#poor Geordo

[sleepyxcocoa]

People say that Geordo is a manipulator, though I low-key headcanon that he gets relentlessly bullied by his friend group.

Then again, it's hard to take Geordo seriously as a manipulator, schemer, and possible heir to a kingdom if you saw said prince screaming at the sight of a small garden snake or being left behind by his duchess fiancee to cook fish.

You cannot change my mind.

[alwaysoc]

[danshive]

Some My Next Life as a Villainess ranting inspired by seeing that volume 12 is out (and not having read it yet, only the preview text for it).

My current issue with the My Next Life as a Villainess light novels is I’m genuinely interested in Katarina’s story entirely separate from suitors, and I honestly find Geordo and Keith pursuing her more annoying than fun.

I’m interested in her friendship with Maria, and a bunch of things in the story, but I’ve felt like the “romance” with the others has been secondary, if not a distraction, for a while now.

Which probably sounds weird to some people. One of the biggest selling points of the anime was Katarina’s harem.

For me, I was heavily invested in the series before I even realized that was what it was doing (I got embarrassingly far in the manga before realizing she was going to end up with a harem), and it was because of Katarina and her kindness.

She took an axe to my sadness on a very bad day, and I’ve been invested in the series for her, not because there are women interested in her.

I mean, yes, I absolutely want her to marry Maria, but that was something I decided after several volumes of the light novel, which I read after season one of the anime.

Also, I know Katarina has a massive shield up about attraction, effectively making it difficult to confess to her and have her actually get it, but ye gods, Katarina’s harem, just spell it out for the poor girl already. Like, full on intervention.

Maybe I’ll read volume 12 this weekend and be pleasantly surprised, but I’m worried it’s going to be a Geordo-Keith fest. Maybe those two could just elope? They’d have my blessing.

[sparklingmusicofstars]

Hamefura pirates of the disturbance : Rozy's introduction

Warning : the second part contains spoilers !

I found some information on a fandom and the rest I wrote it.

Rozy Lind :

Background :

Rozy is an engineer from the Kingdom of Quid, an invention powerhouse located in a different continent from Sorcier. He is recruited to the reveal of the luxury liner "Vinklem" as part of the maintenance crew. In the game he is one of the two new capture targets for Catarina.

Appearance :

Rozy is a tall man with maroon-colored hair and jade green eyes. He wears a brown technician uniform with a hat, with black belt holding his tools and gear. Under his technician vest is a black shirt with a purple neckline. He often has a gentle, reassuring smile on his face. He is a young man of 23 years old but he has a boyish and childish smile and gestures.

Personnality :

He is a kind and meek young man who is a talented technician. He secretly has a sweet-tooth, and is a fan of desserts and pastries. He is a very fast reader. Rozy has a creative mind and is good with tinkering with machines. He is able to make tools out of anything he can get his hands on. It is said that everyone in their family truly wants to protect and keep an eye on those they hold dear. It's in their genes. He is as smart as Geordo and the others but he is more innocent in a way.

Warning spoilers !

Fortune lover game :

Rozy is a character that appears in a fan-book of Fortune Lover. In the game he is not a capture target even though he is handsome. He also got killed by Silva (who is the captain of the Sungreed pirates)

Currently :

Rozy and Catarina are acquainted, and eventually friends, due to their mutual love of sweets. He was on the desk when he caught sight of her and immediatly recognized her. He had a conversation with Silva and told him that no matter what happens he doesn't want her and only her to be hurt. Silva is aware of that and told him that even if it's the first time in 8 years he saw her he shouldn't do anything clumsy and must avoid approaching her. And Rozy accepts painfully.

Rozy's true identity :

It turns out Rozy is not really a pirate and neither is Silva or the rest of the crew. Rozy‘s real name is Rodzion Lindgren and he’s an aristocrat or more specifically a Duke of Queed. So Silva and his crew are actually Rozy‘s private guards that he hired to stop the Chancellor and his selfish scheme of trying to blow up the ship and kidnap the magic users.

Rozy's first meeting with Catarina :

When he first met Catarina in Sorcier he gave her the gummy candy he made because she was hungry while thinking that it was not very appreciate because of its strange texture (like now) and she told him it was beautiful like a jewel and how delicious it was. This made him realize his true ambition to help others and he always wanted to meet Catarina again to thank her. Eventually he was able to find out more about her and fell in love with her when he met her again. Rozy also met Silva on his way back to Queed when he almost got mugged. A younger Silva helped him but then collapsed to the ground because he was weak. Rozy noticed he looked like he was poor or homeless and decided to help him after thinking of Catarina’s smile, ignoring the people who told him not to do it. Thus, both his and Silva’s fates were essentially changed from meeting Catarina. In the game he will listen his escort and leave him here. He also kept an eye on Catarina since then, he sent someone in Sorcier to collect informations about her and know how she is doing while pretenting it was to collect informations on Sorcier, he even drew her one time when he was tired and everyone who know him well know how much he loves "the little girl who changed his life" For him, she was "his benefactor". (He really is a stalker....It's really creepy...) Ah, one thing, when he met her he was 15 years old and Catarina 8 years old... Yes, a real stalker.

