"Not too much of one. He's kind-hearted and encouraging, offering 'therapy sessions' and planning parties. He's also willfully ignoring problems around him. If you stab him, you'll draw his partner's ire, Captain Blackbeard. But he's old and slow; you'd have him in a fight easily, I think. I did."

It shrugs. "Anyway, yeah, Stede's...not someone for whom I hold a lot of respect."