There’s an interesting essay over at the Vorpal Bunny Ranch (a blog worth visiting for the name alone) on the issue of the dandy in video games, a character known for a few different things: ‘his impeccable sense of fashion, his wit, and his distaste for rough physical activity.’ They’re also exceedingly untrustworthy, giving rise to an interesting stereotype of ‘the dandy’ as crafty (and with suspect morals) or an outright villain (e.g., Kefka):
