#Hannelore 5th Year

[tassjis]

[aireterra]

Bsjsisjdbddhsj I just read Wilf's perspective from the H5Y SS (I found it on discord).

Ngl, I really felt like Wilf crushed Hanne's heart the second time she proposed but the first time she did, I felt as though Wilf really cared about her feelings. It's evident he did but...

His perspective is hard to read most of the times because he's either surrounded by people who works to undermine him or people who recognizes his naiveness but doesn't really properly address it or address it too late or in a way that doesn't really help or get across to him. I honestly feel bad for him despite how much people say how privileged he is.

Would it be bad for me to say that Barthold being executed is sort of a relief and Oswald being completely gone would be more favorable? It would be cruel to ask Wilf to distance the guy tho.

If anyone asked me who is the AoaB character I can't stand the most, I'd say Oswald. Maybe it's because I don't understand what he's trying to do tbh.

I'm worried that Wilf may not still understand what it means for him to become an archnoble. I do understand that he's focusing on what's best for the retainers he has but he failed to realize that Florencia's aim was for him to be near his parents and siblings still, and not just to surround him with "malice". Has he forgotten that Lamprecht is a Leisegang noble himself? I feel like his mindset and self-talk has already been dyed by his Veronica-faction retainers just like how Eckhart pointed this out about Lamprecht having such mindset. Wilf and Lamprecht are the same in a way that they're optimistic. Though Wilf's confidence has probably somewhat waned by that point.

He genuinely considers Ortwin as a friend. I still don't trust Ortwin and I really hope he's not just using him because that's just really sad idk.

I can't trace the timeline and MTL sucks but I remember being really disappointed with Wilf the second time Hanne proposed. I need to read another POV from him to understand him then.

MTL is just like noble communications (⁠〒⁠﹏⁠〒⁠)

[honzuki-reymilie]

Plot Twist from Hannelore’s 5th year spin-off!!

(After P5V12 spoilers)

The biggest plot twist from Hannelore’s spin-off is that….

Hannelore actually likes ditter!!

[ship-of-skitties]

brennwarme and liebeskhilfe squabbling over who has the better doll mortal plaything, sylvester or hannelore

[midground]

Spoilers for Hannelore 5th Year

I cannot believe that the most insane isekai protagonist shit that Rozemyne has ever done happens OFF SCREEN in the BACKGROUND of her bestie's Royal Academy Otome Game.

Kazuki-sensei, you will always be famous.

[lordherdier]

P5V12P8 (final) spoilers and thoughts

welp, here we are for the last time, a touching ending to a series that i hold dear to my heart. it’s a little bittersweet to be done with the main series, but the journey was amazing nonetheless.

rozemyne’s inauguration ceremony was delightful and i’m glad she didn’t let the pressure get to her. i know that the lower ranked nobles didn’t have a good grasp of all the events that had transpired that had lead to her being inaugurated, but im still not sure where they got the gall to heckle her. like, girlie literally got possessed by a goddess and saved the country and the nobles are like “hmm but is that really anything worthwhile?”…. i’m glad rozemyne shut them up lol

the real highlight of the part was the epilogue, though. after 3 long parts myne was finally able to return home to her family! there’s so many wonderful things about this chapter that i struggle to pick what to write down, but i think one of the highlights for me was ferdinand and gunther and how he was accepted into their commoner family. after so many years of torment by his true family, he’s finally found a place where he can be at ease. also ferdinand’s line about rozemyne being all of his goddesses had me absolutely fangirling lol

though i do feel like the last book felt a little rushed in wrapping things up, i do believe this was the perfect ending for the series. granted, with a series this long you could probably go on for a couple of books just tying up loose ends (not that i think Kazuki left a lot of those).

it’s definitely going to be painful not having Bookworm to read each week, as the series has honestly gotten me through some of the hardest times in my life, and would always give me something to look forward to for a new week, but all good things must come to an end, as they say. i’ll just have to look forward to Hannelore 5th Year and the side story collections coming out!

also can’t forget to thank Kazuki for writing such an amazing story, and Quof for being such a fantastic translator.

