History Characters / AscendanceOfABookwormMyne

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* AdaptationalNiceGuy: The anime cuts out a lot of Myne's disgust with her family or leeching behavior, because it made her look really unsympathetic. It can still be seen via some of her oblivious selfishness when she's seen bothering her sister or implicitly refusing to help out around the house in pursuit of her pet project.

* SpellMyNameWithAnS:
** Officially her name is spelled Myne but has been translated as Mine or Maine. Crunchyroll's subs use "Main".
** Rozemyne likewise also has several different spellings, with "Rose-" being a popular choice. Due to concerns of mispronouncing her name like the English word "rose", the author insisted on "Roze-".

* ButIReadABookAboutIt: At least two of her attempts to make something to write on fail for this reason. During the winter she tries to make papyrus based off her vague memories of reading about it, but she's never really sure whether she's doing it right. Either way, she gives up out of frustration at how incredibly long it's taking her. When the weather warms up, she tries to make clay tablets. Unfortunately, she apparently doesn't know how to take care of clay to remove impurities like air pockets, causing them to explode when she dries to dry them near a fire. She does eventually succeed to making paper based off what she's read about the process, but it basically requires her to reverse engineer it and invent the tools herself based on what she has available to her. She also requires an assistant to do the hard parts for her as she literally cannot handle the labor on her own.

* GrandTheftMe: Invoked, but averted. As Lutz grows more aware of her strangeness he realizes she cannot possibly be a sickly five-year-old girl and more or less accuses her of being a demon that stole away the real Myne's body. However, it's an aversion: [[DeadAllAlong Myne was already dead when Urano got there]] and the latter never wanted to come to such a crappy place in such a feeble body to begin with. [[invoked]]WordOfGod even states that there was no transmigration of souls involved, Myne is Urano's {{Reincarnation}} and Urano's personality manifesting is due to PastLifeMemories changing Myne's original ego into a copy of her previous self rather than true possession.

* GrandTheftMe: Invoked, but averted. As Lutz grows more aware of her strangeness he realizes she cannot possibly be a sickly five-year-old girl and more or less accuses her of being a demon that stole away the real Myne's body. However, it's an aversion: Myne was already dead when Urano got there and the latter never wanted to come to such a crappy place in such a feeble body to begin with. [[invoked]]WordOfGod even states that there was no transmigration of souls involved, Myne is Urano's {{Reincarnation}} and Urano's personality manifesting is due to PastLifeMemories changing Myne's original ego into a copy of her previous self rather than true possession.

* HasTwoMommies: Exaggerated. Rozemyne has two mothers and fathers and refers to them all as her parents. [[spoiler:Actually, she has three mothers and fathers, but she must not call Gunther and Effa her parents anymore. On the one hand she is officially the biological daughter of Karstedt and Elvira, on the other hand she is the adopted daughter of Sylvester and his wife Florencia.]]

* CuteBookworm: Says so right in the title. She's completely obsessed with books and if she doesn't have any, she'll do whatever is needed to produce them. She also is self-admittedly a wallflower, and given her small stature and weak physic, she appears to be [[OlderThanTheyLook younger]] than she actually is.

* HundredPercentAdorationRating: The children of the temple's orphanage absolutely adore her and even compete for her affection.

* HeroicSelfDeprecation: Rozemyne is very embarrassed when people bring up her heroic deeds for the orphanage and thinks they are exaggerating. From her point of view, she helps the orphanage for very selfish reasons, as she can't bring herself to read in the book room in good conscience, while people were starving in the building next door. The workshop that she builds also produces paper and prints books because she wants to spread books to the world, and teaching the orphans to read and write serves to increase literacy, so that they can teach even more people, who may write their own books. She is the only who thinks so, though, everyone else agrees that she went far and beyond what any other orphanage director or blue priest/shrine maiden has done before her, which has rightfully earned her [[HundredPercentAdorationRating the full adoration]] of every orphan in the temple.

!!!'''Voiced by''': Creator/YukaIguchi (Japanese), Creator/RebaBuhr (English)

* HeightAngst: She's OlderThanSheLooks in big part because she's very short for her age. She gets very frustrated when her inability to do a given task has more to do with her size than with her health and welcomes any sign that she ''is'' growing, even a little. It get even worse starting Part 4, [[spoiler:as the nature of her two-year coma keeps her from growing at all for two years. When she goes to the Royal Academy after waking up from said coma, it's not rare for furniture meant to accomodate people a year younger than her chronological age to be too tall for her]].

