I Think The Reason Why I'm So Fascinated With LP Jennette Is Because She Is Raised Inside A Constructed

I think the reason why I'm so fascinated with LP Jennette is because she is raised inside a constructed narrative. Roger and Rosalia created conditions under which becoming the crown princess is the only reality she can see, maybe the only one possible.

Nothing inside her was not created by them. Her father wonders which parent she resembles. The answer is none. Jennette was raised to seek out Claude - to seek his love. But only because no one at home gave her that strong bond that is, ‘familial love’. Without them (without love) she feels useless. The reason why Jennette's personality feels flat is because she wasn't allowed to develop her personality organically. Her yearning for love, her romantic idealism, her naivety are all traits that nurtured in her by the Alpheus/Judiths. Her personality feels artificial and fake to some readers because her personality was modelled after a classic Cinderella stereotype. Storybook princesses aren't allowed to have any flaws. Or any depths.

Children are smart, much smarter than adults give them credit for. Jennette does what Roger wants because deep inside him she senses that he wants something from her. I think Jennette realized early on that Roger isn't the type of person that would be taking care of an orphan like her out of the pure kindness of his heart. She feels a debt towards her caretakers that she has to pay. Her total obedience might not only be the result of her isolated/sheltered childhood in which Roger and Ijekiel were her only source of warmth, but also the result of her wanting to show gratitute and the fear of disappointing him and losing everything. And when I say everything I mean everything. Ijekiel won't marry a nobody like her if she isn't accepted into the royal family and can guarantee he becomes Emperor consort. If she cannot give Roger what he wants, if she won't become the crown princess then she would be nothing but a disappointment, a waste of time, a failed project. Would he cast her aside? Who knows. She'd even lose the small scraps of affection on which she survived since childhood. There is no future for her except for the one in the Imperial palace. If a cruel and bloodthirsty tyrant like Claude won't accept her as his daughter what other ending would await her except for death? Especially novel Jennette who knew she was not Claude's real daughter had no choice but to uphold this lie lest she be executed for being the child of her cheating mother and Claude's dead brother.

When she rejects the throne and says she only cares about her family she is punished by the narrative and loses the only thing she cares about: her family. I think what differentiates Jennette from other heroines the most is that she is forced onto the throne against her will. Her life is a tragedy disguised as a happy ending. Her wishes are granted in a very monkey pawn kind of way. She gets her father's love but her sister gets his scorn and is executed. She gets the throne but for that her father has to die. She ends up marrying the most desired man in the entire Empire but it is the boy who was her foster brother and saw her as nothing but a family, who she was never allowed to see as a family since Roger always intended for her to marry him. LP Jennette has no real personality or wants or dreams. I think it was always other characters projecting on her or doing terrible things for her sake, for what they think will make her happy without asking for what she really wants.

I love the concept of the A Lovely Princess novel. It looks like a tacky romance novel but actually hides a shakespearean tragedy underneath with the heroine secretly being the daughter of the villain and killing her own family unknowingly throughout the novel. Jennette is introduced as a cliché of a heroine when in reality she would have been the most interesting heroine ever. She isn't an overpowered genius, doesn't even want to rule. Even though she is a designated heroine and destined for the throne in her own story she doesn't even have the name of immortality that is meant for the heir.

The side character Athanasia had originally all three things: the Imperial blood, the Imperial magic and the Imperial mana but she is killed off screen. Jennette is loved by everyone except she's not. She is surrounded by people who either envy her, want to use her or are brainwashed by her magic. The people that claim to love her the most are actually unbelievably selfish and do the most unhinged things in her name. Like poisoning her and framing someone innocent just to make sure she will be the only in line for the throne when she has never expressed an interest in ruling. It's just very interesting how these people who claim to care for her consistently ignore her wishes for what they think will make her happier and only make her more miserable in process.

I'd love to read a oneshot that is sort of an epilogue of the Lovely Princess. How does Jennette cope with the loss of her loved ones and the truth that her family is partly responsible for that? What kind of Empress will she become? How can she survive the court intrigues without Claude's protection?

This just started as a doodle that got way out of hand but still

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