Yoritomo Yoshito
one of the boys picked up by Yoritomo Katlynn pretty late in his life, Yoshito didn't imagine when he was brought in off the streets where he was mugging people for food that he'd end up the Clan Champion at 18, just 2 measly years later. While he relies on his twin brother Hiroka for much of the politics, his daring attitude and loud, bullheaded mouth make a perfect representation for the Mantis Clan.
It was his first Winter Court as a Clan Champion when the little pipsqueak Matsu Yuuko got caught in a strange, sexual dimensional rift with him. While others forgot, he made a strange deal with the fates to remember, and he got it bad for the little angry lioness who didn't remember how thoroughly he railed her while she was blindfolded and unable to touch the floor.
HIs brother, Hiroka, proposed a plan. After all, there was no way that little Lioness was going to give him a second glance. She was the Shogun's daughter, and a lion through and through--with all the Honorable Clan stuffiness that came with it.
They performed the Blackmail Kidnapping, utilizing plenty of money and lots of Hiroka's wit and skill. They got her kidnapped. They rescued her. All of that went according to plan. Then the Ghostlands decided to eat them and got them trapped for several weeks more than they expected, in an incredibly tainted area, where all the damn monsters were out to get them. While Hiroka and Yoshito were perfectly capable, the others were.. middlingly competent. Between an accidental relative of the Empress, a Unicorn related to Yuuko herself, and some messy ronin spider who went off-script, things took a turn for the worse.
Yoshito did successfully get his engagement, but the trip was dangerous and harrowing.