Cruelty
Your character takes genuine pleasure in inflicting pain upon others, and often in watching pain be inflicted. It is rarely satisfying to him to merely defeat his enemies when he can humiliate them or prolong their suffering as well.
[2 Pts.]
Your character is not necessarily murderous, nor does he even necessarily like his cruel streak. Nonetheless, he feels a definite thirst for cruel, punishing solutions to his life’s problems– he desires those who interfere with him to suffer a commensurate degree of aggravation, pain, and loss before he overcomes them. A straightforward and sporting victory is an empty one, according to his heart. Clever cruelties fill him with joy– after all, he is not a mindless brute, but rather a shaper of punishments to fit the nature of each crime.
This is differentiated from the Vindictive flaw ; a vindictive character is relentless in his pursuit of revenge or redress, but he isn’t necessarily savage and uncouth in gaining it. A cruel character doesn’t need to dash off and seek
vengeance for every little wrong done to him, but when he does overcome an opponent, only a Will Save (DC fairly high) will allow him to overcome his cruel impulses.