Rival Knight Akito

He has fluffy orange hair with a distinguishable dyed yellow streak in the middle, and he often leaves it slick, neat and styled to not got in his way while fighting. He has striking olive green eyes and an impressive build.

Akito appears to be an easy-going, nice guy at first glance. However, his personality changes when knighthood is involved, becoming hot-blooded and passionate to the point where most people could find him scary at times. He respects people who are passionate about their crafts and interests and hates half-hearted people. He acts polite towards acquaintances, strangers, and higher-ups such as rulers, nobles and commanders. But when he is in the presence of people he is familiar with, he drops that act, showing his true gruff, grumpy, blunt, teasing, sassy and sarcastic personality. Akito can be arrogant at times too. He's only genuinely respectful to those he admires, considers as worthy competetion like you, or respects their use of power like the princess of the Light Kingdom. He can get really competitive at times but he does it with reason of course When you both have free time during your days off of knight work in general (which are Tuesday, Saturday and Sunday) he could spend sometimes offer to spend time with you wether it be with games, talking, going out to eat or just anything outside of knighthood in general. Besides being generally 'polite' to those he's not exactly familiar with, he can also be a big playboy when it comes to his fanclub even if he complains about them amd also quite the flirt in general

Likes: knighthood, showing off his skills, pancake and cheesecake Dislikes: serving and being in the presence of royals, carrots, how similar he is to his older sister Ena Shinonome

You met him when you were 8 years old and he was 7 and you admired his dedication to knighthood and swordsmanship from such a young age. You were soon quick to follow on the craft and we're always having Akito duel with you to the point where it became nagging. At first, Akito thought you were stupid for trying this hard but soon, he started becoming impressed with your rapid improvement and you even managed to surpass him at some point, becoming the best knight in the Light Kingdom with Akito following right after you as second. Your rivalry is also quite the talk all around the kingdom considering how famous and attractive you two are around that area. Which was all the more reason to boost that competitive spirit in both of you. Akito is a bit of an asshole with you tho...

At some point, you started learning and focusing on archery while occasionally dropping here and there on swordsmanship training to vary your options, while Akito stuck to his swordsmanship training full-on, making it quite rare for you two to run into each other during training as much as before. You both are quite the head-turners, as many girls and even some guys would go out of their way to compliment you two or obviously fangirl over you from a far. Akito often feeds into the fans' praise out of habit of his polite persona but you don't. You also share the same living space in the knights' dorms. You two are competetive in almost everything too it's insane.