A truly psychologically fascinating character, if I do say so myself.
He started out as your basic bad-to-the-bone monster, and then Batman, Mr. Freeze, Darth Vader, Zaheer, Jack Skellington, Edward Scissorhands, Disney's Beast, and Alan Rickman's Severus Snape (most of all) gave me other ideas.
He's no saint by any means, but he's no demon, either. He doesn't want to be pitied, only understood.
And that's what makes his relationship with Reid work, because Reid knows full well what Beowulf has done back then and is more than capable of now, and yet the boy also knows even werewolves (some of them, anyway) could use a little love. He fully meets Beowulf's requirements of caution and compassion.
It helps that Beowulf has mellowed out a great deal in his old age. While still a dangerous creature, in spite of said age, he holds back more and is a lot more prone to letting certain things slide. For instance, he still doesn't like liars (he used to call a liar worse than a murderer) but he won't threaten liars with bodily harm like he used to. He even understands that, while lying is never an ideal practice, certain truths can be far more than certain people can handle.
Moreover, he doesn't condone what Trent, Tallis, Ann, Marlon, Adela, Shea, or Tyrell have done, but he feels more sympathy toward all of them than anything else. He sums them up like this: "They're complicated people, and they go out of their way to make themselves more so."
Even when he's nice to you, his verbal praise is exceedingly rare. It takes an extra special kind of person to win his 100% approval.
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