They were so cute !!!

My opinion :

I love Rozy as a character (not as much as Silva, sorry) but he is really creepy in a way... I think Silva also mentionned something like that... In a way, he really reminds me Raphael ; his smile, personnality and things like that. And he is really handsome and has a calm, gentle and smart aura. I'm glad he met Catarina when they were children or else he would have no personnality. My favourites scenes are when he save her from the drunk pirate, his talk with Silva when he saw her, and almost all... Except for one thing, I think Albert really spoiled Rozy's route, he is so annoying.... And I don't know when Catarina fell in love wth him either. Unfortunately I don't have the game but I think his route is cute. (without Albert) His confession was adorable and his good ending too. It's my second favourite route.

[almdragonrend]

I'm extremely fu* angry right now and I have to share this, I can't believe that there are really people who act like this about Katarina's Exile

consequences for what they did to Katarina in this story, because it is clearly wrong and pure evil and I can't stand how often people just let them get away with it!

But I'm really interested how you are going to make this a Katarina x Keith story, I'm very interested how you plan to make the ship happen

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TaoTao_MarudoraFri 10 May 2024 07:11AM CEST



Thanks for your comment! Yes, me too think that Geordo's method of judgement is overdoing and in this story he will suffer about.

Katarina（good person, not villainess, with her memories of previous life） will return to Sorcier disguised as another woman and meet him again.

Later of the story, Geordo is not a perfect prince but quite human. So relationship between Katarina & Geordo is one of the highlights of this story.

AlmDragonrendFri 10 May 2024 04:48PM CEST

The way you say "quit human" about Geordo makes me quite worried, because his treatment of Katarina was "quite inhumane" in fact, and I really have quite an issue with the Geordo apologists going on,

And I hope that Maria doesn't get an happy end, the way she behaved and the way she enabled Geordo are quite horrifying to behold, we have seen VOD we have seen how OG/Villainess Katarina treated the people who aren't trying to steal her fiancée or break her family apart (unintentionally but she was 8! What do you expect of the!?)

I hope that when Keith realizes who she is he does some thinking, I hope he acknowledged that she was just as much a victim in this as he was.

Furthermore, I hope some compensation towards Katarina for what she has been trough takes place people have to acknowledge how wrong that was, Geordo in that single instance proofed beyond the Shadow of a doubt that he is exactly the same kind of Mann his grandfather was.

TaoTao_MarudoraSat 11 May 2024 06:36AM CEST



I think Geordo in the game "FORTUNE LOVER" is portrayed as ideal man, we often call "Super Darling" in Japanese light novels. He has authority and money, can do anything, helps and falls in love with a heroine... everything is perfect.

But in this story, he is gossiped it's too much having the villainess, Katarina, deported and worries what he did was wrong. I described his condition like that as "quite human".(I'm sorry for my poor English expression.)

I'm only translating the completed fan fiction I wrote in Japanese, so characters and ending may not be what you expect. But I hope you enjoy the story til the end.

AlmDragonrendSat 11 May 2024 04:18PM CEST

NO STOP!!!!!! ST0P RIGHT THERE!!!!

You make it sound like what he did was f*king uoopsi! This was not a F* upsi!!! This was an ATROCITIE!!!!! Don't you dare treat f* upsi! It WRONG and EVIL !!!! and you want to act like a view doubts or feeling bad occasionally makes up for it !?

The only reason Katarina ever goes after Maria is because Katarina go's after what is promised to Katarina first!!! We know that because she completely leaves her alone in both the Alan and Nicol route!!! This is a f* ATROCITIE!!! Don't f* treat it like an upsi!

Please try for once to see the things from Katarina's perspective try to realize that Geordo made a promise, that he broke and than punishment her for it, please try once to see how wrong this is, this is wrong, Geordo and Maria Katarina not the other way around, they cheated on her, she had EVERY right to fight back!!! Geordo questioning if he was right is not an APPROPRIATE CONSEQUENCE for this, no an appropriate consequence would be the entirety of Sociar hating and fearing both him and Maria and seeing them as the worst fucking Tyrants who ever lived for this, appropriate would be to have both him and Maria severely punished for this clear abuse of power, appropriate consequences would be having Geordo cut out of the line for the Throne and him and Maria not allowed to ever see eachother again,

Sorry for the strong words, but please take a minute to actually think what happened here, what was done to Katarina and why it was done, because you don't really seem to grasp how wrong was, please try to actually think about this..

Please, i hope this individual develops some f* common sense.....

[pinocchios-workshop]

Sneak Peak of Upcoming Chapter of "I Will Always Love All The Sides Of You I See."

~ ☆ ~

Larna sighed as she closed the door behind herself, allowing Duchess Claes some time alone with her daughter. 

While she was still worried about the duchess finding out about the necklace and all the other Katarinas, the Noble Katarina waved off her concerns and told her all would be fine and said that she had nothing to be worried about.

Larna refrained from pulling her hair out and walked back to the room where the others were. When she pulled open the door, she stood in pure and utter amazement at how much the others managed to ruin the state of the room in mere minutes.

