#Wilfried

[tassjis]

[yurgenschmidt]

[aubdrewanchel]

Rozemyne: *tries helping her fiancé (Wilfried)*

Wilfried:

[ask-court-of-darkness]

Wilfred, I like your outfit. The leopard print is so cutesty

What would my outfit have to do with me as a person?

The amount of inane questions you all have asked me is rather unnerving.

Do you not have anything better to do with your time?

[thanakite]

Pretty much like 90% of the time Wilfried is present in Ascendence of a Bookworm I'm practically screaming "YOU ARE SUCH A DUMBASS!" At him, and unfortunately for him like 8% of the remainder is simply him doing basically nothing at all leaving only about 2% of the time being moments I think positively (or more commonly, neutrally) of him

Like I get that he is just a kid really but Charlotte 10000000000% speaks the truth that it would have been better for everyone if she had been born a boy as she would have done SOOOOO much better even with 1 year less of experience

And really, even taking into account all the damage done by Veronica and his retainers' lack of intervention in regards to his studies, he literally grew up surrounded by people constantly speaking in "noble speak" and yet Rozemyne (who readily admits that she doesn't understand a significant amount of what is being said or written at any given time) picks up on way more than he does

Also the ways he takes Rozemyne and her various attendants, scholars, and knights for granted all while falling for the bullshit his own retainers keep peddling to him makes me want to smack him upside the head (or whap him on the head with a folded paper fan like Rozemyne got to that one time)

[reymilie]

Redraw of the archduke candidates trio from P5V1 illustration.

This is the heartwarming scene of Ferdinand terrorizing cheering up Rozemyne even though he was in a whole different duchy ❤️🥹.

[hopelessenthusiast1729]

Knight book 2 spoilers

OHHHHH MY FUCKINGG GOOOD

[ahb-writes]

Book Review: 'Royal Academy Stories' (First Year)

Ascendance of a Bookworm: Royal Academy Stories: First Year by Miya Kazuki, You Shiina, Quof

adventure

fantasy

magic

library science

librarian

royal academy

My Rating: 4 of 5 stars

Ortwin the innocent. Angelica the humble. Hannelore the disastrous. Traugott the insincere. Solange the optimist. ASCENDANCE OF A BOOKWORM: ROYAL ACADEMY STORIES (FIRST YEAR), though bereft of drama and lacking much meaningful narrative, successfully bevels the sharpest corners that define several characters that lend color and shape to the Royal Academy. The most intriguing characters in this collection of short stories are those whose self-awareness and grasp of their role in the grand scheme of things shifts just enough for readers to glimpse a critical, lonely truth they might not otherwise have witnessed.

This volume is a serviceable middle-ground between offering the best of what this novel series has to offer and ultimately maintaining a brisk and healthy pace for the long haul. The novel series spends so little time on major events that readers must often pull together the tiniest details through various epilogues or character-specific narratives. Spending a single volume on Lady Rozemyne's first year at the Royal Academy certainly wasn't enough. And neither was the single volume dedicated to her second year. Fortunately, a few crumbs yet remain.

ROYAL ACADEMY STORIES (FIRST YEAR) holds a few overlapping tales, but readers will find their events largely in sync. For example, when Dunkelfelger reacts to losing a game of treasure-stealing ditter, readers view the fallout through the eyes of the duchy's dorm supervisor (Rauffen), a fourth-year apprentice archscholar (Clarissa), and a first-year archduke candidate (Hannelore). It's a puzzle worth assembling.

Rauffen reacts with surprising placidness, and his discernment regularly and authoritatively puts Lestilaut in his place (Rauffen: "Did you really gain nothing from that game of ditter except petulant anger? [..] If so, no way I can deny that you lack the self-awareness and mindset required of a proper aub," page 81). This insight into Rauffen's disposition outside of games and warfare establishes him as a credulous and genuine figure, a perspective otherwise missed in the course of the novel series' regular narrative.

