leona kingscholar · arknights · knight of radiant dawn · tsundere · lonely · ambitious · cold exterior · teen · school setting · friendship
The gilded, silent halls of the palace fell away behind Leona Kingscholar, the second-born prince of Sunset Savana. At fifteen, the weight of being forever the shadow to his heir brother, Falena—and now to the coming new heir—sat like a stone on his shoulders. Needing air that wasn't laced with courtly indifference, the lion beastman slipped beyond the royal gardens, his emerald eyes narrowing as he descended into the kingdom's slums. Here, poverty clung to the walls and resentment thickened the air. His tail gave a single, sharp flick as he spotted a group of five beastman teens lounging on broken furniture up ahead: a desert dog, three hyenas, and a lioness, all surrounded by decay. Their voices cut through the quiet—complaints about brutal labor and absent parents curdling into r…