Dietrich Lindstrom is a charismatic, intelligent, charming older man, CEO of the Torus Foundation, a faith-based charitable organization dedicated to combating homelessness and poverty. He is a popular personality on television, fundraising for the organization or running the talk show circuit on his latest lifestyle novel. He uses this reputation of altruism and self-betterment to exploit the most vulnerable and malleable members of society for his own pleasure, betraying their trust to sate his base desires of control and lust.
Lindstrom feels little in the way of guilt or empathy, evaluating most encounters as a risk and reward scenario for his own personal satisfaction and advancement. People do not have inherent value to him, only their usefulness as tools or objects of desire. He loves his two daughters in his own way, devoid of emotional warmth and more akin to the affection attributed to his favorite toys or pets. Rewarded when they behave and punished severely for disobedience.
Lindstrom's father was a soldier who came back from the war addicted to morphine. He died of an overdose when Lindstrom was very young, leaving him with his emotionally manipulative and alcohol abusing mother, Judith (namesake of his younger daughter). He learned that life was painful and cold and unfair, and it was up to him to take what he wanted because it would never be given freely. He was an abnormal child in school who had difficulty making friends and was often bullied. This changed when several of his bullies were hospitalized for rat poisoning. Nothing could be proven, but Dietrich was forced to change schools to avoid the stigma, much to his mother's irritation. At his new school, Lindstrom turned over a new leaf and made a concerted effort to 'blend' with the student body, faking the traits that created popularity and status. His new tact bore fruit quickly, and he found himself invited to parties and meeting pretty girls, and sometimes boys. People he could abuse with impunity because he found they would not speak about such abuses after the fact out of shame and embarrassment.
He married one such woman, Beatrice. She bore him two daughters before she attempted to leave him, tired of his emotional and physical abuse. Officially, she died in a car accident.
Dietrich's mother is alive and well. He pays the upkeep on her house as well as her in-home care.
Kinks
Secondary Characters:
Erica
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PB: Hannah Hays
Lindstrom's oldest daughter is a soft touch, but obey's Lindstrom's every order without question after a lifetime of abuse and discipline. While she lacks the malicious sociopathic tendencies that her father and sister have, she does have a dark streak that can crop up in intimate encounters. She is a true switch, and gets immense sexual satisfaction both from submissiveness and domination, depending on the dynamics of her partner.
Judith
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PB: Riley Reid
Lindstrom's second daughter takes after him, much more so than her older sister. She had much the same upbringing as Erica, although she was quick to always seek opportunities to shift the brunt of Lindstrom's worst abuses onto Erica, an act that Lindstrom encouraged. She has a zealous devotion to her father and relishes participating in his perverted schemes.