Truly, the future of Sorcier was in great hands.

“Uh- Miss Larna!” Maria said as more of a squeak at seeing her, “We- I’m deeply sorry for the state of the room! I promise it was all an accident!” she said as she rushed into a bow, her head held low and her body shaking like she was in the frozen tundra of the north and not the dry halls of the Ministry of Magic.

Larna couldn’t help but muffle a laugh, “No, no, dear. It’s quite alright.” She tapped on Maria’s shoulder to get her to stand up straight, “But… care to tell me what happened exactly?”

“Uh…” Larna watched as Maria’s ears became ever so redder at her question, “Well… it’s a long story…”

Larna then proceeded to listen to a series of words she never once thought would be said together in a sentence.

Prince Alan. Katarina Claes. Fighting. Swords. Bookshelves. Doors. Nicol Ascart. Unconscious Katarina. Prince Geordo. Bleeding nose.

As she took a side glance to Studious Katarina who was now resting on the couch with Lady Hunt and Lady Ascart nearby. Reckless Katarina was now somehow arguing with both Stuart brothers without being on either side.

Larna had a few thoughts.

Maybe she shouldn’t have left them alone. 

Maybe she should keep a closer eye on the future leaders of their nation. 

Maybe she should be scared.

She wasn’t though. If anything, she was more amused and entertained at the scene. Larna noticed the dear light mage was turning pale now, probably scared of what Larna would do.

 “Oh, don’t worry Miss Campbell, nothing a good clean up won’t fix! And plus the janitor here was getting bored with nothing deemed safe enough for regular people to clean up!”

Maria sighed as if a massive weight had been lifted off her shoulders and she excused herself to go and rest on the sofa. Poor girl, the stress of being an employee of the Ministry of Magic was finally catching up on her. Perhaps Larna should go and assign some of Maria’s paperwork to Rapheal to give her a break and just to see what he’ll do. 

Perhaps he’ll snap and start talking to his coffee mug again, or maybe he'll try to bury her alive when she's sleeping.

As Larna mused about her slowly decreasing chances of living to her late thirties, she heard a sound that was quiet enough that no one else heard it, but Larna always had a good trace of her wind magic ready to listen out for any disturbances in the area. 

She walked towards the sound, her pace slow and steady until she rested her hand on the doorknob and twisted it.

As she forced open the door, the figure that was hiding behind fell backwards in shock, making it abundantly clear they were trying to listen in.

~ ☆ ~

Please look forward to the upcoming full release!

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[maboroshi-no]

hello, I hope you doing well 💞 my question its kind of random but, I always wonder what do you think the differences action between katarina (in the current timeline) and maria (fortune lover) towards the capture target. In the current timeline we see how katarina able to open their hearts and heal their wounded soul, but Im curious how maria able to do that in fortune lover timeline, because we see in the current timeline maria itself has her own struggle and bakarina is the one that safe her, thinking how in the fortune lover timeline we never get to see how maria herself overcome her own struggle and pain its kinda sad 😔. Thank you 💞

I wouldn't say Maria overcome her struggle in Fortune Lover.

I think she mentioned in LN8 that she always said things that would please the other party so that they would like her. So maybe she could mend the souls of the capture targets to some extent, but definitely not at a deep level like Katarina did.

Though, it is perfectly normal. Katarina could act early on and she had 7 years to do so. While Maria met the capture targets after they had grown bitter and she only had one year to "heal" them. So I guess Maria only did what she could with the little time she had.

I would also say that Maria probably acted more because she wanted to be loved than for saving poor souls.

In Geordo's route, she is fine with Geordo acting blackhearted. And I guess she didn't oppose Katarina getting exiled. And supposing she could have healed Katarina with her light magic in Geordo's bad ending, then it means she let her die.

In Keith's route, the Claes family is probably in a bad situation with Katarina getting exiled and Keith eloping. Though, it is a matter of whether you can shoulder people's misfortune for your happiness.

In Alan's route, Maria is aware that she is stealing Mary's fiancé but she didn't let it stop her. She also didn't mind giving lap pillows to Alan before he broke his engagement.

In Nicol's route... well, maybe she genuinely wanted to be Sophia's friend and it kinda worked out with Nicol. But she doesn't talk about Sophia anymore once she won her over...

[fategoflatass]

As I mentioned earlier, I began reading the Hamefura LN (yes, again).

For now, I've only read the first chapter, althought I'm eager to keep on reading. I might even read up to chapter two (or even three) before going to bed. (Update: that's not happening).

But anyways, here are some things I felt like talking about:

I was surprised when I read this. I mean, yeah, I do have pretty bad memory when it comes to details that are barely touched upon in series, but still. All this time I'd thought Katarina had been originally an only child! My bad, I guess.

You don't need to word it like that.

Nothing worth noting here. It just made me laugh. He's been best boy from the start.

She said it!

She's so relatable it hurts, man.

While it's impossible for me to think he would ever do something evil towards Katarina, I can't help but wonder what kind of something would've Geordo been capable of doing being so young? Or even once they're fifteen.

