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* CollectorOfTheStrange / CreepySouvenir: While being reportedly one of the more benign characters in "Hell's Flower", original Roxana liked to collect human eyeballs. Jeremy even claims he saw Cassis' eyes in her collection, but he's not exactly a reliable source.

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* CollectorOfTheStrange / CreepySouvenir: CollectorOfTheStrange: While being reportedly one of the more benign characters in "Hell's Flower", original Roxana liked to collect human eyeballs. Jeremy even claims he saw Cassis' eyes in her collection, but he's not exactly a reliable source.



* TeensAreShort: Played straight in the webtoon, but averted in the novels, where at fifteen Jeremy is already much taller than Roxana. This stops being the case by the time-skip.
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* PoisonousPerson: Her poison intake has rendered her bodily fluids and organs toxic. [[spoiler: During the coup, she incapacitates one of her father's loyal servants by merely touching him.]]

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* PoisonousPerson: Her poison intake has rendered her bodily fluids and organs toxic. [[spoiler: During the coup, she incapacitates one of her father's loyal servants by merely touching him. Only Cassis is able to safely touch her as his abilities can counter the poison in Roxana's body.]]
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* CynicismCatalyst: It's shown that Roxana used to be much more kind and carefree as a child until Ashil's death.
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* ZeroPercentApprovalRating: No one seems to like Lant Agriche, not even his own family. The Agriches have a nasty reputation and are only left alone through fear. Within the family, Lant's truly terrible parenting means that most of the family also only follow him through fear [[spoiler: and a good chunk of the family end up joining Roxana's coup.]]
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* ButterflyOfDeathAndRebirth: The manhwa has major themes of death and rebirth and remaking yourself so it's fitting that Roxana is heavily associated with butterflies. Not only is Roxana a reincarnator but it also ties to [[spoiler: Roxana destroying and rebuilding the Agriches and Roxana herself leaving and being ''reborn'' in the Pedelian family]]

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* ButterflyOfDeathAndRebirth: The manhwa has major themes of death and rebirth and remaking yourself so it's fitting that Roxana is heavily associated with butterflies. Not only is Roxana a reincarnator but it also ties to [[spoiler: Roxana destroying and rebuilding the Agriches and Roxana herself leaving and being ''reborn'' "reborn" in the Pedelian family]]

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* AnimalEyeSpy: Roxana can see through the eyes of her butterflies, allowing her to use them as scouts



* ButterflyOfDeathAndRebirth: The manhwa has major themes of death and rebirth and remaking yourself so it's fitting that Roxana is heavily associated with butterflies. Not only is Roxana a reincarnator but it also ties to [[spoiler: Roxana destroying and rebuilding the Agriches and Roxana herself leaving and being ''reborn'' in the Pedelian family]]



* MasterOfIllusion: One set of Roxana's butterflies give her this ability via poison induced hallucinations. [[spoiler: She primarily uses this power to manipulate and plot against her family.]]



* PowerAtAPrice: Because she isn't using magic to control her butterflies and is essentially turning herself into their food source, Roxana's powers come at a horrific price. [[spoiler: The poison she consumes is slowly killing her and her butterflies will once day turn on and kill her once they grow too numerous and her blood isn't enough.]]



* SilkHidingSteel: Roxana is perfectly content to stay in her father's shadow and basically act as just an eye candy, but she's in fact a cold-blooded schemer with a terryfing weapon at her disposal, and her high position among the Agriche children reflects that.

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* SilkHidingSteel: Roxana is perfectly content to stay in her father's shadow and basically act as just an eye candy, but she's in fact a cold-blooded schemer with a terryfing terrifing weapon at her disposal, and her high position among the Agriche children reflects that.


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* TheLostLenore: To Roxana who never recovered from his death and is still traumatized and affected even years later.
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* BunnyEarsLawyer: Noel is a brilliant puppetmaster, but he's also a whiny, lazy, childish brat who instantly embarrases himself on his first outing in Wigdrasil.

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* BunnyEarsLawyer: Noel is a brilliant puppetmaster, but he's also a whiny, lazy, childish brat who instantly embarrases embarrasses himself on his first outing in Wigdrasil.
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* DissonantSerenity: Maria is a cute, polite and cheerful woman, who, as Roxana puts it "looks and dresses like an overgrown doll". She's perfectly nice to her maid, even thanking her for providing information about Dion's whereabouts before she decapitates her for speaking unprompted, then continues her walk drenched in blood.