[honzuki-reymilie]

Sylvester and Brunhilde:

I understand feeling disgust over age gaps, but I'm kinda confused as to why you think that Sylvester would consider it to be child marriage when marriages in Yogurtland only happens after both persons are major at the age of 15 (17 in earth years), and there is barely a relationship before marriage in the case of political marriage.

On Sylvester and Georgine: I remember the author saying that she was thinking of writing an SS about Sylvester reading the memories of Georgine, and how he understood why she was attached that much by the Aub's position, and how much his actions and words hurt her. I really hope she does and hopefully it'll be in SSC3.

Based on your complaints about Hannelore, I think that you might like Hannelore's 5th year, but then again you might also dislike it for reasons I have never thought about.

Please please PLEASE I need to know your thoughts on the characters that got shafted by both the narrative and fanfics. Sylvester. Magdalena. Florencia. Charlotte. Kinda sorta Hannelore (poor girl gets reduced to cutesy cheerleader for Myne to fawn over or smth in fics).

fool that you are, you have unsealed pandora's box and happened upon a topic i have a lot of thoughts about. i haven't read much aob fanfic so this is going to be mostly complaints i have with canon.

the main complication in my thoughts towards charlotte and hannelore is that there's a difference between rozemyne the character and the narrative of ascendance of a bookworm. rozemyne as a character has a LOT of internalized misogyny which compounds with an attraction to women and a disconnection to being a girl herself into the unique maelstrom of her more or less viewing other female characters through how good they are at being a cute girl/how much they like her. this means that while she's very complimentary towards charlotte and hannelore, she's also completely uninterested in them outside of their 1) being cute, 2) liking her, and 3) liking books. when her and wilfried's engagement is first announced she's shocked that charlotte is upset because rozemyne said she would support her because it just didn't occur to her that charlotte might want to aim for the archducal seat. rozemyne puts in a ton of legwork to rescue wilfried and put him back on the path to success, but she doesn't even consider trying to find a solution that allows charlotte the archducal seat without wilfried being ruined. i get that she doesn't want him in the temple initially, but after he improves you really think she would at least try to see if having him serve as the high bishop was an option especially at the dozen or so points in the story where everyone is despairing over the lack of manpower. charlotte is florencia's daughter so she wouldn't jeopardize florencia's position, she's better suited to the role, has no stain on her record, the leisegangs don't actively hate her, and, most importantly, she's the only one who actively shows interest in being the aub! and rozemyne not only doesn't try to help her achieve her dream, she doesn't even take enough of an interest in charlotte to notice it, let alone anything else about her except that she's a cute little sister. in fact, she actively diminishes charlotte's accomplishments and likes feeling superior to her.

the thing is that i have not yet started criticizing the story. rozemyne is allowed to be a deeply flawed character who is sometimes actively cruel to likable characters, but my problem lies with the fact that this cruelty doesn't go anywhere. i genuinely don't think aob realizes that rozemyne is mistreating charlotte or that as it currently stands the ehrenfest archducal family spent like the entire royal academy arc following step by step instructions for Georgine 2. having charlotte just grudgingly accept this because she admires rozemyne and doesn't think she has another option until the engagement gets canceled is, i guess, accurate to ascendance of a bookworm's setting where systemic misogyny means that only evil female characters get pissed off if they're screwed over, but that's... bad, both narratively and if you want your stories to treat women like people. i want charlotte to snap! in my rewrite i would give her and sylvester a running conflict where charlotte's mirroring georgine shows that sylvester still doesn't understand why georgine is the way she is and forces him to either reexamine his sexism or deal with the fact that this time he can't wholly blame the monster he created on veronica. i want them to fight! and i want her and rozemyne to fight, i want charlotte to challenge rozemyne's view of her and force rozemyne to choose between reexamining the way she treats cute girls or losing her adoring little sister. the fact that neither of these conflicts happen mean that charlotte as a character really just doesn't get to do anything. they do not let her cook a single time. she's sitting on the bench with the mountain of really interesting character conflicts and story conflicts she could have had as the first sympathetic major female character who is actually trying to become the aub(which i would have additional machinations for in my extensive "what if aob was communist" AU but that's not relevant right now), and instead everyone's like "let's check in on how wilfried's doing, does anyone wanna see wilfried continue to be bad at a job he doesn't even want".

