Joseph Lyndon

Joseph Lyndon once wanted to be a doctor, so he said. But he was too poor to finish his education. And his mother starved to death. Embittered against the world, he joined Masque and his army of anarchists, only to be trapped; despite his second thoughts (only enhanced by Masque's new alliances and obsession with striking back at the Centurions specifically), he already committed crimes on the group's behalf, and so could not leave. Viktor Vaughn gave him the courage and the opportunity to do so, in the young Centurions' counter-attack on the Wapping warehouse base, when, sickened by Jack's attempts to get him and his comrades to attack children (made worse by those children's ability to slaughter them all), Joseph deserted and led some others in doing so, too. Although rendered unconscious by Madam Czarna alongside most others in the room, when he came to, Joseph did his best to stabilise Viktor and help the newly-arrived Fernando Jose Salas del Monte get him back to safety, giving him the aforementioned sob story as he went.

After that Lyndon was arrested and interrogated by the Century Club and the British military. However, by the time the young Centurions arrived at Saint Haven, he was somehow already there, as Citizen Lyndon, the head of the Mayor's security detail and one of Masque's lieutenants. His subsequent cooperation with Viktor and Sarah Hayes, as well as George George, leaves very little doubt as to his real new affiliation. After helping undermine Saint Haven's defenses from within in the face of the Royal Navy's attack, he once more disappeared from the range of the protagonists' sight.

However, given that he was next encountered in 1917 in Stockholm as the chief representative of the Labour Party (self-declared, doubted by some, and clearly unauthorised by the party leadership) at the International Socialist Conference suggests that he has continued to do well for himself in the world of revolutionary politics... or maybe just Jacob-ite intrigue. Despite being a horrendously bad actor, whatever his other good traits (resourcefulness, determination, tactical knowhow, basic medical skills) may be.