YMMV / The Pyat Quartet

• Diagnosed by the Audience: Pyat is prone to wild delusions, has an exaggerated sense of self-importance, and keeps having some kind of weird attacks where he comes close to passing out for no apparent reason. How much of that is inborn and how much is caused by some kind of post-traumatic stress disorder from living through a civil war at a young age is unclear.
• Jerkass Woobie: Pyat is impossible to like, but equally impossible to not feel just a little bit sorry for.
• Squick: Pyat's relationship with Esmé. Never mind that he thinks she's the reincarnation of his childhood sweetheart (who isn't even dead, as he knows perfectly well), but he seems to consider her simultaneously his sister, daughter and wife, a combination he appears to see nothing strange about. Oh, and she's thirteen when he practically buys her off her parents and starts sleeping with her.
• Strawman Has a Point: As the foreword to the second novel admits, sometimes Pyat actually says something that you find yourself agreeing with. Considering that he seems to have at least three different contradicting opinions on every subject in the universe, it's kind of inevitable that he's occasionally right about something.