Maybe in an alternate universe where Geordo is still his original self he could've do something like that to Katarina? Been thinking a lot about AUs as of lately, wonder why.

The way it changed from first to third person was as smooth as it was funny.

Poor Bakarina! Since no one would ever be able to decipher the intricacies of her brain, she'll have to keep on living thinking her reasonings and consecuential solutions are totally valid and should be taken seriously.

Millidiana is every mildly rational person right now.

I'm so used to Geordo being this Prince Charming-esque sadist that I often forget just how sad his backstory is.

I mean, it makes sense why everyone would pay special attention to his other siblings, but it's also reasonable the fact that he feels so lonely. I can't imagine how painful it must be trying to spend some time with, at least, one of your parents for them to reject you due to work, having to focus on your older siblings who might become the future of the kingdom, or them having to check on your sickly twin brother. You're bound to feel bitter, to feel forgotten.

I was also surprised by how close to reality are the backgrounds I usually create for him. Be it him being left aside, be it him growing up in a world of appereances—my man's always craving for some sort of attention.

Rereading this first chapter, besides helping me reconnect and reempathize with him, also helped me realize that maybe, just maybe, my modern take on Geordo wasn't that bad after all.

When he can treat you so nicely as easy as he can treat you as some sort of lab rat... You know he's a keeper.

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#5

Hamefura AU where Maria ends up unlocking her past-life memories of being a Fortune Lover fan who just absolutely adored og!Katarina (to an unhealthy degree) and makes it a mission to make herself a Katarina route, because Katarina deserves to be with someone who genuinely cares about her, not that dirt bag Prince Geordo! If all works out, awesome! If it doesn't, well, she knows the secret route, she knows where to find a good basement

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#4

You know, it's kinda weird, but even though the brothers definitely deserve to get called the fuck out about how they treat Mammon, I don't think I've seen much of Mammon getting mad at whoever was doing the callout. Both because it makes him feel bad to hurt his brothers, and also in a "fuck you, you don't know me/us, this is private family shit" kinda way. Even if it's by MC, Mammon seems like he would still be pissed at them acting like they speak for him and for hurting his brothers (even if they deserve it), like most people in pretty toxic situations when that toxic person gets called the hell out and the person stuck in it gets mad at the caller

150 notes - Posted August 2, 2022

#3

So according to Wikipedia, Melinoë was born at the mouth of the river Cocytus, where Hermes is stationed as a psychopomp just on the border of the living world and the underworld, which is just a hilarious image of a heavily pregnant Persephone taking a break over by the river when she heads into labor. None of the House of Hades is going to get there in time, thus leaving poor Hermes to play midwife in between bouts of trying to get literally anyone else to help

155 notes - Posted December 8, 2022

#2

Lucifer has just enough characters with history with him to feasibly be the main character of an otome game himself. For example:

Diavolo is the clear simp and lonely rich boy with more to him than meets the eye and a very complicated relationship with Lucifer

Simeon as the former childhood friend/first ex who would like to reconcile despite how badly the break-up went [I see them more like brothers in how monks are brothers, don't @ me]

Mephistopheles is the poncy vain jerk who resents Lucifer for past slights but has a nice side to him that he gets super embarrassed about

Solomon is the mysterious weirdo trying to prove to Lucifer that he means no harm and trying to get past all his abandonment issues.

MC is the brand new exchange student that Lucifer warms up to a lot and ends up getting super attached to, despite just how dumb they can be

And for the secret character, Michael, who is a fucking weird dude (I say this with love) and fellow former bestie trying to get close to Lucifer in secret so that Lucifer doesn't push him away again

Add in the brothers and the other characters as a supporting cast and write up some bad endings and you have yourself a good base for a dating sim!

326 notes - Posted July 19, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

Fic idea based on this where the RAD newspaper club is going to the Mausoleum of the demon kings for some fluff piece when one gets the bright idea to head inside and do some stuff for the Demon King, pay some respect and maybe some funny pictures. So as one of the members goes in, the others record for a combination of posterity and a desperate attempt to explain it to the authorities if they get caught where they aren't supposed to be.

But as the little leader gets close to where the Demon King lies, they notice something off; the king should be in eternal sleep but he doesn't seem to be breathing. Not like they would know about how the Demon King sleeps, but it's still weird, isn't it?

Then they get close enough and there's definitely something wrong. They haven't seen the King in millennia at this point, but he has this unnatural grey-ish pallor and his body looks limp, not unlike a corpse.

The leader gets a bright idea: approach and touch the King, just to check if he's alive. This is risking getting eaten and their club members all tell them so, but still, gotta try, right?

A gentle poke, nothing.

A soft shove, nothing.

A whisper in the ear, nothing.

A semi-distant shout from an irate Mephistopheles (he must have called the other members at some point about why they went inside), nothing.

That's when the leader decides to check something; touching his chest to see if he's still alive, checking for a heartbeat. So they use their wings to fly up and reach a careful hand to push onto his chest. Only that it sinks upon their touch, like the Demon King's flesh is mattress foam instead of muscle over bone. But what their fingers sink into is the worst part.

It's a stab wound to the center of his chest, with stagnant black blood leaking out onto their hand and coating their fingers with a revolting sheen.

