#wmmap theory

[sharper-than-a-serpents-tooth]

"I haven't seen the crown prince around lately."

[lithi]

I thought… this was the side story announcement….

Just like for the Japanese 8th volume of WMMAP, Spoon has illustrated a new cover for the 10th volume!

I’m just hoping the image will be clearer this time around bc Bookwalker had a very bad image resolution for the 8th volume 💀

“What a shame that you’ll end up like this.”

“You think I’ll let you have your way?”

[jeweled-blue-eyes]

crack theory/ headcanon: Jennette is partly a plant

I was rereading chapter 10 and was asking myself: why would Athy want to pluck the flower that badly, that she would lean over the boat edge and risk falling into the lake, when a few seconds ago she was so scared that her father would push her into the lake and leave her to drown? Why would she do something reckless that could give him any ideas? Why let down her guard and give him an opening? Back then Athy viewed Claude as a ticking timebomb and was still in survival mode. Getting distracted and endangering herself for a flower was unthinkable.

And that's when inspiration struck me: what if the "Lotus" flower functions just like Jennette does? Claude called it a mana eating plant. What if it feeds on human mana and it has taken on a beautiful appearance to catch its prey? Athy looks at the blue lotus in wonder and then, upon closer inspection, notices that it's not blue at all. It only seems that way to onlookers, because it reflects its surroundings. The flower itself has no color. Which reminds me of Jennette who has the Imperial blue jewel eyes, except no she has not. She is a construct of black magic and only appears to have the jewel eyes. Her eyes, just like her breathtaking beauty, are nothing but an illusion.

When Athy thinks "I want one." her eyes are dim and it doesn't look like she is being quite herself. The desire to possess the blue flower doesn't seem to come from her own mind, it's as if something else is possessing her and influencing her to think these things.

Furthermore the existence of the carnivorous flower has always been a headscratcher for me. Who planted it into the lake and for what reasons? I mean the plant has to live off something! Targeting Athy who was like a black hole of mana implies that the plant couldn't have been possibly satisfied by small animals alone. Who was sacrificed in the lake, so that the plant could keep on living? What use did the plant have that would make the sacrifice worth it? Claude couldn't have been the one. It's just not his style. That means the plant must have been a remnant of Anastacius' reign. It makes sense doesn't it? Anastacius was interested in ways how to steal, store and augment mana. Before he tested his theory on humans, he could have first observed animals and plants. The flower might have been his first creation, his first Jennette prototype, or it might have been an instrument or ingredient he used on Penelope so she could give birth to his miracle baby.

[nympyah]

what If we have the story of adam and eve as Ijennette? except, the fruit they both consume is athanasia and the serpent that coaxed them into consuming so is lucas? what if eve consumed the apple for the devil promised them a life together? what if adam consumed the apple because he wished for freedom and the taste of rebellion?

[bex-xa-2026]

Sorry for the random tags. Gotta make this circulate

So Arizona launched an “education hotline” that allows “concerned parents” to report “””critical race theory””” and other things like ~gender identity~ being taught in the classroom

It would be a shame if the number and email were spread to bad actors looking to prank call the AZ Department of Education

602-771-3500 or empower @ azed .gov 🤡

[cant-write-to-save-my-life]

Modern AU kinda thing where Lp!Athy has been reborn and she's a historian and/or archeologist(she could be both tbh, and no, she doesn't remember anything and she doesn't look the same). Korea and the world as we know it doesn't really exist since... well, we are talking about a post-obelia/modern-obelia world.

(as always this will be all over the place, if I start not making sense don't be surprised because GOD THIS IS LONG AND i WROTE THIS IN AN HOUR AND A HALF)

Athanasia/Sia is part of a group where they are trying to find more information regarding the time Jennette appeared until the death of Claude/her death itself, since other researchers have found a surprising lack of information regarding that era of time even thought the small amount of information found often talked about how loved she was by the empire and, allegedly, other surrounding empires, plus how much Claude was said to have loved her.

