So. I'm currently about to play a character I made a while back, the concept being a street urchin gets a crush on a princess or high nobility and decides to earn a knighthood (and thus nobility) through adventure to even stand a chance.

At first, I was split between fighter and rogue, but went with a swashbuckler rogue, since it feels like it fit the rags to riches theme better, boasting incentives for high charisma, having a focus on duelling which is a common fighting style for nobley-ey types and having the rogue abilities which could be explained by the street urchin backstory.

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ATM, I'm thinking of going tiefling and taking the dual wielding feat at 4th level so I can dual wield rapiers. Honestly, I may just end up sticking with this but I've found myself wondering if an experimental dip into a fighter multiclass, even just for a level or two, could be fun for the "I'm trying to become a knight" side of the concept.

That said, I've literally never multi-classed in any system ever and I'm not really a build-minded person, so to speak, so I figured I'd ask people with a bit more skill and/or experience on the matter.

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Are there any good builds for mixing a swashbuckler with a multiclass into fighter or should I just keep it simple and stick with a pure swashbuckler?

Initial instinct is, of course, cavalier, because knight but I suspect that wouldn't blend with a swashbuckler, especially if I stick with the dual rapier idea.