YMMV / Camouflage

• Complete Monster: Argile, the corrupt Archbishop of Tigue, is initially portrayed as a self-righteous, hypocritical zealot obsessed with persecuting gay men and verbally abusing and mocking others, including his own clerics. He enters the story with his previous actions having a grim impact on the setting, and he later accepts Danilo's offer to pay for Luc's "crime" so Danilo can save Luc's life. Argile watches with glee as Danilo goes through with said offer, which is to have one of Danilo's testicles removed. Even after the deed is done, Argile sentences Luc to death anyway and blackmails Danilo to keep him under his control. It is later revealed that Argile has been raping the convicts—many of whom were also castrated under his orders—right before they are executed; Luc is also raped as well before his planned execution. Danilo finally confronts Argile and proposes to save Luc's life again by offering his body to him. Argile responds by sending his servant to strip and tie him, blackmailing him into getting raped anyways and not intending to save Luc's life at all. A complete sociopath with no altruistic qualities, Argile is seen by Danilo as a cautionary tale against homophobia, and what would happen if he did not fight for LGBT rights.
• Moral Event Horizon: Argile technically already crossed it long ago, but we first see the full extent of his malevolence when he accepts Danilo's offer to be castrated in order to spare Luc's life... and verbally taunts him, watches the procedure with clear satisfaction, and screws him out of the deal, sending Luc to be executed anyways.
• Nausea Fuel:
  • The lovely depictions of lack of sanitation in Tigue in 1508 A.D., such as the dung filled streets, filth and what happens to untreated wounds. However, the one thing that deserves the cake is Danilo's castration, both the description in medieval France and the one given to him by modern-day doctors after he was saved from the river.
  • Coumier's burning at the stake, which Danilo is forced to witness.
• The Woobie: Luc, as to be expected from a gay man in 1508 A.D.. Among other things, he has seen many of his loved ones being caught by the church and burned at the stake (including the former lover), was castrated, is forced to prostitute himself, was caught by the church right when starting a new relationship, and is tortured in prison, including being raped by Argile.