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* DissonantSerenity: Maria is a cute, polite and cheerful woman, woman who, as Roxana puts it it, "looks and dresses like an overgrown doll". She's perfectly nice to her maid, even thanking her for providing information about Dion's whereabouts before she decapitates her for speaking unprompted, then continues her walk drenched in blood.



* TheScapegoat: In order to distract Lant from investigating Cassis' sudden reapearrance at Wigdrasil Roxana claims Fontaine is trying to take over the family back in Agriche estate. [[spoiler: Fontaine genuniely wanted to rebel, just not at that moment.]]

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* TheScapegoat: In order to distract Lant from investigating Cassis' sudden reapearrance reappearance at Wigdrasil Roxana claims Fontaine is trying to take over the family back in Agriche estate. [[spoiler: Fontaine genuniely genuinely wanted to rebel, just not at that moment.]]



* WrongGenreSavvy: He sees himself as a WorthyOpponent to Dion, assumes Roxana is willing to form an UnholyMatrimony with him to pull TheCoup against both Lant and Dion and thinks he's TheChessmaster. [[spoiler: Then Roxana pulls the rug out from under Fontaine by accusing him of treason to distract Lant from investigating Cassis' reapearrance, Lant tells him he was well aware of his schemes for a while and Dion informs him he never even considered him a rival. Finally, when escaping from his cell, Fontaine runs into Cassis and mistakenly assumes Cassis will let him go (after running his mouth about his plans to kill Roxana), only to discover that GoodIsNotSoft.]]

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* WrongGenreSavvy: He sees himself as a WorthyOpponent to Dion, assumes Roxana is willing to form an UnholyMatrimony with him to pull TheCoup against both Lant and Dion and thinks he's TheChessmaster. [[spoiler: Then Roxana pulls the rug out from under Fontaine by accusing him of treason to distract Lant from investigating Cassis' reapearrance, reappearance, Lant tells him he was well aware of his schemes for a while while, and Dion informs him he never even considered him a rival. Finally, when escaping from his cell, Fontaine runs into Cassis and mistakenly assumes Cassis will let him go (after running his mouth about his plans to kill Roxana), only to discover that GoodIsNotSoft.]]

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* HatedByAll: While they're universally disliked, Agriches are too powerful for any of the other families to make a move against them (and they also have their own shady dealings with them), and the full extent of their atrocities is not publicly known. For example, Cassis' musings reveal that Lant's polygamy is only speculated about among other families, and he notes that Agriche children must be sickly if they die so often, not realizing what is [[OffingTheOffspring really going on]].

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* HatedByAll: While they're universally disliked, Agriches are too powerful for any of the other families to make a move against them (and they also have their own shady dealings with them), and the full extent of their atrocities is not publicly known. For example, Cassis' musings reveal that Lant's polygamy polygyny is only speculated about among other families, and he notes that Agriche children must be sickly if they die so often, not realizing what is [[OffingTheOffspring really going on]].



** RedEyesTakeWarning: Lant and several of his children have red eyes with [[HellishPupils vertical pupils]].

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** RedEyesTakeWarning: Lant Lant, his father, and several of his children have red eyes with [[HellishPupils vertical pupils]].



* RoyalHarem: Not exactly royal, but Lant rules over a certain domain on the continent and has about ten wives, each having her own suite in his manor. Cassis' thoughts on the matter suggest this isn't considered legal or even normal in the setting.



* HerBoyfriendsJacket: She wears Cassis' coat he gave her at Wigdrasil, something she uses to taunt Dion after they come back to Agriche estate.

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* HerBoyfriendsJacket: She wears Cassis' coat he gave her at Wigdrasil, something she uses to taunt Dion with after they come back to Agriche estate.
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* GoodIsNotSoft: He becomes much more ruthless after escaping the Agriches. [[spoiler: Fontaine smugly assumes Cassis won't kill him, because Pedelians are supposed to be LawfulGood and learns he was severely mistaken.]]

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* GoodIsNotSoft: He becomes much more ruthless after escaping the Agriches. [[spoiler: Fontaine smugly assumes Cassis won't kill him, because Pedelians are supposed to be LawfulGood InUniverse and learns he was severely mistaken.]]

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* WrongGenreSavvy: He sees himself as a WorthyOpponent to Dion, assumes Roxana is willing to form an UnholyMatrimony with him to pull TheCoup against both Lant and Dion and thinks he's TheChessmaster. [[spoiler: Then Roxana pulls the rug out from under Fontaine by accusing him of treason to distract Lant from investigating Cassis' reapearrance, Lant tells him he was well aware of his schemes for a while and Dion informs him he never even considered him a rival. Finally, when escaping from his cell, Fontaine runs into Cassis and mistakenly assumes Cassis will let him go (after running his mouth about his plans to kill Roxana), only to discover that GoodIsNotSoft.]]



