See, you're so incsive with characters. It's wonderful. I think the contradictions thing is a really great point. People see all the ways he can be refined and think that he can't also be ruthless and stupid and tough. As if he didn't get covered in blood and crow about killing men in the very first episode.

If I set out to focus on the contradictions and try to write it, however, I think I would tie myself up in knots and miss the mark. *muses*