Apart from being secretive, Michael develops a powerful attraction that goes over just a front, an appearance or an enigmatic image.

The most fascinating is that NIKITA series is revealing the unanimous craze of all women in the world for Michael. A worldwide phenomenon of all ages and social conditions. I am a witness, having received letters coming from all part of the world, and everyone having a NIKITA's website will confirm this. There was a need that was waiting to be filled. That made me think. First searching into myself and around me, widely around me, as well as throughout History.

Michael will put his spell on you in many ways. Without knowing it, for reasons anchored in the feminine imagination and which history goes back centuries ago...It is a legend and a product of western civilization as I said before. Without boundaries and for precise reasons due both to Roy's charisma and to his masculine attributes. He carries with him all the necessary charms that would not leave a woman indifferent and he is also hiding behind a screen so tight that even Nikita has trouble to define him. A perfect hero, divinely handsome and mysterious...an irresistible formula, tested for over 1000 years, even if data and other details are not always available.

Of all the male heroes that have filled pages and pages of old tales and legends over the centuries, there one that fits perfectly to Michael's image. The character is so close to him that I am wondering if the creators of the series did not get some inspiration from him. To corroborate my doubts, one of the writers had mention the same ideas during an interview.

So follow me, as I am taking you for a small time travel...

One morning of spring 1997

It started when traveling on the suburban train, Boisbriand-Montréal, going to work. This train is the Mercedes of our public transportation system. It is not too crowded and you can enjoy some calm and tranquility. In total isolation, listening to my walkman, rocked by some blues or by Montsegur by La Nef ( a Quebec group which performing medieval music), my attention entirely drawn on a page of "Lancelot of the Lake". A fat pocket book which was giving me two versions of a same story. The page on the left hand side was a strict version of the Era and on the right hand side a sort of modern version which allowed us, people of modern era, to understand the essence of that prose of the 13th Century.

I was reading a description of the hero. Lancelot is a character larger than life who has nothing in common with the Lancelot of First Knight's movie . He is mysterious and entrancing, devoting his life to his love and knighthood. He is a man of one woman, although dozens of dames and virgins will fall in love with him and even few men, he will remain faithful to his passion. Unfortunaly, this will lead to his downfall and also to the entire kingdom as everyone knows. He falls in love with Guenevere who happens to be married to King Arthur. A fabulous story for beginning to end. But lets stick to the facts which was the description of the hero on page 141.

While reading, Lancelot appeared to me. I was staggered...

700 years ago, some fellow had described him so close as possible to the norms of the time. No doubt, it could have been the vision of a woman. The description is too close to the emotions of both sexes, so it must have been written of a mutual agreement.

Excerpts : Translation in green, in white the original version in old French (13th).

He had a beautiful complexion, not too white, not
Il fu de mout belle chaneüre, ne bien blans ne
too brown, but as mixed one and other:
ne bien bruns mais entremeslez d'un et d'autre:
He had a small mouth and well proportioned...
Il ot la boiche petite par messure et bien seant...
A nice chin with a small dimple, a long nose
lo menton bien fait a une petite fossette, lo nes par
with a small prominence at the middle, joyous greenish
messure lonc, un po hautet el milieu, les iauz vairs et rianz
blue eyes when he was happy.
et plains de joie, tant com il estoit liez.
But when he was angry, they looked like fire.
Mais quant il estoit iriez a certes. il en sanbloit
His forehead was holding high,
charbon espris... lo front ot haut et puis bien seant
with brown eyebrows, and chestnut brown hair,
les sorcils bruns...les chevox droit soret, crespes par
pleasantly curly. Of his neck, nothing much to say.
mesure et mout plaisanz.De son col ne fait mie a
demander.

He had high and square shoulders which were most acceptable.
Les espaules furent lees et hautes a raison.
His chest was so large, never seen on a normal man, never as big and deep.
Mais li piz fu tex qe en nul tel cors ne trovast an si gros ne si large ne si espés;
That was the only thing that censors could reproach him,
ne an lui nr trova onques nus hom plus reprandre ,
and every one that had to examine him said the same,
ainz disoient tuit cil qui lo devisoient que s'il fust un po
adding that if he had a smaller chest, he would have a better
mains garniz de piz, plus an fust atalantables et
look. But it has happened that the one who looked at him
plaisanz. Mais puis avint que cele qui desor toz autres
most was the brave Queen Guenevere and she said
lo devisa, ce fut la vaillanz reine Genievre dist
that God had not provided him with such a large chest
que Dex ne li avoit pas doné piz a outraige, de grant
not as big or voluminous;
ne de gros ne d'espesseté qui i fust, car
because his heart was as big and should have
autresin estoit granz li cuers en son endroit si covenist
naturally exploded, if it has not found necessary room
que il crevast par estovoir, s'il n'eüst tel estage o il se
to rest.
reposast a sa mesure.
Lancelot du Lac, Lettres Gothiques. Livre de poche.Paris.1991.p.141

The rest of the description is more conventional and may apply to most of men. But my attention was drawn upon the the above comments, and by the similarities between Roy-Lancelot-Michael.

Descriptions of curly hair are often repeated in Lancelot. In an other book on Medieval Library published by 10/18, there is a mention of rebel hair that he shakes off after removing his helmet. Each time Roy takes off his helmet when coming off his motorcycle (Scoop/NIKITA), reminds me of that picture. It is also the same picture, when he is wearing his helmet, with the face mask up, and I can imagine seeing his eyes through the guard of Lancelot's helmet.

Also in the above description, the color of Lancelot's eyes made me smile: "vairs" . This word does not exist anymore in French ( but vair sounds the same as "vert", which means green), instead we use the word "pers" which means the same color; greenish blue or blue-green. When it comes to describe the color of the eyes, very little change from the 11th to the 21th century. There is also a mention of two clear emeralds...Amazing analogy between Roy and the proud Lancelot... Roy's chin dimple is there and regarding the nose: " high in the middle", that's a bit special. In NIKITA, in some close-up shots, we will notice a similarity, thanks God that he doesn't have a Hollywood nose, every nose identically, straight and perfect. He is still a human being not a virtual creature. Large shoulders and chest that's fine. In a 1990 Chatelaine issue, I saw an article on Roy's shoulders compared to the shoulders of a plowman. I liked the image. True that he has a large chest for a man of that size. He must be very strong.

And regarding the large chest that Nature provided Lancelot in comparison with his generous soul, it also fits Roy very well.

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