It's never easy to deal with, but there are always others who at least understand how that can be, so none of us are truly alone even if it feels that way sometimes when dealing with the Dreams.
I like to think so as well. Being as it was the Reign of Terror, it was....well, a lot of people were killed and being able to save them was always good.
It can be. I mean, there was the time he was disguised as someone who was meant to keep an eye on me, or the time he tried to convince me who could pull off being a nun so I wasn't needed on a mission (he was wrong) but also he managed to be quite convincing as pretending to be the man who was essentially his nemesis. Far more so than the man himself!