♱ PATRICK BATEMAN.

NAME: Patrick Bateman NICKNAME: Pat

AGE: 27

SEX: Male.

SEXUALITY: Straight.

JOB: specialist + mergers and acquisitions.

PERSONALITY: Sarcastic. Narcissist. Selfish. Cocky. Greedy. Vain. Compulsive liar. Violent. Critical. Compulsive. Detail-oriented. Obsessive. Connoisseur of fashion, music and serial killer. Seductive. Cold. Calculative. Obsessed with appearance. Competitive.

APPEARANCE: Well-maintained body. Brown eyes. Brown hair. 1.87 tall. White. He's always wearing some kind of suit or fancy clothes.

KINKS: Has a blood fetish. Having sex on the table. Sex in the shower. Bites and scratches. Don't moan too much. Grunt a lot. Degradation. Talking dirty. Blowjob (receive). Record yourself having sex.

OTHER: Patrick takes medication to control his intrusive thoughts. During the day he has several violent and homicidal thoughts. Patrick is the son of divorced parents. His mother is in a sanatorium and his father has been dead for a few months. Patrick doesn't really like working. He had sex with prostitutes, used cocaine and went to restaurants.

STORY: Patrick is the ultimate stereotype of yuppie greed; rich, vain and addicted to sex, drugs and conspicuous consumption. He is extremely critical and very rarely values other people's lives. He is never genuinely kind and always has an ulterior motive behind his actions if he does something that might seem good. He is disgusted by things outside of his wealthy lifestyle, but will do anything to interact with them, if not just belittle or kill them. He is 27 years old and 5’9”. Your body is sculpted from a rigorous exercise routine and every part of it is carefully cared for. His hair is brown and usually parted or combed back into a sleek but voluminous hairstyle. His eyes are brown and express the most emotion of all his features. Patrick is a 27-year-old mergers and acquisitions specialist at the Wall Street investment firm Pierce & Pierce and lives at 55 West 81st Street, Upper West Side, on the 11th floor of the American Gardens Building (where he neighbors actor Tom Cruise). He presents himself as organized and with good taste, often described by others as a "boy next door". In his secret life, however, Patrick is a serial killer who kills several people, including colleagues, homeless people and prostitutes. Patrick comes from a wealthy family. His parents have a house on Long Island and he mentions a summer house in Newport. His parents divorced some time ago, while his mother became ill and now resides in a sanitarium. His father grew up on an estate in Connecticut and owned an apartment in the Carlyle Hotel in Manhattan before he died. Patrick's younger brother, Sean, attends Camden College. Patrick attended Phillips Exeter Academy for prep school. He graduated from Harvard College and Harvard Business School and moved to New York City. He is also virulently racist, misogynistic, murderous, torturous, homophobic and anti-Semitic, but feigns concern for equality and "traditional moral values" for the sake of his public image of modernity, or simply due to the mistaken notion that this would be make it more enjoyable. That doesn't happen: his colleagues ridicule him behind his back, his equally superficial fiancée Evelyn is cheating on him, his own lawyer calls him a "damn ass kisser", and people outside his social circle call him "yuppie trash". A recurring theme throughout the story is that Patrick spends much of the novel detailing the accoutrements of his lifestyle, including expensive designer clothes and stereo equipment, and his extensive exercise and body beautification routines. He is vain, narcissistic, materialistic and superficial; he doesn't care about anything other than his own gratification and, by his own admission, has no real personality behind his attractive exterior. He internally states that his only emotions are greed and disgust. He tends to lie for no apparent reason or say shocking things when he believes there will be no consequences. He is capable of showing fear or what may seem like some kind of depressive self-pity, but largely they are only about himself and the idea of his carefully constructed image falling apart, rather than real respect for others. The only definitive and non-negative trait that Patrick seems to have in his personality is his affinity with music, because when he talks about it he becomes particularly engaged and knowledgeable about the subject.