hannelore gets basically the same treatment from rozemyne, and similarly my problem is basically that hannelore has no problem with this. her being a cute petite shy girl despite being from the ditter duchy is at best an interesting starting point for a character, but aob has decided to explore systemic misogyny in feudalism by reducing the majority of its female characters to props who really only exist in relation to their male family members(or rozemyne), which, again, i find boring! i just think it's very convenient how despite rozemyne saying over and over how aggressive dunkelfelger women are, the only active dunkelfelgerian female character for the majority of the story is really meek and quiet. genuinely i would almost entirely write out lestilaut and give the majority of his stuff to hannelore since he's mainly acting on what he thinks hannelore wants anyway. in my mind hannelore's first major character action is to challenge rozemyne to ditter for the ownership of schwartz and weiss, rozemyne takes her lightly because she's a cute girl, and then nearly gets crushed until she pulls out the lord of evil strats before collapsing, after which point hannelore freaks out and it's revealed that she's not an antagonist, she just thought the shumils were cute and wanted to be their owner, at which point rozemyne invites her to join the library committee. in general dunkelfelger having less of a sharp gender divide than ehrenfest because both men and women are expected to be muscleheads is like the most gimme way to actually show cultural differences between duchies and actually iterate on yurgenschmidt's society allegedly prioritizing skill and mana over gender(and this keeps almost being implemented only for aob to never really go anywhere with it). rozemyne keeps trying to fit hannelore into the box of a cute feminine girl by her standards which provides friction between them because hannelore IS a cute feminine girl by dunkelfelger standards. she doesn't have to actively fight with rozemyne over this the way i want charlotte to, but i really wish she had more of a presence in the story and also EVERYONE in dunkelfelger thinking that rozemyne loves ditter and the only reason she has to refuse is because of her physical weakness would be so much funnier if the primary source of misunderstanding is that she keeps not realizing she's agreeing to play ditter until it's too late because she's blinded by hannelore's cuteness. everyone else is like "rozemyne you have to stop accepting her challenges rozemyne you're going to lose trade rights to rinsham" and rozemyne is like "i didn't realize a 'summer tea party' was a dunkelfelger womens' euphemism for ditter :(". this is the only rewrite that i think wouldn't require a total overhaul of aob's structure and that fits with the series' overall comedic tone.

florencia has the unfortunate problem that she exists entirely in relation to sylvester and elvira, which means that when the two of them have their interesting edges sanded away her stocks crash through the floor. florencia serves as the bridge between sylvester and the world outside of the eye of veronica's storm, she is simultaneously the only person he fully trusts and someone who felt the full force of veronica's abuse, so you really think that'd go somewhere and that his arc would involve him realizing there's aspects of her that up until now he hasn't been forced to deal with and her arc would exist. instead mostly she's just written as either elvira's bestie or sylvester's handler, to the point that when aob goes all in on child marriage during brunhilde's proposal florencia isn't even in the room. the end of the stick she gets is so short it can only be seen by a microscope. i don't even really understand how you could hate her aside from i guess wanting wilfried's neglect to be her fault? which it isn't! it's, for the most part, sylvester's.

and oh boy sylvester. his squandered potential is unmatched and i will never not be mad about it. what they did to my man is a crime and if it isn't it should be.

