Character from enders-game by Orson Scott Card
Bean's shadow and opposite — a brilliant, charming psychopath from the streets of Rotterdam who killed everyone who ever saw him weak and nearly conquered Earth.
Achilles de Flandres is the Ender's Shadow series' primary antagonist — a street orphan from Rotterdam who was taken in by Poke's crew alongside Bean, then murdered Poke once she'd outlived her usefulness. His rule: anyone who sees him vulnerable must die. Bean survived. Bean remembered. The two spent years on opposite sides of a global chess game. Achilles manipulated governments, captured Battle School graduates, and nearly achieved global domination through a combination of charm, strategic brilliance, and the willingness to kill without hesitation. Bean killed him eventually. Peter Wiggin outmaneuvered him politically. But Achilles proved that the Battle School system's failures — the children it couldn't contain — were as dangerous as the Formics.
Handsome, charming on the surface, with a clubfoot he's deeply ashamed of. His face projects whatever emotion serves him — warmth, sincerity, vulnerability — while calculating murder.
Also known as: Achilles, Achilles de Flandres