-----

Mephistopheles can barely tell what's going on between all of the screaming, even as he tries to get back order and get some semblance of an explanation. But then he gets the worst news that he had ever heard in his life.

The Demon King is dead, stabbed in the chest who-knows how long ago.

-----

The news is all over the Devildom within hours. It's understandable, their sovereign had been killed at some point and no one had known. The video evidence of the RAD newspaper club finding out is all over social media within minutes, and it's a mass panic for everyone that sees it. Mourning, fear, furious blaming the angels or the humans or just anyone because this can't be real, this can't be happening. The Demon King is dead, murdered.

Diavolo was the first to find out, Mephistopheles calling him in tears. It felt like the world had frozen in place, he was trapped in shock.

Not because his father was dead.

Diavolo was the one who killed him.

It's that people had found out.

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[firstseasonlisazemo]

Indenture in Sorcier

Summary: Catarina decides that Geordo is nice for the night.

Rating: M - Not suitable for children or teens below the age of 16 with non-explicit suggestive adult themes, references to some violence, or coarse language.

Depictions of violence, murder and kidnapping. Reader discretion is advised.

Words: 525 (Minific)

“Only I take care of you. Only I provide you with clothes, food, and a roof under your head. If it was not for me, you would be dead. Or worse.” Geordo reminds her as he pushes the soft blankets over her body, tucking her into bed.

It was a strange scene. Not that the king is tucking a grown woman into bed, though that is its own can of worms. Or that said woman was, for all intents and purposes, an indentured servant to the palace, working off a labour sentence for treason. Or even that a known traitor is allowed to move around freely at the heart of power in Sorcier.

No, none of that. Both of them know the twisted nature of the heart that beats under the king’s chest, and so love and care does not become him. He certainly does not show anything other than a strange sort of contemptuous respect towards his wife, and Maria is the only person, other than herself, to have any reason to breathe easily in his company.

The queen just might, maybe. Catarina… For herself, it depends on the day. On a bad one, she might cry and scream, she would beg for mercy from her captor, she would try to run away or contact someone that might help her. She might even think of doing something unspeakable. On a good day, she would focus on her work, little as it is, would brush her hair and use the gifts that were regularly left for her, and she would be almost happy, living in the palace.

Tonight was a good one. She compliantly nods with sleepy eyes although a distant part of her mind weakly reminds her that, if he had not killed her family and friends and slaughtered the House of Claes, she would not need him. She would not need his protection or the degrading job as a maid at the palace. She would not have been tried and convicted as a criminal from an offence she had never committed.

Oh well. Water under the bridge, she supposes.

Catarina has been lucky, like he said, and Geordo has, indeed, been genuinely nice to her. He has only treated her well, much better than the poor souls who she hears screaming for mercy every night. That could have been her destiny if he had not saved her.

Instead, she has her job, that never tires her enough, and never hurts her hands. None of the other maids talk to her, since one threw dishwater on her at her first day and was never seen or heard of again. She can eat as much and whatever she pleases, and she even gets a small plot to cultivate her vegetables to supplement the Royal Kitchens.

No, he is nice, she decides. Catarina can only regret not seeing this earlier, or then the whole upheaval would not have been as traumatic for her.

His fingers tenderly push away a few strands of hair from her face, and Geordo smiles, pressing a kiss to her forehead.

“I am the only one who truly loves you. Remember that.”

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My Next Life as a Villainess Masterlist

[theskyexists]

So Catarina responds to Geordo with a no. To Keith with a - blush so that's better. But not because blagghhghh. To Sophia with friendly feelings. Nicol seems to have read the devillish count series and wishes outlandish superpowers for himself lol. Very counter his normal attitude seemingly. Catarina has never responded romantically to Alan.

Catarina has become more and more stupid and annoying. This whole sweet tooth thing.... And the super harem thing isn't much fun if the protagonist never develops feelings for anyone....then it's just unrequited love times ten....

She's become an extremely dumb idiot only focused on sweets.somehow she doesn't realise anyone's feelings for her even when they try to kiss her and then suddenly she does perfectly recover her sense for other people's suffering to stop it

Poor Geordo. He really did call dibs.

Hold on. The shade saved Catarina. But it also seems to have possessed the girls accusing Catarina. Is it the Game's spirit?

God I cannot STAND that stupid ass obsession with elegant tea and elegant food. Ughdhkfbdosbrjkdbr the fetishisation of shit like that I know it makes life fun

They just left her alone at the nurse's?? Even Geordo??? The assumption that there is a nurse in school is hilarious

She COULDNT REMEMBER THE SUPER IMPORTANT BIT ABOUT EVERYBODY DYING IF YOU DIDNT GET THE ONE GUY???? HELLO????

Yeah. She really is an idiot. Completely unforgivable. But also. I guess he didn't fall for Catarina after all. Nor Maria... He wants to just get rid of Catarina. Poor set-up for it though. Ah he is in love. But he denies it.