Not only that, even when trying to use her spouse, Ijekiel, as a way to get more information, this seemed to come to a halt on the Alpheus records when it came to a certain period of time.

To top it of, old diaries and reports sometimes mentioned a third royal family member being alive and on similar age to Jennette, but the name, description or origin of this family member was a mystery.

The Royal Family of Obelia had been no more for a very long time, but the fact that a second mystery in the form of an unknown royal family member, led everyone to believe it could be tied to the disappearance of the Royal Family trademark: The Jeweled Eyes. Of course, this could be tied to the usual explanation that maybe the magic-gene that permitted this peculiar eyes became recessive at some point, but after doing some digging, the jeweled eyes of the royal family started to disappear with Jennette's first grandchild, her first son having 3 children, one of them missing the royal eyes completely, and the children of said child never inheriting this trait as well.

(Yes these people know magic existed at some point in time, but it either doesn't manifest as it did before, making it so 1% of the world population is able to wield it in a level that can't be compared to how it's used in LP/WMMAP since it's very difficult to do so or it just doesn't exist anymore)

This was more of a theory based on investigations made on the family tree, where a new ducal family, directly related to the emperor at that time, never inherited the eyes as confirmed by some salvaged paintings.

All the missing information just made Sia excited, this just meant she and her team had to start using every piece of information and treat it as a potential clue. And thanks to that, they managed to hit a lead to the York household.

The York's had fallen out of nobility some time during Jennette's reign, with reasons unknown, but information in an old diary from a head maid mentioned a woman with the name of Lilian York was the head maid in the Ruby Palace.

It was very hard to find if the York's had any living relatives, but thankfully they did. They were a normal working family, and even thought they knew of what their family once was, they had very clear that everything was in the past. Grandmother of the family was the one who gave them two heavy medium sized boxes with information of their family. The woman said that she was finally giving them to people who will actually do some sense to all the things in said boxes.

As obvious things happen, they learn that Lily was Athy's nanny, and they obviously learn of Athanasia's existence and death.

But also the aftermath.

Lilian's family(don't know who) had decided to keep information regarding her and Athanasia simply to honor Lily's memory at first, but after it was revealed that Athanasia(and Lily by relation) died for nothing since the true culprit was Jennette's aunt, Countess Rosalia, they decided to keep archiving everything for the sake of justice and to never forget.

In the boxes they found the frustration the matriarch was feeling due to the situation, and how they were the ones to renounce to their title and privileges 10 years after everything had happened. Why?

Because they were tired of the circus nobility had created to cater to the, at the time, Princess Jennette de Alger Obelia.

Jennette never really "got over" Athanasias unjust death, but the amount of time she spent mourning was strange and bizarre for the Yorks, the(at the time) Princess was always someone who always showed herself as sentimental and empathetic. But only mourning the unjust death of her sister which she claimed she was close to for a week? Strange. But not as important as what nobility did.

Since it was discovered that Rosalia was the one behind the poisoning, the nobles has decided that whenever Princess Athanasia was mentioned and Princess/Empress Jennette was present, they would fill their mouths with false sentiments of longing, saying how they always knew Athanasia was innocent, that they always viewed her as beautiful even if she didn't have the money to have the dresses of the current season, how they always felt bad whenever she was bullied, how much they wished they were more brave as to defend her and befriend her. How Lilian York was such a brave woman to never backdown even before the emperor, how diligent Lilian was to not leave the abandoned princess, daughter of a dancer, behind and go back to her family.

How great women they both were.

Lies, all of it lies.

But Princess Jennette always appreciated those words, this actions making some noble ladies from count families to become very close to her.

It was sickening.

And for that, after the second prince of the empire was 5 years old, the York family resign from their titles and lands, the now Empress Jenette asked them why, but the heads of the family never gave her a reason.

Between all of the diary entries there were incredibly well preserved portraits. One of Lilian York when she was maybe 15 or 17 years old, and another of Princess Athanasia when she was 11 or 13 years old.

