Something about Matt being so absolutely brutal on the battlefield is strangely satisfying to me.

GOD RIGHT? The disconnect between who Matt is and what he's good at gives me such brain rot. He's not a good person! There's this disconnect between French and Anglo and between perception and reality that just drives me up a wall with fascination. How the culture that produced me went from the ghouls who haunted the northern border to uwu polite anglo's and sexy but weak French Canadians just ??? I've talked about this before so it might be annoying but it's incredible how it's even possible. And the way it was done largely by American media??? New Englanders were scared shitless by French Canadians even after British conquest and American independence. Why are the trees speaking French? A New England militiaman might have asked. And the answer is a French boarding axe through the back of the skull. Matt doesn't like to think about it, he wants to have that idealism and decency Alfred sticks to as a man if not as an entity but when hammer strikes anvil, he doesn't give a shit about what he has to do. He will live another day. When it comes down to the wire, MAtt doesn't give a shit if he's fighting for the French or the British or the Americans because La survivance is the best whetstone he could ask for. Francis didn't do shit for Matt his entire life and it was nothing but what Canada could give between Matt and the reaper's scythe for most of his life. Matt can be downright cruel, much less efficient!