like okay firstly i re-read the brother sylvester segment recently and i was NOT imagining it, there's no way in hell sylvester was always meant to only be against pedophilia because he's a wife guy. during his introduction when myne asks if he's going to the orphanage to look for flowers he is specifically upset that someone her age is thinking about that, and counters it by saying that he's skilled enough to find girls in the noble's quarters. the second part is relevant because it means that it's not the wife guy thing, which leaves only the first thing. firstly, his reaction being disgust implies that this is a moral issue for him, and his citing her age specifically makes it clear that's his sticking point, which rules out it being that it's sex outside of wedlock or that he finds temple girls unclean(in fact it also implies that he only wants girls with equal or greater social status to him who can therefore say no). the reason this is interesting to me is that this is very weird in noble society. ferdinand actually spells this out at one point when benno is similarly disgusted by rozemyne being implied to be his lover, where he says that it's a normal age gap in noble society and that it must not be among commoners, which benno doesn't contest, implying that this is true, and it appears to be! from the pairings we see, it seems that overall, commoner marriages are almost all unrelated adults, which makes sense, because most people do that unless systemic forces incentivize them to do something else, and implies that aob is commenting on the fact that pedophilia/incest in historical political marriages were not naturalistic, but instead something that was mandated by the specific way the system of hereditary feudalism works where marriage is a tool to connect political pieces and therefore you can't afford to be picky about how well those pieces match and in fact the power gaps that come with that are often actively useful to prevent bonds from being broken. that's what i meant when i said awhile ago that i was willing to see where aob was taking things! which made it all the more interesting when sylvester showed up and seemed to be showing that this was going to be a conflict that was explored in more detail.

to go all the way back to foundations, my reading of the prior gen archducal family is that sylvester as a character is the way he is primarily due to the fact that the aggressive favoritism veronica raised him with shielded him from a lot of the abuse their system mandates at the cost of harshening the abuse on everyone outside of him, which puts him in a really paradoxical position. on the one hand, he's fervently idealistic and puts almost no importance on his archducal status, so he's basically never intentionally cruel, but he's also ignorant to a lot of issues and is incredibly bad at reading people specifically because nobody whose life he can ruin is able to chew him out for doing that. he understands noble euphemisms, but the level of emotional concealment that everyone under him has to preserve combined with the fact that veronica actively disincentivized him from learning how to read people means that he doesn't realize when he's hurting people, and almost nobody can tell him. sylvester's quiet "sorry for not noticing" when rozemyne tells him that his attempt to cement her position by spreading printing as fast as possible was actually making things worse is probably the most direct the story gets about this.

so sylvester is a good guy! although he's irresponsible and ignorant, when it's actually revealed that he's hurting people he always tries to rectify it, and is clearly willing to sacrifice for the good of other people... but he's also the archduke, which means that regardless of his intentions, he's in control of a lot of peoples' lives, and no mistake he makes is victimless. the way their society works means that his obliviousness has a body count, including his sister.

his relationship with georgine had so much potential. georgine had her life ripped away from her after being severely abused in service of a future she's been cut off due to the existence of a completely innocent and goodhearted kid and is then forced to watch him grow up in bliss, wrecking the lives of everyone around him in the process. this is veronica's fault, obviously, but it wouldn't have felt that way. we unfortunately don't really get to see her perspective on the training she tried to give him(was she really trying to prepare him? was she trying to drag him down to her level? was it both?), but the thing is that they are both entirely justified in hating each other. sylvester was the recipient of an enormous amount of privilege that he wasn't even aware of and that came at the expense of everyone around him. simultaneously, they're not inherently bad people. there's every chance that if they were born in a different world or even as commoners, they would've been completely normal siblings. and yet they weren't, so they aren't. the first time we hear about georgine from his perspective sylvester actually says that he understands that georgine got screwed over when she was married into ahrensbach, but either that also got retconned or he didn't really understand the weight of it because for the rest of the series he just treats her like a flat antagonist. (which i think is because it was added in the LN, so maybe it just wasn't canon in the webnovel?)

i already mentioned him a lot in charlotte's section but yeah mostly i just want to give the man an actual character arc instead of having him just slowly flatten into "goofy wife guy". have his disconnect with noble society go somewhere! instead of having him realize that despite his intentions to raise his kids in the safety bubble he was raised in, the cycle of abuse is inescapable so long as the nobility persists, and instead of deciding "aw dang i guess the cycle of abuse is just inescapable then" have him question if we should have nobles! i genuinely don't get why people say aob isn't preachy. it is, it's just very conservative so its preaching is "the divine right of kings is fine but we should add capitalism" which is the default for medieval fantasy. which is bad. like is it so crazy to have his reaction to learning that there's no inherent difference between nobles and commoners through rozemyne's mere existence followed by the revelation that even orphans can become literate and skilled enough to match nobles be deciding that this distinction is perhaps completely arbitrary? when rozemyne is explaining how widespread lower class literacy revolutionized the world to ferdinand and she's like "oh but here everyone relies on nobles for mana and nobles can just use it to preach about how awesome they are" i thought that was going to be subverted because as a commoner with mana who understands that the devouring means that mana is not inherent to nobles she should know that's as false as the intelligence argument. but then it just wasn't. i will stop that for now though as i'm currently lying to you about not sneaking in an additional rant about how i would make aob communist.