It's all their fault though because they just left her to sleep in the nurses room without anyone watching her when Maria had just disappeared and they knew she was a target

It's actually crazy that the most romantic moments for all these ships happened when they were eight ...kinda....stupid

Wow. They kept up her romance blind idiocy to the very end....damn.

[sparklingmusicofstars]

My next life as a villainess all routes lead to doom : Cezar's POV light novel 8

The extract of the light novel 13 made me want to reread Cezar's POV in the light novel 8.

Poor Geordo and Keith.... They don't know it yet... You really underestimated Catarina... He fell in love so fast too...

"She was doing all the right things to bewitch me, without even meaning or realizing it… That was actually scary in a way"

He is sharp ! ^^ In the chinese version it was :

"She is an unconscious heartthrob. It's really scary"

Cezar is really smart ! It seems that he fell head over heels for her... I can't wait for the light novel 13 !

" I wasn’t thinking of her as a potential wife, as Janne had said, but I would have liked to bring her back to Ethenell with me."

It looks really like the synopsis of the volume 13 or it's just me ?! And I really love his :

"Then I could get to know her better, grow closer, and eventually… Well, it seems that she’s already stolen my heart"

He is really honest 😂 "Eventually..." What ! ? So cute ^^ It's way worse than Geordo thought.

I really hope maboroshi-no will post a summary of the light novel 13 ^^

My God ! Cezar and Catarina's story is really adorable !

[maboroshi-no]

Hamefura LN11 Extra Story Translation (Part 4)

I have started translating the extra story which comes with the special edition of volume 11 of the Hamefura light novel.

I posted some notes about it a while ago.

This part is about Alan’s POV of his childhood.

Previous parts: Part 1    Part 2     Part 3

~The Story of the 4 Stuart Brothers~ (Part 4)

Alan’s POV

When I woke up, I could see the usual ceiling. But it was awfully distorted. Aah, again.

Maid: Master Alan, are you okay?

…the servant asked, worryingly peering into my bed. I replied…

Alan: …I… am… o…

"I am okay". This was what I was trying to say, but my voice wouldn't come out well. Seeing me like this, the servant left in a hurry to get some medicine. I couldn't really move my body because it felt heavy, and my vision looked distorted. This feeling… I probably had a high fever. Even though I had been feeling a little better for a while, even though I had been able to stay up longer during the daytime… I was now back to bed again. And I also started to feel sad that it had happened today of all days. Today was my and my older twin brother's birthday. Because I had been feeling well lately, Mother, my older twin brother Geordo and I had planned to celebrate our birthday together today. I had heard that, unlike me, my older twin brother Geordo was healthy. I had mostly never talked to him because I had been laid up in this room the whole time, but I had heard that he was very talented and splendid. And I had been looking forward to meeting him and asking him about the outside world today…  But with this fever, it didn't seem like I would be able to join the party. Aaah… Why was my body like this…? I was sick and tired of sleeping in my room all day. I wanted to go outside and play like Geordo. Because I felt sad and bitter, my distorted vision became even more distorted.

After my fifth birthday, my health had gradually settled down. I had been laid up the whole time till now, and as a result, I had spent nearly no time on my studies. So for my sake, brilliant teachers had been assigned to me. There was a lot of studying, but the lessons were really fun because I could learn things that I didn't know about until now. However, one time, when I was walking to my teacher's place with my textbook in hand to ask him a question about the lesson, I heard this.

Man A: Hey, it's that rumored fourth prince. Look at the textbook he's holding.

Man B: Uwaah! He's using such a basic textbook at that age! I can't believe it!

Man A: Yeah, the difference is just awful compared to the other princes. And Prince Geordo, who is the same age, seems to have already completed the application part. Poor guy.

They were certainly talking about me. I felt the blood suddenly draining from my body. It was the first time that someone had talked like that about me. As I had been sleeping in my room all this time because of my poor health, there had been no one by my side but my mother, and the servants who had been taking care of me since birth. They had always worried about me. As I had never been hit with such malicious looks and words before, I was terribly shaken.

"Such a basic textbook".

I knew very well that I was behind in my studies. But my mother and the servants had told me that it couldn't be helped. So I hadn't thought about it too deeply.

"Poor guy".

These words remained as if they had been stuck to my ears. I didn't feel like going to my teacher's anymore, and I returned to my room, like I was running away. Right after I had returned to my room, the servants noticed that I looked strange and asked me what had happened, but I couldn't bring myself to talk about it. They always worried about me, so I knew that they would try to comfort me by telling me "Don't worry, this is not true". But right now, I felt like these words of comfort would actually hurt me. Because I couldn't help thinking that they might only say them out of pity, because they also felt sorry for me.

After that, since I had now started paying attention to them, these voices steadily entered my ears. "The Good-for-Nothing Prince" "The Deadweight Prince" Because I needed to wipe out these voices, I threw my whole being into my studies and my sword training. I had wanted to talk a lot with my older twin brother once I would get better, and also run outside and play to my heart's content, but I didn't have the leisure to do such things. Anyway, if I didn't go at my studies and training frantically, I wouldn't be able to fill the gap that I had accumulated until now. With this thought, I strived for it as if my life had depended on it.

