Og Eris may have been the villainess but i still think ppl are neglecting how her life has been because mainly Helenas has been mentioned..
Dont forget Og Eris was chosen to be the princes finace at a young age this means the following:
She had to have nobel lady lession + empress / queen lessons.
Nobel lessions are strick enought already, posture, walk, etiquete and so forth, now ad to that ruling, knowledge, language, + the stricktes teachers that dont accept anything but perfection.. And to boot a finace who hates your guts and openly flirts with his "playmate".
Just look at Empress Remarries so get an idea of the expectations of a future queen/ empress.. You are not aloved to have flaws, to show weakness, nor be yourself. you are moldet into the "perfect" queen / empress yet hated for it.
In this case Helena became the only real outlet Eris had.. it wasnt right to bully her but.. how would Eris have staid sane othewise with such a fiance?
Both Helena and Eris had neglected, abusive childhoods.. but only Helenas is highlighted because she is the Heroine.
The reason i Hate Helena is because new Eris is trying her best to put it all in the past and let it all go, but Helena wont let her and purposfully keeps draging her back ..even after she has admitted defeat.
And yet we are ment to pity Helena.. Despite almost every chapter where she apears.. showing off the privileges she has not only ower Eris, but all nobels and commoners.
The logic of the time is a nobel needs guard or an escort when going to town.. Helena can go as she pleases..
The same logic is that nobels need to send a request letter in advance before going to either Temple, Palace or another nobels residense as not doing so = very rude and uncurtious. Helena can go anywhere she pleases because of her conectinos with the Prince and Queen.. and noone will stop her out of fear of incuring their wrath.
A nobel lady cant be seen anlone with a engaged or single batchor.. it would stain her reputaion.. yet alon be caught touching or being touched by said man.. that would name her a slut / harlot in social circules. Yet Helenas is doing so and not just with a enaged man but with the hero and high priest to... and yet seen as inocent and pure.. and all because "she donst know better".
Helenas family history and its downfall is sad yes.. but sadly its not uncommon..
If they incured the wrath of the wrong ppl, insulted someone or even suported the wrong faction.. the results would be the same.. and yet they are still better off than being 100% commoners.. as they are ex nobels so they still have a bit of status in that fact alone.
Helenas mother has had a big impact on her "way" of life.. but at the same time.. we hear nothing about her grandmother.. who was the reason she was made the princes "playmate" (grandmother part is from the novel tho).
Helenas main reason for not being on good terms with the other maids are that they keep their distance becasue of her relationship with the royalfamily..and because she is an ex-nobel/ fallen nobel .. making her still higher in statuse than them.. and if they act incorect they may incure the wrath of ex friedns of Helenas family.
She feels bad because if she tries to compleet her work the headmaid gets scolded for her not comming when called.. But also feels bad for the maid who have to do her work ontop of their own... And yet we see her being bold enough to ask for help from the other maids with the work she does have.. This part just dosnt sit right with me...
Its like she wants the best of both worlds.. she asks for help with her given work yet feels bad when they have to take it over onece she leaves... Ofcorse they wont help you.. when in the end they end up doing it all anyway.. + ITS YOUR JOB... they can do their jobs alone without help so why cant you!
Another reason i dont like Helena is because... lets face it... How does she have so much free time despite being a full time Palace maid? She has time to go windowshoping in town... Time to visit the Temple when ever she pleases.. + the tea with the prince and company with the Queen and yet still manages to find Fl where ever she goes..
Isnt she ment to be doing her maid work when not with th royalfamily? Like does she have a personal cariage or something? It takes Fl... literal hours to go to the Temple and town in trancport.. and yet Helena is always there before her.
This is where im going to stop.. dont wana go to deep into thing..
I know many will say that Eris had the better life... but just try to think about it.. if you have ready any other magas with a fiance of a future king / emperor .. how intense the bides training was.. how physicaly and mentalt draining it was and ad to that this mangas prince.. I think Eris genusenly has suffer more than we are show..
