Ancilla Lionheart

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## Ancilla Lionheart

### Aliases

* Second Wife of the Lionheart Family
* The Lioness of High Society

## Relationships

### Relatives

* Count Caines (Father)
* Cyan Lionheart (Son)
* Ciel Lionheart (Daughter)
* Eward Lionheart (Step-Son)
* Eugene Lionheart (Adopted Son)

## Appearance

**Ancilla Lionheart** is the concubine and second wife of Gilead Lionheart and mother to his twin children, Cyan and Ciel Lionheart. She was also a scion of a martial family. Her father, Count Caines, held an important position in the empire’s military.

## Personality

Ancilla is an ambitious person, which can be seen by the fact that she refused many good marriage offers and instead joined the Lionheart Family through the shameful path of becoming a concubine, because she was obsessed with the prestige of the Lionheart name. She takes a lot of pride in her familial ties and does not want to suffer disgrace at the hands of others at any cost.

To fuel her ambition, she can be found to be calculative. She would use her authority to pressure and force other people to do her bidding - furthering her own aspirations in the process. Her children - in particular Cyan- were a victim of her overbearing nature. Furthermore, she is often seen to hide her true emotions in order to manipulate situations to her benefit. However, she does understand that there are lines that she should not cross, if the consequences are too great.

After Tanis’s parenting had negatively affected her son and the consequences were revealed to the rest of the Lionheart family, Ancilla had undergone significant change and has now shifted her parenting and displayed regret after realizing and seeing how controlling she had been to her son and how it negatively affected the way he sees himself and his own sense of self-worth. During her talk with Sienna, Ancilla admitted that her experience with Tanis and Eward also caused her to have changed her view regarding her marriage. As it is normal for noblemen of the Kiehl Empire to have more than one spouse to secure alliances between noble families, Ancilla admitted that she would not mind if Gilead were to take up another wife and admitted that she would instead try to get along with her instead of being hostile towards her in order to maintain the harmony of the Lionheart Estate and not repeat what had happened with Tanis and Eward. However, Ancilla also made it clear that she would only do so if that the second wife would respect her and not try to usurp her as the main mistress of the Lionheart clan and made it clear that if she would do so, she would not hesitate to defend herself and her position.

As noted by Eugene, Ancilla’s nicer and kinder disposition could be due in part to her finally becoming the main mistress to the Lionheart Estate and Cyan finally becoming the heir and prime candidate to be the next Patriarch of the Lionheart clan, as her finally attaining what she always desired gave her a strong sense of satisfaction and contentment, making her disposition much calmer and amicable towards others.

## Abilities

As a noblewoman, Ancilla was noted to be highly skilled in handling and interacting with high society. Particularly, as the mistress of the Lionheart Estate, Ancilla is noted to handle the Estate’s day to day affairs and running it, as well as handling the Lionheart Clan's relationships with the other nobility of the Kiehl Empire. As shown where she is mainly in charge of keeping watch of the other factions of the nobles of the Kiehl empire and observing their relationships with each other and towards the Lionheart family and maintaining the clan's prestige and standing in noble society. Ancilla herself is also noted to be highly skilled in handling the Lionheart Clan's publicity and public relations to the both the nobles and common people of the Empire, being noted to have connections with several of the Empire's newspaper/media companies and is fully capable of censoring information that could ruin the clan's reputation.

Furthermore, being a scion of a martial family, Ancilla seems to be able to use mana. This is noted when she was looking herself over in the mirror, where after evaluating that she could more or less maintain her current beauty through her regular exercise regime and healthy living, Ancilla noted that she will eventually have to use magic in the future to keep herself physically strong and youthful.