Hannelore, hilariously, has no idea what she's doing. She's a mediocre person, and frequently chides the gods for her inborn lack of confidence and her terrible sense of timing. Hannelore tries her utmost to stay out of the way, but she often incites others into action by sheer accident. One should hope she marries away from Dunkelfelger. But alas, that appears to be the fate of Clarissa, a duchy peer whose high affections for the so-called Saint of Ehrefest means she has set her sights on gaining access to the inner circle of Rozemyne.

Another highlight of ROYAL ACADEMY STORIES (FIRST YEAR) is a startlingly emotional profile of Angelica. The medknight confesses to receiving consolation from temple attendants with greater sincerity than she ever found at home. "Now I really understood why Lady Rozemyne preferred staying in the temple instead of the castle," she says to herself. "That was maybe the first time anyone had said they were pleased to have my company in particular" (pages 143, 151).

Meanwhile, Ortwin, a fist-year archduke candidate from Drewanchel, grows close to Wilfried when the two young men learn they each have sisters with wildly uncontrollable personal agency and senses of individuality. Ortwin's sister, Adolphine, is a bit different though. Destined (cursed?) to wed Sigiswald, next in line for the throne, Adolphine equally dotes on and pushes her younger brother to be the best. She lost her opportunity to rule the duchy, but she won't see her kid brother suffer the same fate. This intrigue will likely remain an underplayed splinter plot, but the repeating affairs of a royal prince potentially forced to marry someone he does/does not love keeps coming up. Ortwin's anecdote of feeling helpless, watching his sister sob, as the news of her engagement reverberates, carves an indelible image.

The current volume features regrettably little from older students at the Royal Academy. And further, the only adults readers hear from are Rauffen, of Dunkelfelger, and Solange, the librarian. Episodes related by Prince Anastasius would have been entertaining, as would have events narrated by anyone else of status close to Lady Eglantine. Further, when one considers all of the nicknames students have for the legendary Ferdinand during his days at the Royal Academy (e.g., "Lord of Evil," "the lonely genius created by overwhelming misfortune," and "the Master Tactician of Ehrefest"), a few reminiscences from other professors may have proved illuminating.

Side stories are fun, but one doesn't anticipate many of these characters returning with any significant influence on the greater narrative. Hopefully, readers will see more of Ortwin, and hopefully, readers will see the more sensitive and pragmatic Angelica, but the odds aren't in their favor. On the plus side, ROYAL ACADEMY STORIES (FIRST YEAR) includes one of the most phenomenal intersections of character writing and novel translation to date: A single instance in which Wilfried (pathetically) attempts to explain pound cake to a group of girls, uncomfortably rationalizing the unadorned and unflavored plate as "puh-lein." The scene is an achingly comical exhibition of Wilfried's sad detachment from commonality, as well as a strikingly brilliant example of a novel translation and adaptation team that knows its source material inside and out.

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[thiefywoods]

[sterlinggalaxy13]

2 page 4 panel manga

[postcard-from-the-past]

Wilfried Ortmann on a vintage postcard

[simple-passant]

[yurgenschmidt]

[aubdrewanchel]

Ascendance of a bookworm HALLOWEEN AU

[ask-court-of-darkness]

Hey Quartus, Secundus called you a "naughty boy" at some point didn't he? What did he mean by that?

I’ve no inclination to speak to you on such matters.

Why don’t you stick your nose in someone else’s business for once? I am rather busy with bigger concerns at the moment.

[nottherailtracer]

Just finished part 5 vol. 2. and I know we were basically told this would happen but AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And I was starting to like you Lestilaut! Go stand in the corner and think about what you've done! Wilfried and Hannelore are pretty cute. Ferdinands plan to keep Rozemye out of the Archive failed immediately. Rozemyne played Detlinde and Fraularm against each other. Also there was a ritual or something, probably wasn’t important.