I’m going to invest in this place, probably with this guy, and then plan to take over the world!
Partnership with fellow overlords has been known to produce positive results, but generally ends in one’s own demise.
The bait on the hook? “One big happy insane evil family”. The reality? “dysfunctional dystopia”. While cruelty, mistrust, and mayhem being placed visably on the table, creates some sort of stasis or metabolic tension, it passes with time, and you or they find oneself in the sharktank.
Ms.Hyde, Ovlerlords would advise you to wed a wealthy yet decripid artisan, feed him (or her) poisen, and take over their estate as starting point for your plot of world domination.
First however, you must be deeply and mortally wounded. Your passion for life and love must be crushed, and hence transformed into bitter nihilism.
Perhaps a tuft of silver hair, and either a cane or a wheelchair would round things out a bit as well.