Roz's lack of noble sex ed is always a good time.
Eglantine is prettier than before...perhaps a pregnancy glow?
That last conversation seemed like Roz and Egg were talking past each other...a bit sad, I want them to be friends again.
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Just glad it was Hirschur teaching the class and not Fraularm or there would be new rumors of Rozemyne being a sexual deviant.
With how openly Rozemyne talked about having had experience, those rumors are happening regardless.
I thought it might have something to do with her praying more at the academy shrines over the rest of the year and Rozemyne somehow being aware of the change subconsciously and her conscious mind interpreting it this way.
Or maybe it's just Rozemyne's body finally going into puberty and thus her becoming a bit more susceptible to the attractiveness of other people, particularly ones she didn't see every couple of days and thus didn't get used to in such small increments it fell below notice.
I wonder if her mothers intentionally decided to delay "the talk" due to jureve sleep or if it was another case of both of them assuming the other one would do it and thus neither doing it.
Don't forget the third reason for delaying "the talk": although she is finally growing again she does still look very young for her age. They both probably subconsciously forgot that she's due to have that talk.
I find that a bit unlikely. No matter how she might look, the moment she got engaged, something must have clicked in the adult's minds. But even if they really forgot subconsciously the first time around, her now getting into a second engagement should really have been a wake-up call for what they failed to do the first time around, especially with how at least Elvira was already in a "now or never" mode, conscious of the things she wouldn't be able to do or say once Spring arrives and Rozemyne leaves the duchy.
When she returns for Ehrenfest's Dedication Ritual and the final preparations for her move, it is most likely the last time either of her (noble) mothers will have the chance to have a proper talk, before she gets married in a couple of years. Sure, they might technically see and briefly talk to her at the interduchy tournament, but that won't afford the privacy to have that kind of conversation.
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 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
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.
Pretty quiet week. Getting all the formalities out of the way it would seem.
If Roz will become a royal princess the she won't be an equal rank friend with Hannelore. Ferdinand is trying to save his skin by not letting Landezave princess execute a coup on the foundation.
Roz unintentionally sells herself as a hoe. Eggaletine has quite a few misunderstanding, but the bluntness of Rozmynes saves the day.
Hannelore outranks Rozemyne by quite a bit (based on duchy ranks) but it's a status difference not large enough to get in the way of friendship as long as Hannelore wants to be friends. I don't see Rozemyne's princess status get too much in the way, Rozemyne just has to bluntly tell Hannelore that she doesn't want to change the way they interact.
A potentially sinister turn with Hortensia...
Either Raublut - if he's a bad guy - eliminated her, to prevent her from finding out anything more, or - if he's a good guy and is behaving so suspiciously due to being exceptionally cautious - wants to keep her out of whatever is going on.
In either case, I find it odd that the first message about how she's be gone for a while came from her, but the later message about her still being ill came from Raublut. If he had eliminated her, the first message makes no sense, but if he's keeping her safe, why didn't she send the second message herself?
I'd be laughing my ass off, if after talking about the Schlaftraum Flower issue, they decided to give making a baby a final try and against all odds and expectations, finally succeeded and that's what her "illness" is. That would be one hell of a misdirect. ^^