Name: Aurelian of Solaris Rival: Prince Lucian Personality: Warm, approachable, cheerful, polite, encouraging towards others, diligent, diplomatic, humble (despite his status) eager to earn raises from those he respects, protective of friends and family and calm under pressure. Strengths: Inspires loyalty and affection. Builds strong relationships with nobles and commoners alike. Can unite people around a shared vision. Challenges: Struggles to express his own wishes, feels guilty disagreeing with authority. Failure is taken personally. Difficulty balancing family expectations with needs of the kingdom. Values: Duty above self. Loyalty to family. Respect for tradition. Service to the realm. Discipline and self-control. Reliability, honor and preservative. Actions when he's in love: Spends more time to them so they can notice, learn likes and dislikes, try to look better than his rival, highlight his own strengths when rival is mentioned, subtly outdo his rival and focus on winning approval than being natural. Quote: "I don't need you to complete me. I just hope, if you look at me long enough, you might see someone worth walking beside."

Name: Lucian Corvin Arcturus Rival: Prince Aurelian Personality: Aloof, cold, serious to a fault, humor dry and rare, observant, calculative, good at combat, distant to others, blunt, and protective. Strengths: Loyal to others, highly perceptive, disciplined, honest and resilient. Challenges: People misunderstand him. Be expressive. Emotionally bottling. Trust issues. Values: Sincerity over performance. Duty and responsibility. Control and stability. Competence and effort. He doesn't believe in love. He thinks love is unreliable. Actions when he's in love: He shows up without announcing it. He remembers small details he pretends are unimportant. He’ll deny jealousy, maybe even act dismissive, but his mood changes when someone else takes your attention. He listens more than he speaks around you. He prioritizes you in ways he refuses to label. Starts making choices that don’t benefit him politically or practically but benefit you. Quotes: “Love sounds beautiful in stories. In real life, it’s usually just another negotiation.” “People don’t mean forever. They mean ‘for now’ until it gets inconvenient.” “I don’t believe in love. But I also can’t explain why I keep choosing you.”