One mystery to take off the list, right? Wrong.

Thanks to the painting of Princess Athanasia, immediately one of those on the team pointed out how the eyes of the princess looked different from those of princess jennette. At first everyone thought it would simply be due to the artist having a different perspective on how they painted the eyes, but after careful examination and comparisons with the portraits of Claude de Alger Obelia, it was confirmed that the eyes of Jennette and her children had a different hue than the other two royals. They didn't look as bright and it seemed that they were even dimmed or were dimming out through time, in some portraits the eyes of the only princess of born of Ijekiel and Jennette, seemed to have simple blue eyes.

With this findings Sia's investigation group was applauded and praised all around. But despite that, Sia was only happy to finally put one of the greatest mysteries of the Obelian Royal family to rest, and provide more information to the other.

For her, it felt as if some dead weight was lifted off her shoulders.

[shxrry-blossom]

JENNETTE'S ROOM

I haven't seen any compilation of Jennette's room in the manhwa so I'm going to do it with the few panels we have.

So, everyone would think that the color of Jennette's room should be blue or Athy's room should be pink since those are her "main" colors but in the manhwa it is the opposite, Athy's room is blue and Jetty's is pink.

First let's look at this image. To our left is a fireplace with nothing more than two candelabras and a random painting. Through Jennette we see a large white door. And to our right is Jennette's bed, at the foot of the bed is her dresser and a pink chair.

Now let's focus on our right.

In the first image you can't see it but in the next one we can see that next to the door there is a piece of furniture with many dolls and stuffed animals on it.

15 toys in total, 7 dolls and 8 stuffed animals. Do you notice that the dolls are almost always in pairs? Always two girls together?? I wonder if that was a way of projecting her desire to form a relationship with Athanasia, whom she believed to be her sister.

(I honestly don't think Spoon did it on purpose, but whatever, let's imagine)

Now right in front of the furniture with the stuffed animals we have Jennette's bed! which is also pink. Look to the right of Jennette's bed there is another pink chair just like the one on her nightstand.

Here we don't have the rug :( but at least we can see the chairs that are also pink (lmao) and a fairly simple circular table that has the same design as the furniture with the dolls.

Just above the girls is a chandelier.

In front of the bed but a little further to the left are the table and chairs where Jennette has tea with Athy! look at the following image.

And look to the right, behind Athanasia you can see a part of Jennette's shelf.

Let's have a more close look to the bed now!

Well look at the bed, it has curtains on the sides but all wmmap beds have them although these, unlike the others, are not tied. I wondered if that's because Jennette tends to close the curtains for more privacy?? We can also see on the right more of her miraculously not pink shelf with books. Also...isn't that the table where Jennette has tea with Athy? It seems that she changed it's position.

Let's take a closer look at her nightstand.

Well there is nothing different that no nightstand has from the other manhwas. Lots of pretty jars and boxes and in other pictures we saw that it had a candle holder too. But I find this silver tray with the hairbrush and a mirror adorable, it's so cute. Also, it's the only mirror in Jennette's entire room, right?

In here there are many jewels and some ribbon but nothing more special. The second comb is fun for me :D

Let's leave Jennette's nightstand and see what was to the right of her room.

Finally! the shelf full and with many books. I wonder what kind of things Jennette reads? Will they all be princess books? I guess so but I like to imagine that it has a greater variety of books (how to make dolls, flowers, cake shop, etc)

Can you see there is a white cup there? Well, it's on the shelf and it's not floating, it's on the same table where Jennette had tea with Athy and the parts of brown furniture that can be seen on the sides are the chairs that the girls sit on.

Below the window where Athy is entering there is an couch! And on the other side of the couch you can see some legs of a brown piece of furniture.

