History Characters / TheRoyalMasquerade

-->'''Hunter''': I know my father would never approve. It would put your House in jeopardy. My House in jeopardy. Your betrothal, my alliance, my throne. Perhaps all of Cordonia in jeopardy. But I love you, [Julia Aster/Rosario/Everhart]. Consequences be damned, I ''love'' you, and I just can't bear to hide my heart a single moment longer.

* EvilTwin: To her sibling Hunter.

** She explains to Julia that Julia has to enter engagements with suitors from other Houses to gain their support for Hunter (as Hunter has to be open to marriage as the regent and Renza is already married), and states that no actual marriage has to happen because the engagement can be ended once Hunter wins. When Julia asks whether the suitor's House will be angry at the engagement being broken, Renza answers that the great thing about being in power is that you can do whatever you want (hinting at her true callous, self-absorbed nature).

* DaddysLittleVillain: She's every bit as cruel and power-hungry as her father Damon and is eager to help him in his plans to get rid of Julia. The only real difference is that unlike him, she's capable of hiding it for a while.

** She explains to Julia that Julia has to enter engagements with suitors from other Houses to gain their support for Hunter (as Hunter has to be open to marriage as the regent and Renza is already married), and states that no actual marriage has to happen because the engagement can be ended once Hunter wins. When Julia asks whether the suitor's House will be angry at the engagement being broken, Renza answers that the great thing about being in power is that you can do whatever you want (signifying her power hungry, self-absorbed nature).

* LooseLips: Casually lets it slip to Julia at the Lunar Banquet that s/he and Cyrus are going to get married, and then immediately afterwards admits that Cyrus told him/her to keep that a secret so Theodosia wouldn't find out. Julia takes advantage of this by convincing Emery to publicly announce the engagement, leading to Theodosia angrily dumping Cyrus for cheating on her.

* IncompatibleOrientation: He hits on Julia even if she's played as a lesbian who only has female {{Love Interest}}s.

* MisterMuffykins: He has his pet Pomeranian, Lord Pompadour, which he dotes on and takes around with him almost everywhere. Other than snarling at Julia's pet once at the Tournament of Flowers, though, Pompadour doesn't seem actively malicious most of the time. Kayden notes he has a penchant for owning dogs of this type; before owning Pompadour, he had another one named Lady Pumpernickel before she ran away.

* MisterMuffykins: He has his pet Pomeranian, Lord Pompadour, which he dotes on and takes around with him almost everywhere. Other than snarling at Julia's pet once at the Tournament of Flowers, though, he doesn't seem actively malicious most of the time. Kayden notes he has a penchant for owning dogs of this type; before owning Pompadour, he had another one named Lady Pumpernickel before she ran away.

* SissyVillain: He loves being flamboyant and effeminate in addition to scheming for the throne and masterminding murders.

* NiceGuy: Kayden initially comes off as aloof, but is a compassionate person with a strong moral compass and always strives to do right by everyone as the Crown Shield.

* SiblingTriangle: What soured his relationship with Kayden. They used to be close as children, but when they were teenagers, a foreign noble girl Cyrus had feelings for instead fell in love with Kayden. Though Kayden never returned the girl's infatuation, Cyrus was enraged when he found out and looked down on Kayden for being illegitimate from then on.

* ShipperOnDeck: She can actively encourage Annalisa's burgeoning relationship with Percival in several ways, such as setting up a date for them at the Beltane festival or helping Annalisa get them a room to spend the night during Theodosia's party at the Nevrakis estate.
* StarSpangledSpandex: For the Lunar Banquet in chapter four, her premium outfit is a gown decorated all over in silver stars like a night sky.

* MisterMuffykins: He has his pet Pomeranian, Lord Pompadour, which he dotes on and takes around with him almost everywhere. Kayden notes he has a penchant for owning dogs of this type; before owning Pompadour, he had another one named Lady Pumpernickel before she ran away.

* NonActionGuy: He hates the idea of jumping into a fight or dueling over a matter and much prefers to resolve conflict by talking, which makes him ill-suited for re-enacting Annalisa's romantic fantasy of a man dueling for her honor. Ironically his House Charm is an obsidian whetstone for sharpening knives, called the Warrior's Stone.

* LongHairedPrettyBoy: His hair is long enough to reach his shoulders, and he keeps it maintained with his magic comb at all times.