For those defending Helena before it was revealed she acts dumb and ignorant. I say Re-read the story.. There are so many places where it is blatent that Helena is acting ignorant and is intentinaly pushing Eris's buttons!
I can List a few below!
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Chapter one! Helena is literaly sitting and smiling at the prince while he is stroking her cheak (physical contact with an engaged man). And still has the audacity to smile at Eries who she noticed before the prince did.... Also at the same gathering/ picknick Helena dosnt hesitate to grab the angry princes hand and stroke it... like it was normal... infront of both the hero and Eris (again physical contact and affection with a engaged nobel).
Think about it! If Eris held and stroked the hand of another man she would be seen as a slut, yet Helena does so not only with the prince but several men...
You know its bad when rumors of the prince and Helena is even know by the king..
Second time is just before the slap incident when Helena brings up that the royal doctor will treat her hand becasue "HE LIKES ME". Then the prince shows up and her face changes from a dumb smiling face to a pittifull puppy face and she touches him saying "i was in the wrong, Eris only taught me about etiquette" (literaly hinting that Eris hurt her to "teach" her knowing thats how it sounds), The prince asks about her hands and she quickly tries to hide them with a hurt face. Then the Slap incident happens.
Literaly every time Helena is see she is either flirting with someone or acting dumb. Yet she will smile and blatently bring up things that make Eris look bad.
Even back at the Temple when Helena was trying to "apoligize" to Eris for her pasive part in the Slap incident... She starts out saying "I want to ask you for forgivenes" followed by "You dont have to forgive me" and yet continues on even after Eris tells her it wasnt her fault as she did nothing so she dosnt blame her... yet Helena continues with "do you forgive me?"... (She literaly just said she wouldnt ask for forgivness yet does and wont accept it until Eris literaly says "I forgive you"). Eris avoids forgiving by brings up how smoth Helenas hands are prettier and smoother than a nobel laides yet she is a palace maid! This literaly destroys Helenas facade! She stands there with an blank shocked look like she only just realized just how privileged she is.. not having to do physical labor, yet getting the best treatment and all the food and care she will ever need.
After this you have the pavilion where Helena a single made is standing with a single man of high rank..Alone..
Literaly a pavilion in this era is used for nobel womens tea partys, nobel mens gatherings.. and declerations of love... So a single man and a single woman meeting in one = decleration of love. And yet we are to think that Helena is to ognorant to know this? (when its prowne she is acting ignorant... meaning she knew what the Heros oath ment...)
Lol im guessing the prince is an idiot because he called Fl useless countryside nobel..
Dude they have been the kingdomes sword and shield for generations.. And you just insulted their entire family!
SO either the prince is a morone or he has an alternate plan to "protect" the kingdome, if so its prob using the 3 families that now suport him and his new "fiances" familys power. But im guessing that will fail as none of them have the godesses blessing :P
Fl and her family will prob use this cancelation as an exuse to declare independence under the acount that "you royals said we are useless, so there is no reason for this useless family to stick around!"
Just a guess. but FL and the Dragon may either become firends or a couple.
Maybe it's a case of being controlled by the novel's laws?
I feel like this story is playing on this idea (although I'm assuming that the MC did not enter a novel.) To me the comparison made by her seems like foreshadowing at the fact that this story is somehow a novel/story.
Or he might just hate the MC so much that he is using this annoying girl that happens to be also using him for power.
Atm we have no facts, so everything mentioned here and by other users are just theories.
Not only has Helena just stated the let the Slap incidnet happen because she chose to do nothing despite knowing it, but she also admitted he just ignores Fls requests and acts dumb on purpose!. She also just atmitted that she knows the Prince is insane about her!.
Yet she says she didnt want the "atention", biach your actions say otherwise!
