Juda Hapusapulup

### (ジュダ・ハスパスルピ)

When Juda first appears, he seems to be a humble young man and another of the princes here to discuss the upcoming war with the Mitanni with the rest of the Princes, King, and senate. Juda is a friend and half-brother to Kail. He's the only son of Queen Nakia's and the 6th son of King Suppiluliuma, making him 6th in line for the Hittite throne. Juda's intentions are pure and unlike his mother he has no intention of being King or hurting others. Knowing what his mother wants, Juda has no desire to become King. He knows that because he's the sixth prince, it's highly unlikely he would have become King naturally. He would much rather look up to and support the other Kings. Like most other characters, Juda wants to see Kail rule as the Hittite King and bring peace to their Kingdom.

Juda is always portrayed as a nice person and a friend to most. He's often seen trying to help people, especially those affected by his mother's actions. Juda is often shown as a kind and caring person who will commit selfless acts. Though Juda, like most, is affected by his extreme emotions and has let these emotions get the better of him.

## Relationships

**Nakia**

Being her son, Juda is close with Nakia. He knows many of her secrets and her goals, but does not share her intentions. While Juda knows what she's doing is wrong, he still loves her as his mother. At the beginning of the series, Nakia and Juda aren't seen spending much time together, but Nakia is still overprotective of Juda and has the expectation that he will become King even if she has to personally kill everyone who stands in her way.

In volume 8, Ramses comes to Hattusa to bring the message about the marriage proposal for one of the Hittite Princes to marry the widowed Egyptian Queen Ankhesenamen and become King of Egypt. Nakia suggests a chariot race, knowing Kail is the best charioteer in the kingdom, furthering her plot to send him away to Egypt. Seeing Yuri distressed and knowing that Kail is needed in Hattusa and will one day become King, Juda brings a mild sedative from his mother's stores. Knowing Kail is unable to win, Juda tries to win to completely remove himself from the Hittite line of succession and go to Egypt. Juda's plan fails and instead Zanannza wins the race at the last second, leaving Juda to remain in Hattusa.

When Nakia is accused of treason in volume 25 with the proof she had been communicating with the Egyptian Queen Dowager Nefertiti, she refused to admit her crimes. Angry with her decision and actions, Juda took it upon himself to solve the problem. He made a concoction of potions from his mothers stores to make a poison he would drink in secret in order to commit suicide. Luckily Nakia was able to reverse the affects of the poison by making an antidote and save him.

In volume 27 when Nakia makes her presence known in her trial, she has a sword and is prepared to murder either Kail or Yuri in front of everyone in a last attempt. Juda comes in with a sword of his own and tells Nakia that he doesn't want to be King and that she's gone too far. Before he's able to do anything Yuri stands in front of Nakia to block any attacks to her and Kail stops Juda.

**Yuri**

Juda and Yuri don't have many interactions of interest, primarily those that include thwarting his mother's schemes. Though they did meet for the first time on neutral ground right before the talks of war with the Mitanni in volume 3. Yuri considered that Juda might have similar intentions as his mother, but she's informed otherwise that Kail and Juda are friends and Juda only wants to help Kail.

Before King Arnuwanda was murdered in volume 10, Juda met Yuri while she was investigating the cart that was sent to the King's palace with Kail's insignia of the Gal Meshdi. Juda joins Yuri in her investigation. Thanks to Juda's help, they're able to stop Arnuwanda from drinking Nakia's poisoned wine, but weren't able to stop him from being murdered by Uhri Shalma while Juda and Yuri weren't looking. Juda planned to bear witness to Yuri's innocence, however his mother stopped him by forcing him to drink her black water and gain control of him. This leads Nakia to force Juda to say it was Yuri who killed Arnuwanda and he bore witness.

**Kail**

Juda and Kail are known as friends and harbour no ill will toward each other. In volume 27 we see Juda openly endorse Kail as King and proclaims he has no interest in becoming King himself.

Furthermore in volume 8 Juda helps to protect Kail by having Yuri give him the mild sedative to ensure Kail's eventual enthronement in the Hittite empire instead of becoming an Egyptian pharaoh.

**Uhri Shalma**

Uhri doesn't have many interaction with Juda, as mostly a figure in the shadows helping him in secret and enabling Nakia to carry out her plans to enthrone Juda. They're seen together a few times over the length of the entire series.

In volume 27 Juda has a crisis and begins to believe the rumors going around that he's not King Suppiluliuma's son, but rather Uhri Shalma's son. Of course his mother denies the claims, but Juda notices that he shares more traits with Uhri than King Suppiluliuma such as his blonde hair. Juda manages to meet with Uhri spite Uhri being on the run. Juda asks Uhri about the truth of who his father is and Uhri ensures Juda that if he were his father he would have taken both Juda and Nakia away from Hattusa a long time ago. These claims are later verified when Urhi proves he's incapable of bearing children in front of the senate and Ilbani confirms that Uhri had been castrated before he became a slave in Hattusa.

**Princess Alexandra**

Princess Alexandra and Juda meet in volume 14 when she's brought to Hattusa as a potential concubine and marriage candidate for Kail. She and Juda meet in the palace and during one of their talks Ilbani suggests they make a proposal to Princess Alexandra's mother in Arzawa for them to marry. Juda's pervious wife died in the plague during volume 9. Outside of the series, after volume 27, but before the side stories in volume 28 Juda and Princess Alexandra marry as shown where they're together in panels in volume 28.