Well, it's no secret that I've written some pretty deplorable characters into my stories.  Some of them have gone from love-to-hate to love-to-love.  Like James Fox.  And I thoroughly enjoyed writing his story of redemption.  It was the most emotional story I had written at the time, but it worked for him.   Others, like Julian Parker, I feel no need to redeem.  The man destroyed Amelia's artwork.  That's just a no-no.  And my real life Amelia even agreed that there was no coming back from that.