Aw, honey...I'm so glad you liked it. I'd wanted to write them together since we talked about it a while back. So part of this is down to you too. XXxX
I loved getting into his very warped head. He's so different than my normal cocky pretty boys (who of course insisted on cameos). One of the challenges of Beholder is to make the not so loveable loveable, and I think Moody deserves it.
In my head canon, he was kind of hot in his youth. No reason why there wasn't that still lurking beneath the surface.