Let's see.
SORCERER
Serpentine Bloodline: get some cool fluff, a bite attack, and the ability to have Charm/Dominate Person apply to EVERYTHING. Excellent setup for a villain.
Fey Bloodline: +2 to Compulsion DCs. Want to specialize in enchantment and mess with enemies and NPC's heads? Go for this.
WIZARD
Illusion Specialist (Mage of the Veil): Why not? All sorts of fun things you can do with illusions; off the top of my head, create an illusion of an orc encompassing a random bystander and watch his best friend murder him. Muahaha.
Plenty of good ideas. You really are limited only by your imagination.
One magic item, eh? Hmm... How about a Ring of Spell Knowledge I/II? It's a handy little thing that gives a spontaneous arcane caster an extra spell known; better yet, a spell known that can be changed with a simple spellcraft check. Even better, if you have a level II one, you can learn a first-level spell from ANY class.
A wizard couldn't use it.
I'd really recommend digging out a sorcerer guide. I could post a link but I'm too lazy; google 'Pathfinder Sorcerer Guide'. Basically, max out Cha and put a decent bit in Dex and slightly less in Con. Dump Str if you want.
Ehhhh... sounds like too much hard work to me. I'd more recommend that you say you're a Sorcerer/Wizard but understate your abilities; cast mostly Hastes and a few Battlefield Control spells, maybe a few evocations, keep your specialization in Enchantment and Illusion as a surprise.
starts off just sorta being a jerk, but eventually turns evil.
Being a jerk works better as a Wizard - Sorcerers have the charisma to pull off the "lovable rascal" routine.
Tellis, you do know that Wizards, like Sorcerers and all casters, have limited spells-per-day? Every caster can eventually run out of spells (excepting 0th-level spells)
Sorcerers are spontaneous casters and wizards need their spellbooks to have spells prepared.
So a sorcerer who gets 3 x 3rd level spells can can ANY of his known 3rd level spells 3x/day.
Example:
Sorcerer knows Fireball, lightning bolt, and dispel magic. He can cast 3x fireballs or 3x lightning bolts, or 3x dispel magic. He can cast 2x fireball and 1x lightning bolt, or 1 of each. He can cast ANY combination of the 3 spells he sees fit after 8 hours of rest each day.
A wizard is limited to being able to cast what he has prepared after resting and studying his spellbook. So if he knew those three spells and learned them for the day he'd only be able to cast 1x of each of them. Or he could prepare 2x fireball and 1x lightning bolt, but he wouldn't be able to cast any more of them.
Wizards end up with having more spells in the end, being able to cast more per day.
Does that make sense?
Is your DM okay with you being evil? It could cause much more trouble if the other players get mad.
Why just not have the DM NPC him instead? I know that I would not want to play in a group where a player was working against us and then becomes the bad guy.
I've actually thought about doing something similar in a game. Basically it'd be me helping co-GM the campaign with my character being the inside guy for the BBEG starting out. Then further along it could play out in many different ways with the PC either becoming the BBEG in the end and turning on the other PCs or he could turn his back on his boss and become redeemed. It would be interesting to play out and see what happens I think.
I am inclined to suggest a witch, makes for a great villain.
Thematically I like sorcerer better than a wizard, perhaps make it wisdom based and add on a monk level.
You could go for an eldritch knight build if you want to pass yourself off as a martial type. Possibly an anti-paladin with sorcerer levels. A gunslinger / wizard (spellslinger archetype) might be fun depending on the campaign.
I'd even consider arcane trickster because it is an excellent class to be sneaky and eventually 'backstab' the party. Can enter it as an alchemist vivisectionist 3 wizard 3 for example. Though ninja 3 sorcerer 4 appeals to me as well.
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Constructs. There a tad expensive but there loyal minions that will never turn against u and will do what ever u ask of them. A properly designed construct can wreak havoc on people. In the game im playing currently i have a construct with a humanoid body that has 12 other constructs on it, Run Guardians, and a Rifle located in one of its arm slots. Rifle does nice sniper shots while the Rune Guardians detach and use at will Magic Missile attacks every round. There is 4 Rune Guardians on its front torso, back torso, 2 on each leg and 2 on each arm. Im currently saving up to build me a another construct with Rocket packs on its shoulders, in its torso, an on the sides of its legs, with its arms/hands acting as Flame throwers with Burning Hands or Dragon Breath Perma enchanted on it. Btw Rocket packs are perfectly doable in a game that has access to fireworks. Reason being is the Chinese. The only problem with Mr. Rockets is that it cant reload it self so some one else will have to do that for it.
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U dont want golems because they cost 2-5x as much as constructs and all of them have a weakness of some sort. The Rune Guardians should definitly be available to u. A construct u could pull off would be a horseless cart with a canon pointed out the front with repeating crossbow mounted on a pedestal on each side to act as turrets. This War Wagon would be a great means of transportation as well as dominant fire power.
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Also another idea playing off the Constructs is making cloud killers. Using alchemy u could make canisters of heavy poison gas and place it in a flying construct. Have the construct swoop over villages carpeting the areas in poison. It wont work against mid-high level characters but against those low level nameless NPCs it should be able to get the job done nicely. Also u could use the same tactic but with grease or some other flammable substance and have the same construct light it on the return by dropping a single dose alchemist fire. Both ways will rack up those evil points since u will be committing mass murder, destruction of property, disturbing the peace, and in some cases genocide.
Wizard
Enchantment/charm Controller specialist
Illusion as a backup
Have him manipulate the perception of those around the victem while manipulateing the victem at the same time.
Victems quote: "It wasant ME it was the 1 armed man."
Have him start out with little things like acting out when he dosent get his way and so on, have this ramp up quickley to forceing npc's to commit atrocitys to shift the groups attntion away from him so he can do as he pleases.
@annoyingorange, I don't know a single thing about witches. I will have to go home tonight and look up a guide or something to get a flavor for them. Nothing is automatically ruled out in this character, so any idea is really valuable to me.
Why would you do a wisdom-based sorc, as opposed to a charisma based.
@psion-psycho, that idea is pretty E-VIL, but I don't know if we'll be quite that tech savvy. I think about the closest that I could get is a shield golem.
wisdom based mainly for the add on of a monk level which boosts defenses by quite a bit, which might be a good thing depending on the party's covered characters.
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Also another idea playing off the Constructs is making cloud killers. Using alchemy u could make canisters of heavy poison gas and place it in a flying construct. Have the construct swoop over villages carpeting the areas in poison. It wont work against mid-high level characters but against those low level nameless NPCs it should be able to get the job done nicely. Also u could use the same tactic but with grease or some other flammable substance and have the same construct light it on the return by dropping a single dose alchemist fire. Both ways will rack up those evil points since u will be committing mass murder, destruction of property, disturbing the peace, and in some cases genocide.
Also with this in mind u should get the Animate Undead spells and make all those villagers undead minions of urs to use as u see fit.