You know he is SUPER Jelous And in Love with you! and yet you go out of your way to meet with not only the Hero but also the Head Priest alone! Full well knowing the Prince will find out! and Yet your are purposfully seeking them out and draving in their atention!
Spoilers from the raws..
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So im guessing everyone remembers chapter 1.2 where Mc says "Rose, mother's favorit daughter, can become the princess", Well guess what.. Rose is the mothers favorit...
The Mother favored Rose who inherited her own beauty over the Mc who has brown hair (mother thinks is to low rank hair). When the prince was looking for a fiance, the motehr aproached him about chosing Rose, but he grined and said somthing like "then il chose the other!". The mother was heartbroken and chose to isolate Mc and have extra strict teachers and punish Mc for being "lazy" while purposfully spoiling Rose infront of her with the exuse that "if your going to be princess, duty before pleasur".
While Rose is jelous of Mc being a furure princess, Rose quickly picks up on the difrence in treatment and uses it to have Mom and dad punish Mc for "being mean to her".
When Rose saw that her sister just might have everything she herself desired in the fupure, she caused the horse indident hoping to permanently disfigur or kill Mc, and when she found the prince actualy loved her sister and had started to drink. She drugged a drink and undressed him and had her way with him aka he being pregnant (duno if they did it or if the sister is faking pregnancy).
When Mc was injured and in a coma, her mother came running and crying at the comatosed Mc's side, but later when alone in a room... the mother gets the most evil grin and can keep her exitement and happiness contained anylonger! She is happy that Mc is comatosed! SHe wanted to keep Mc isolated and looked up for eternaty! And so excitede that Rose is to be the crown princess!.. What a Vile exuse of a mother. SHe may even have been the one who encurages Rose to "take atvantage" of the prince!
Mc is happy living with the guy who saved her and his sister (im guessing) but finds a locket with a picture of a princess she looks exacly like exept the princess has blong or white hair (black haired Ml's dead ex lover). Blackhaired Ml thinks Mc is the reincarnation of his dead lover and so corts her. Mc isnt happy after finding out but keeps it to herself and continues the relationshim.
A Skip in spoilers because the raws ends with chapter 6 and starts again at chapter 9.
In chapter 9 Mc is in the castle with the prince and her sister is brough in in chains and blindfolded, seems the prince found out she was faking pregnantcy. Mc runs over to help her sister who in return laughts at Mc and get angry at her for stealing what is hers. Mc is taken back and the prince cants to keep Mc..
Prince has the mentality of "how could you leave and be happy with another guy, after i married yoru sister whom i belived to be pregnant with my child while you were in a coma"...
More spoilers. chapter 10 is raw now..and oh my is he trash...
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So after all that happend in chapter 9, the prince has now locked FL in a room in the castle.. he wisits her to talk. But when Fl mentions Ml the prince strangels her, he then comforts her after a maid tried to save her..
He is mentaly deranged and want the "happy life" with FL being traped like a bird in a cage.. aka he dosnt want Fl for who she is put for her body and looks as after she was comatosed that was all he had..
Masive spoilers.
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SO The Emperor isnt FL's dad! YAY
The Emperor killed his own brother because he lusted for his brothers wife! After killing his brother, he forced the wife to marry him and prob give birth to the sister (duno is the sister was bron from the mother or another lover). When Fl was 6yo the mother couldnt take it anymore and comitted suicide so Fl is the niece of the emperor
and its only her half sister (im guessing the sister part).
The sister tries to "justify" her actions as she was "saving" fl from the emperor who was trying to kill fl by sending her to war alone and sending assasins after her when she was home.
Also the Emperor is the reason FL was cursed... he tried to have a witch killed and when she was captured he let her see FL so she cursed FL thinking it was his daughter...
Fl and Ml become the heroes of the Empire and almost solo brings down a invading empire.
They have a hasppy ending.
More spoilers i had missed..
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The emperor is rtying to kill FL because she is the rightfull heir to the throne! Aka the emperor killed his brother the then emperor and forced the Empress to marry him!
