Byron Wagner

**Byron Wagner** is one of the available romance options in the otome game Midnight Cinderella. He is the king of Stein, a mysterious country neighboring Wysteria.

## Background

Byron was born into royalty. It is presumed that his mother died in childbirth or when he was very young since he had a wet nurse. His childhood was implied to be unpleasant due to his father's authoritarian way of ruling. He found out he had a half brother by his father and set out to find him and bring him home. He overthrew his father and became The King of Stein at a young age, presumably 16 or 17 and decided to wear an eyepatch because he looked so much like his father, who was feared and despised.

## Appearance

He has dark, silky hair with gray-blue eyes. He often wears an eyepatch due to personal reasons. Byron has mentioned that he looks like his father. He has a lean, muscular body.

### Outfits

Byron consistently wears his attire as the King of Stein almost all throughout the game. Meanwhile, his normal attire, is what he wears whenever he goes out to town to avoid people staring at him when the Princess takes them for a tour around Wysteria. His formal attire is worn when the ending of the main story is reached (the engagement announcement) and also when you access the Ballroom in the game.

## Personality

As seen in every route where he is mentioned, Byron shows a very calm and collected personality. He seems to be emotionless most of the time because of his lack of expression. In his route, Byron usually does everything for his country without considering his own well-being. However, this changes when he meets the Princess and, by the near-end of the main story route, marries her for love and not for political reasons. Also in his route, the Princess discovers that Byron actually has a playful side to him when then she removes his eyepatch.

## Summary of Routes

### Main Story

The Princess sneaks out of the palace and visits her pupil in town. After, she makes her way through the woods to where Nico said he would leave her carriage. However, she is spotted by bandits who, seeing her fancy clothing, pursue her. She stumbles into a clearing and is helped up by a mysterious man, who repels the bandits with a look and a few words. He tells the Princess that there's a carriage nearby and leaves before she has a chance to say anything him.

Once back at the palace, life becomes much busier as the Princess is thrown into her many lessons, the day of the Princess Ceremony drawing ever closer. In the midst of the chaos, the Princess has a brief conversation with Robert, a painter that tutored the local children when she was young, and the person who had caught her as she had earlier snuck out of the palace. She briefly registers that the crest on one of his paintbrushes seemes familiar.

The Princess Ceremony arrives. The Princess delivers her address without mistake but is warned by Giles not to let her guard down, as the king of Stein - a country known for its military strength and its lack of diplomatic relations - is there. The Princess sees him, and realizes that King Byron, king of Stein, is the man who saved her from the bandits in the woods.

*The Rest Coming Soon...*

### Secret Ending

In his study, Byron thinks about how he contineus to receive marriage proposals, despite having completed a ceremony of vows with the Princess. Nico and Albert squabble about a bureaucrat that had visited Byron earlier and asked him, "What do you see in the princess of Wysteria?" Nico asks Byron the answer to the question, and he replies that he's never thought about it.

That night, the Princess invites Byron to stargaze with him, as she'd heard that there were supposed to be many shooting stars that evening. As they stand on the balcony, Byron realizes that he's never thought about why he likes the stars, either. Their faces close, he removes his eyepatch. They kiss, stopping only because Byron catches sight of the shooting stars. They watch them for a while, Byron holding the Princess in the air. He asks her whether she needs to know what he likes about her. The Princess replies that she doesn't need him to tell her, and that she'll keep trying her best in her own way. Byron thinks that if he had to put it into words, this is the part of the Princess he like best. He carries her back into his room. They undress on the bed and exchange "I love you"s. Byron's final thought is that even if he didn't tell her of his love, the Princess can see and feel it in him.

## Trivia

* Byron has a pet owl named Spinner.
* Nico Meier is his half brother; they have the same father but different mothers.
* He does not know how to cook due to having someone else do it for him his whole life.
* Byron enjoys chess, and he is talented at both painting and fencing.
* His zodiac sign is a Sagittarius.