Creative powers flowing again

I've been reviewing what I've written for my main Naraya story, and I've noticed a problem with one of the characters, or at least with his initial description. The way I described him just doesn't feel, upon re-read, like it fits with the descriptions and the general tone of the first few chapters. A lot of parts of this story are supposed to be implicit critiques of genre and fandom trends, and each character exists for specific Doylist reasons. The viewpoint character Yaera is a scarred, ugly, stocky, middle-aged warrior who is also female and therefore bound to be erased from history because she doesn't fit her culture's notions of what a woman has to be like in order to be interesting. Other characters include the physically realistic female paladin, the brilliant science-magic nerd who had the misfortune to end up with a female body that can't be disguised anymore, the two visibly scarred rape-and-revenge story heroines (the one who will recover psychologically and the one who won't), the healer whose traits would be recognized as signs of genius in a male character and might get a female character recognized as a genius or at least fairly intelligent if she were in a non-helping-people profession, and the gay wizard who is not and never was and never will be a skinny pretty boy and has the emotional scars from Boarding School Hell to prove it. And this other character, Lohyu . . . well, he is a skinny pretty boy, and one whose backstory contains elements that are popular in the "angsty pretty boys angsting prettily" sub-genre. He's in this story instead of a typical "angsty pretty boys angsting prettily" story because I wanted to try a character who seems to fit the type but whose troubled past and ongoing issues are neither trivialized nor fixed by falling in love. The problem is, his introduction comes off as too much "Ooh, look at the prettiness!" I'm trying to work out how to change that so that it's clear both that the character does look a certain way and that he's there for honest thematic purposes rather than fan service. Right now, it looks like he's from a different, more prurient and morally simplistic story than everybody else.