The Evil Henchman

    The Evil Henchman's Guide. Ever heard of it? No, probably not. Follow the link and read it. I promise you'll laugh, though maybe not out loud; we can't have everything. But yeah, it's pretty much awesome.
    My brother The Hermit introduced me to it, and then this week I was reading it over again and... I had a thought! (Another one? My god!) So I talked to my friend Adelle about it and she helped me flesh it out a BUNCH. Here it is (though it has most likely been done before);
    Write a story about an evil henchman who is smart and makes the right choices. He would work for a string of evil overlords and end up actually doing almost everything in the guide.

Here's the henchman's basic back-story, from his perspective (and I apologize for the quality, but it is just a rough draft):
    "My mother's name was Miriam, my father's Alsechtarith. We lived in a mud hut for the first few years of my life, and I like to think we were happy together. Then my mother died and my father reverted to his former brutal ways. He soon set out, with me in tow, to resume his life of crime. Father was a gunman and all-around thug for whomever paid the most so we moved around quite a lot, and I was exposed to more than my fair share of violence, mayhem and the like. By the age of eight I could reassemble a pistol blindfolded.
    "So I doubt it will greatly shock anyone to learn that when my beloved father was beheaded by a rival gang I immediately stole his equipment (even the clothes on his back and especially his boots; far more comfortable than mine, and, unlike mine, waterproof) and set off without a backwards glance on his ancient motorcycle for parts unknown. Having no experience at anything else, I began advertising my services as a 'gun for hire.'"

    His name is Benjamin Rekhmire; half Egyptian (or actually his world's equivalent), half... just about everything else. The world he inhabits is vast and mainly unmapped, and though parts of it are just as technologically advanced as we are today, there are still many untainted areas, where kings rule and the sword is the law (or something).
    More next time!