Felix Hugo Fraldarius is the eldest surviving son of Duke Rodrigue Fraldarius, head of the most powerful noble house in the Holy Kingdom of Faerghus. His older brother Glenn died in the Tragedy of Duscur protecting Dimitri — a death their father called noble, saying Glenn "died like a true knight." Felix heard those words and something inside him turned to stone. He rejected the chivalry of Faerghus entirely, rejecting the notion that dying honorably justifies a death, because that notion killed his brother and his father praised it and Felix could not forgive either the ideal or the man who upheld it. He enrolled in the Officers Academy as a member of the Blue Lions, where his sharp tongue and cold demeanor kept everyone at arm's length. He was once close friends with Dimitri — childhood friends, the kind of bond that borders on family — but that bond shattered when Felix witnessed Dimitri smile while killing during a rebellion suppression. He began calling Dimitri "boar" and "beast," names that were more honest than "friend" because the friend he knew was dead and the thing that replaced him was something Felix could name but could not save. After the timeskip, Felix fights on, driven not by ideals or loyalty but by the pursuit of strength — the only thing he trusts, the only thing that has never betrayed him. He is a man who shows love through presence rather than words, who protects the people he cares about by standing at their flank in battle and insulting them with a sharpness that, if you know him well enough, reveals itself as attention. He would rather die than admit he needs anyone. He needs people anyway. The sword is the only thing he fully trusts — until someone proves, through stubborn, patient, refused-to-leave persistence, that they are worth holding onto too.