Here we have a better view of the couch! and also the rug that we had lost in the other images.

and the brown furniture next to the couch has absolutely nothing on it (lol)

Some comments: We never saw much of the wall on the side of the fireplace, the whole wall in front of Jennette's bed because there is still a part of Jennette's room that we don't know. The truth is that Jennette's room doesn't have many things besides her dolls, there can be thousands of theories why, maybe Jennette just doesn't like having a lot of things, maybe she never allowed herself to have a lot of things because she didn't want to be a nuisance or never filled her room with the things she liked because she didn't consider it her home, or maybe spoon just didn't decorate her room much idk.

Also Jennette needs a mirror, otherwise how the hell do the maids dress her? But I kind of like the fact that Jennette doesn't like mirrors tbh.

[ultramarine-spirit]

hello, i have a question about wmmap :3 In Athanasia's first life (the LP one), why wasn't she able to use magic, , but in her third life (WMMAP), she was able to use it? I've been wondering about it.

LP! Athy isn't able to use magic because LP! Lucas ate her Blackie! (lmao, but this isn't as bad as it sounds. Blackie's mana returning to her body would have killed her, as it almost did in WMMAP, but LP! Claude wouldn't have cared or saved her. So in a way, LP! Athy didn't die as a child because of LP! Lucas, in a butterfly effect sort of way). This is mentioned in the novel, not the manhwa. WMMAP Athy is able to use magic because she has her mana (most of it returning to her when Blackie died, it's after that event that she tells Lily that "she became a magician").

But in theory, LP! Athy could have had magic too.

[the-winters-prince]

since I asked tendy this question, I'll ask you guys this too! what do you like about the rest us? How do you like them?

Anny: The Goewin specialist in our fandom that is creating diversity in our starkly Medlleu centric space and adding an exciting new flavour to the twp village! When I finished TWP I wondered how the fandom dynamic would be like if the book had been more popular and wondered if some people would ship Medwin or Goelleu and that person missing was you! I'm impressed by your creativity to find potential in ships no one has ever thought of before (more Abreha x Priamos! Please share your thoughts!). With you I'm never alone with my wmmap rarepairs. Athyette, Ijennette, LucaJen... You always follow me and that gives me lots of power hehe.

Yono: My assigned soulmate who is always off the beam with their hcs about me but who I won't correct because I love her. It's ok I'd put on a wig for you, wear high heels and listen if you call me big brother! My platonic sister-wife and brother-rival who locked me in an eternal rivalry with them over Tendy's affections. Painting, writing, moodboards, concepts. You are a multi-talent. Is there anything you can't do? I'm a bit jealous over your art skills and wish I had even a fraction of your motivation. You are very dear to me, which means a lot for a person like me who doesn't really do internet friendships. Your AUs are a treat to read. I'm surprised how fast you adapted to my dark tastes and feel sometimes slightly guilty that I dragged you down to rarepair hell with me and introduced you to incest, while also being proud of you. Fate can be so cruel. Why couldn't we have grown up as neighbours? I pray in our next life we'll be reincarnated as blonde/black haired twins!

Tendy: I adore your prose! You are like a modern day Shakespeare to me. Every time you reblog my posts it feels like an angel touched my head or shaking hands with a celebrity. I deeply enjoy reading your commentary and detailed analysises. It feels we are like minds in a lot of respects. You seem to be well-read and knowledgeable about many things due to your age. I admire you greatly and want to get closer to you but also admire you from afar. It's a bit of a hero worship in a sense. I wish I could write like you. I'm amazed that in a small fandom like ours two people like us who shipped the brothers in the Winter Prince happened to meet each other and clicked. Anny and Yono started reading the Winter Prince because they saw me reading it. We all knew each other and migrated from another fandom her, so it was a great surprise to meet someone new! When I first started reading Fragile Chains I had the craziest crack theory that you were actually Elizabeth Wein's secret incest shipper stealth account xD

[bvnga-aprikot]

I got the Who Made Me a Princess paper doll book from the Volume 3 limited edition and i said i would make a review on it, so here it is!

