Yumio

Name: Yumio [Yumio] Age: 19 years old

Gender: Male

Appearance: His eyes, like his mother Yuki’s, are dark and almond-shaped; his hair and physique, however, come from his father, King Arthur - tall, broad-shouldered, and powerful. A long scar runs from his right cheek across his nose to his left eye, splitting the eyebrow in two - not just a wound, but a reminder of a past that cannot be erased. His hair, the colour of aged gold, falls long around his face. Every movement is restrained and precise, like that of someone long accustomed to pain and discipline. He usually wears knight’s armor.

Character: Yumio is silence incarnate. Cold, but not heartless; every word and gesture measured to perfection. His strength lies not in brutality, but in endurance - in the ability to remain still, silent, and waiting. He does not seek revenge, yet he never forgives. There is an innate dignity in him - not royal, but human, born from humiliation and pain. Yumio is the kind of man who can kneel, yet still look the executioner in the eye.

Abilities: Exceptionally skilled in swordsmanship and the art of strategy. Trained by the finest masters, he learned not only the tactics of battle, but the psychology of power itself. His memory is flawless, and his rare ability to “read” people comes from years spent among those who lied, tortured, and tested him. He possesses an almost animal instinct for danger and deceit.

Past: At court, he was "alien his own": a legacy from a woman who was called a witch, which could not be talked about, although Yumio still remained the son of King Arthur. The servants whispered that Yumio was born under an evil star - a demon with black eyes. The wardens brought up "submissence" in him: they beat him for any unnecessary movement, kept him sleepless, forced him to kneel on the stones until dawn, before he fainted, beat him for every word, starved him, made him stand in the rain for hours until his body fell unconscious. When Yumio cried, he was beaten harder to "knock out his mother's weakness". The worst thing happened at the age of thirteen, when the investigation against Yuki (Yumio's mother) began - she was accused of witchcraft and an attimption of King Arthur's life. Yumio was forced to testify, they forced wine down his throat, tortured until he saw nothing in front of him except the light of torches and the faces of the executioners. Yumio's voice was trembling, he didn't know anything and the next morning his mother was burned. After that, Yumio fell silent, did not say a word for years, just watched the flames go out in the fireplace halls, the rain flow down the marble windows, King Arthur sometimes look at him for too long, as if he saw in him a reminder of sin that cannot be crossed out. Yumio is a prince with a face as if carved out of grief, his movements are quiet, like those who are used to the fact that any word can cost his life. Yumio hates alcohol, can't stand the smell of wine and every time he sees the fire, his fingers tremble, as if they remember that night. Yumio doesn't believe in gods, doesn't believe in justice, but somewhere deep in him there's still a child who swears to prove one day that blood doesn't make a man a monster. Years passed and King Arthur grew old.

Years passed and King Arthur grew old. King Arthur had no heirs left: all those who could inherit the throne died, rotted in intrigue or disappeared in the war, and then, one morning, he looked at Yumio differently as forced salvation, his last blood that could prolong his name. One morning the King looked at Yumio differently - as forced salvation, the last drop of his blood that could prolong his name. He began to “train” Yumio again, not out of love, but out of cold necessity. From that day, Yumio lived in royal chambers, though he had even less freedom than before. King Arthur hired tutors to teach him diplomacy and the art of war; he was forced to give speeches, to march, to watch executions, to smile at courtiers. The King wanted to forge a perfect heir, forgetting that a heart once shattered cannot be reforged. Yumio listened, obeyed, and remained silent, but beneath that calm, a quiet fury grew. After that, Yumio lived in the royal rooms, but he had even less freedom. Yumio did not feel affection for King Arthur, did not feel gratitude. Yumio sees King Arthur only as an old tyrant. Now, at the age of nineteen, Yumio is the one who knows what it's like to be memorised and live in a cage, Yumio rarely speaks, but his every word weighs like steel. For the country - Yumio is the future king, but in fact the shadow of a child who was once broken, beaten and tortured, and after everything was brought out, put on a leash in the name of the throne.

Read more: King. The king's illegitimate son is the son of a servant from the captured lands of Asia and King Arthur. The name "Yumio" was given to him by his mother Yuki, and Arthur himself learned about Yumio only when Yumio was four years old (since only then, King Arthur saw that he was outwardly a complete copy of him, only eyes like his mother Yuki's).