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I'm still convinced that Winfried will fuck it all up. He is essentially on the same level as detlinde.
Also I'm so rooting for Charlotte, I'm waiting patiently for the moment that myne is like: "I'm sorry I broke my promise to you. I will support you in your quest for Aubhood"
Can't wait for next week's part. To think we're already at Volume 27 and it still keeps getting better and better.
Also huge probs to quof & co. Absolute Madlads there.
Putting him on the same level as Detlinde is quite uncalled for in my opinion. Detlinde is soooooo much worse than Wilfried ever was. Wilfried has time and again shown small glimpses of having at least some decency in him, where Detlinde is utterly iredeemable in my eyes.
Just take the reward ceremony as an example. Despite having been involved in one of the two research projects, albeit in only a small manner, Wilfried refused to go up and take credit in front of the king, for what was primarily Rozemyne's accomplishment.
Detlinde on the other hand, had no issue at all with not just sharing in the praise for Raimund's accomplishments alongside him, but going up there and taking all the credit for herself and leaving Raimund completely out of it, dispite the sum all of her involvement being to chastise Fraularm a single time for getting between Raimund and Ferdinand's communcations and otherwise not even being aware of what exactly he was even doing, until right before the presentations.
Also with Wilfried, it's primarily his retainers that cause the problems, while with Detlinde, it's the retainers that are desperately working to prevent the troubles from happening, but being unable to contain that tornado of terribleness.
I'm over the Wilfried hatred. I was upset because it looked like he was mad at Roz even after all she had done for him but he was acting that way he was because he was being forced into a situation he hated. He was aware of his situation enough to ask for Roz to be Aub. He doesn't know about her commoner origins so he couldn't understand why he was being forced to be the Aub. And I can't be mad at him for not wanting to be compared to Roz. She is just crazy out of his league.
I'm not saying Wilfried is a saint. There's definitely a lot of spoiled brat in his behavior. He could have tried harder to get along with Roz and done more to gain the Leisegangs' trust. But he's like, what, 14 or 15 now. It's a little much to expect him to able to manipulate adults who have been playing politics for decades but if he done less whining and more trying, he might not have been in so bad of a situation.
I think things are in a good situation for Roz's siblings now. Charlotte gets to try for Aub as she always wanted. Wilfried has time to decide what he wants to do with life and Melchior will get to spend time with his wonderful big sister and learn to be just as awesome as she is at being High Bishop. I'm rooting for Charlotte. She's always been the best candidate and I hope Wilfried is smart enough is realize that and decides to support her. He's much better off trying to Knight Commander, IMO. It's something he enjoys and he's good at.
Just turned 13.
I'm not so sure on the Knigh's Commander thing.
Karstedt and Bonifatius might appear like pure muscleheads at a glance, but they are still quite skilled in sniffing out hostile conspiracies, even if it's more of an instinctual thing for Bonifatius, rather then intellectual.
He seems to be doing reasonably well in Gewinnen, so he might grow to be a good tractician, but that sounds more like a good vice commander to me, than a commander, who usually also doubles as the Aub's guard knight. Not to mention that in the Ditter match, he completely defered to Rozemyne and Leonore for the battleplan, which is again making me think he might be better at following orders than coming up with and giving them. There's also the whole naivity issue.
I guess it's possible he might develop those skills and instincts with time, but right now, he'd be a bad choice and will likely stay so for quite some time. Then again, Karstedt doesn't look like he's thinking of retiring anytime soon, so he has the time.
Rozemyne is the commander who you want at the back, keeping the strategy together and the healing and potions supply going. Wilfried is the leader who you want at the very front leading the charge at the enemy.
I think the Wilfreds' retainers will twist his wishes in worst possible way to drag him down. I am also curious how Rozmyne will "reapay" Charllote's kindness.
Rozemyne could do a lot for Charlotte simply by stating that Aub Charlotte would be a good outcome. Brunhilde and Charlotte were already planning to cooperate on making a new faction to support Rozemyne, that effort can easily be turned into a faction to back Aub Charlotte with Brunhilde's support. Said faction would have a main goal to focus Ehrenfest's domestic policies on growth and trade and printing, and the interduchy policies on supporting Rozemyne wherever she ended up.