You are correct about Roulette, and Empath was definitely just rotten early on. He received some much needed character development that revealed him to essentially be a wounded, extremely lonely young man who used the empathic powers in bad ways to overcompensate. It didn't make him good, and it didn't make the bad crap he did okay. But I actually ended up feeling sorry for the character. I'm glad to see him back, but I really am hoping to see Catseye. She had a lot of potential.