After being beat, kicked, and bested many a time, as well as watching many a hot-headed and heroic friend fade into the but a cog of the social machine, Benton wishes to step back from the masterminding of drugs and cons to mastermind something else- a sort of lustrous movement to bring better social technology, health, and education to humans and passives. Benton has a little extra coin, connections, and informal education in order to fund, plan, and teach.
Benton wishes to return to Bastia and hold a proper funeral for his brother.
Drug-dealing is not a business in which you make friends. The closest thing Benton has to a friend is Aziza whom he met in a drug deal and kept contact with. Aziza spent some time working for him until he fucked up. He also, now and again, takes under his wing a regular customer, the young wick Mordecai Wingate as the boy reminds Benton of his own late brother. Benton also spent an earlier time of life working with others like Braydon and Wikus. Benton, to his knowledge, has no living family. His mother committed suicide, his father disappeared, and his brother was simply gone. He is alone with himself, a terrible thing to be when haunted by so many ghosts.
Long term relationships do not particularly interest Benton. He likes passionate nights, but to be tied to someone is not especially appealing to him. He has romanced Aziza and Corwynn.
Such a business creates many enemies. The largest enemy in Benton's eyes is Silas Hawke, a rival dealer. Benton is scared of what Hawke will do to him, or what someone like Corwynn, a man of Hawke's would do to him. Formerly, Benton's largest enemy was Olin Halpine, a man after his business and his head, but Benton quickly gathered a group of men to kill the man.
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