there's a certain sort of pathetic opportunistic coward, a real cockroach of a weasel, that usually ends up being my favourite character in the stuff they show up in. your saul goodmans or gaius baltars. usually they get some sort of redemption arc but sometimes they get cucked by their son and drown themselves in a pool. and i realised they're almost always men. the only women who fulfill this archetype that i could think of are clementine kesh from friends at the table and MAYBE cersei lannister but that one's a stretch and i need more. i need pathetic cowardly cockroach women
is the problem here that women aren't allowed to fail upwards as easily as men
also i know a lot of people who like these sorts of characters as a kind of embarrassing sex thing. like people who use tumblr too much and want to bully gaius baltar or the westworld one of these. the uhh, lee sizemore the head of narrative. they start watching something with a guy who sucks but always weasels his way out of problems and then post "i regret to say i find this guy who sucks hot"
but i don't find them hot i just think they're neat.
It's not exactly what you're thinking of but the main character of Kiyoko Iwami's My Girlfriend's Not Here Today. She's self-serving and tries to hide her misdeeds from her partner. Anyway it's a bit more of a soap opera than most of the stories I read but if you want a girl who's a sniveling little shit you'll get at least some of that from it
