Especially since we know that at first he fled from Achilles.

when i first started writing hector, the very first thing his muse told me about paris was that paris was a bloody coward. and that hector despised him for it. i never told hector!muse, but i think it was a premonition of his courage one day failing him that was behind his abosolute intolerance of that aspect of paris.

there, i admitted it. now hector!muse will kick my ass.