#claude and athy

[hopefulcollectortale]

Toonique Athy

[ultramarine-spirit]

Athy placed a flower behind Claude's ear, matching the ones in her hair. She doesn't have to do it in secret anymore, and Claude looks the happiest he has ever been...

[lithi]

I like to think that if Diana had lived, Lily would have still come to the palace and help raise Athy somehow lol

[coolingrosa]

Hi have I ever mentioned my favorite straight couple ever

[sharper-than-a-serpents-tooth]

Jennette & Claude similarities: a preference for sleeping curled up in small spaces that mimic the protective environment of the womb

[sylver-drawer]

I firmly believe that Claude never sees/acknowledges Athy as his duaghter until she openly shows her true self and emotions—the first event, being when he publicly humiliates her.

Up until then, Athy had always been a constant reminder of Diana, but not once had Claude ever been reminded of himself. Athy copying/imitating Jennette’s mannerisms inadvertently made her the perfect Diana replacement—someone who will be by his side no matter what harsh words he says, no matter what odd or cruel things he says or does, someone who will love him blindedly and without question—those were all the things he perceived from Athy, and all that Athy would allow to slip out in front of him. She upholds this persona even in front of Felix and Lily to an extent, garnering positive attention and stirring protective emotions by behaving cute and lovely from when she was a child. A lot of her quips and annoyances remain as inner monologue, while Athy is spouting airy and sugar coated words. Claude doesn’t see himself in what she does at all—Athy has always been Diana’s child, but not once could he ever see her as his child.

Until the Public Humiliation event—denouncing to all that she’s a fraud, a fake, and that should she show herself before him he will kill her. That’s Athy’s last straw, among the stress and turmoil of losing years of what she’s worked for and back to square one with a bloodthirsty maniac, she has no energy to keep up the lovely princess facade. So when she’s disrespected, she lets it go—her true face, one of contempt—and that’s when Claude with or without amnesia can finally see it, without the clouded shadow of Diana—that Athy looks like him.

And it’s after the amnesia arc when I notice the frequency of Athy’s inner quips lower. She still quips and complains and is sarcastic in her inner monologue and narration, but she’s no longer up keeping the sweet persona she did previously—or at least, not to its extent. She’s shown a bitter side to her, one that goes against Claude’s rose colored Diana vision. Her attempt to jog his memory post runaway arc by reciting the “flowers bloom in my mouth” line after drinking tea yielded little to no results. Acting like Jennette or Diana isn’t gonna fix him, so she stops/does it less.

I dare say amnesia Claude saw Athy more as his daughter than pre-amnesia Claude. The memories of Diana are mixed up and fuzzy because of the state he was returned to, so he can’t rely on those as comparisons for Athy as much as he did previously. So when he sees Athy, and the most ingrained memory being her face of contempt and frustration—he can only have himself to compare her to, so I find their moments during amnesia arc much more compelling than pre-amnesia, where Athy was still forcing herself to be sweet and loving. Things like helping her study, helping her understand magic—those aren’t things Diana could do. But he has a past in which he couldn’t study or gain education as easily as his brother—and he likely had to teach himself how to use his own magic as well. This trait, this moment of vulnerability Athy has, that’s not traits from Diana—they’re traits from him.

Pre-Amnesia Claude can only see Athy as Diana’s daughter—perfect, lovable, adoring and good at dancing and her studies. But Amnesia-Claude can only see Athy as his daughter—bitter, anguished, magically talented but has difficulty understanding how to make use of it, and first and foremost the runaway arc has set in his mind that he forced her to fend for herself in a world she wasn’t prepared for.

People may have liked pre-amnesia arc Claude, but amnesia arc Claude is where he actually sees her as his daughter. It’s the ugliness that makes them family, not the sugar coated sweet teatimes. Claude knows he’s a horrible and disgusting person, and it’s in Athy’s own imperfections and ugliness where he actually sees himself.

The readers and fandom wanted tea time dates completely missing the way that those tea time dates were the biggest burden between them—it’s where Claude remembers Diana best, and this sees himself and Athy the least. If the fandom truly wanted actual displays of family rather than projecting his dead lover onto her daughter, going on dates for heaven’s sake, they should’ve longed for the bitterness and the ugly—because that’s when their blood relationship actually comes to light without any pretense.

[atlaszxu]

Honestly in the manhwa the relationship between Jennette and Anastacius was way more interesting for me to read. Re-read the manhwa a while ago and I realize it’s because the relationship feels more genuine? Claude and Athy’s “good” relationship is based around how well Athy had acted when she was younger and Claude kinda viewing her as the last of what remains of Diana instead of Athy as her own person.

