Classical heroes and modern demands for moral purity

A planned urban-fantasy protagonist combines an unusually strong commitment to doing good with the trauma of a former special-operations soldier. Alex Clarke compares modern expectations of heroic perfection with Greek heroes who could perform heroic deeds while remaining subject to ego and personal failings. Glynn Stewart stresses that his new protagonist is good without being perfect. He has not yet started writing him and expects him to be less rigid than some earlier characters. In those earlier cases, an inability to compromise on moral rules became the character's greatest weakness.