When I first met Rosencrantz, my response was "ORANGE. BARBEDWIRE. WHO THE HELL?" When I learned more about him (he'd posed as a Riskbreaker, he'd been a Riskbreaker, he'd worked for Sydney, the Duke AND for the Church) I began to despise him almost as much as I did Guildenstern. I have this thing about betrayal. And lying. It's part of why I hate Sydney: he lied to John, he lied to his followers, he lied to Ashley and he lied to just about everybody.
I soon realized that I'd need to write out my picture of Rosencrantz for Academy. And it was then, at the end of that handwritten page and a half, that I began to respect him. I began to like him. He'd grown on me, in a fungi kind of way. But he'd still grown on me.
I didn't know what to do.
Upon browsing a link section, I happened upon Swansong (link provided later). Personally, I'd never really liked Grissom. I'd felt he'd gotten what was coming to him. I didn't hate him, I just had never fallen in love with him. I respected him a little. But not a lot: he wasn't an idiot, no, but he was certainly being an ass. I mean, come on! I'd killed his brother, why couldn't I kill him? On the flip side of that, he had idea what I was capable of.
Frankly, I think he was being an ass.
It was then, after my sixth read of Swansong, that the idea occured to me: make a webpage. Shout out to the world (and especially at Mooncalf): HE'S NOT SO BAD! REALLY! HE'S CRUEL! HE'S AMORAL! HE'S COMPLETELY GAY-LOOKING! BUT NO EVILER THAN GRISSOM!
And he really isn't, but I'm not going to explain why I think so here. This is just why I made the page.