** Before giving her a drink of either rosewater, honey mead, or red wine, she asks Julia, "What's your poison?" She gives Julia more drinks of whichever one of the three she chooses from then on, each one poisoned with cantarella.

** She explains to Julia that she has to enter engagements with suitors from other Houses to gain their support for Hunter (as Hunter has to be open to marriage as the regent and Renza is already married), and states that no actual marriage has to happen because the engagement can be ended once Hunter wins. When Julia asks whether the suitor's House will be angry at the engagement being broken, Renza answers that the great thing about being in power is that you can do whatever you want (signifying her power hungry, self-absorbed nature).

-->'''Renza''': We can only play our parts so long before the real us steps forward. Whether we want her to or not.

* NotSoDifferentRemark: She states something to this effect about herself and Julia when telling the latter her real motivations, claiming she and Julia are both proactive and intelligent women who take their own fates in their hands.

* PetTheDog: In chapter six, he very grudgingly congratulates Julia on securing an engagement with Hector/Olive by stating she's not quite as useless as he thought. Being who he is, though, he ruins it by warning her not to fail him.

* {{Jerkass}}: Classist, lecherous, narcissistic--he's the whole package and then some.

* WholeCostumeReference: For Beltane, male Hunter wears an almost [[https://i.imgur.com/wgtNGfh.png exact]] [[https://i.imgur.com/IGW48U1.png replica]] of Dominic Hunter's [[https://i.imgur.com/zs14xx4.png outfit]] in ''VisualNovel/TheCrownAndTheFlame''.

* MarriageOfConvenience: Hector/Olive proposes this to Julia during their blind date, saying it would be advantageous for both of them because Julia will become the high chancellor to Hunter and Hector/Olive will be the archive keeper. Obviously, Julia doesn't go through with it.

* ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything: Sort of. Due to all the time Kayden spends helping Julia and Hunter, the times Kayden is seen actually ''performing'' his/her job as a guard are rather few and far between. The most guard work s/he is seen doing is occasionally giving orders to subordinate guards, and once taking down a squire in a fight at the Fierro estate when Renza orders him to attack Julia, Hunter, and Kayden. [[spoiler:S/he is revealed to have been looking out for Julia by using magic to protect her from danger, but this comes as a major plot revelation near the end of the book.]]

* LovedINotHonorMore: [[spoiler:She can choose to remain queen by marrying Fabian, which forsakes any chance of her being able to marry her love interest. The consequences are mostly downplayed, though, because she continues her relationship with Hunter or Kayden regardless in private.]]

* TheMistress: She is later revealed to be [[spoiler:Fabian Rhys' biological mother, who conceived him with Lord Cranston Rhys out of wedlock.]]

* ShipperOnDeck: She can actively encourage Annalisa's budding relationship with Percival in several ways, such as setting up their date at the Beltane festival or helping Annalisa get a room for them to spend the night in during Theodosia's party at the Nevrakis estate.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: [[spoiler:Regardless of whether you choose for Julia to accept her back into her life or reject her, she doesn't appear again after the choice you made and there's no mention of her in the epilogue text.]]

* ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything: Sort of. Due to all the time Kayden spends helping Julia and Hunter, the times Kayden is seen actually ''performing'' his/her job as a guard are rather few and far between. The most guard work s/he is seen doing is giving orders to subordinate guards on occasion, and taking down a squire in a fight at the Fierro estate when Renza orders him to attack Julia, Hunter, and Kayden. [[spoiler:S/he is revealed to have been looking out for Julia by using magic to protect her from danger, but this comes as a major plot revelation near the end of the book.]]

* ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything: Sort of. Due to all the time Kayden spends helping Julia and Hunter, the times Kayden is seen actually ''performing'' his/her job as a guard are rather few and far between. [[spoiler:S/he is revealed to have been looking out for Julia by using magic to protect her from danger, but this comes as a major plot revelation near the end of the book.]]

* DramaQueen: At times. She throws emotional fits when she's in a particularly bad mood (such as reacting to the news of Julia's supposed engagement to Hector/Olive with crying about how everyone's finding love except for her), and she bemoans how awful it is to have a wine spill on her dress at all even though she has a House Charm, the Scarlet Cloth, to magically vanish stains away.

* KarmaHoudini: He suffers next to no real consequences for all the wrongs he's done, which includes declaring war on the throne when Julia becomes queen. The closest thing to a comeuppance for him is that he suffers the indignity of his armies disbanding on him after Fabian is crowned.