It might have bore some fruit as, after several years, I had caught up to the other children of my age. I had become so brilliant that all the teachers praised my splendid results. I had had a late start because of my poor health, but after several years, I had been able to catch up to the other children. I was brilliant. 

And like this, I was getting up to speed. I was conceited, thinking I was amazing.

Still… One day, I noticed that my older twin brother Geordo could do anything better than me, and that the things that I was struggling to do, he would do them quickly with an unconcerned face. I had been making so much effort without sparing any time to sleep. I had become so brilliant that the teachers now praised my splendid results. In spite of this, I couldn't compare to Geordo at all. My nose, which had been high in the air, crashed down in an instant.

Then, I took some distance from Geordo. Well, we mostly had no contact to begin with, but… After I had gotten conscious of it, I still started to avoid him. Because I couldn't bear to be compared to Geordo, whom I could never reach no matter what effort I put in. In spite of this…

Man A: Prince Alan is so mediocre no matter what he does.

Man B: He has been laid up for so long because of his poor health, so it can't be helped.

Man A: Even so, despite them being twins, there's so much difference between him and Prince Geordo. I feel for him.

Man B: There sure is. Prince Geordo might have taken all the good things while in the womb.

Man A: Ha ha! So that would make him the dregs after all the good things were taken!

Man B: Whoa, whoa! That's harsh!

After I had stumbled on this conversation, my vision went completely dark. "The pathetic prince who is lagging behind children of the same age". I had been able to wipe out these words after piling up my efforts. Still… No matter what effort I put in, I couldn't wipe out "The prince who is far inferior to Prince Geordo". I was overwhelmed by these malicious words whispered to me, and before I knew it, I had become filled with an inferiority complex towards Geordo.

I felt irritated just by hearing Geordo's name, and I felt annoyed just by seeing his face. I didn't want to let it get to me, I didn't want to know about Geordo, but the more I thought about it, the more the talks about Geordo would enter my ears. I had become sensitive to his existence. And yet, unlike me, Geordo didn't seem concerned about my existence at all, which stirred up my feelings even more.

While I was spending such days, my eldest brother Jeffrey started to show up at my place little by little. I was the youngest of us four brothers, but I had nearly had no contact with my other brothers. I had of course not seen them during the period when I was constantly laid up, but also after I had been able to get out of my room. I had been desperate to catch up with the lost time then, so I hadn't really gone to meet them. Since they hadn't come to see me either, I had figured that my brilliant older brothers probably had no interest in their incompetent younger brother after all this time. Even so, why would he suddenly come now?  It was a mystery.

The first time I had met him, I didn't know who he was, and…

Alan: Hey you, who are you?

…I asked him. Jeffrey opened his eyes a little wide, and…

Jeffrey: I am Jeffrey Stuart. Your eldest brother. I am sorry for not coming to see you during all this time.

…he said while showing a little embarrassed face. Now that he had said it, when I took a really, really good look at him, his face was indeed similar to Geordo's, and the color of his hair and eyes were the same as mine. I found it suspicious that he would suddenly come to me even though he had never tried to have any contact with me during all these years, so…

Alan: And so? What's your business with me?

…I asked in an overbearing way, but that guy didn't mind my attitude, and…

Jeffrey: I have come to see you, Alan.

…he replied, smiling.

Alan: And I am asking why you came to see me.

I was a little irritated, but while still smiling, Jeffrey…

Jeffrey: Do I need a reason to come see my brothers? I wanted to see you, so I came.

…he said.

After this encounter, Jeffrey would repeatedly come to my place. Doing so, he would keep asking about touchy things, like my now completely recovered health, or how I was getting along with Geordo. That guy was probably coming here to make fun of his incompetent younger brother. It was extremely unpleasant. I treated Jeffrey harshly each time he came, but he still returned as usual without looking even a little upset about it.

Before long, I had become eight, Geordo had become engaged, and I had also gotten a fiancée. A sweet girl called Mary Hunt. After interacting with her, I encountered that mysterious noble daughter called Katarina Claes. She climbed trees, and she fished too. Katarina wasn't like the average noble daughter. For me who had never played anything like a game before, my interactions with Katarina were new and fun. Before I knew it, I would excitedly come and go to Katarina's home. And then, I finally encountered Geordo there.

At first, I was terribly distressed. I might have been terrified of this person called Geordo. But he was the Geordo that I had come to know through Katarina. She had made me realize that I had only known him through hearsays and that I hadn't taken a good look at who Geordo really was. That, while I had been lamenting over Geordo not deigning to look at me, I hadn't properly looked at him either. That people had different aptitudes, and that Geordo too, had things that he was good with, and things that he was bad with. That there was no such thing as a perfect human being. These were what Katarina had taught me. Though, it might not have been her intention at all to teach me that.

And then, the things around me that I had never tried to properly look at because I had been stuck on my views, they were not as I had imagined. The people who had been speaking ill about me had only been some people in my older brothers' factions. The teachers and the whole servants staff had never spoken ill about me. I had just been frightened and pained by the delusions that I had created myself.

