Yeah, I should probably go ahead and change that disclaimer a bit…
But the important question remains… The pun. Did it land?
Upsetting them by doing their jobs better than they could ever possibly imagine? Does he taunt them, make them cry?
Or is this tied to the “scandal” bit?
…does the Chevalier follow intrigue and scandal, is it the other way around, or does it depend on what day of the week it is?
It landed with such force that much of the surrounding countryside has been reduced to a glass-like substance, a cloud of dust and ash is at this very moment darkening the skies across several continents. In the coming years temperatures will drop and crops will fail, and at the nexus of this strange calamity lies a small saucepan with eye-soup floating in it.
Well most of the evildoers the Chevalier targets are big contributors to the local constabulary, so they’re losing a Christmas bonus every time he steps out of the house.
A little of Column A and a little of Column B, really. His shirt is so densely ruffled that Noble Ladies are wont to faint at the sight of it.
Are you sure you didn’t fall and hit your head? 
This is still the “noble” path we’re talking about right? The kind of people who will murder innocents in cold-blood for shits and giggles (or to test ancient contraptions)?
Well he won’t have to commute too far to find evildoers then, will he?
Wherein lies the problem?
It just wouldn’t be seen as “noble” right? Certainly not by well-bred and raised “gentlepeople”.
Also if it is Gray’s secret identity, as opposed to the prince’s, I would like to point out that he does take part in those sorts of things during the day, so to speak. As witnessed by his involvement in the murder of one Flash.
Excellent. Now that I’ve written an unnecessarily long lead up to a pun that appears to have landed somewhat successfully… I can retire, hang up my…um… writerly things that people hang up when they retire.
From writing.
edit: whoa… looks like my writing career was a… flash in the pan.
I’d ask about the Noble Lords… and I’m going to. How does Le Chevalier Noir sweep the gents of their feet?
He’s probably atoning for his sins… I mean, if anime has taught me anything.
Or the guy’s just a fun ball of contradictions.
Presumably that’s a spoiler we’ll find out by either playing a male Flash on the noble path or romancing the prince. 
If he continues to gleefully commit them by day, I’d say that atonement is going nowhere fast. 
If he really is a crazy droid, like us, this is rather more likely.
Oh no, another reason to play through one or two or…eight more times! sigh If I must…
Ooh, that’s why he’s ingratiated himself with the nobles… He can wrack up atonement points just as fast as he can lose 'em. Balance in all things.
…y’know, given the Tuxedo Mask vibe I’m getting off this guy… does that mean noble male MC and/or the Prince fill the role of Sailor Moon…?
The Black Chevalier is an Agent Provocateur, something that the nobles of Kadana neither want nor abide. Mr Gray is the faithful servant of one of the great Noble houses.
The two of them seem to have very different ends.
Mr Gray works tirelessly to protect his Lady’s interests and by extension the interests of her Class, while the Chevalier delights in exposing scandal, rooting out excess and blackening otherwise spotless reputations. The two are quite at odds on paper.
My third act twist! NOOOOO!!!
Does that mean he’ll make a cameo in the Rebel path too?
But I can say you’ve worn me down, even if it means working with the real Flash’s murderers for petty reasons I’ve now absolutely got to try male Flash droid as “Noble” too.
is… that how he’s making himself useful to Lady Calinas? “exposing” some of her secrets as Le Chevalier Noir, covering them up as mild mannered and all around beauteous butler, Mr. Gray?
Le Chevalier Noir and the Burned Man meet…
I need to see this…
(I keep going French, why?)
It’s got to be the Prince, my Flash droid doesn’t like schoolgirl uniforms.
And yet at least two of the most powerful nobles will probably end up desiring him very badly. 
That’s fine, he can be the Moonlight Knight.
But do both desire Le Chevalier? Does one yearn for the servant’s subtle sensuality… while the other needs the Knight’s tantalizing touch?
That’d be… some bizarre love triangle… square… shape.
Since I like to think that both the Prince and my Flash droid are clever enough to figure out the secret at some point will it really matter?
Though I think my Flash likes his chevalier persona slightly better, it is also certainly the even better (or at least sexier) dressed one. Once the secret is out or they’re in that kind of relationship he’d pretty much cease to be a servant anyway, at least behind closed doors.
Besides the Chevalier’s secret (and the fact that both he and Flash are myrmidons) it would be a perfectly normal relationship by the standards of the game-world.
Post reveal, agreed. Absolutely no problems that I can see.
…and that’s where the nickname Mr Fifty Shades comes from…
Wonder if Thinker droid Flash can find a copy of that book somewhere in the Upper Brain, if he does he could read it to both of them and pretend it’s really badly written pre-fall poetry. That ought to be good for a few laughs.
But yeah, all that subservience in public does need an outlet and might very well mean that he’s the leading man behind closed doors more often than not.
…if I didn’t literally just retire from writing, I’d write a fanfic based on this, change some names and setting details… Up poorly researched S&M instances twentyfold…
Then publish it as my own IP and make a crapton of money. I might call it To Service Man…
Well and at least one other machine.
Ugh, don’t remind me, the relationship in the book is definitely a bad one. Yes to the average reader the dominance and control aspects might seem intriguing, but that sort of thing, just like any other kind of good romantic relationship, is ultimately about trust and communication. The only difference being that you need to trust your partner(s) more and, yes, it potentially makes the naughty parts (much) more exiting.
But, uh we’d best not continue that line of discussion on these forums, suffice it to say “Fifty Shades” is a badly written book that makes me doubt the author has ever experienced such things herself.
I knew I’d win you over eventually. All it took was a handsome prince and a roguish man of mystery with impossibly tight trousers.
The Chevalier isn’t working for Lady Calinas, if anything she’s hoping he dies before turning his attentions to her. Mr Gray makes a point of carefully agreeing.
You keep going French because the situation demands it.
Two Royal Consorts? How deliciously decadent.
Perhaps some sort of four-dimensional lattice that feeds back into itself based on your playthroughs?
I never explicitly stated that Mr Gray was a Myrmidon! You inferred it!
Good idea, I’ll stop that train of thought at this station.
However, this is nowhere near the worst I’ve gotten on this thread. But those are dark days, best left forgotten…
Isn’t the law “Presumed Myrmidon until the author says Myrmi-don’t be daft?”
You’ve never explicitly denied it, as far as I’ve seen…
In fact, you’ve never confirmed nor denied whether or not you’re a Myrmidon…