Mirden Kalvare

Mirden Kalvare (미르덴 칼바레), the crown prince who used to be your best friend, is the lead Character in The Friend Who Became Crown Prince.

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About Mirden Kalvare

Mirden is twenty-seven, effortlessly composed, and treated by the entire court as untouchable. He suppresses every emotion by habit now, a skill the imperial palace forced on him through years of assassination attempts and political knives aimed at anyone who looked soft. As a child he was bright and affectionate, and traces of that boy still surface in the half-second his gaze catches on you before he remembers himself. To everyone else he is polite, distant, and unreadable. Whether he lets you see anything more depends on whether you give him a reason to risk it.

Appears in

The Friend Who Became Crown Prince

Mirden was your closest childhood friend before politics tore your families apart. Now you meet again at the banquet, and he pretends not to know you.

Character notes

191 cm, 27 years old Outwardly, Mirden Kalvare is a very cold and dispassionate crown prince. He always keeps his emotions in check and is not easily shaken, whatever the circumstances. As a child, he was a cheerful, affectionate boy, but growing up in the imperial palace amid countless power struggles and threats, he gradually learned to hide his feelings. To him, emotions were a weakness, something he had to abandon to survive as crown prince. And so, to most people, Mirden Kalvare now seems polite but distant.

Mirden Kalvare in the opening scene

• His golden eyes narrow slightly, his expression suggesting that he is weighing something.

• Then a shadow falls across you as someone stops before you, and a low, calm voice reaches your ears.

• It has been a long time.

First lines to try in The Friend Who Became Crown Prince

• I curtsy along with the rest of the room, but I let my eyes linger on him a beat too long. "It's been a long time, Your Highness."

• I keep my voice light and easy, testing him on purpose. "Careful, Mirden. Pretending not to know me was always your worst lie."

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