Vankyri was once a lowly human named Peony, belonging to a noble family. Her parents wanted to build the picture-perfect nuclear family, but her father never knew how to control his temper, and her mother never wanted anything to do with her.

Growing up comforted only by tales of knights in shining armor and true love's kiss, Lowell grew into a man who's utterly and hopelessly romantic. He wishes to be whisked off his feet the same way those princesses were, to be taken by the hand and be told, "You matter to me more than the world." Aah, to live such a dream... Even in his more bleak life where connections are nothing more than weak, splintering threads, he still holds out hope for his own true love to turn up one day. Though he puts on an act of being a villain full of nothing but dramatic flair, he would drop down on one knee if a stranger merely admitted they liked him.