Some creator notes on Elrekia "Rekki" Lune...
So Rekki is a fun character to write because the rest of the cast were all designed around her with the aim that you'll get a unique and amusing dynamic with every character you put her with. She can be comedic because she's kind of hilariously dense, but she can also be a sort of Basil Fawlty-esque "straight man" to sillier characters where you can see her intense frustration and desire to just get on with it already.
The basic idea of her character is that she's a typical shounen manga protagonist personality; impulsive, follows their heart, pursues power both for personal goals and to protect close loved ones, but she's become an adult woman and discovered that people don't forgive you for collateral damage and think it's cute and heroic to act that way if you're an adult, and especially female. So Rekki is this highly strung mess, half the country hates her and she just wants a simple solution to all of it, because she's impatient and frustrated by complication.
At the current point in the comic, you're not necessarily meant to like Rekki, so much as to want her to be better, to sort her life out. She's largely isolated, she's finally come to the realisation that her boss/crush is an utter
heap, but she's stuck now because she's isolated (Urien has effectively isolated her by being extremely controlling of her time and putting her on a pedestal to distance her from other knights, make her an object of envy rather than camaraderie). Like a lot of young women who seek the attention of an older man, thinking they're uniquely mature and not understanding the huge power imbalance or how they're being manipulated because they're inexperienced, she committed before she was emotionally ready. I find that older readers are often more sympathetic towards Rekki, because with the benefit of hindsight, a lot of us realise we were in friendships or relationships with toxic people when we were younger, but when we were that age, we thought we were way too smart, mature and savvy for it to happen to us.
Well, today she's having her worst day ever, but she's also met a healer...