back on topic, as soon as rozemyne joins noble society, aob panics and starts introducing a bunch of reasons why child marriage is actually totally ethical(i guess freida explaining why being a mistress is actually her best case scenario was supposed to be like "oh phew what a relief" and not "well that's horrifying") but because sylvester(and benno who actually gets the exact same thing done to him) has already expressed disgust at this despite having prior experience with it, suddenly it's that sylvester is just a wacky silly weirdo who only wants to be married to florencia because he just loves her that much. although he is obviously in complete agony when he says that if she and wilfried can't put up with each other she'll have to marry him, why is apparently not worth going into. in fact, it'll never be worth going into again! rozemyne will continue being kinda grossed out by huge age gaps and a lot of other characters seem kinda reluctant to marry kids, but this also never goes anywhere and now that sylvester is just a Wife Guy she agrees with everyone saying that he should just take a second wife. fermyne is its own thing(SEPARATE RANT), sylvester only seems to really care about their potential relationship insomuch as it affects their reputations and by p5vol12 he's been reduced to cutesy teasing them about rumors of their love. really though the nail in the coffin on this front was brunhilde's proposal. firstly, sylvester doesn't even really do anything during it! brunhilde initiates it and rozemyne is the primary opponent(with her objections all knocked down easily and treated as ridiculous), sylvester just kind of sits there outside of being upset at the implication that he'd abuse brunhilde, and then he agrees to it and that's that. tbc i do find this morally abhorrent not least because brunhilde turns to the camera and more or less goes "you might have some objections, but let me explain why marrying a teenager is actually a great idea", but then to add insult to injury it's also narratively really weak.

and while i do think that his final scene with georgine where he's begging her to explain why she hates him when he never did anything to her and she's got "the best life a woman can have" is really impactful and i think better than him already knowing why she hates him, it's actually really weird when outside of that he hasn't had any kind of character arc and his realizations that he's been perpetuating a lot of the harm that veronica and noble society have normalized for him are shut down(mainly by ferdinand which ideally would've GONE SOMEWHERE). and then it's dropped again to go back to the boring action climax, pursued by deus ex machina. it really needed to be a turning point in sylvester's arc where he's forced to accept that georgine does not want to reconcile with him and his never needing to understand her motivations is a big part of why. if he's supposed to be a tragic character he can fail to improve, and keep convincing himself that georgine is just a simplistic force of evil who hates him for no reason, but if he is going to improve he needs to figure out why she hates him by putting effort in himself and being willing to accept that he's not a kid being bullied by his big sister anymore, he's an adult who's responsible for his own actions, a lot of which made the situation worse.

to tie things back into charlotte, the lost potential between charlotte and sylvester is staggering because HE'S DOING IT AGAIN!!!! he's doing EXACTLY what veronica did with opposite intentions, in his attempt to keep wilfried from being abused the way he was by making his future secure he ends up neglecting and exposing charlotte to veronica's abuse and then continuing to neglect her. through his inability to understand what his childhood abuse was actually caused by, he ends up abusing and neglecting all of his children, but especially charlotte. this isn't even really explored through wilfried outside of people being frustrated that sylvester is busting his ass trying to keep the incompetent wilfried as the future aub because it's the best way he can see to keep him from suffering despite it actually harming him more which IS interesting but not the way it's implemented, and rozemyne's specific situation means that she generally interacts with him like he's a boss she's on relatively friendly terms with and doesn't view him as or need him to be a parent(which also shields her from basically all of this). but despite charlotte having unquestionably the most fraught relationship with him, aob again just has her put up with this. sylvester is one of the most well fleshed-out and sympathetic abusive characters i've ever seen so it's really frustrating that charlotte, his most affected victim, just gets shoved to the side because if we had to deal with the fact that despite his good intentions sylvester spent the vast majority of the story leaving her out in the rain to focus on his golden children then he'd have to be a textually morally complex character.

