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My auto-YES:

Female knight - if I'm strong or have enough time to train.

Villainess - they usually live luxuriously/comfortably, I want to laze around.

My ultimate NO zone 🙅🙅🙅:

Lady With Harem - I am a firm believer of a monogamous relationship plus I'm awkward with the whole romance thing. I don't want to make anyone cry.

Queen/Empress - I would probably die, it sounds dangerous and A LOT of work.

Maid - I'm too lazy so it sounds like a living hell.

SAUCE for all characters:

• Who Made Me A Princess

• A Stepmother's Marchen

• Remarried Empress

• Miss Not So Sidekick

• Your Throne

• Men Of The Harem

• Beware Of The Brothers

• Surviving As A Maid

• Crimson Karma

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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?

Jennette’s hobbies headcanons:

sewing/embroidery

making dolls/stuffed animals and having tea parties with them

riding

baking

gardening

rowing (that’s how Jen got the strenght to give bear hugs)

playing harp and cembalo

dancing

reading romance novels

lepidopterology

collecting ancient myths, foreign fairy tales from all over the world and horror stories

she also loves hearing about crimes, urban legends and curious incidents that happened in the capital city and cuts out the newspaper articles to glue them into her private folder

writing poems and short stories

writing down her thoughts and sending letters to an unknown consigness, places she’d like to visit one day

daydreaming about her family

secretly hiding and feeding the mice family that has nested in their attic

rescuing baby birds that have fallen from their nest and nursing them back to health (they all die because of her black magic)

taking care of tropical fish that Ijekiel won for her at a festival they had visited on the Obelia founding day (they all die)

building a graveyard for her pets that have died

buying gifts for her family which she had never met

Lucas might have destroyed Aeternitas whole life

Someone on my post just commented that Lucas even questioned if the little child (Aeternitas) was actually biologically a royal child and..woah…this careless claim could destroy a person’s whole life and possibly kill multiple others in process. 

I’m not a fan of the “Aeternitas became a psychopath because of (1) harmless insult in his childhood. Here’s my take on this:

Basically wmmap is set in a fantasy world that resembles the late middle age (?). Do you know what happened to women that committed an obscene act in the middle ages? A common punishment for adulterous women was: whipping, head shaving, and parading the adulteress naked through the streets. Sometimes people would throw rotten food at her or even stones. If she is lucky she gets locked up in a convent or chased into the wilderness. If she is unlucky she is murdered by her own husband. Alongside her supposed lover.

Now you could argue “Lucas didn’t mean it!”. “But there’s no proof!”. My answer: It does not matter. The suspicion is proof enough. Especially when uttered by a person of such high social standing as Lucas. Who would the nobles rather believe: A renowned century old sorcerer with knowledge beyond your wildest dreams or a stupid girl, that got sold off into marriage to the Emperor? Even worse if that stupid girl has a good relationship with the male servant or gardener or whatever. If the distrust is already planted it will only grow. The opposing noble families are just gonna use this rumor and blow it out of proportations, so that the seat of the empress will be empty for their own daughters. Because as we know, you can’t have nice things in the royal court.

Now imagine this innocent little child watching their life slowly fall apart thanks to someone they once admired. Imagine them witnessing the humilation of their own mother in public, maybe her execution too. Aeternitas gets stripped of his title, does he get the death sentence too and escapes? Or does he try to live quietly at the court despite the constant abuse, which could have started after the rumors grew worse ?

I’m not sure if wmmap will ever get that dark, but it is the only realistic explanation for Aeternitas intense hatred. The Aeternitas-is-just-a-psychopath-explanation is cheap and won’t do. Not all psychopaths are bloodthirsty monsters. Yesterday I’ve read an interview between a psychologist and a psychopath, or if you prefer: person with antisocial personality disorder (since the term psychopath gets frowned upon by many professionals) and they honestly admitted, even through that killing would be easy to them, they would never take the risk, because of something trivial as an insult.

(I also have my doubts IF Aeternitas is even a psychopath, duh. We don’t have enough panels to judge him. As far as I see post-dark-magic Claude has more chances to score high at the psychopath checklist. Some psychopaths are able to be law abiding citizen and care for their family/ pets. Btw I often make jokes about Anastacius being a psychopath, but I think he’s actually fairly neurotypical?? Like he doesn’t want Jennette to be hurt, he argued against killing Claude’s mother etc etc. Ana has empathy!)

Oh and calling baby! Aeternitas a psychopath is plain wrong, personality disorders usually can’t be diagnosed until the person hits 18, because until then the brain isn’t fully developed.

Short version: 1.) Lucas social game is weak. Through his foolish off-handed comment about “Aeternitas possibly being a bastard child”, he might have unintentionally caused the death of the empress and Aeternitas decline into madness.

2.) Making the villain a born psychopath is cheap, and there aren’t enough panels to prove if he is one. Currently Claude is more of a psychopath. You could convince me that Lucas might be one as well with the right arguments. My judgement on him is still hanging in the air.

I think he could see that she was already terrified, and as such wouldn’t answer any of his questions. So he kneels down to at/just below her level so he wouldn’t intimidate her quite as badly. Though I’m not quite sure how well that works considering the very next thing Claude does is pick up Athy and then dump her into Felix’s arms lmao.

OH NOW THIS!!! THIS HERE!!!

I didn't notice it at first but Claude went from tilting her chin up to him while standing before he knelt to match her height, actually, a little lower than her height, effectively having her look down at him which must almost never happen except for Felix guarding him while he's sitting down.

He could have continued to intimidate her from above with his height but chose to stoop down to her instead and Idk about y'all but decided to kneel...and for what??? To intimidate her close up?? To see something?? *rips out hair*

Manhwas with the same Author [Novel Cover]

Plutus

Who Made Me A Princess

Harley Takes the House / Beware of the Brothers

Alphatart

The Remarried Empress

Men of the Harem

Spice&Kitty

The Fantasie of a Stepmother / A Stepmother's Marchen

How To Get My Husband On My Side

Saha

The Beloved Little Princess / The Youngest Princess

Predatory Marriage [NSFW]

Please Don't Eat Me

Lee Hey » author and artist «

A Good Day To Be A Dog

See You In My 19th Life / Please Take Care Of Me In This Life As Well

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