Mytho

We are introduced to Mytho from the point of view of Ahiru, who thinks he is a beautiful person, but wonders why his eyes seem so sad and hollow.  Mytho attends the same dance school as Ahiru and even though he is an upper classman and already Rue's established boyfriend, Ahiru crushes on him anyway.

As we find out fairly quickly, Mytho is actually the Prince who followed the Monster Raven out of the story and sealed it by breaking apart his own heart and scattering the pieces.   However, in sacrificing his heart, Mytho lost all of his feelings.

With no feelings and seemingly no memory, Mytho doesn't have much of a personality.  Initially he seems content to do whatever other people tell him to do and his only personally-driven instinct seems to be directed toward helping anyone or anything in trouble regardless of the threat to himself.  In everything else, the Mytho is passive, helpless and almost entirely dependent upon the will of others.  

Feelings or no feelings, it is important to understand that Mytho is the Prince from an epic tale. A story made incarnate, he naturally exemplifies the cliché role assigned to his character.  As a prince he instinctively fights monsters, helps people in trouble, and nobly sacrifices himself for the greater good.  As he does everything a prince ought to do in a story, it stands to reason then that he will also fall in love with the princess, but this matter turns out to be more complicated than it might seem.  

As Mytho gradually regains more of his feelings, he begins to recall glimmers of his past and starts to question both his present reality and his destiny.  Gradually the question comes to mind of what the Prince and Raven were fighting about in the first place, how  the prince's breaking apart his own heart would seal the monster, and  what will happen if the Prince's heart is fully restored.