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Aside from being disgusting and vile, Patrick Bateman has zero sense of romanticism that could make his story feel erotically appealing. He isn't enigmatic or fascinating. Any artistic feeling he might try to induce fails because he rejects each and any notion of internal anguish or guilt (which are usually the things that make horrible characters sexy in spite of misdeeds). No, artists don't need to be tortured for their art to be good, but if your horribleness of personhood is your performance piece of art you NEED to be tortured. Or be very weird. Your evilness cannot come from apathy, it HAS to come from some kind of passionate emotion, not the absence of it. Rage, love, hunger, glee - it CANNOT be only boredom that drives you. Give me Hyde from the Jekyll & Hyde musical give me Heathcliff give me Victor Frankenstein, or even better, give me Adam. Fuck you can even give me Ramsay Bolton because at least he has weirdness going for him and we're far away enough from his mind to be delusional about his direct thoughts surrounding his perversions. Fuuuuuck I hate Patrick why is he sooooo unsexy