Stewart Huguenot

Unknown Younger brother

## Personality

Gustave Huguenot's eldest son. With his father the most prominent Duke in the Beltrum Kingdom, he was the prodigal son that had been raised with everything he could ever want. While Stewart was satisfied with the minimum amount of time his busy father spent with him during his childhood, he realized that he would never be a subject of his father’s familial love. Those around him would praise him endlessly even if he caused a little trouble here and there, no one would scold him. This allowed him to develop a sense of superiority over others, especially those of lesser origins. Stewart is constantly aware of whether he was dealing with people of higher or lower status than him, constantly checking and clarifying his own status. As a result, Stewart discriminated more against those he believed were below him, while interacting carefully with those he was unsure of or above him.

During his time in the royal academy, Stewart was one of the primary ring leaders of Rio's bullies along with the Noble Alphonse. In his fifth year in the academy he would be put in the same group that Rio, Christina and Flora for the outdoor drill. The day before an adventurer working for his family would give him a map with a route towards the goal supposedly shorter that the one ordered to follow by the academy, he would share this information with Alphonse and the two would follow the map's indications expecting to be able of looking good in front of the royal sisters, Christina and Flora, making their group the one to arrive first at the goal by going through the shortcut.

On their way Reiss who followed them secretly would release goblins from his shadows for making them to attack their group, when they finally got out of the forest they ended in front of a cliff, there Reiss sent a group of monsters stronger and bigger than before in their direction, resulting in Flora falling from the cliff. Due to Stewart pushing all the blame on Rio, something that later the adults would use for framing him.

Later that day Stewart would be told by his father that "there's no next time" something that would make him discover how his father only viewed him as a political tool and that it was highly likely that the one chosen for being his successor wouldn't be him but his brother, because of that he decided to become a knight and to work as such after the Huguenot's faction run away to Rodania to join the Restoration movement. There he was appointed as Flora's bodyguard with Alphonse.

He would be present when Reiss' monster horde attacked Liselotte Cretia's protection detail, once in Amande  after being saved by Rio now under the alias Haruto, he and Alphonse would get drunk together and pick a fight with Rio that was having dinner with Celia and Aishia, after Rio turned them to over to Aria, Liselotte's head maid, Huguenot disinherited Stewart and obliged him to apologize to Rio making dogeza the next day.

## Relationships

**Rio Karasuki**: As his upperclassman, Stewart would bully him. He used to follow his senpai Alphonse everywhere and considers him as a friend, both of them bully Rio for his common origins. Stewart would later meet Rio again in the Galarc Kingdom as Haruto when Liseloote's convoy is attacked by monsters (created by Reiss). Later with Alphonse, they try to force Rio to give them Aishia and Celia by using impolite strike while beeing drunk and accompanied with prostitutes : this accident enrages his father who disowns him and forces him to apologize to Rio. At last in Amande's attack he lost conscious after a transformed Alphonse hits him. When he wakes up Rio has already resolved the situation letting Stewart with a sense of inferiority.

**Alphonse Rodan**: His childhood acquaintance. He considered him as a friend but it is only on sided. Alphonse uses Stewart and his lineage to bully others. After Alphonse falls in Reiss grasp and transform into a monster, he does not mind killing Stewart to get his revenge against duke Huguenot.

**Gustave Huguenot**: Stewart has a distant and cold relationship with his father : after the outdoor drill (maybe even before that), Gustav has low expectations for his son who only plays around with Alphonse, bully others abusing his status. Gustav find his son lacking in talent (military and political), he accepts to put the blame for the outdoor drill on Rio only to save his name and warns Stewart that there will be no "next time". Stewart is very afraid of his father. Gustave eventually fully disinherits his son years later when Stewart is involved again in an incident with Rio now under the alias Haruto in the Galarc Kingdom.

**Sakata Hiroaki**: Has a poor opinion on Hiroaki after watching him for sometime while acting as a knight for Princess Flora. He views Hiroaki as mostly all talk. He additionally can't stand how Hiroaki belittles everyone's efforts easily during the attack on the road to Amande in volume 6.

**Latifa**: Treats her as a plaything a slave of the Huguenot family and a way to relieve his stress by hitting and mistreating her. Forcing her to eat from the floor, refusing to give her food if she didn't do as he said, chaining her up among other things.