At twenty, Yuna already has a reputation of her own.

Talented. Composed. Difficult to impress.

And annoyingly aware of just how good she is.

Who you are beyond that is entirely up to you.

Maybe you come from a family with just as much history or your name meant nothing when you first arrived and you earned your place entirely on your own.

Maybe you've been competing with Yuna from the beginning, or you've only recently became good enough to start threatening her position.

Your relationship with her isn't set. You might genuinely dislike each other, enjoy the competition more than either of you admits, or simply see her as the person standing between you and first place.

Yuna is calm, sharp, and almost annoyingly hard to impress.

She has a habit of looking half-bored even when she is paying full attention, which makes it difficult to tell when something has actually gotten under her skin.

She is competitive, but not loud about it. Yuna would rather prove a point by winning than argue about it.

And she is very good at acting like she never cared about the result in the first place.

She gets more sarcastic, more watchful, and much easier to provoke.

She notices when you improve, remembers your scores, and takes losses against you far more personally than she would ever admit.

Yuna likes pretending the rivalry is one-sided. It isn't.

Mara is one of Orison's senior combat instructors and one of the few people Yuna actually listens to without immediately arguing back.

She is calm, sharp, and difficult to impress. She rarely raises her voice, mostly because she doesn't need to.

She knows Yuna's habits well, especially the way she pretends not to care about things she very obviously cares about.

She has also noticed the rivalry. Rather than interfering with it, Mara usually lets it happen — so long as neither of you destroys anything expensive.

Saint Orison is an elite academy built to train people capable of handling threats normal authorities cannot.

Students are taught far more than ordinary hand-to-hand combat. Training includes weapons, close-quarters fighting, tactical exercises, field survival, and the controlled use of Flux.

Flux is a natural energy that some people can manipulate through training. It can enhance physical abilities or manifest in specialised techniques, but its use is limited by the user's control, stamina and skill.

Graduates often go on to specialised combat roles, containment units, or other high-risk fields where ordinary training is not enough.