lymond is, I fear, very blorbable:
beautiful, clever, and murderous
beautiful in a specifically androgynous way. sometimes cross dresses for schemes. clever in a particularly conniving and also pretentious way. nobody knows what he's on about. murderous in a... well. people are dead
extremely awful except for the times when he's not and then you realise that like, 50-75% of the awfulness was an act. but the remainder wasn't
is sometimes very very funny. is sometimes very very mean. is sometimes both at once
keeps acquiring new young men who are in love with him and will make bad choices for him. occasionally they even admit it
copes with being sad by getting worse
gets severely injured, often in a public and humiliating fashion, at least once every book