* HeightAngst: She's OlderThanSheLooks in big part because she's so short for her age that she's considered to look two year younger than she is on a good day. She gets very frustrated when her inability to do a given task has more to do with her size than with her health. It get even worse starting Part 4, [[spoiler:as the nature of her two-year coma kept her from growing at all for two years. When she goes to the Royal Academy, it's not rare for furniture meant to accomodate people a year younger than her chronological age to be too tall for her]].

* HeightAngst: She's OlderThanSheLooks in big part because she's so short for her age that she's considered to look two year younger than she is on a good day. It get even worse starting Part 4, [[spoiler:as the nature of her two-year coma kept her from growing at all for two years. When she goes to the Royal Academy, it's not rare for furniture meant to accomodate people a year youger than her chronological age to be too tall for her]].

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* BenevolentMageRuler: At the end of Part 5, [[spoiler:Rozemyne becomes the aub of Alexandria (as a RulingCouple with Ferdinand). One of the first things she does is building a library city, where eventually temple classes will be held where nobles and commoners alike can study. She intends to reform the temple, just like she did with Ehrenfest's temple, and restores the mana-starved lands. With her status as Mestionora's incarnation, she also shields the former Ahrensbach from any further punishment after Detlinde cooperated with Lanzenave to usurp the throne and take over Yurgenschmidt's foundation]].

** In Part 5, [[spoiler:Hartmut (now Rozemyne's High Priest) teaches the temple orphans to worship Rozemyne like a goddess. What concerns Rozemyne more is that nobles start to view her as the Mestionora' incarnation, as she manages to acquire the Book of Mestionora, Grutrissheit, and Hartmut promoting his faith doesn't help]].

* AdoptiveNameChange: Zig-zagged with her Rozemyne identity. From the official story's prespective, this is averted because she kept the name given to her by her biological father when her adoptive father adopted her. From the perspective of what really happened, [[spoiler:this is played straight since the name change occurred alongside her custody effectively shifting from her real birth family to Karstedt's and as a direct consequence of signing the adoption contract with Sylvester]].

** Due to her past, Rozemyne is very accomodating towards commoners and treats them exceptionally well. She regularly pays the soldiers who escort her temple members back and forth to Hasse and Ehrenfest extra and takes extra care that the women in her entourage like Wilma, Rosina, and Ella, are not put in a situation where lecherous men could take advantage of them.

* ChildOfTwoWorlds: As she does the titular ascension, she absorbs many disparate cultural values, going from modern Japanese to abject poverty peasants, affluent merchants, temple worker and high ranking nobility. This gives her a unique perpective when dealing with each distinct group, something that Ferdinand and Sylverster exploit from time to time.

* OlderThanTheyLook: Myne is not ''as'' young as she appears. She just happens to be very small and sickly. It becomes a plot point at the end of Part 2, when [[spoiler:her noble guardians need to prepare to baptize her as Rozemyne a full year after her real baptism to keep people in Noble's Quarter from wondering why they haven't seen her before, and someone comments that it would be possible to wait for another year to do it and still have people believe she's only 7]]. Exarcebated at the end of Part 3. [[spoiler:An assassination attempt left Rozemyne at death's door, so plans for her to use the jureve potion are put through, with the understanding that she will be in suspended animation during it. It takes almost 2 years for her to wake up, still looking like she's 7 or 8 years old at best.]]

* SweetTooth: Sugar and pastries are rare, so as a low-class commoner Myne doesn't get to eat sweet things a lot outside of fruits or honey. In Part 1, Freida manages to bait Myne into coming to her house by offering her sweets. Myne also accepts sugar as payment for teaching Freida's chef recipies.

*** She technically owns [[spoiler:Rosina]] due to having brought her from the temple orphanage, but was willining to let her [[spoiler:return to Christine's service]] if she wished to do so.

