AUGUSTUS "GUS" VIRE
The Gentleman Insurgent
Augustus Vire heads the Heritage Nest, a think tank that manufactures outrage, engineers policy coups, and scripts culture war battles for profit. He has no army—just an email list, a few billionaires, and a stranglehold on the nation’s talking points. He believes in order, hierarchy, and market-sanctified destiny. And he never raises his voice.
He doesn’t light the match—he writes the legislation that makes the fire legal.
Operating from behind mahogany doors and stained-glass buzzwords, Vire crafts policies that strangle public power and call it liberty.
He’s not a protester.
He’s a policy terrorist.
And he’s rewriting your future—one clause at a time.
Catchphrases:
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“We’re not rewriting the rules. We’re simply refining them.”
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“The Constitution is a living document—mine just screams louder.”
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“If you don’t like the system, you clearly weren’t meant to win in it.”
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"We're at the beginning of the second Duckiverse Revolution. It will be bloodless if the peasants allow it."
AUGUSTUS "GUS" VIRE
Distortion: The Distortion of Think Tanks
Origin Story (Bio):
Once an intern for the “Freedom Forum,” Vire rose quickly by weaponizing footnotes and think-tank jargon. Disillusioned by public service but addicted to influence, he formed the Valor Institute—a shell nonprofit backed by shadow money and legacy donors. His specialty? Quietly injecting extremist policy into statehouses while the public argues over TV commercials.
Likes:
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Tax-exempt influence
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Plausible deniability
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Private security details
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Supreme Court brunches
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Laws he wrote getting passed by people who never read them
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Dressing up heinous Unduckiverse type laws and draping them in patriotism
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Dislikes:
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Transparency
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Journalists who read the appendices
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Direct democracy
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Actual patriots
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That pesky internet archive
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Signature Moves:
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🗞 White Glove Coup – Introduces a bill with a heroic title that guts human rights on page 38.
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🧠Think Tank Blitz – Funds three fake studies in 48 hours to sway public opinion.
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📺 The Feedback Furnace – Creates a fake controversy online, amplifies it via friendly media, then drafts a law to solve it.
Bonus Lore:
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The Heritage Nest’s motto is “Progress with Permission.”
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Has hosted over 40 “closed-door liberty summits,” none of which were in liberty-minded countries.
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Once patented a prayer-themed security drone.
🦅Vire's
Favorites:
​Residence:
A private estate on Federalist Bluff, guarded by legal loopholes and very polite mercenaries.
Transportation:
A black luxury SUV called The Redactor—bulletproof, taxpayer-funded, and always just off the record.
Favorite Song:🎶 “Battle Hymn of the Prosperous” – an exclusive re-write of a national anthem.
Favorite Film: 🎥
The Ides of March – claims it’s a cautionary tale. Acts like it’s a blueprint.
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