Instead, the character is described as a sort of "complicated good guy"—and even that word "good" is used loosely, as his early incarnations involved him being a thief, a murderer, and a pimp. The trilogy doesn't whitewash his past; it uses it to explain his present.

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What ultimately defines "Rafian on the Edge" is his complexity. Sci-fi is filled with badasses. It is filled with tragic orphans. But Rafian VCA is unique because he refuses to evolve into a purely virtuous character. As Dragon notes in his guest post, The Importance of Being A Fan of Your Own Book , Rafian is a "debonair, galaxy-hopping good guy," but writing him purely as a hero would have been boring.