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Initially, she's rather self-centered and indifferent unless books are involved. But she's not actually a bad person, and when she discovers just what dire straits the orphanage children are in, she feels she has to help. CharacterDevelopment helps her work more toward "heart of gold" and less toward "jerk."

* MageBornOfMuggles: In Part 1, Benno mentions her condition, known as the Devouring, is actually caused by having mana despite not being of noble blood. It later turns that there is a treatment, but it's little-known and quite expensive. As a result, almost none of those with the condition live to see past the age of baptism, which is stated to be 7.

* CuddleBug: Myne loves hugs, and they also have practical use, since [[CooldownHug they calm her down]]. Gunther, Lutz, or Tuuli usually hug her a lot, though [[spoiler:only Lutz and Ferdinand still do so after she becomes Rozemyne, and Lutz can't hug her at all anymore after she is forbidden from using her secret room in Part 4]].

** In the later parts of Part 5, [[spoiler:Ferdinand has developed feelings for her and by the time she goes through her PlotRelevantAgeUp, he has been blatant enough with his feelings for everybody else to see it and assume that they are in a relationship]]. What's worse is that she is too dense to realize [[spoiler:''her own feelings'' for Ferdinand. In Part 5 Volume 5 she becomes desperate to the point that she hurts herself when she is denied access to Grutrissheit (which she needs to negotiate for Ferdinand's life) and subsequently is willing to marry Sigiswald, a terrible partner, to save Ferdinand's life from execution. In Part 5 Volume 7 and 8, she gathers an army and invades a duchy to save Ferdinand's life. When she later learns that she accidentally got engaged to Ferdinand, she doesn't mind this at all, yet she still says she doesn't love him romantically, which baffles both nobles and commoners alike. While she claims she would do what she does for him for any other person she views as family, no one buys it]].

* AmbiguouslyBi: Myne's narration reveals that she pays quite a lot of attention to the physics of both men and women. Despite not being her type, she gets excited when Benno passes her a secret note, and she often comments on how hot women like Corinna, Brigitte, or Eglantine look. She also at one point comments on how unbelievably cute Hannelore is and notes that someone might have taken it the wrong way if they had heard her.

* AnimalMotifs: Myne is several times compared to a shumil, a feybeast. Shumils are small and weak creatures, which have mana, with black/blue fur and golden eyes. They also aren't confrontational unless their loved ones are in danger, at which point their emotions and mana run rampant, turning their golden eyes into rainbow-colored ones.

* GrandTheftMe: Invoked, but averted. As Lutz grows more aware of her strangeness he realizes she cannot possibly be a five-year-old IllGirl and more or less accuses her of being a demon that stole away the real Myne's body. However, it's an aversion: Myne was already dead when Urano got there and the latter never wanted to come to such a crappy place in such a feeble body to begin with. [[invoked]]WordOfGod even states that there was no transmigration of souls involved, Myne is Urano's {{Reincarnation}} and Urano's personality manifesting is due to PastLifeMemories changing Myne's original ego into a copy of her previous self rather than true possession.

* IllGirl: Double blow for Myne, as she is constantly [[HeroicRROD bedridden and exhausted]]. She's a tiny girl highly prone to fevers, and on top of that has to struggle with the Devouring, which is caused by mana inside her body going berserk. At one point, the high priest tries giving her a relatively mild punishment by shutting her inside a poorly-heated room alone for several hours, only for her to end up collapsing with a fever because Myne's body can't take ''any'' punishment, even cold weather. As revealed at the beginning of Part 3, she had several close encounters with death that [[spoiler:crystalized clumps of mana in her body]], which made traditional treatment for Devouring not possible.

** In Part 5 Volume 5, [[spoiler:Rozemyne is in talks with the royal family about joining them to get Grutrissheit. Since she needs to be a member of the royal family to get access to the forbidden archive hidden inside the underground library, and waiting until she comes of age takes too long, Trauqual and Sigiswald suggest to cancel her adoption contract with Sylvester and adopt her into the royal family]].

* OutnumberedSibling: For her first year and a half as Rozemyne, her baptized siblings consist of three "biological" brothers and one adoptive brother. Her official "biological" noble mother likes having her around in part because she finally gets to raise a daughter after having three sons. This also factors into her and her adoptive younger sister being very happy to have each other when the latter's baptism approaches.