Napoleon Carmen

Napoleon Carmen is the right hand man to the leader of Los Angeles and the older brother of Edward Carmen and the heir to leadership of the Gateway Cities. He ordered the assassination of Rubio Hernandez and had it done by Ezra Navarez.

## Personality

Napoleon starts as a calm, push over of a man who wouldn't hurt a fly. He works as the Right Hand Man to the leader and often is guilted by the citizens of Los Angeles into getting things changed in Los Angeles into their favor. He lives by himself in a single apartment with a twin bed in Long Beach over a burger restaurant, rather than living in the Carmen Manor in La Habra Heights.

Napoleon is truly underused as the right hand man to the Faction and feels it. When he's not working as right hand man to Rubio, he's working as a janitor at the aquarium in Long Beach, not because he's paid but because the animals there are willing to show him kindness and respect. He even lives in Long Beach rather than Central Los Angeles due to the fact that the aquarium is there as well. He spends most of his time as Janitor only cleaing a little and the rest of the time admiring the animals.

He starts out not wanting to kill anybody at all, being more of a pacifist than anything and getting along with Ryker Hernandez very well for this. He criticizes Ezra for his practices as a marksman and dislikes the heavy amount of honor and love of war involved in Los Angeles. Just as well does he spend much of his time with Michael in the hospital, not as a patient but helping out others as a volunteer for helping patients in order to really feel like he's helping the citizens. He cares about the citizens in Los Angeles, however this is all thwarted by one single fact. When the buildings in Los Angeles fell during the Penny Revolution, Napoleon was the one who had caused it, ending the war ultimately but killing hundreds of soldiers on both sides in a single act.

Napoleon's wife is part of his main motivation at the start, but is dying from an incurable disease. He truly loves and cares for her, but they both know that she is going to die. After stalling for as long as possible, Napoleon and his wife finally decide to have her placed out of her misery in the hospital under a procedure with Michael. However, Rubio doesn't let his wife die from euthanasia thanks to Rubio not wanting to "waste it". This truly changes Napoleon, and after this Napoleon's wife begged him for months and months to kill him, eventually deciding on a suicide pact and driving into the sea together. However thanks to Scott Green, Napoleon was saved but his wife died once they drove into the water as Scott says that he checked her for a pulse, there wasn't one.

When Napoleon finds out that multiple citizens had been starving to death thanks to Rubio's carelessness, he lies to himself and says the reason he wants Rubio to die and take his place is to rise to power and become leader of Los Angeles. However, the real reason he wants Rubio dead is because of the years of insulting, cruelty, and inhumanity Napoleon faced at the hands of Rubio. Just as well, Napoleon is avenging his wife who died due to Rubio's carelessness as well, but lies to himself about this and says that he is not a man of avenging people and doesn't believe in revenge.

When Scott Green is put on trial for the murder of Rubio Hernandez, Napoleon doesn't admit that he gave the order for Ezra to kill Rubio, but does after the court sacrifice his leadership to Linda Hernandez under the condition that Scott is let free. However, Scott is killed against Napoleon's wishes. After this, Napoleon grows to be distrustful of everyone around him, and promises to avenge Scott.

A few days after the death of his wife Pamela, he becomes in a state of what he describes putting his brain on autopilot, and seemingly have a delayed reaction to the loss. He has a cup of tea with Scott, and rather than discussing his wife, he talks about the tea itself. Soon after that, he develops an obsession with organizing and sorting wires and cables for computers at both his apartment and the Redelley Resort.

Napoleon is shown to have a massive ego and narcisstic personality disorder. He has a inflated sense of his own importance, a need for attention and excessive admiration, admiration, and his relationship with his wife is very troubled before her eventual death. He shows a lack of empathy towards others, not understanding why Scott sacirifced himself to save Ezra even after explaining why as "Scott could've been released," if it wasn't for Scott's selflessness. He's shown to be extremely vulnerable to criticism and has fragile self esteem. Just as well as he has NPD, he shows many symptoms of psycopathy and sociopathy. When he was told that the men who had ordered suicides could turn Ezra in, which would be very bad for Ezra and Napoleon, he says to Michael that they should be stressed and freaking out but without changing his facial expression at all.

He goes on to show traits of pridefulness, egotism, arrogance, ignorance and proves himself to be meglomanical. In the first book, when given the chance by Aaron Soathe to completely take over Central Los Angeles, he refuses saying that it would be bad for the citizens, and if they're going to declare war they have to evactuate the citizens from the area first, and then attack. However, Napoleon is making a false justification for pridefulness, knowing that the Soathe's would get the most credit out of it when he has spent ten years planning on how to become the leader and won't waste it on the chance that they might lose. as well as the fact that the Soathe's would get the most glory. This is recontextualized throughout the story as more and more districts pursuing leadership of Los Angeles would ask for Napoleon's help and he would turn it down.

He's also shown to be extremely sensitive to insulting nicknames and rudeness, taking particular insult to the nickname "15 Day King" as he was the leader of Los Angeles for a mere 15 days while others have lasted years. Particularly with his name, Napoleon, at the start he's shown to be slightly annoyed when people mispronounce it wrong or spell it wrong, but by the last book when it's spelt or mispronounced wrong he feels insulted on a personal level.

As Napoleon delves deeper and deeper into the complex political world, he shows to treat people like pawns and just as well have no remorse for his actions and see people as nothing but expendable pawns to his empire. He shows to become less and less morally against certain crimes and actions such as murder or theft, and proves a machiaevellan way of becoming leader.