Broderick

Finally got onto mindless epic number two. Here's the first page.

"Broderick Snodden loathed children. He despised them with all his heart. Snodders to his enemies, of whom there were many, detested the very sight of children. Especially the small ones, scuttling to and fro as if the only thing in the world that mattered was their own puerile fun. How he hated them.

    But soon that would no longer be a problem, for Broderick had a plan. It had come to him in a flash just the day before. Despite thinking, and failing to come up with a solution for many years, the answer had miraculously come to him upon bending down to clear up yet more vomit from his shoe. It was all so simple: it would cost nothing, and even better no one would either suspect or blame him.

    Today would commemorate the twentieth of his thirty year punishment. More to the point it would mark the final month of this awful torment. A dim and distantly heard voice reminded him that his first so-called brilliant plan had engulfed him in more pain than he could have imagined. ‘Not this time,’ he told the voice smugly. This time he would think it though, weight up all the potential consequences and choose a singular path to success. With that thought in mind he left the quad and it’s mindless hordes of scampering brats and returned to his rooms. Therein he would begin to write his manifesto for success.

    Encompassed within his loathing, from the governing board to the rest of the tutors, all of whom he considered his social and intellectual inferiors, was a man he hated more than anybody else. That this person had no idea that he was the centre of Snodden’s loathing made little difference. He would perish with all the others."

    Most of this will change of course but this is the tone I'm setting from the beginning. 

    Now I've just got to work out who "the man" is and how he might foil or fail.