Red is not just frighteningly in character, it is one of those stories I occasionally forget is NOT, in fact, canon.

Oh, excellent. It's an amazing story, and I never really had any doubt that it was in character, but it's good to know for sure. (And I must definitely remember to thank Best Beloved for reading it and then making me read it. In-home pimps are simultaneously the best and the worst of all possible worlds.)