You know, if there is one character in the Masked Empire I absolutely hated, it was Michel.
I didn't like Celene. I didn't like Gaspard. I didn't like Briala.
I despised Michel.
And honestly it's not even his fault. He's a little annoying. A little arrogant. (More than) a little self righteous. But compared to the other three, on his own, he's not that bad of a person.
But more than anyone, he was the character used to demonstrate that Chevaliers are badasses.
Now, I've always had the notion that Chevaliers were 70% hype. They were competent warriors, but nothing near what they considered themselves. Given that we can kill a few fairly easily in Mark of the Assassin, and just the general impression I've gotten, they're no more 'elite' than any other skilled military order in Thedas, just a lot more full of themselves.
Michel was the character used to say "No, they really are that good", so Michel became the character who I wanted to utterly destroy, just to put him and his order in their proper place.
It's not logical, it's not reasonable, and like I said, it's not his fault. But I want to stomp him into the mud and leave him as a broken shell of a man.
That describes how I felt every time I read a scene with him in the book.





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