* BreakTheHaughty: Averted. Agriches keep trying to break his pride with [[ColdBloodedTorture torture]] and humiliation, but he's remains defiant.

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* BreakTheHaughty: Averted. Agriches keep trying to break his pride with [[ColdBloodedTorture torture]] and humiliation, but he's remains defiant. Played straight in ''Hell's Flower'', where he becomes mentally broken from the torture he went through.


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* GoodIsNotSoft: He becomes much more ruthless after escaping the Agriches. [[spoiler: Fontaine smugly assumes Cassis won't kill him, because Pedelians are supposed to be LawfulGood and learns he was severely mistaken.]]
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* IllGirl: She regularly [[BloodFromTheMouth coughs blood]] and collapses, especially after using her butterflies. This is caused by her poison intake, bloodloss and sheer effort needed to command her swarm, [[spoiler:and it's slowly killing her]].
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* TooDumbToLive: He's easily manipulated by Roxana, his schemes are transparent to virtually everyone in the family and even after realizing he was manipulated by his sister, getting curb-stomped by Lant and realizing he had no chances to beat Dion, he still believes he has chances of escaping and defeating his siblings. [[spoiler: Then he stumbles upon Cassis and assumes he will be spared, only to [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice learn he was severely mistaken]].]]

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* TooDumbToLive: He's easily manipulated by Roxana, his schemes are transparent to virtually everyone in the family and even after realizing he was manipulated used by his sister, getting curb-stomped by Lant and realizing seeing he never had no chances to beat of beating Dion, he still believes he has chances of escaping can escape and defeating defeat his siblings. [[spoiler: Then he stumbles upon Cassis and assumes he will be spared, only to [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice learn he was severely mistaken]].]]
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* TooDumbToLive: He's easily manipulated by Roxana, his schemes are transparent to virtually everyone in the family and even after realizing he was manipulated by his sister, getting curb-stomped by Lant and realizing he had no chances to beat Dion, he still believes he has chances of escaping and defeating his siblings. Then he stumbles upon Cassis and assumes he will be spared, only to [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice well]]...

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* TooDumbToLive: He's easily manipulated by Roxana, his schemes are transparent to virtually everyone in the family and even after realizing he was manipulated by his sister, getting curb-stomped by Lant and realizing he had no chances to beat Dion, he still believes he has chances of escaping and defeating his siblings. [[spoiler: Then he stumbles upon Cassis and assumes he will be spared, only to [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice well]]...learn he was severely mistaken]].]]

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* ItAmusedMe: [[spoiler:Griselda helps Roxanna in some of her ventures but it's mainly because Griselda is interested in what Roxanna has in mind and wished to see the outcome of them than out of familial love for her.]]

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* HimeCut: She has the classic version with parted bangs and sidelocks.
* ItAmusedMe: [[spoiler:Griselda helps Roxanna Roxana in some of her ventures but it's mainly because Griselda is interested in what Roxanna Roxana has in mind and wished wishes to see the outcome of them than out of familial love for her.]]



* EarlyBirdCameo: His silhouette, along with Sylvia's other love interests, is shown in chapter 1 of the webtoon, while he's fully introduced in chapter 33.

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* EarlyBirdCameo: His silhouette, along with Sylvia's other love interests, is shown in chapter 1 of the webtoon, while he's fully introduced post-timeskip in chapter 33.



* ReclusiveArtist: InUniverse example. If you consider his puppetmaking a craft. Upon arriving to Wigdrasil Roxana notes without surprise he's absent again. However, later Noel surprises everyone with his (clearly reluctant) appearance at the banquet on the last day and immediately reveals how socially inept he is.

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* ReclusiveArtist: InUniverse example. If you consider his puppetmaking a craft.art. Upon arriving to Wigdrasil Roxana notes without surprise he's absent again. However, later Noel surprises everyone with his (clearly reluctant) appearance at the banquet on the last day and immediately reveals how socially inept he is.


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* EarlyBirdCameo: His silhouette, along with Sylvia's other love interests, is shown in chapter 1 of the webtoon, while he's fully introduced post-timeskip in chapter 31.

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* CameBackWrong: [[spoiler:Ashil's corpse was given to the Veritium family, where they technically revive him and made him one of the family's puppets. However, he was revived with a personality the complete opposite of the original Ashil and the nature of his revival means he wouldn't last long without the Bertium family's magic.]]

