#I'm also thinking it would be better if the ex-princess wasn't dead but rather had gone insane/was severly sick due to the poison

[anglerflsh]

I'm really intrigued by your ocs. Could I ask for a bit of lore about them?

do count that most of it is in the process of being re-written. They're for a four-act play I was toying with a while ago.

The short of it is, O. (lighter haired one) is ruling prince of one of the states that are part of the same federation as the state H. (black haired one) is direct ruler of. The former is one of the bigger states, whose claim to fame has become the efficiency of its military after the reforms O. put in place when his sister was still ruling princess. She has recently been poisoned, hence why he's head of state now - he was never directly introduced to the federation council before because he wasn't the firstborn child, so him dealing with diplomatic relations directly is a new development. The latter is instead a more commerce-central kingdom - I think of it like the repubblica di Venezia (it also helps because H. is head of the church for the kingdom as well as temporal ruler) - and H. has been in charge for enough time that he's well-established as a figure in the federation despite his kingdom's small size. And they know each other because of said diplomatic relations taking place! Their respective lands fought a war years prior, under different rulers, so it was significant that they would be friends.