With Anastacius and Jennette, Jennette doesn’t have to do anything. He wasn’t a good dad since he was being possessed by an evil spirit but he did show moments of care that were warranted completely by himself and not because of Jennette acting or really doing anything. I think it’s why to me, Anastacius becoming a better dad to Jennette would’ve felt more genuine than Claude and Athanasia.

[bl-archivistnpc]

One thing I like about my mother's contract marriage that you often see in other manhwas is the impact that ludia left on lyrica, because in manhwa's like wmmap like the victim's trauma is never addressed

In wmmap and others like it, the child transmigrates and 'fixs' their mistakes like 'being a wallflower' or 'not being talented enough', the transmigrator/regressor uses their knowledge and acting ('loveable' whatever that means) to gain their parental figure's love which piss me off because love isn't earned, especially a child, they should'nt have to earn the love

That's why I love mmcm because lyrica was always loveable and kind, it's ludia who couldn't see it. And lyrica spent the 10 years of her life taking care of her mother and when she thinks her mum didn't need her anymore, she broke down and scared that her mother will abandon her now, that's what neglect does and I am really really really glad the author showed that.

[hollyhoneybear]

My Sister is my Shield! || WMMAP FANFICTION

The youngest grandaughter of the High Priest of Tìrvitae is met with a terrible truth.

Given a revelation by the Holy "World Tree", she suddenly remembers her past life! She realizes that she had been reborn into the world of "Who Made me a Princess", but not as the beloved female lead, but as "Ambrosia", the ill-fated side character from Lovely Princess's second volume.

Now faced with her own impending doom, Ambrosia decides to crash the happily ever after of "Athanasia", the female lead, and cling to her for protection against her tragic fate.

But would it be more danger than she barganed for?

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Hello everyone!! It's been a while since I actually posted. But I thought I'd finally share my WMMAP fanfic with you! It is a post-canon fic, starring a young girl who reincarnates into WMMAP (not Lovely Princess, though her character is from LP's fictional second volume!).

It sounds a little confusing here, but I promise it makes much more sense in the context of the story. I hope you read!

You can find it on Wattpad under the same name as the top of this post, on the account (@strawberrryfraise) !

(kinda old art, but it works for now)

[fleeingmoonlight]

"Your Majesty, I hope that you will love this child"

[voodooveil-writes]

Rudbeckia as Athanasia (WMMAP x HTGMHOMS crossover)

Okay so, here's another crossover AU! Okay first of all, this is an AU concept, not an original concept. It's A-okay to use this AU in your own creative work, just please credit me :) I've read all of the HTGMHOMS manhwa and most of the WMMAP manhwa, and I know what happens, but I have read neither novel. This post will include spoilers!

Okay, so, for starters, Athanasia's first life is the same, and second life is actually Ruby's second life. by that I mean, Ruby's backstory, where she had a lot of siblings, was abused by her family, and was killed by one of her brothers. Instead of her having read (only) the book about Ruby's story (I can't remember what it is called), she also read Lovely Princess. she is reborn for her third life back as Athanasia, and everything is the same up until her mana explosion when she's 14. She has the explosion, and disappears. Claude does NOT lose his memories of her, and no one is hurt. Claude is completely distraught by her disappearance, and doesn't stop looking for her, determined to find her.

Meanwhile, Athanasia was teleported to the Brittannia Kingdom. The Brittannia Kingdom and the Obelia Empire are neighbors for this AU. When she was teleported there, she tried to explain that she was the princess of the Obelia Empire, but the language in Brittannia is different from in Obelia. (think like Norwegian and Swedish, or Spanish and Portuguese; similar but not the same) The people who found Athanasia bring her to an orphanage, where she learns to speak the language of Brittannia. No one believes her when she tries to tell them who she is, because her jewel eyes became something she could show and hide at will because of the mana explosion, (like Jenette's ring) and she had yet to figure out how to show them.

Athy gets adopted by the pope (by the request of Cesare) and is given the name, "Rudbeckia de Borgia." (But she has both Athanasia and Rudbeckia as her names, think like how immigrants to the US will give their kids names from both their home country and English names.) Cesare is kind while teaching her how to read and write in the language of Brittannia, but soon turns violent. Ruby's only comfort is Enzo. Over the next four years, the Pope tries to marry Ruby off four times before finally marrying her to Izek van Omerta. It goes the same as the normal story, until The Festival. (I think it's chapter 80 or so, where Casare comes to the Omerta Residence)

During the days leading up to the Festival, Ruby had gotten a letter from the Obelia Empire, explaining that Claude de Alger Obelia would be attending the Festival. she specifically was informed of this, (as in she got a separate letter to the one sent to the duke) because the Obelia Empire has reason to believe that Rudbeckia van Omerta was in fact the lost princess, Athanasia de Alger Obelia. Ruby sent her reply immediately, disclosing that she was indeed Athanasia, and explaining what happened to her after her mana explosion (along with classified information to prove her identity.)