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* CameBackWrong: [[spoiler:Ashil's corpse was given to the Veritium family, where they technically revive him and made make him one of the family's puppets. However, he was revived with a completely opposite personality the complete opposite of to the original Ashil and the nature of his revival means he wouldn't last long without the Bertium Veritium family's magic.]]



* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: [[spoiler: Courtesy of Cassis, who first mistakes him for Lant and later realizes Fontaine was not worth sparing anyway.]]



* SiblingRivalry: With Dion, albeit it seems Dion doesn't bother to [[UnknownRival even acknowledge him]].

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* SiblingRivalry: With Dion, albeit it seems Dion doesn't bother to [[UnknownRival even acknowledge him]].


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* TooDumbToLive: He's easily manipulated by Roxana, his schemes are transparent to virtually everyone in the family and even after realizing he was manipulated by his sister, getting curb-stomped by Lant and realizing he had no chances to beat Dion, he still believes he has chances of escaping and defeating his siblings. Then he stumbles upon Cassis and assumes he will be spared, only to [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice well]]...


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* CynicismCatalyst: It's implied her sister's death was this for her.


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* DeathSeeker: [[spoiler:Ultimately, Roxana was prepared to just go ahead and die after she obtained her revenge on Lant Agriche and was willing to die from being eaten by her poisonous butterflies as she has long believed that it's a fitting end for her for being born an Agriche and she has nothing else to live for. However, Cassis refused to let her die and brought her to the Pedellian's to heal her in the aftermath of the coup against Lant Agriche.]]

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* DeathSeeker: [[spoiler:Ultimately, Roxana was prepared to just go ahead and die be devoured by her butterflies after she obtained her revenge on Lant Agriche and was willing to die from being eaten by her poisonous butterflies Agriche, as she has long believed that it's a fitting end for her for being born an Agriche and she has nothing else to live for. However, Cassis refused to let her die and brought her to the Pedellian's Pedelian estate to heal her in the aftermath of the coup against Lant Agriche.]]



* GracefulLadiesLikePurple: Especially post-timeskip, where almost all her dresses (save for her black traveling gown on the way to Wigdrasil and green dresses seen in two separate flashbacks) are in many shades of purple. Roxana wearing mostly red or purple through the story is probably an indication of her growing bond with her butterflies.

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* GracefulLadiesLikePurple: Especially post-timeskip, where almost all her dresses (save for her black traveling gown on the way to Wigdrasil and green dresses seen in two separate flashbacks) are in many shades of purple. Roxana wearing mostly red or purple through the story is probably an indication of indicates her growing bond with her butterflies.



* JerkassHasAPoint: While she's quite unpleasant towards Sierra about her being TheLoad, she isn't exactly wrong about that, particularly since Dion made it clear he's willing to go to extreme lenghts to see Roxana cry.
* KickTheDog: While she does so in order to protect her mother somewhat, Roxana telling Sierra she's a hindrance to her and later constantly refusing to give her mother any time of her day is basically this.

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* JerkassHasAPoint: While she's quite unpleasant towards Sierra about her being TheLoad, she isn't exactly wrong about that, particularly since Dion made it clear he's willing to go to extreme lenghts to see Roxana cry.
* KickTheDog: While Even though she does so in order to protect her mother somewhat, Roxana telling Sierra she's a hindrance to her and later constantly refusing to give her mother any time of her day is basically this.



* PoisonousPerson: Her poison intake has rendered her bodily fluids and organs toxic.

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* PoisonousPerson: Her poison intake has rendered her bodily fluids and organs toxic. [[spoiler: During the coup, she incapacitates one of her father's loyal servants by merely touching him.]]



* SelfMadeOrphan: He took over the Agriche after killing his own father.



* PetTheDog: She seems to genuinely like and care about Sierra, and enjoy her presence to the point where [[ManipulativeBitch Roxana]] keeps her mother out of her hair by arranging her meetings with Maria. [[spoiler:She also willingly left the Agriche household to keep Sierra company in a neutral land after the fall of the Agriche family.]]

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* PetTheDog: She seems to genuinely like and care about Sierra, and enjoy her presence to the point where [[ManipulativeBitch Roxana]] keeps her mother out of her hair by arranging her meetings with Maria. [[spoiler:She also willingly left leaves the Agriche household to keep Sierra company in a neutral land territory after the fall of the Agriche family.]]
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* PetTheDog: She seems to genuinely like and care about Sierra, and enjoy her presence to the point where [[ManipulativeBitch Roxana]] keeps her mother out of her hair by arranging her meetings with Maria. [[spoiler:She also willingly left the Agriche household to keep Maria company in a neutral land after the fall of the Agriche family.]]

