Rafael's first appearance to me has always been a very striking moment, something that said more to me about his character than anything else: he stepped up to stop one of his own rats from raping Anita, a total stranger, at the risk of Nikolaos's wrath being brought against him . He was willing to take that risk so that an innocent (which Anita ended up not being, of course, but he had no idea who she was or would be then) would not be harmed. That says more to me about him than any of the 'well he did this awesome stuff offscreen!' gushing about Micah. Add that to throwing himself to the DoomCrotch for the sake of getting his people protection and benefits, and I think he's probably the most noble guy in this series.
I kind of hated to make a big deal of Eva being trans, but given that supernaturals in this series logically would know and the horrible danger that trans people do realistically face, it really felt almost disrespectful not to at least bring up how being in the supernatural community would doubly suck for someone like her.
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Date: 2013-05-10 01:21 am (UTC)I kind of hated to make a big deal of Eva being trans, but given that supernaturals in this series logically would know and the horrible danger that trans people do realistically face, it really felt almost disrespectful not to at least bring up how being in the supernatural community would doubly suck for someone like her.
Oh, the rats are going to have a side....