although to try and speculate on why things ended up this way, a lot of this is explained by the fact that afaik aob's webnovel was solely from rozemyne's perspective without a lot of the short stories so basically everyone except rozemyne and ferdinand had all their character development patched in for the LN which is probably why nobody except them has any semblance of an arc so because rozemyne as a protagonist is so disinterested in other people, you kinda can't give characters really detailed arcs onscreen because she either zones out or stubbornly tries to keep fitting people into her boxes. it'd be different if the original story had other POVs and therefore characters could do things that she doesn't care about or that it would be weird for her to be present for(like sylvester and charlotte definitely need to clash on their own; it'd mess with the tone a lot if rozemyne had to be sitting awkwardly on the sidelines so the audience could witness it). it is possible to give characters detailed arcs that the unreliable narrator doesn't pick up on and stories with deep worlds tend to have a lot of characters doing things when the narrator isn't looking, but it's REALLY hard to have entire character arcs that the narrator doesn't pick up on work because you run the risk of either not making it so the reader can actually see that's what's happening or you make it so obvious that the unreliable narrator has to be cartoonishly wrong to avoid just being a narrator accurately describing things. i'm told there's a hannelore spinoff which might be more interesting but this series has torched so much of my goodwill towards it that after the main story wraps up i'm putting my foot down and listening to this excellent advice:

[roramitchell]

SPOILERS

Do not keep reading if you have not read the Japanese light novel "Ascendance of a Bookworm Volume 11" by Miya Kazuki.

So I basically had a life-changing moment yesterday: I found a kindred spirit who pointed out the existence of the work in progress "Hannelore's 5th Year" (UNBRIDLED FANGIRLING).

...Which brings me to the chapter The Dress Debut and Ferdinand's Return in Volume 11 translated by Quof-san.

"Right. By the way, your return to noble society means you can get married again, right? Shouldn't you be down there looking for someone?" I asked. It seemed to me that, rather than sitting up on the stage, he should be with the other available men calling out to a fine noblewoman or two.

But Ferdinand glanced down at the hall dismissively. "There would be no point; not a single woman there has enough mana to match my own."

His flat response took me by surprise. I was already aware from the situation between Brigitte and Damuel that a considerable difference in mana capacity was enough to kill any chance of a relationship, but was he really saying that every single woman of marriageable age in the hall didn't have enough mana for him?

"Um...Not a single one?"

"Not among the unmarried women of Ehrenfest, no."

"Wait, really? But haven't you courted a girl before? Mother mentioned that it didn't last long, but..."

It was hard to imagine there being any mistakes in the deep Ferdinand lore that I'd heard from Elvira, especially considering that it largely originated from Eckhart, who had witnessed it all happen firsthand. I shot him a quick glance, which was enough for Ferdinand to deduce the true source of my information.

"What in the world have you all been wasting your time talking about?" he asked with a grimace. "Good grief...Either way, that happened when I was attending the Royal Academy. There were girls taking the archduke candidate course alongside me whose mana capacity was large enough to match my own. And to be clear, if we include married women in Ehrenfest, then there would be one who is compatible."

[nxchtmxhr]

rural German school gothic

• The German teacher always praises Anna for her excellent oral marks. She says Anna always contributes so much to the lessons with her thoughtful responses. Anna is mute. The teacher does not seem to know, even though Anna has been a student in her class since 5th grade. The class is puzzled, but none of you ever say anything.

• Every morning, when you wait for the school bus, there is this teenaged girl at the bus station. She seems to be waiting, but she never enters the bus. She never speaks a word. She just stands there, staring into the void, waiting. When you ask the others in the village about her, they claim they have never seen this girl. You have been seeing this girl ever since you moved here in 7th grade.

• Your friend always tells you to go grab some Zimtschnecken at the Hannelore’s bakery. This bakery has been shut down 15 years ago. 

• Your strict math teacher insists on you writing with a fountain pen. The last person who did not follow her advice and used a fountain pen died under mysterious circumstances.