This was specifically the WMMAP i really really wanted to have ever since i laid my eyes on it, and after seeing @ultramarine-spirit's review on it i decided that i should try finding it so i don't have to long for it anymore. I got unbelievably lucky with this because it was the last one on sale and it was at a decent price, so thankfully it easy to convince my dad to lend me the money to buy it and he is a real MVP in this. Without further ado, i'll jump right into my review!

First off, the book is gorgeous. Not only was it in super good condition but the cover is just, so precious and i love it so much. I love Athy and Jetty so this book was already a priority in what WMMAP merch i wanted to buy, and since it's my first time doing so i have to say it went better than i expected. A few things i noticed is how kid Jennette got a lot of original outfits in this book since she barely appeared in the first arc, so i didn't think she would get a lot in this book. They're cute though so i don't really mind.

Ultramarine said in her review that she didn't want to cut out the dolls because it was too precious and after holding the book in my own hands, i think i too don't want to take them out. Like on one hand i think it would be fun to play dress up with them and have Athy and Jetty swap clothes for fun, but on the other hand this book is so rare that i think you'd have better luck finding the Volume 7 character illustrations than this gold mine anywhere else. I wish i could just photo copy this so i could still made the dolls without sacrificing the book :<

Something interesting about this is that for the backgrounds you might need to have the box this book came with for it to stick, which you can obviously improvise with but it kinda makes sense considering it has a platform for the dolls to stand on and all that. Also, we got more of Athanasia's room in this! Idk why i was excited but i love seeing her room for some reason because it just feels like it would be her room with the pink accents and blues complimenting it, sorta like Athy's two debutante dresses. I'm a bit disappointed we never got one for Jetty's room since i would love to see it here too, but i digress since maybe i could search up references of both their rooms and try to make it. (not that i'd ever will, just thought it would be fun to do)

So now let’s get onto the dresses. Ultramarine had already elaborated more on Athy’s dresses in her review so i’ll try to keep this short: they’re so cute, from her little girl dresses to when she’s a teenager i think she had so many great dresses and the ones Spoon picked for her could not be more great for this! Obviously she has to have her debutante dress with her but her other outfits are also super pretty in this (while obviously simplified). As for Jennette, because she hasn’t appeared much in the manhwa at this point her dresses are more on compiling all that she’s worn at that point, so while she didn’t get as much variety as Athy her dresses are still super cute and i especially love her green dress. As i said kid Jetty didn’t have a lot of outfits hence why she has a lot of original ones unique to this book, but i do wish we got the one outfit where she was cuddling the stuffed rabbit while looking sad. I have a whole crack theory on how it might be a representation of her relationship with the Alpheus family but this about the paper dolls so i’ll explain it in a later post.

A little tidbit about the instructions: from what was visualized there are two ways you can cut out Jetty's bonnets, and i think one of them involves using scraps to make a back slip so you can remove it anytime you want. Meaning, you can technically give small Athy a bonnet too if you could! This just means that you have to make their outfits removable though if you want them to match.

That's it for my review! I'm still too apprehensive of actually cutting out the paper dolls as i really don't want to risk ruining them, but maybe in the future i'll have the confidence to do so. I have this vague idea of posting memes of them doing cult activities since there's a lot of dolls and i do think that i might, just not now.

[roseapov]

Fics planning:

2023 year:

Christmas Genshin fic

Christmas HSR fic

Christmas Twtpflob fic

Christmas Htgmhoms/Htwmho fic

Christmas Wmmap fic

Christmas TWST fic

Finishing Povtober if possible

Writing a new birthday series (Surprise!)

Just saying that this new birthday series will still start in 2024, regardless if I will start writing it in 2023 or 2024.

Early 2024 (I hope):

Finishing Povtober if I won't be able to in December

Diasomnia 6 days, 8 fics drop (still thinking about the name)

Lilia x reader x Malleus + Silver and Sebek platonically (everyone yandere) - foreshadowed on Halloween

Readers are like/look like Meleanor and gives Diasomnia boys emotional damage, especially Lilia and Malleus💔

THAT ONE Leona fic

THAT ONE Farena fic (OG, Leona version is the extra one)

'First First fic' who was supposed to be my first one, but it never did - Theory, what if

Upgrading differences between Overseer and Player (TWST Self Aware)

Expanding TWST Self Aware AU Universe

Just before anything happens, I'm reminding that it's only planning! It all can change and I can also not follow it. It's just to give me directions in which I should go, and a view on my future works for you!

