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Ever since the shrine tour, I've grown suspicious of Eglantine and find it difficult to read her. Is her shock about being called out due to genuinely having forgotten to consider the definition of joint research and that she's now a royal, rather than a Klassenberg noble, was she shocked for Rozemyne just calling her out on it, rather than eating it up like a good middle duchy noble, or was the apparent shock just acting for the sake of either covering up her own mess up or to manipulate Rozemyne?
I'm surprised that Murrenreue would be the one to try to demean Rozemyne. Immerdink was down to at least 12th or maybe even lower last year and she's picking a fight with the 8th?
Even if Rozemyne were to be demoted to archnoble, it is well known how well she gets along with her siblings and how liked and respected she is by her duchy, so it seems really stupid to try to put the verbal smackdown on her in this situation. If it had been true, it would only pour salt into the wounds of a duchy 4 or more ranks above her own, which is not a particularly wise thing to do, especially with how Ehrenfest is still clearly rising.
While Ehrenfest might have stayed at the 8th, them being treated as a winning civil war duchy surely means they are now more influencial and powerful than the previous year, in spite of the unchanged rank and a clear signal that they would have risen, if not for a deal with the royals.
Rozemyne's counterattack was quite satisfying.
I think a large part of the reason for the interaction between Murrenreue and Rozemyne is because she (like many others) sees Rozemyne as the sole source of their upward trajectory and (wrongfully) believe that it'll shoot back down just as fast once she leaves. I don't think it's well known how much she's set up in Ehrenfest so it would be able to maintain its current grades and rank, so I think the duchies they've surpassed see this as a prime opportunity to gloat right before Ehrenfest suddenly drops in rank.
True to some extend, but I still think it's incredibly stupid and/or shortsighted.
In her time in the spotlight Rozemyne made quite public friends with some very high status people, in particular Eglantine, Adolphine and Hannelore. Hannelore might not be the kind of person to go out of her way to punish Murrenreue for insulting her friend, but Adolphine and Eglantine are (just ask Detlinde) and as royal princesses and Eglantine being a professor of the very archduke candidate course that Murrenreue is obligated to take, there are various ways in which they can punish her.
There's also the issue of what Rozemyne's supposed to do as the Sovereign High Bishop, namely going around the duchies to teach them. With someone from Immerdink already being on record for attacking her (albeit it was an accident and Harmut was the intended target), she surely would have a good enough reason to refuse going to Immerdink. But even if she's made to go there, she could still teach them in a way that makes them unable to do the ceremonies correctly and then claim it is their own incompetence that is to blame, after all, all the other duchies managed to do it right, or some other stuff that would leave them at a disadvantage compared to the other duchies that didn't personally piss Rozemyne off.
Murrenreue either prioritized her own emotional satisfaction, over the good of her duchy, or she failed to consider the potential consequences her words and actions might have not just for herself, but her entire duchy. Either one is marking her as stupid and/or shortsighted and quite the failure as an archduke candidate, who should at all times be conscious of how their behaviour reflects not just on them, but their whole duchy and prioritize the good of the duchy above everything.
And in light of how that aforementioned accidental hit of Rozemyne by that Immerdink archnoble (not even an archduke candidate, but a mere archnoble!) was enough to significantly contribute to their duchy losing yet another place in the rankings, it makes this blunder all the more idiotic.
I wish we could see the look on the faces of everyone that's smack talked Rozemyne over the years once they find out she's becoming a princess.
We did get several such instances already, with Egmont getting crushed probably taking the spotlight, but I do not mind in the least to get more. ^^
Though far more than some near enough non-entity in the story like Murrenrue, I want to see Delinde and Georgine's yes pop out of their sockets upon learning the news!
Also Ferdinand, for obviously entirely different reasons. After all he doesn't seem to have figured it out yet. Imagine him coming to the Ehrenfest dorm the first day of the archduke conference, to tell Rozemyne to not interact with the royal family and her countering with "I don't think I can avoid interacting with my adoptive father and fiancé." :D