

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