The rugged Quinn Cozens is your ultimate Sigma male
Rothbardian libertarians will love Quinn Cozens. But if you’re the ultimate Sigma male, you’ll love him more because Quinn’s the archetype.
If there was ever the ultimate Sigma male in my books, it’s Quinn Cozens, the protagonist in my libertarian dystopian survival trilogy, Beyond the Lost.
What makes Quinn a Sigma? You can start in Book I’s prologue, when he tells his cousin Jonas he’d rather go for a solo run than attend a K-pop metal concert. Think something like Dreamcatcher.
But it goes beyond that. Quinn’s a brooding character who works and operates alone. He’s a remote sports writer who watches games from his laptop, writes and self-publishes his content, and earns money from his recliner.
Sounds like a dream job, right? But Quinn’s only working in sports, so he can moonlight and create anarcho-libertarian content. He’s not someone in the trenches citing studies or even getting into it with opponents online.
No, Quinn’s content comes from his personal experience, because what better way to shape one’s political leanings? And by experience, he observes from the outside, takes mental notes, and formulates his content before writing and sharing it.
Quinn Cozens lived on his own terms
Before the coordinated attack on America that strung Quinn with K-pop idol Yui Kikuchi, Quinn was so routine and such a homebody that it was impossible to break him from those habits.
Quinn lived a disciplined, solitary, and routine-driven life. Or, he’d use AI to build and sell digital products through private label rights, though he rarely talked about that endeavor.
He didn’t see any women; Distractions unless they wanted to work out with him. He’d develop an attraction to a few, but decided they weren’t worth the hassle.
Nah, living the life of a lone wolf became Quinn’s calling. And he showed one could live in complete solitude, speaking to others only when necessary, but otherwise hiding behind the brooding facade he put on wherever he went.
The Sigma male lifestyle had its drawbacks
Quinn wasn’t completely happy as a Sigma male. He lived with regret. As the years passed and Quinn reached his late twenties, his grandparents died off.
And Quinn, sacrificing so much to live the life of a lone wolf, working and living on his own terms, realized that he didn’t know what he had until he lost it.
He called his maternal grandparents his biggest influences, even bigger influences than his parents. Yet he spurned them in their later years. When he came to his senses, he only had memories of a life he once lived before plunging into his ambitions.
He had a falling out with his younger sister, Jackie. Like Quinn, Jackie had her ambitions, but she never shoved her family to one side. She resented Quinn for it, while Quinn felt like Jackie had a “free ride” because of the well-off man she married.
Quinn may’ve achieved his ambitions, but it came with a price. Before he knew it, Jonas was the only family he had left beside him. Quinn started making amends with his mom and dad, but disaster struck, and America sank into a post-apocalyptic dystopia.
What happened next is the story I tell in Beyond the Lost Horizon. Join Quinn as he protects Yui, trying to redeem himself in the eyes of those he’d lost.