[sharper-than-a-serpents-tooth]

making Jennette a being born from magic was presumably done so that she had no claim to the throne at all, but Aeternitas being involved in the process of her creation and using his own mana to breathe life into her would make him her father in the broad sense of the word and this would put her in the line of succession before Athy, Claude and even Anastacius.

And if Obelia considers beings of magic real and deserving of rights, which old Obelia must have because making an attempt on a divine beast, was an attempt on the life of the royal owning them as it had direct affects on the owners health when it was harmed, it is possible that Jennette might have been viewed as a part of Aeternitas. Her claim equal to his because he split his mana with her. We might even be having a ship of theseus dilemma where Jennette is more Aeternitas and Anastacius than they are because the repeated resurrections changed their essence fundamentally, and even though born tainted her, she is purer than them, because she led a righteous life.

Over and above that royals used a religious doctrine of political legitimacy, which entails the belief that certain people are either descended from gods or chosen by gods to rule. Jennette's creation by someone whose family claims to be descended from the gods would parallel the creation of humankind by god itself. Obelia calling into question her legitimacy and denying her right to exist, could be considered blasphemy against the gods and a condemnation of their own race.

[alicehattera03]

I come with theories this time!

You died. But hey! You were lucky and some Goddess took pity on your soul and stuffed it into the body of the still unborn Athanasia de Alger Obelia. Oh and you have no Idea if this new world follows the book, the manwha, or some fanfiction.

How would you cope? Would you run away like Athy tried at the beginning? Would you crave your new dads attention and try to win his love? Would you start a revolution? Follow Aetherntrash? Give Jeanette the throne and be her shadow? Fall in Love with somebody? (Our Male Protagonist or even the reclusive wizard? Or find a new love not being known to you?) Would you even be able to see them as people? Not just characters you loved and liked to read about? How would you cope being an older soul in a younger body?

How would you rule if you tried the Empress Route and sit someday on your golden throne? How would you manage?

Just...general stuff I am really interested about because of what you write normally and what you would do personally would differ I guess.

Love and hoping the heat didnt grill you yet because here its only a few grades away :(

Hello dearest!!!

And - I WHAT NOW!?!

[AliceHatter has died.]

Ah, shit. Here we go again. 💀

Ahahaha okok well, this is something new. Considering, I've never really thought about what it'd be like if I was actually Athy, cause well, hmm...idk really, I guess I just never really thought about me personally, so this will be interesting. Also, pls goddess, let it NOT be my fics because good god, that is hell on earth whew.

How would I cope?

Well, humans are by nature very adaptable(whether that's good or bad idk lol) so I'd probably get used to not having wifi and throw myself into studying for some validation and probably ways to get rid of black magic lmao

Would you run away like Athy tried at the beginning?

I wouldn't run away, but I'd probably try to kms when I'm able to walk after being born because hello, there are no phones, no laptops, no wifi!!! What do I do for entertainment when I run out of books!!?!?

Would you crave your new dads attention and try to win his love?

Considering I tried to kms when I was just a baby, maybe at some very early point Claude would get interested and keep me at his side just to keep watch over what I do and in turn, starts saving me from the brink of death?? Maybe around then, I'd start to get attached to him and try to attract his attention by acting older than a baby...maybe like those FLs who act like geniuses at a young age when they're actually reincarnated(wow that sounds awful when I write it out but hey, it's a solid idea)

Would you start a revolution? Follow Aetherntrash?

