I've always assumed that I'm the hero in this story about me, just as you're the hero in the story about you. Or if not the hero, at least the protagonist. That's the way it's meant to be. In your story about you, every detail is informed and justified; it's easy to understand why you behave the way you do, even when your doing something wrong. Your narrator, or G-d, or whoever's been watching it unfold, knows the full story and as an audience member, can easily sympathize with you. Your narrator wants the protagonist to prevail.
When things are terrible, I turn to the vinyl and silicone. You guys understand, don't you? You can see and recognize that some sort of hell's going on right now, right? You know the context of the pain, you know the heart that loved too much, for too many people, you know that I'm not really bad, don't you?
And of course, they don't.
But it helps to think it, anyway. So then maybe, I'm not the protagonist after all. I start to think that I'm a villan. My misanthropy is cleverly disguised by a genuine love all living things. Maybe I'm not an activist and an advocate, but rather a grouch and a contrarian.
This character was created to address the fact that some people are just plain grouchy. The idea here is that you may have neighbors, people in your community, characters in your life who are always in a foul mood and will argue the contrary in almost any situation, and that it's ok to love and befriend these people any way.
I do think though, that a childhood version of myself would be absolutely heart broken to know that in adulthood, I'd grow to be that way. Yesterday a co-worker told me that it's funny how jovial and unconditionally loving I seem, when in reality I'm a real asshole. Can't a person be both. Isn't a person inherently both?
And if not, am I meant to just embrace myself as "bad"? Do I have to stop having opinions and thoughts to become good? Offended at me being offended, (what?), do people, really, honestly get offended by advocating for what seems right? Yes, I guess yes. And people sure do get upset when something they care about gets attacked...(my outspoken response to the total bullshit Amanda Palmer is pulling right now has her fans in a downright tizzy! It's actually a bit funny...I guess that's why I'm a bad guy).
This is what "bad" looks like. I put on a special crown and made a video about a birthday.
Can I be bad and also be good? Does my badness make my goodness a lie? And if so, why can't it work the other way around? 
Stay warm and safe in the snow snow snow.
I think I may just use the simple and easy sex as a present