This description of myself not only includes, but holds one void. The first is missing in this odd missive. Try to determine this lost figure, if you be bold. 

I be not one, nor the other.
Yet I still do not live in the empty between.
No, I represent the best of both worlds.
Which turned upside down, is the worst of the two.

Studious student
Melodious music-bringer
Cogent contender

But fret not, for I belong not on the throne
The crown is for the Princess, who I only see fit to serve
My home is the forests, on the hills I love best

My home, you see, is the Northwest