Gaston Junot

 Gaston Donatien Junot is the main antagonist of ''the Gathering Dark. ''In 1788, he serves as the Marquis de Vallois's valet, and during the French Revolution he is politically radical and serves as a member of the French National Guard and as the head of a Revolutionary Comittee.

Background
Gaston was born in Paris, France, the son of a lawyer. His mother died when he was four years old (Book 1, Ch 8), and his father abandoned him at the age of twelve. He spent two years in an orphanage before finally escaping to get menial work and live on his own. At the age of sixteen, he was hired by Céline de Toussaint, the Marquise de Vallois, to serve as a valet for her son, Charles.

Personality
Gaston is self-serving, manipulative, and sociapathic, but he is adept at hiding these unsavoury traits from others in order to decieve them. For the most part he keeps a cool, collected facade that hides his jealous and calculating mind. He does come off as sullen to others, but they often just accept this as the way he is despite there being much more to it than that.