What will happen when The Obelian Emperor, along with a select few people such as Athanasia's nanny, Lily; Athanasia's guard, Felix; Athanasia's friend, Lord Ijekiel Alpheus; Athanasia's best friend and the magician of the black tower, Lucas; and some select guards and escorts arrive at the Festival party?

A bit more story stuff:

Athy/Athanasia and Ruby/Rudbeckia will be used interchangeably depending on context

This story is Izek x Ruby, not Lucas x Athy; Lucas and Athanasia will just be best friends.

Claude will become more affectionate and protective than in the original story, because he's nervous about losing Athanasia again

character personalities may deviate from original.

Alright! so this was the concept for the Ruby as Athy AU! I know I haven't finished any of the other one's I've started so far, but I hope that I can get around to those ones AND do this one consistently. wishful thinking lol. Anyways, have a great day everyone!

EDIT: Okay, so, I'm not going to edit the text of the OG post, but I want to apologize and correct what it says. Obelia, Brittannia, and Romagna all border each other, and Athy was teleported to Romagna, NOT Brittannia! I'm so sorry for this mistake!

[hopefulcollectortale]

I'm back hehehe :v

(I just realize that i write jennette MARGARTA not MARGARITA 😭)

[ultramarine-spirit]

I'm still not over this...

[lithi]

Athy you are so silly

[mikasenpaidesu]

WMMAP, vol. 2 Chinese novel Special Edition!

Hi everyone! I was finally able to get my hands on the Chinese novel limited edition and I had to make a post about it because everything just looks so cute <3

Actually, I wanted to get vol. 1 as well, but it already was sold out everywhere…

This edition is so so beautiful! I especially like it because if you look very closely you can see they added “blessing and glory upon the obelian empire” on the box. I don’t know if this present in other editions as well but it’s such a cool detail.

These are the other merch included:

transparent poster, front and back!

Claudiana poster 🥹

athanasia’s acrylic stand and pin

lucas and ijekiel’s cards

wmmap stickers (was too lazy to show them all lol)

Aaand this was the merch which shocked me the most? At first I thought it was something similar to a keychain but when I opened Athy’s package, I could smell a strong and sweet scent from it… I guess it is an air freshener! You know, the ones you put in your cars…

(Maybe someone pointed it out before, but I didn’t know at all lol)

That was all guys! Here is something else I got hehe:

Oh and guess what? Athy was sold out… again 🥹

[sharper-than-a-serpents-tooth]

The more I think about it the more I like the idea that Lilian's father tried to pimp his daughter out to the Emperor after Penelope's death. It would make Lily sort of an anti-lp Jennette. Both are beautiful girls with brown hair that are resembling Claude's first love and were raised by an overly ambitious father/uncle who dreamed of a golden crown resting on their grandchild's head. Although popular among the other sex, they are completely uninterested in romance. They like to dress simple in private and prefer the lifestyle of commoners to that of a noblewoman (sewing and baking). Unlike lp Jennette, Lilian escaped her father's control and cut contacts with her family. She gave up her title and lands to live like a commoner servant in the Ruby Palace because she wanted to be true to herself instead of living a lie. Jennette's love for Athy strenghtened her desire to win Claude's favour, wheras Lilian's love for Diana made her turn away from the Emperor and her father's plans.

This could also be a great explanation for why one moment Lilian sings Claude's praises and the other she becomes scared and protective of Athy when he summons her to him. If Lilian's father had intended for his daughter to seek out Claude's love then he would convince her that the dynastic revolution and the massacre of the Ruby Palace were a necessary evil. He would want her to view Claude as the saviour of the nation who can do no wrong. It doesn't matter if he hurts the women around him as long as you are the only exception. If he hurts you and regrets it, then you have to accept his apology in form of dresses and jewelry. No matter how nonsensical it might appear to a regular human, if these are the lessons Lilian received from her father in her youth then it would make sense why Lilian would want Athy to meet Claude after she ran away when he tried to murder her. These moments would be when Lilian's old mindset took over. Had Lily managed to get close to Claude while successfully avoiding being bedded by him, then her relationship might have been comparable to lp Jennette and Claude's relationship in its early stages. Cold platonic dates that seemed like a horrible parody of a heterosexual relationship. Lily could have been a proto-Jennette who grew aware that her family was only using her as a pawn and happily stepped aside for Diana. An act that freed herself but would shackle her friend. Supposing Claude and Lilian had some kind of shared past, then it would offer another reason why he spared Lily's life, a reason that is unrelated to Diana.