I've been thinking about this for a while now: I wondered whether making council leader Tak his canon path. I'm enjoying the idea of him having a devious and lusty side he openly induges in, but being a council member kinda puts on too much expectations for him to be more well behaved. Stifles his hyper and uncontrollable aspects too much to be properly enjoyed.
He can be well behaved, and he inspires genuine love and respect from his subordinates. But he's a hyper snek with some serious virility first and foremost.
This only applies to Canon Tak. Umbrella Corp Tak and other noncanon versions of him don't have this problem, because he's a CEO of a mega Corp or a secret agent or something. People won't have as high of expectations of him if he's any of that. The problem I discovered was that if he's ONE of a GROUP of rulers of a nation, he has to confer to the nation's rules and he's expected to behave accordingly. Civilians don't really know what he's about behind the scenes. But if he's any of those other roles, those who join him follow HIM, not his nation. They know the risk and dangers of working close to him and his suppressed breeding urges, but they do so anyway because he's just that cool.

After discussing this with some buddies, I came up with a possible path; instead of being an official part of the Bastion's government, Tak is instead a really powerful and influential noble, mob boss, PMC captain or something similar to a Rogue Trader, who has a hand in the Council Of Twelve. He isn't officially a Council member, but he has so much influence he might as well be. This way, he isn't expected to conduct himself like one of them and is free to mostly do his own thing instead of being stuck with the responsibilities of a Councilor.

You can compare him to how the Cartel controls the Mexican government, except he's not as much of an asshole and has mostly good intentions for the Bastion. He might run a privateer company, sponsor or own an adventurer's guild, have his own venues and clubs he likes to personally perform in, sells his blueprints and patents to manufacturers, run spy networks with professional freaky agents, funds and get involved in Biocraft research, and the Council and other nobles might outsource interrogation and execution of serious criminals to him since he and his cronies are good at that. So many more possibilities for him, and much less limitations that I've been feeling like his character was having. Do tell me what you think~