Part 93/104 of my Female Rogues of Gotham City series
William Omaha Mcelroy, otherwise known as King Tut, is another rogue who cannot bear it when the people around him don’t buy into his delusionally grandiose view of himself and the world around him. If someone refuses to play along, like the too-forthright Nefertiti or the too-naïve Shirley, he deals with them rather violently and sometimes near-fatally. But there was one woman he did manage to get to see it his way…and ended up getting more than he bargained for.
Lisa Carson—Queen Cleopatra—was the heir to the third biggest family fortune in Gotham City after the Waynes and the Kanes and was often seen at all of the Waynes’ masquerade balls in the most elaborately sexy costumes this side of a Cecil B. DeMille movie; however, when she appeared at a charity ball dressed as the famous Ptolemaic queen, King Tut saw the opportunity to make her his and whisked her away from the party. In a move no one expected, despite her initial protests and attempts at bribery, she ended up falling for the arch-criminal and agreeing to be his queen; at her first taste of power, however, she decided she was a stronger ruler on her own and began amassing an empire of henches, as well as an ever-growing menagerie of poisonous snakes, to rival Tut’s. It was only when she tried to recruit the first Batgirl, who laid waste to all of her asps and adders and bested her in single combat (with a slap to the face as the finishing blow, no less), that her rule came to an end.