• For P.E class, you go to the local sports hall. No one ever uses the bathrooms there. A girl even pees into a bottle because she does not want to use the bathroom. You do not know what’s in there. No one does. But they tell you no one ever came back after using that bathroom.

• In the school yard, there is a bank with student’s names carved in. No one knows who is carving these names in there. But every time there is a new name, this person disappears under mysterious circumstances. You are too scared to check if your name is carved into this wood.

• Sometimes, the P.E teacher announces the next lesson will take part outside on the school’s sport fields. Your school does not even have a sport’s field.

• The first time you heard your teacher announce this, you told him there was no sports field. He politely told you where it is located but some of the students gave you horrified looks. When you went checking the location in the next lesson, there was no sports field. The other students who gave you horrified looks before had been waiting there for you. They told you never to mention the non-existance of the sports field again.

• Every time you are supposed to he having a P.E lesson in the sports field now, you and the few students are hiding in the school’s bathrooms. No one knows what exactly you’re hiding from.

• But as soon as the next lesson starts, the other students are still wearing their gym clothes, drenched in sweat. They speak as if they have been training in the sports fields. Their faces are miserable. They seem traumatized. They don’t speak a word to anyone for the rest of the day.

[thechoisanone]

the ezra family

let’s just start out with that mr. roland ezra - the director of many french successful films - tends to have bad luck with marriage. he’s currently married to his 5th wife, and that’s the longest marriage he’s had -- 10 years and 3 months in, and he’s still getting frustrated in this marriage. basically, he is relatively immature and thinks that marriage should be easy and not as much work as each and every one of them have been. this mentality has sure given his plethora of children (all 22 of them - i know, yikes) quite a few problems psychologically. what does it do to you when you see your parents just give up so easily like that? definitely not whole lotta good.

each child of the ezra clan deals with this differently - some have turned to fame to help distract them and essentially follow their father’s footsteps, some turn to therapy and actually getting their shit handled, and some are stuck somewhere in between being okay and being very not okay. in the end, they do love their moms and dad, but they don’t really know how to get along 100% of the time, which... is pretty much the story of every single family, big or small.

what i stated above is true. every single sibling of this large family has handled the multiple divorces and the custody battles and fighting and everything that comes with nasty divorces under the sun. their mothers are jaded after they weren’t ‘the one’ that ‘changed the legendary roland ezra’. how they react and how they’ve dealt with their families continuously growing (it seems like there’s no end in sight - roland is 62 and just had a child with his 5th wife last year) and how they handle the changes is completely up to you!

if you are interested in a child, pls lmk and message me here on tumblr (this is my personal account) or message me on discord at fleur centineo.#9114 !!

and now, the children: (**denotes twins)

vanessa & roland, 1978-1984 --- ezra, 40, fc, alias --- ezra, 38, fc, alias** --- ezra, 38, fc, alias** --- ezra, 37, fc, alias --- ezra, 35, fc, alias

abigail & roland, 1988-1992 (must have jewish ancestry) --- ezra, 30, fc, alias hannelore ezra, 29, lily collins, fleur --- ezra, 27, fc, reserved for derek

emmaline & roland, 1994-1997 --- ezra, 24, fc, reserved for tay** --- ezra, 24, fc, alias** --- ezra, 23, fc, alias --- ezra, 21, fc, alias

youna & roland, 1999-2001 --- ezra, 19, fc, alias** --- ezra, 19, fc, alias** --- ezra, 18, fc, alias

julissa & roland, 2002-present (all children currently NPC) maybeline ezra, 16, npc opal ezra, 14, npc geoffrey ezra, 13, npc beau ezra, 10, npc naomi ezra, 7, npc winona ezra, 4, npc beatrix ezra, 8 months, npc

[ascendance-bookworm]

Yurgenschmidt (2) Dunkelfelger

- - -  (2nd Rank) Dunkelfelger (Blue Cloaks) - - -

Size ◈ Greater

Cape Color ◈ Blue

Key Crest Components ◈ Hawk, spear

Cultural Notes ◈ A military duchy with many different kinds of fruit. Its people are intensely passionate and obsessed with ditter.