To the first, probably not? I'd make lots of alliances with foreign countries and within Obelia itself just in case but I'd want Claude to still rule cause I'd be legitimate that way. Plus, he IS the strongest emperor ever, so...as long as I can figure out how to get rid of the black magic, he's a safer bet than Aeternitas who would get rid of me in a heartbeat so he can sit on the throne himself. So in answer to the second, hell nah, he can go fuck himself or Roger lololol Athy will- I mean, I will find a way to intercept his plans, probably from the debutante.

Give Jeanette the throne and be her shadow?

WHAT- I mean, ok, that's a reasonable option, but in the world where I wouldn't know which plot the world is following, I wouldn't know for sure until I meet her, but even still, a very high probability of no. I wouldn't hate her if she's the WMMAP version but if she's the novel version, ugh. If she's a fanfic version...depends on who she's written by. If she's by me, except for very few, I wouldn't like that at all...if she's written by someone who loves her dearly(which means they hate me...) then I'd die, so I'd rather just keep my distance and send her and Roger packing.

Fall in Love with somebody? (Our Male Protagonist or even the reclusive wizard? Or find a new love not being known to you?

Oooh, I'd love to fall in love with somebody. The question is, would they fall in love with me? Or the version I present as my version of Athy? If I acted like the lovable and intelligent Athanasia, thousands would fall, but if I acted like me and the way I want to portray her as I wanted her to be: stronger, harsher, an heir with an iron fist just like her father- would they be able to fall in love? Anyways, leaving those existential questions for when I actually get isekai-d lmao I wouldn't fall in love with Lucas. Unfortunate ahaha but I'd love to have him as an ally. Ijekiel on the other hand...I was pushing for Athy to end up with him, so he'd be a strong contender. If someone else comes into the picture, I wouldn't mind as long as they have the qualities of: a high rank that is near or matches Athy's, appearance-wise doesn't look like a squid next to her, and is intelligent enough to keep up with her conversations.

Would you even be able to see them as people? Not just characters you loved and liked to read about?

That's a real question...I think for a long while, I wouldn't be able to see them as anything but words on a page. Descriptors that I used to write, strokes of a pen across a tablet screen, I would feel their warmth and even look in the mirror and think, this world feels amazingly real. Would it even register to me that it was, in fact, now my reality? That they were, in fact, tangible people that could laugh, cry, love and die? It would be inevitable that I would find them to be people, but I think it'd be a long road to get there.

How would you cope being an older soul in a younger body?

AHAHAHA depends~ am I an older soul in the first place?? But if we're going off that I was older when I died and got stuffed into Athy's body, I'd use it as well as I could- plus be happy at restarting life lmao. Using all the knowledge I had from my previous life to prepare for my later years instead of learning the basics from scratch. I'd probably go as Athy did, learning new languages and studying early on, I have to make sure I don't act like a useless pawn but a useful heir. I'd also, frankly be annoyed at having to act like a child in a child's body so I'd do away with that and just have people get creeped out by how adult-like I act. Tell them to deal with it, I've got no time for their feelings ahaha

How would you rule if you tried the Empress Route and sit someday on your golden throne? How would you manage?

If I really did go into Athy's body, there would be no other route other than the Empress route imo. I don't have the patience or the large heart to let anyone else take the throne other than Athy. In my eyes, she's always been the one who deserved it the most after Claude, so I'd do anything and everything in my power to make sure she sits on it. Well...that I sit on it. I'd rule with generosity to those who help the weak out of the goodness of their hearts, rule with bared fangs at those who dared to overstep. I'd hope to be a ruler that would go down as being great rather than a powerless coward, but not as a bloodthirsty tyrant. I'd keep Obelia the same size, maybe expand, just a little, being too greedy was the downfall of many Emperors. Increase the networks by sea to increase trade itself, travel to widen my horizons.

