At his best, Scrapper is bold and funny and sociable, and he tells great stories and dreams big dreams. But it's hard for Best Scrapper to come out, sometimes, because his earlier dreams are a now a long way from his latest reality, and you feel badly for him. You can't imagine what it must be like to have a piece of masonry crush your ankle; to have your leg rot with sickness; to endure the horrors of a surgeon slicing off a segment of you while you try to scream through the leather in your teeth. You would scarcely wish this upon the worst of the villains who hang from the gallows, let alone a friend.