We all know what Richard is meant to be. A crazy mass murder, but he doesn't seem so evil to me.
I know he killed a father very very early in the series, but his personality changes over the course of the series.
First thing to show that is the village he viped off when they time traveled. They were supposed to be the Vulli elite and I doubt Richard (who is a few hundred years old magician) doesn't know something like that. He also cares very much for his bunny and his people and of course his friends.

just one thing, about your screen name..

it's Fwoosh, not Swoosh. ;_;

Just one thing, about your screen name..

Find it funny

Anyways yes i have realized this.
But remember he was at the court?
Something in his past was changing him.
Also

"there is something behind the darkness"
"i'm very deep"

Remember those lines?

His personality changes over the course of the series? My god, could that actually be... character development?

Seriously, is it so hard to imagine that a character might change when traveling with new people. May not, and in fact shouldn't, be a total overhaul of their personality, but a few subtle differences from beginning to end are bound to happen.

Richard has become to.. neutral i think though or to "Good" he isnt the insane homicidal warlock anymore. he kinda just like everyone else now. from what it seems in the past couple of pages.

You mean the pages where he decided that he was gonna fight off the Brothers/Sisters, severely charring at least one of their hands in the process, rather than just hand over the bunny?

Besides, I think he looks at it in the long term. The longer the war with Legara lasts, the more of them he gets to slaughter without consequence. With that thinking, it just makes sense to help out Cale's team.

And remember, children; you can't spell "slaughter" without "laughter".

Aside from which, the Harry Potter fandom, Snape contingent, apply "swoosh" to the sound that Snape's eobes make when walking through the corridors at Hogwarts. Richard also wears robes which, I imagine, would also make a nice swooshing sound.

Personally, I always thought of him as an anti-hero. At least later on in the series when he shows bits of compassion and goodness.

Light on the hero part. If this wasn't a webcomic Richard would have had his comeuppence by now for all the things he's done. But seeing as its a webcomic he can be a jerk and never feel any repercussions. Same with Rayne from LICD, he would have caught an STD by now but for the fact its a webcomic.

Yeah dude... That's called "Character evolution". You can't possibly have a good story with a character that stays consistent the whole time. Because people don't work like that, as silly as it sounds, the comic's characters are "people" too. And people change based on their experiences and actions, followed by the reactions and things they see from thier deeds. Cale for instance began the comic as a bold and noble righteous warrior. While he still is to an extent, having to "kill" the child in Kethenacia and his experiences with Richard have taught him that sometimes there is never a good descision, but there is a right one. Or how he confronted Pella about killing the gnome guards, that is a pretty changing experience to have someone you trust betray what you saw in them. Cale is becoming less of a goody-two-shoes-dellusional and becoming more and more of a leader as time goes on. That's Cale's development.

Richard's... is hard to really examine. He still is slaughtering just because he can, but for the most part, recently in comics there has been less random deaths of simple passersby and Richard trying to find his way along with Cale. As he said in the courts, his path is changing him. While he will always be the goofy murdering maniac he was first made as, he is becoming less of a chaotic murdering maniac and more or less, putting his lust for bloodshed to Cale's benefit.

I disagree with you there. I'll admit that the bunny is basically his best friend, but the others are kind of iffy. For instance:

"Did you do as I asked with all the women and children?"
"Yes, my lord. But the catapult could only fire four of them at once."

Or...

"I hear something from the forest. Where Cale and benny are. It sounds like he's hurting her.
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GOOD JOB, CALE! I'LL HELP YOU BURY THE BODY!"

I think that Richard either has his own deeper, secret agenda in all this, or he's just tagging along because he thinks he'll get some fun out of killing everything that gets in their way. But I really don't see him caring about anyone but himself.
And the bunny.

There's also that issue with his supposed "selfless" act that freed him of his curse. He might have just out-thought his imp - maybe he figured that the imp would make a way to break the spell that Richard would never think of. So he thought outside the box and allowed himself one "selfless" act in the hope that it would break the curse. (Not to mention the fact that his first act after regaining his power through his "selflessness" was getting personal revenge on the imp. Not exactly the most noble act after one has regained his powers through "goodness".)