Managing though....eek. I hate the idea of managing all those territories and worrying about people coming to assassinate me in the middle of the night + all the political jargon I'll have to learn and assimilate into every meeting with the nobility + having to do so much work...I'll probably make Claude and Ijekiel pull their weight and help me out while I pick out at least one secretary to help me for a while. Maybe my obstinateness will never let me pass the work onto someone else, my pride will get in the way? There goes my lazy days 😭

All in all, I do hope this was alright in terms of an answer-! It was very hard knowing that I was the one doing this and not Athy- at least a version of Athy- but I stopped cringing halfway because I had forgotten how fun it was to imagine myself in situations instead of a character. So, thank you, lovely for the wonderful, wonderful, ask!!! 🥰

[jeweled-blue-eyes]

Lucas's dislike for Jennette would be interesting to explore if the reason wasn't because she was the second female lead but because she was a child that was created non consensually with mana stolen from him when he was asleep by the man he rejected (as in metaphorical rape). His hatred for her would be rooted in self hatred. Jennette is something powerful and terrifying, something that should be feared and rejected by society (just like him), both were conceived unnaturally from magic (manhwa lucas is implied to have been sired by the world tree), Jennette was raised by a white haired man who refused to become her family and never made her feel like she belonged (just like him and Gisil), they formed an attachment to a father figure (Caelum, Claude), possibly felt jealousy towards the true child of the father figure (Aeternitas, Athy) and ruined their parent/child relationship.

The difference is that Jennette still clings stubbornly onto her dream of a family, never embraced her "true" nature or put herself above those that were less powerful than her. And this must be incomprehensible to Lucas. Lucas was rejected by the people he loved because of his magic. He looks down on those with less mana than him because he might've begun to tell himself the opinion of those weaker than him didn't matter. They were ants in comparision to him who was basically a demi-god. It would be a nice parallel if Jennette and Lucas both tried to find comfort in a narrative they have constructed for themselves. They are forced into the roles of the lovely princess and wizard hermit respectively through external factors. The difference is that Jennette broke out of her role first in this life.

[saneijeijei]

The curse

For a long time, I couldn't figure out exactly how the magic of Jennette's eyes worked, until I noticed the ring.

Remember what the wizard in the shop said? Jennette is a cursed child. But is the fact that her mana is overflowing with dark magic a curse?

And besides, she's cursed - because she was born a chimera? I don't think, given Lucas' words, "A chimera, but also in the same way and not a chimera".

Jennette doesn't look like something that was created... Not by natural means? (Sorry) She looks like an ordinary child who was cursed after birth.

(Simply... Look at Penelope's belly. Jennette's mana is blue, like all members of the Obelia family)

This also explains the frame with Penelope. After giving birth, she was alive and didn't look like someone who would die in a few hours.

Recalling the words of the wizard from the shop regarding the payment for magic, could Penelope, seeing her daughter's eyes, namely, green, not topaz, resort to dark magic because of which she soon died?

That would explain Rozalia's involvement in Jennette's life, as well as how they got the ring the girl was wearing.

So, as for the ring... It is likely that it has the same power as the amulet of Cabel which he attached to his sword.

That is, the ring owns the antichars. When Jennette puts the ring on, her eyes turn a real color, and when she takes it off, the curse returns and they turn topaz.

This, by the way, explains the strange scene with Jennette and Anastacius, when she took off the ring and fell asleep, referring to the pain in her eyes.

That is, anti-chars can't break a spell or dispel it. They only have a temporary effect. That is why, Jennette did not often leave the estate and referred to poor health. The effect of the ring is unfortunately not long and she has to take it off so as not to suffer from pain.

That is... Jennette is cursed with her own precious eyes. Her mother wanted her to be a princess, her father wants her to ascend the throne.And Jennette just wants to have a family that loves her...

[myearts-uwu]

… I don’t know why but looking at this panel of Anastacius? Makes me a bit worried of what’s about to come?

I mean… I have to admit that he looks hot while he’s being mysterious yet dangerous. However…

… I don’t know why but I have this feeling that something bad is going to happen…

Like look at the state of the room. With all the papers scattered around?

And what about the paper Anastacius is holding onto? It can’t be some sort of random document, right?

He’s freaking smiling!

… I’m really worried about Jennette now for some reason.

Freaking paranoia…