As in... all of the above?

Don't get the wrong idea, Carnation is like a big teddy bear. He's really very much a pushover. Which is why these things happen to him. It's his entourage, you know- the business manager, the lawyer, the childhood friends who hang around like leeches. They're the ones who bring the trouble to the parties.

And yeah, I definitely know what you mean about trendy people not being your sort of people. Trendy people aren't a lot of fun.