- - - Archduke Family - - -

Aub Dunkelfelger - Sieglinde (1st wife)    -  Lestilaut (son)    -  Hannelore (daughter)

- - - Notable People - - -

Heisshitze

a knight of Dunkelfelger

Ferdinand’s rival in ditter during their academy days, considers Ferdinand a friend, although Ferdinand finds him tiresome

always looses to Ferdinand in ditter / sport

Ferdinand’s blue cloak was originally his

Professor Ruffin

Academy Dormitory Advisor

professor of the Knight program

a ditter fanatic

Cordula

Hannelore’s head adult attendant

an older sensible woman

Clarissa

(year 2) 5th year archnoble scholar of the sword

engaged to Hartmut

admires / worships Rozemyne

wants to become Rozemyne’s retainer

Rasantark

Lestilaut &  Hannelore’s cousin, a archnoble knight, earnest

- - - Updated January 15, 2023 - - -

These are just my quick notes to remember important info and/or passages as I read the series. I updated it as I read each volume and find new info I want add. I try and remember to mark each piece of info with at least the LN# for reference. If you find a mistake, or think I need to add something else, please leave a comment and I’ll add it.

[tassjis]

The amount of HanneMyne in H5Y is wonderful. The poor suitor candidates have to deal with one of their love rivals being the avatar of mestanoria herself is so juicy. Poor hannelore keeps digging herself into a hole as more and more people start proposing.

[aireterra]

I think every RA student needs a guide about Dunkelfelger ways. It's a necessity.

[honzuki-reymilie]

Technically, that isn't wrong either since she also said that she wanted to publish a book of essays she previously wrote after finishing with Hannelore's 5th year and Short Story Collection 3, but unlike a new series, it shouldn't take long. (Sorry for not answering until now)

what i meant about a part 6 is that there are rumors kazuki-sensei has one planned (rumors that were even mentioned by quof). and the tiny glimpse we get into what rozemyne does in her fifth year in h5y really supports the idea that there is more plot that could be covered in a part 6!

Yeah I know. What I meant is that this sequel from Rozemyne's POV is already confirmed by the author, it's not just rumors. She also said that it won't be a part 6 since it'll have its own subtitle (something other than "I'll do anything to become a librarian"). For now it's only a matter of when. At first, after finishing HY5, she was intending on writing a new series before the sequel, but in a most recent interview (the one from Kono Light Novel ga Sugoi), she was hesitating about which to write first, so there's a possibility that we could get the sequel after HY5 :)

[aireterra]

It just occured to me that H5Y is technically a reverse harem of some sort...

We don't know much lore about the god/dess' subordinates but if Myne is like Mestionora, maybe Hannelore is like Verfuhremeer? Technically, there's gonna be battles (ditter) for her hand in marriage...

It also just occured to me that some AoaB LN readers doesn't know the existence of H5Y yet😭

How does the future look in their perspective I wonder? H5Y is something to look forward to after AoaB ends and it's already ending. It's already ended, technically, in fact.

Makes me wonder what's life gonna be like when it's H5Y that ends...

There's actually a lot of things to expand on when it comes to AoaB. There's the other duchy's cultures and landscape, Lanzenave before they've known mana, and other neighboring countries near Yurgenschmidt. We could also explore more on the history of the country and the lore about the gods and goddesses. If not the history, there's also the future like how is Myne viewed by the future generations (when all her secrets are known by those who obtain the Grutrissheit). Also, I really wanna read AoaB in Charlotte's perspective. That girl is so precious. I wonder which god/dess would best suit her.

The world-building is so rich that there's a lot of it we can still explore and expand on. I honestly believe that AoaB is a masterpiece. I know that my liking for it is reaching an unhealthy level as I've reread it multiple times now but it's just that good to think a lot about. I often always come back to it... I feel like it's always gonna be part of my life honestly. Like I'm determined to see it through till it really ends... And even then, I'll still probably think about it a lot and I'll still be left with lots of things to wonder about. I mean— just the flora and fauna of Yurgenschmidt alone is enough to keep me wondering what else is there...

[aireterra]

"Knowing is not the same as understanding."

— Wilfried, H5Y