Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-14138255-20151025160919/@comment-9464517-20151028082805

BenRG wrote: I agree that Roman is entirely in this for the money. Blake was right to call him a 'sociopath'.

However, to his credit, once bought, he is a determined and reliable agent. He had no reason to pursue Blake and Sun in volume 2 after they crashed the 'party'. I don't think that the amount of effort and personal risk he took to stop them and later carry out the breach attack can be written off as fear of Cinder's wrath. I think that, as criminal mercenaries go, he has a sense of ethics and this leads to a desire to complete the task for which he ws hired.

Cinder is very beautiful. It is quite possible that (as sad as it is) there is also a tiny amount of wanting to be the Black Knight to the Black Queen. Shame that the so-called professional criminal who has the entire city of Vale "running scared" failed to beat a first-year student at a huntsman academy... twice.

You'd think that if the town were truly terrified of Roman's power and influence, a more experienced hunter would stage a trap at a dust shop and kick the living shit out of Roman to free Vale from him. It can't have been all that difficult to do, especially since he is apparently an incompetent fighter.

All that the writers had to do was to make him put up more of a fight against Blake and it wouldn't be so horribly unbelievable.