To begin with, Geordo was way more human than I had imagined. I could see that after I had started going to the Claes household with him and spending lots of time together. Before, I couldn't tell what he was thinking because he only made artificial-looking smiles, but his thoughts had unexpectedly been showing on his face many times. Especially, when it came to Katarina, I could see his smile freeze out of shock, or see him covering his face and shaking his shoulders, probably trying to hold back a burst of laughter. And whenever I had a farming contest with Katarina, Geordo would join in and go at it with all his might. He also had a childish side. It had made me realize that my image of Geordo until now really had just been a wrong impression.

And also my eldest brother Jeffrey. I had been hating him because I had thought that he was coming to make fun of me, but my way of seeing him had also changed. My eldest brother had just been worried about my health and my tense relationship with Geordo. Because I had been completely overwhelmed by my negative assumptions, I had arbitrarily thought of him as a bad person.

And the other day, when I returned to my room after talking to Geordo, that same Jeffrey called out to me with a smile.

Jeffrey: So you get along with Geordo now!

After my eldest brother had said this, his face had taken on an expression of relief.

Alan: Yeah, kind of. Thanks for worrying about me till now.

After I had said this in reply, Jeffrey looked at me blankly, and then suddenly started to ruffle my hair. Wh-What's with him?! He seemed to be treating me like a brat. It annoyed me a little, but when I looked up at his face, there was such a happy smile on it, so I held back any protest and left it at that.

Afterwards, whenever Jeffey came over, I would casually spend time with him to make him happy. But because he was set on treating me like a brat, it was a little troublesome.

[miraculouspaon]

“Black-hearted sadist” my foot, Prince Jeord/Geordo/Gerald is the most vanilla motherfucker in the harem, Lady Sophia innocently recommended a 50 Shades of Gray-type erotic novel to him once and he could only read the first twenty pages and couldn’t look Sophia in the eye for a month

[sleepyxcocoa]

The two need someone to befriend that’s genuinely a sweetheart and won’t backstab them in the future, especially poor Penelope.

I have this funny idea that maybe Yuri and Nine are a bit wary of Katarina at first, but because she’s a sweet and oblivious cinnamon roll, they’d eventually warm up to her.(it also probably helps that Katarina probably sees Yuri as an older Maria in a sense)

As for Callisto…….I can kinda see Katarina being a bit more wary of him, since he probably reminds Katarina of Fortune Lover Geordo and she’d tread with caution, maybe even bring a few pocket snakes as a bit of an insurance……

Isekai Female Protagonists

You know, I feel it’s ironic that the current isekai female stories I read nowadays have badass girl bosses as the protagonists, meanwhile my favorite of them all and the one that got me into the genre in the first place is Katarina Claes, the OG lovable dumbass of a protagonist. She’s just too adorable for this world. 😔🫶

(I have a feeling that if Katarina was in a room with these protagonists, like Melissa Podebrat and Penelope Eckart, they’d probably treat her as the surrogate younger sister that needs protection and that headcanon just makes me want to melt-)

(She’d be perfect sugary therapy for these two, especially for poor Penelope)

[thecagedsong]

"Composition" was such a cute story! I am so glad that you posted it.

I am now wondering if you want to share something about "the prince's plans"?

I'm so glad you liked Composition!

Alas, the Prince's Plans contains the scraps of a sequel to The Queen's Tea. The idea of it was Geordo takes a look at his friends after the story, and the state of the kingdom, and goes:

Crap, I'm going to have to become King and make sure they all get somewhere they're all happy again. (Underneath it all, he misses their little challenges a lot and winning wasn't as fun if everyone was just going to give up and be gloomy). We didn't know too much about the other princes when I wrote this, but Geordo would basically look at them and go "Can't figure out Geffery's motivation, that's not safe to leave Katarina's kingdom with" and "Ian's too passive, too easily influenced and scared to trust his own judgement, also can't leave Katarina's kingdom in those hands" and "Never going to make Alan do something he'd actively despise"

Like The Queen's Tea, it would have a chapter from each character as they meet up with Geordo/someone sent by Geordo and he figures out how to make them happy/use them to better the kingdom and slowly start to grow into who they want to be post-Academy. Nicol was easy as Premier, I think I had Mary and Alan in the Diplomacy Corp., Sophia as Minister of Culture, and I didn't write down anyone else.

It required a lot of worldbuilding, contradicted by later light novels, and my understanding of the characters has changed and deepened from when I wrote The Queen's Tea, so this is likely just going to rot. I only had rough drafts for Alan and Nicol's chapters anyway.

But I did have this fun idea in it.

“I don’t think I’d mind it all that much,” Geordo mused, “It would be a little awkward when our children ended up at the Academy and had to explain that they were the progeny of that duke’s daughter and third prince that ran away to raise a farm. But spending all day, every day with Katarina, no games of politics, would be rather nice. We could continually make up new stories about our past and keep everyone entertained.”  

“It would only be fun until you met the first person negatively affected by one of your brother’s poor decisions,” Nicol reminded him. “After that, you would only feel overwhelming guilt.”

Geordo sighed, “You’re right, of course. And it’s not like a farm would be able to keep out Katarina’s hoard of admirers like a castle can occasionally.”