Rigel is the male interest in a romance novel, ‘The Tearsmith’. It is a tear jerker & amazing film/book. He is dark, mysterious, and villainized. In the end it is uncovered that his intentions were never evil, rather pure and self-sacrificial. Whenever an explanation is asked of his name, they say he was named after a star, NOT FOOT. He was the favorite of his orphanage, and the evil woman that ran the establishment named him after a star as a symbol of his superiority.