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* PetTheDog: She seems to genuinely like and care about Sierra, and enjoy her presence to the point where [[ManipulativeBitch Roxana]] keeps her mother out of her hair by arranging her meetings with Maria. [[spoiler:She also willingly left the Agriche household to keep Maria Sierra company in a neutral land after the fall of the Agriche family.]]
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* DeathSeeker: [[spoiler:Ultaimtely, Roxana was prepared to just go ahead and die after she obtained her revenge on Lant Agriche and was willing to die from being eaten by her poisonous butterflies as she has long believed that it's a fitting end for her for being born an Agriche. However, Cassis refused to let her die and brought her to the Pedellian's to heal her in the aftermath of the coup against Lant Agriche.]]

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* DeathSeeker: [[spoiler:Ultaimtely, [[spoiler:Ultimately, Roxana was prepared to just go ahead and die after she obtained her revenge on Lant Agriche and was willing to die from being eaten by her poisonous butterflies as she has long believed that it's a fitting end for her for being born an Agriche.Agriche and she has nothing else to live for. However, Cassis refused to let her die and brought her to the Pedellian's to heal her in the aftermath of the coup against Lant Agriche.]]
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* DeathSeeker: [[spoiler:Ultaimtely, Roxana was prepared to just go ahead and die after she obtained her revenge on Lant Agriche and was willing to die from being eaten by her poisonous butterflies as she has long believed that it's a fitting end for her for being born an Agriche. However, Cassis refused to let her die and brought her to the Pedellian's to heal her in the aftermath of the coup against Lant Agriche.]]

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* PetTheDog: Roxana cares about Jeremy as family and [[spoiler:was willing to return to the Agriche family to help Jeremy lead the remnants of the Agriche family near the end of the story.]]



* ForWantOfANail: Since Cassis was alive thanks to Roxana helping him escape, Jeremy never fell in love with Sylvia in first sight and instead had a poor first impression of her due to looking so similar to Cassis.



* PsychopathicManchild: At both fifteen and eighteen he acts like he's twelve at best, and due to being raised in a house such as Agriche, it's a seriously troubled one twelve year old.

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* PsychopathicManchild: At both fifteen and eighteen he acts like he's twelve at best, and due to being raised in a house such as Agriche, it's not a seriously troubled one twelve year old.good thing.



* VillainousCrush: Towards Sylvia in "Hell's Flower". He seems downright disdainful of her in the current story, however.

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* VillainousCrush: Towards Sylvia in "Hell's Flower". He seems downright disdainful of her in the current story, however.[[ForWantOfANail however]].



* TheDreaded: Even by other Agriches.

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* TheDreaded: Even by other Agriches. Jeremy personally is unnerved at her level of craziness.



* PetTheDog: She seems to genuinely like and care about Sierra, and enjoy her presence to the point where [[ManipulativeBitch Roxana]] keeps her mother out of her hair by arranging her meetings with Maria.

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* PetTheDog: She seems to genuinely like and care about Sierra, and enjoy her presence to the point where [[ManipulativeBitch Roxana]] keeps her mother out of her hair by arranging her meetings with Maria. [[spoiler:She also willingly left the Agriche household to keep Maria company in a neutral land after the fall of the Agriche family.]]



* CameBackWrong: [[spoiler:Ashil's corpse was given to the Bertium family, where they technically revive him and made him one of the family's puppets. However, he was revived with a personality the complete opposite of the original Ashil and the nature of his revival means he wouldn't last long without the Bertium family's magic.]]

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* CameBackWrong: [[spoiler:Ashil's corpse was given to the Bertium Veritium family, where they technically revive him and made him one of the family's puppets. However, he was revived with a personality the complete opposite of the original Ashil and the nature of his revival means he wouldn't last long without the Bertium family's magic.]]
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* CameBackWrong: [[spoiler:Noel would later revive Ashil as Nyx of the Veritium household to lure Roxanna, but as a Veritium household puppet, he doesn't have the same long durability like a regular human and eventually dies near the end of the story.]]

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* CameBackWrong: [[spoiler:Noel would later [[spoiler:Ashil's corpse was given to the Bertium family, where they technically revive Ashil as Nyx him and made him one of the Veritium household to lure Roxanna, but as a Veritium household puppet, family's puppets. However, he doesn't have was revived with a personality the same long durability like a regular human and eventually dies near the end complete opposite of the story.original Ashil and the nature of his revival means he wouldn't last long without the Bertium family's magic.]]

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