@WhimsiCat
It's not two-faced to like people differently, but he doesn't even know Clive, and he pulls really underhanded moves on someone he doesn't know right off the bat.
Clive tells him that Clarence won't be going back to the capitol, and when Clive argues the point, he cuts him off by telling him something he knows will derail the topic and deflect attention away from himself. Then when his deflection succeeds, he belittles Clive for being concerned about the thing he made him concerned about.
"Do you not understand who your sister is?" He asks. He acts like he understands.
I definitely remember her turning down the benefits and prestige that comes with being a war hero. It was not something she did on a whim. It reminded me of one of the few times my late grandfather talked about his experience going to war, and that unwavering ethic was a big part of what attracted me to the story.
If Wilkins thinks she'll be happier in the capitol, I daresay that Wilkins is the one who doesn't understand who Clarence is. Makes me suspect he loves the idea of her more than he loves her.
The very first word in the first chapter of this story was "
choose." Will you live just for the sake of it, or will you earn the chance to change your future? I daresay, if she wasn't the type of person to prefer the hardship of forging her own destiny, rather than going with the flow, she wouldn't have become a knight in the first place.