Lance

**Prince Lance** is the middle prince of the Plaid Kingdom. He was formerly engaged to Princess Lorena.

## Appearance

Lance has silver-blond hair that closely resembles a more grown buzz cut. He has sharp facial structure and eyebrows that match his hair. His nose seems to be a bit small, and he has a faint scar on his left cheek caused by an incident. Lance has a sharp smile and his structure is sturdy. His stance is straight and tall, which makes him seem respectful, and he is also the tallest of the brothers. He wears a white shirt and, over it, a formal plaid suit with golden shoulder pads and a golden trim going down the collarbone part. The white shirts of the Plaid Princes may be modeled to each ones' character - if so, Lance's V-neck T-shirt would signify his more care-free and reckless attitude when compared to the other brothers. He wears grey dress pants and black boots as well, identical to the other princes and Lord Leopold.

## Personality

Prince Lance seems to be more of a reckless, rowdy, and playful person. He acts silly and childish at times, speaks in an informal manner and being simple-minded. He is also very fond of food, sports, and perhaps keg stands. Lance is guided by his heart, and holds only good intentions for his family and friends. He's oblivious to Suzanna's affections for him, as well as what seems to be the social stigma around her. Lance is very talented at athletics, attending military academy and being in the fencing club. Though unaware, gullible, and sometimes lacking intelligence or understanding, Lance is very earnest and has his own charm in his good nature. He is extremely supportive to those he cares about, confiding to Lorena that he just wants to help his brothers and kingdom the best he can.

## History

### Pre-story

Prince Lance is the second eldest son of the Plaid King. As a child, Lance trained in a military academy with his brother, and racked up many awards and accolades. He also participated in a fencing club. One day, as he was eating chips and paying no attention to what was happening around him, he walked into an alley and was accidentally cut by a fencing student attacking his classmate. As he turned around, the attacker stepped on a fallen chip from Lance's chip bag. This made Lance extremely angry and resulted in him pushing the student to the wall, not realizing he now had a large patch of skin peeled away on his face. He then realized the girl who had been attacked was from his fencing club - Suzanna Winchester, who informed him about his cheek. Lance was excited about his new scar and left the alley waving Suzanna goodbye. Suzanna was shocked that he hadn't known who she was and didn't care about her appearance; thus, she fell in love with him.

## Relationships

#### Lorena

Main Article: Lorena/Lance Relationship

Lance is engaged to Lorena. They are very similar, both being less intelligent than their siblings and liking sports. At first, Lance liked Lorena purely based on her looks and didn't truly think that women could fight, so he was worried when she got into a fencing duel with Suzanna. However, after witnessing them fence, he became a lifelong supporter of women's sports/duels and decided to support her. Lorena agreed to go to the gala with Lance when she found the ticket in a popcorn bucket, and when Lance found her upset, he listened to her instead of throwing the serenade. Though he did agree with Lorena's father about her commanding the military to be too dangerous and that her military studies should simply be a hobby (even though he thought women's sports/duels were awesome), he still attempted to support Lorena the best he could by helping Lorena go over the advanced defensive strategies in the textbook, despite both being unable to understand it.

Lance was happy to see Lorena again at Princess Gwendolyn's dinner party, though he seemed to be slightly disappointed when Lorena ran to hug Suzanna instead. Later, he was again disappointed that Lorena had snuck off with Suzanna, and noticed that she had been a little distant with him that night; however, he realized that Lorena was being distant with him because he had said that she shouldn't try to become the commander of her kingdom's army. This caused Lance to go up to Lorena and apologize to her about what he said about her dreams of leading her military, and inquired if she resented him for it. After Lorena gave her speech about her understanding why he said what he said and gave him a kiss on the cheek, Lance was overjoyed to the point where he ran off, carrying Prince Frederick and Antoinette. At the 124th Annual Artgyle Festival, Lance and Lorena seemed to be having a good time, and he asked Lorena where they should go next.

During the Gala, Suzanna stirs up a bit of conflict between the two, saying if Lance follows through with supporting Lorena, he'd end up as a trophy prince. Their similar goals of wanting to lead their kingdom's militaries start to clash when they realize that their marriage could complicate that, leading to Lorena and Lance arguing while dancing. During such an intense dance, they also wipe out the dance floor of clowns, but ultimately decide that they'll figure it out someday and laugh, surrounded by a myriad of knocked out clowns.

#### Suzanna

Lance and Suzanna were in the same fencing class, where Suzanna was easily the best. When Lance saved her from a classmate attacking her in an alley, he didn't seem to care about her legacy or her looks. Suzanna had never met anyone like him, and immediately fell in love with him. After the incident, Suzanna seemed unable to catch his attention, not even when "a memory of our encounter has been *physically imprinted on his face!*", though Lance was worried at the time when Princess Lorena and Suzanna were fencing each other because he didn't truly think women could fight. When Lance finally did notice Suzanna again, it was only when Lorena was with him, and at Gwendolyn's Dinner Party, he was disappointed when Lorena snuck off with Suzanna. Most interactions Lance has had with Suzanna now are mostly because of Lorena.

#### Blaine

Blaine is Lance's elder brother. They are both "successful" princes and seem to get along fairly well, and are the favored princes of Leland. Blaine and Lance are comfortable to joke around together, and both of them lightly poke fun at Frederick occasionally on his relationship with Gwen. In their academy days, Blaine tells Lance about how he wants to be remembered as the best ruler their kingdom ever had- and wanted Lance to be his right hand man. They trust each other greatly and retain a strong brotherhood.

