History Webcomic / DearNemesis

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** Callen, Rudbeckia's older brother, has slightly more angular face, longer hair and his eyes are a duller shade of blue, but from a distance they look pretty much indentical.

* {{Unperson}}: [[spoiler: As the Duke Matari, Rudbeckia removes his brother from the family register, making all documents signed by Callen null and void and himself basically non-existent. Not that Callen has much time to suffer the consequences of it, since he's killed almost immediately after.]]

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Storoni in the first timeline. [[spoiler: While Rudbeckia drank the poison on his own accord and design, Storoni poisoning Calmia led her to going back in time as well and ultimately foiling his plans. Rudbeckia theorizes that the sacrifice of two lives in the first timeline was what allowed them to go back further in time, meaning that Calmia was able to shake off Storoni's influence early on in her second life.]]

* SiblingMurder: [[spoiler: Rudbeckia eventually kills his older brother. According to him, it's not technically fratricide, since as the new Duke Matari he removed Callen from the family tree, but nobody sees it that way, him included.]]

* ILoveYouBecauseICantControlYou: [[spoiler: Rudbeckia falls for Calmia because in the world where he already knows of everyone's moves, she's the only person who remains unpredictable to him and defies him at every turn.]]

* BastardAngst: Crocus' suffers from a sense of inferiority due to his illegitimacy, which is why he's so bitterly focused on trying to wrestle the crown from his half-sister.

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Storoni in the first timeline. [[spoiler: While Rudbeckia drank the poison on his own accord and design, Storoni poisoning Calmia led her to go back in time as well and ultimately foil his plans. Rudbeckia theorizes that the sacrifice of two lives in the first timeline was what allowed them to go back further in time, meaning that Calmia was able to shake off Storoni's influence early on in her second life.]]

* * Later Calmia refuses to [[spoiler: let Rudbeckia and Ellua kill Storoni, since she needs him and prince Crocus to follow their original plan in order to successfully foil it.]]

* Later Calmia refuses to [[spoiler: let Rudbeckia and Ellua kill Storoni, since she needs him and prince Crocus to follow their original plan in order to successfully foil it.]]

** Later Storoni becomes engaged to [[spoiler: an earl's daughter... who has been comatose for years.]]

** Later Storoni becomes engaged to an earl's daughter... who is comatose.

* DumbBlonde: Callen's fiancée is not very bright, publicly harassing Calmia about her relationship with Rudbeckia [[spoiler: over a year after they broke up]] and accusing her of "craving power while being a woman", at a party where Princess Persica, a very likely heir to the throne, and Rudbeckia, her advisor, are making an appearance.

** Persica lampshades this as she makes Calmia her personal advisor and [[spoiler: dissolves her engagement with Rudbeckia, so Calmia no longer will be known only as "Duke Matari's fiancée".]]

** This happens mostly offscreen, but Rudbeckia had to compete with his brother for the dukedom. He's designated as the heir quite early due to his prodigious accomplishments (thanks to being an adult in child's body), but his brother still has a minor chance at succeeding and is working against him behind the scenes.

* YouShouldHaveDiedInstead: Calmia's father says so to her after Ellua dies in the first timeline.

** However, she's still shown to be sometimes insecure, for example asking Rudbeckia if her dancing was bad when he notes she seemed tense when dancing with Rhashid.

* DumbBlonde: Callen's fiancée is not very bright, publicly harassing Calmia about her relationship with Rudbeckia [[spoiler: over a year after they broke up]] and accusing her of "craving power while being a woman", despite the fact that

* PurpleIsPowerful: Calmia is portrayed wearing purple in promotional artwork for both novels and the webtoon, also almost every time she or someone else puts her in symbolic ImagineSpot. Given her ambitions, it safe to say it has more to do with power than [[GracefulLadiesLikePurple grace]] (although she definitely becomes more ladylike in the second timeline).

* ForWantOfANail: Ellua's survival makes Calmia realize how much his death influenced her life in the previous timeline. Her rejection by their father left her alienated at the family estate, where servants fearing the count's displeasure, didn't even talk to her, and vulnerable to Storoni's manipulation, since he was the only person to acknowledge her existence. The rumours surrounding Ellua's death placing the blame on his sister also influenced Calmia's reputation long before she entered high society.

* TheGhost: First prince, who is constantly mentioned thorough the story as the man whose candidacy for throne Calmia and Storoni supported in the first timeline over his older sister, and for whom Storoni still works behind the scenes in the second timeline as well. He's eventually introduced in chapter 65.