Also the Emperor only gave FL i budget big enougth for her servants and daily meals...
The sister had the freaking chef make greasy fat and unhealthy meals for Fl to make her fat ugly and of poor health .. the sisters justification for this.. that if FL was fat ugly and pore of health then the Emperor would maybe stop sending her to battle and stop trying to assasinate her... like wtf kind of logic is that.
"Hey sister if you get fat, ugly and of poor health, then our father may just stop trying to kill you"... Isnt she just making it easier for FL to die.. honestly that spoiled pampered bain of hers must never have been used.
I dont care how much ppl try to say the sister isnt bad and lieks Fl, she sure has a strange way of showing it.
Fl is making a name for herself being independent and gaining trust and yet the sister keeps trying to get ppl to dislike FL... How is that "caring or helping" her sister?
Spoilers from the raws.
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Fl almost singlehandedly saves everyone at the banquit.. she orders the knights to fight in formation, but they dont wana listen until she fights solo and encurages them to fight for their lives. Ml shows up as everyone is exausted and him and FL fight off the remaining monsters alone with everyone standing amazed. The knight think Fl is a great leader /comander and that Ml is less scarry.
PPl starts to suport FL but the sister still stirs the pot at every public gathering.. inclusing having lesser nobel women "question" fl's integrity.
Later Fl is sleeping in the garden and Ml comes to find her, they run into the sister who practicaly flirts with ML.. and then acts nice to FL. Ml brishes the sister off and FL gives her a stare saying "you have a man, keep your hands of mine!". Ml grabs Fl's hand and flirts with her and Fl becomes a typical woman with the guy she likes and blushes and so forth, the sister smiles at them and as they leave her face becomes blank and eyes stone cold at them from behind..
Warning.. if you like the way the story is progressing... stop reading...
The raws have ruined it compleatly..
Spoilers from the raws..
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in the raws everything was going smothly until someone dies in a suspecious accident ( may have been heroine that was killed).
They start to investigate but one of Fl's friends (boy with short hair and hreckels) is attacked.
They look into the atactk and conclude is a young nobel that dislikes FL for her blessing. They try to catch him by making a trap (Fl and prine at a ball). The guy takes the bait and aproches Fl to smacktalk her.. But the second he does a shadow wolf / monster breaks through a window and attacks. FL uses her spriit to restrain the monster and the king uses his to protect the ppl. The monster/ monsters breaks free and kills the investgation target. ¨
As things calm down the light spirit confides in Fl that the prince was strangely calm in the situation (FL was faces by a giant wolf like monster, yet he wasnt concerned). Light spirit king even stated she caught the prince grin when the target was killed..
Fl tells the light spirit she is wrong but the spirit asks how she knows for sure. Fl thinks of the princes usual charfull self and desides to look into it. She folowes the prince and over hears him saying "every thing went as planed" (prob refering to the nobels seeing the power of the dark spirit king and it using its power to help protect them).
It seems the prince has played FL from the start.. wanting to use her power for himself.. and in this case he put all suspiciopns onto a thorn in his side tha was "killed" by a monster. (monsters were controles by the princes head magician, who also used illusion magic to frame the nobel).
It Ends with FL getting caught by the prince as he throws a knife at her and smirks with an evil smile..
Omg that is a whole plot change or twist. Don't know how I should call it.
Do you perhaps know the ending?
No .. the chapters take ages to come out sadly.
Oh no, too bad. But thank you for the info (●'◡'●)ノ
Thank you ヾ(❀ ╥﹏╥)ノ~
yes i was suspicious of him from the start . i think the one who told that shitty girl to go to ball and bash caludia was the prince . Like i don't know how to explain but the eyes of that unknown character was exactly same like that 1st prince . Just look closelyy ┗( T﹏T )┛
Yeah, I was thinking that too ヾ(❀ ╥﹏╥)ノ~