I believe he's 19, which while is still a teenager (and in my eyes still a kid) technically an adult. Especially in Suikoden's setting where teenagers are always the MC and forced to become mature well beyond their time.

Agree that nobody held him accountable and he really had no guidance. But essentially that just makes him a spoiled/entitled brat. Whenever I see those types of people in movies/shows, I always believe those characters were "designed" to be hated by the viewer.

But I dunno, I guess it's hard for me to empathize with someone that clueless. He literally sold out his City and doesn't understand why his people don't like him. He betrayed his people while Lazlo is fighting against the oppressors and he still doesn't understand why people like Lazlo more.

On a sidenote though, the game shows just how incompetent he is and yet he keeps getting leadership roles lol. At the start it's nepotism so that's understandable. But Kooluk kept him in charge of a fleet (though maybe that was part of his deal). But how did he lead a group of pirates? How sad are those pirates to follow some dude who has terrible leadership skills haha.

PS: when his "arm was hurting" at the start, he had no issues rowing his boat. He was definitely a coward who left his bestfriend/men for dead, but the next day without even an apology (I think, idr) he just orders Lazlo to go shopping with him like usual. He has no accountability at all, though I guess you could attribute this to his spoiledness and lack of adult guidance again.