YMMV / Jackpot Trilogy

• Complete Monster: Vespasian is an utterly depraved "continua enthusiast" who takes the attitude that stubs are expendable to its furthest possible extreme. A weapons fetishist, Vespasian gets his kicks by manipulating entire timelines into pointless, grinding conflict to salivate over their tools of destruction, bringing death and misery to untold billions for his own sick amusement. Vespasian's modus operandi is to make minor changes to a timeline, then let the butterfly effect do its thing, resulting in chaos which he later wades into and makes far, far worse. When Inspector Lowbeer, a ruthless pragmatist who's used to working with the worst of the worst to achieve her goals, is forced to make a deal with him, she has him killed almost immediately afterwards, as she finds him too horrible to possibly let live. Despite his death, Vespasian's influence continues into Agency, primarily set in the last stub he manipulated before his death, which is on the verge of nuclear war as a result.

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