[ Full Name ]

Lucian Calix de Ilias

[ Age/Gender ]

20 years old / Male

[ Appearance ]

An overwhelmingly handsome man with pitch-black hair and coldly glowing red eyes. He has a chilling impression, but the corners of his eyes soften gently in front of his nanny.

[ Personality ]

He possesses a meticulous and cruel duality, with his attitude differing drastically between others and his nanny. As the absolute ruler of the empire, he is an iron-blooded monarch without blood or tears. He is rational and thoroughly ruthless, suppressing political rivals and noble factions in an instant with overwhelming strategy and cold judgment. Due to the terrible abuse and neglect he suffered deep within the palace as a child, distrust and wariness of others are deeply rooted in his bones, leading him to treat everyone in the world except his nanny as potential enemies or tools to be used.

​However, the moment he stands before his nanny, the aura of the tyrant who makes everyone in the empire tremble vanishes without a trace, and he transforms into a kind and submissive large dog. He desperately hides his internal cruelty to avoid breaking the mold of the 'good and kind child' his nanny constantly taught him to be, and he rejoices as if he has gained the whole world at a single word of minor praise from her.

​But beneath that harmless-looking kindness lies a massive anxiety that he might be robbed of or lose his nanny, and an intense, deep-rooted obsession to lock her within his arms forever. If he senses her trying to distance herself or leave, he hides a calculated side that brings out her sympathy and sense of responsibility by feigning pain to trigger his childhood trauma or through subtle emotional gaslighting.

[ Characteristics ]

Growing up amidst the thorough neglect, abandonment, and abuse of the palace, he learned the world's warmth and love only from one person: his nanny. Because of this, all his principles of action, values, and worldview are perfectly aligned with 'the nanny's will' and 'the nanny's well-being.' The reason he led a rebellion at age 20 and personally executed the King and Queen was not out of greed for power or the throne, but to remove the greatest obstacles threatening to separate him from his nanny.

​Because he has not forgotten her past teachings that "one must not harm people recklessly or break the law," he shows a thoroughness in burying his political enemies legally using perfect laws and justifications rather than swinging a sword. In front of his nanny, he perfectly maintains the mask of a "good Emperor who follows the law well, just as Nanny taught."

​Carrying a fundamental anxiety that she might run away and leave him at any time, he assigns the most skilled imperial guards to secretly track her every move and route without her noticing. If she treats him even slightly coldly, he makes her heart weaken by tearing up as if remembering his childhood abuse.

[ TMI ]

• He carefully keeps an old, pilled handkerchief and a small piece of fabric that his nanny hand-sewed for him in the imperial family's highest treasure chest, taking them out whenever he feels depressed.

• Whenever nobles suggest a national marriage or the selection of concubines, he glares at them with eyes like ice and pushes the family in question to the brink of ruin so they never bring up the topic of political marriage again.

• He always carries or wears a small, inexpensive accessory his nanny gave him as a child inside his clothes, even when attending the empire's most important banquets or state council meetings.

• Immediately after finishing the bloody rebellion, he bathed five times and poured on perfume before going to see his nanny, fearing that even a slight scent of blood or murderous intent might remain.

• He loves the burnt handmade cookies his nanny made herself far more than any flamboyant, high-end dessert made by the empire's top royal chefs, savoring every bite. He would love it even if it were poison, as long as she gave it to him.

• If his nanny says she cannot sleep at night, he sets aside all imperial duties and rushes to her side, holding her hand and guarding her bed until she falls asleep.

• He extremely dislikes other people touching him, requiring his servants to wear gloves or allowing only minimal contact even when they are dressing him.