Mahmut Tughril Husbando

Tughril Mahmut is the main protagonist of the story. He is known as a prodigy, being Turkiye's youngest pasha in its history at 17 years old during the beginning of the story. He is also Iskandar's partner As from chapter 77 of the manga, he is officially Chielo's Idare, or governor, making his rank equivalent to a vizier. Mahmut is a young man with a fair stature. He has neck-length golden blonde hair that curl up at the tips framing his face, usually covering his left eye. He also has soft face features befitting his story heritage and innocence, with baby blue eyes, and a small nose. His usual garb consists of a white salvar (trousers) and black-collared white inner shirt, a red yelek (short robe) and a pair of black cedik (boots), which all have circular golden linings on them except for the trousers. In formal occasions, he wears a red-white coloured turban. He is considered beautiful by some characters, beautiful enough to cross dress as a woman when situation demands so. Even Sultan Balaban had considered to recruit him into his yeniçeri (Janissary) because of this. Generally, Mahmut is a nice and smart person with a strong sense of justice, but has strong impulsive tendencies, so much that he bordered on naive at his first appearance. He came into the Pasha with a child’s innocence in foreign affairs and policies. As the story progressed, he slowly began to gain wisdom and became more careful in taking action, even though his naivety still shows. In one of the 50 fan questions posted on the fanbook, Katou Kotono stated that Mahmut is actually more of a hard worker than he is a natural genius, which is quite different from what presumed all these times by people in-universe.