[@HylianRose]
He is the only child of a dying family line... which means that his family is running out of successors (in my mind at least). He never wanted to be a Knight in the first place and wanted to become an engineer originally, but he is too afraid of disappointing his dad to actually tell him he didn't want to be a Knight and follow in his footsteps. His mother is dead and his father is really his only family.