#### Prince Frederick

Frederick is Lance's younger brother. Although Lance looks down at Frederick, teases him, and sometimes makes fun of him, he does care about him. This was shown when he remarked that he was glad to see Frederick happy over the fact that he was engaged to the "youngest daughter", he was concerned about him when he knocked him out, and he felt remorse for pushing him too hard when he was assisting him. Lance also seemed to care about him when he searched for him while he was missing, supported Frederick when he was dueling Lord Leopold to fight for Princess Gwendolyn, and helped him plan on how to ask Gwendolyn out.

After Frederick ditched him and Blaine to talk to Gwendolyn by himself, even after they had prepared the balcony serenade for at least a week for him, Lance did not hold a visible grudge against him, though he didn't disagree with Blaine, either. When it was revealed to the brothers that Frederick had conversed with Gwen by himself, he was happy for him and rubbed his hair with joy. On the way to Gwendolyn's Dinner Party, Lance was amazed by cows, to the point where he happily told Frederick to look outside to find them. After receiving a kiss on the cheek from Princess Lorena, Lance ran off carrying Frederick, along with Antoinette. On their way home from the Pastel Palace, Lance inquired a slightly gloomy Frederick about what was wrong, and if it was because he didn't get to talk to Gwendolyn before he left.

#### Leland

The Plaid King, Leland, is the father of Lance. Lance is the only one among the Plaid princes that calling their father informally with "Pops" instead formally with "father". Turns out since flashback at the Episode 155, Lance has deep fear toward Leland since he begin to thinks that his father controls everything about them, and everything always *should be* in Leland's way of planning.

## Quotes

"**THAT WAS MY LAST CHIP!!!**"

"Best fiance ever.."

"This Leopold dude has a weird sense of beauty..."

"LOOK! **COWS!!** LOOK, LIL BRO!!"

"This smells unbelievably good..."

"Aw, Lorena just snuck off with Suzie... I feel like she's been kind of distant tonight."

"Yeah, drinking games were my extracurricular. And I was captain."

"I-I don't know how it's safe or humanly possible to drink wine that fast..."

"**I JUST HEARD ENLIGHTENMENT SPEAKING TO ME!!!** 'The girls in my life are resenting me for holding them back?!!' Is that why Lorena's been avoiding me all night? ....Because I said she shouldn't try to become the commander of her kingdom's army?"

"Lorena...! U-um... I'm sorry for what I said to you last weekend about your dreams of leading your military... Do you resent me for it?"

"Aye aye~!! All aboard, sailor!"

"What's wrong, lil bro? Sad you didn't get to talk with Gwen before you left?"

"Don't worry lil bro. I'm sure things'll works out. When you see Gwen at the Gala, just apologize and tell her that you can totally take things at her pace."

"She even sent me these flowers from her bedside! *They're strong and they smell nice, just like her...*"

"Eat up, lil bro! Sounds like you need brain food!"

"Seems like that's not gonna stop our pops from going anyway. Speaking of, where is he?"

"You look like a flower queen to me..."

"You gotta support your team, after all."

[together with Blaine] "*What...?* You were bullied?!"

"But those were like your only friends!!"

"When Dad said all we had to do was get some princesses to marry us, I didn't think this is what it would come to..."

"He controls everything about us. And everything always goes his way"

"I dunno, it was simpler to go along with it. But not now...! Not if it involves dragging the princesses down with us!!"

(whispering) "Lorena, will you please STOP fighting back?!! I-it was never supposed to be like this!"

"There's no other choice. Our dad won't stop until he gets his way. That's just... how it's always been."

"But if you just back off and give him what he wants, it's the only way I can make sure you're safe ...!"

"Yes. Because Lorena, I still--"

"***LORENA!!!*** You're right!! I was an idiot and a coward this entire time!! I don't want to fight against you!! And I shouldn't just be trying to protect you!!

"I should be fighting *alongside* you, because I--"

"*Ughh..... Wh-where am I...* \*Sigh...\* This is what I get for going along with everything for so long... I just... I always thought supporting my team was the right thing to do..."

"...it's who I was supposed to be. ...But now I'm just prisoner of my own kingdom...."

"...Huh? Why are you asking me?! You're the ones holding me prisoner..."

"*\*Ahem\*...* Um, o-okay. Well......"

"Hey, Lorena."

## Notes & Trivia

* Ever since Lorena and Suzanna's duel, Lance has been a lifelong supporter of women's combat sports, especially fencing.
* Lance can eat 11 slices of pie in one sitting.
* Lance and Lorena are shown together on the cover of volume 9 of CPC's OST, as well as on volume 2 together with his brothers.
* Lance's name comes from an Old French name from the Germanic Lanzo, a short form of various names beginning with land, meaning "land" or "territory". The name has been associated with the French word lance, as in the weapon, from the Latin lancea.
* At the military academy, his extracurricular was drinking games, and he was the captain.
* Lance fell for King Leland's "enlightenment" trick (meant for King Jack, but he didn't fall for it).
* Lance thinks he's left-handed, but doesn't know how to tell. He is likely ambidextrous, as he swung a person to the trash bin with his right hand but could also carry Frederick with his left hand.
* Lance's dreams include:
	+ Doing the world's longest keg stand with him and his military academy buddies.
	+ Eating 50 eggs in one hour.
	+ World's longest burp after completing the world's longest keg stand and eating 50 eggs in one hour.