Zelenka Stubfinger
Names: Zelehn-Kha (Zelenka) Stubfinger
Species: Elf
Age: 52
Job: Press jockey / wine enthusiast / win-at-all-coster
Appears In: Game of Plagues
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| The expression you pull when your boss is an idiot but your job is selling him to the public he's inadvertently murdering (see more at Instagram) |
The job of a prime minister's press jockey is to sell them to the media no matter how incompetent they seem - no matter how clueless - no matter how downright evil, even. Boronymous Jubbly makes Zelenka's job difficult by being all three at once.
What makes Zelenka well-suited to pushing this blathering horrorshow on to an undeserving public is that she really doesn't care. She'd actually push someone much worse onto a public far more undeserving for significantly less money*. For her it's about winning. If that means everyone else loses, so be it.
* This isn't to say she'd take a paycut, of course. Charging a lot of money is how rich people understand people's worth. That's why useless business wankers keep getting jobs - because they're judged by how much they earn rather than how much they achieve.
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Creation Notes
Boris Johnson's actual spin doctor Lee Cain is a former journalist who worked for The Mirror*. He achieved notoriety by stalking David Cameron while dressed as a chicken - a risky move given the former PM's alleged proclivities towards farm animals.
Zelenka isn't based on him, as beyond that tidbit nothing about him stood out. I also wanted to put a female character in with the 'bad guys'. I could have gender-swapped one of the other baddies, but they're all based on real life scumbags, and it can raise weird questions if you satirise someone monstrous and make them another gender. That or it makes it seem like you aimed to do something clever and failed.
Believe me - very little cleverness went into this book.
*He's also at this point Johnson's ex-spin doctor. He will be missed. Not by anyone who isn't terrible, obviously, but still.
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