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* CampStraight: Duke Kikal looks like an ostentatious, self-obsessed fop, but he is constantly flirting with and coming onto Lucifela to an uncomfortable degree.
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* HandsomeLech: Duke Kikal is, despite being unbearably smug and foppish, a very good looking guy. He's also, unfortunately, a shameless skirt-chaser who flirts with Lucifela '''right''' in front of her fiancé without a care.
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* ObviouslyEvil: Downplayed, but Duke Kikal almost always look smug and will shamelessly flirt with Lucifela while Khalid is right in front of the two.
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* BlackAndWhiteInsanity: A crucial flaw Estelle slowly comes to realize about herself is that she is ''terrible'' at judging people, institutions, and nations beyond the superficial details she's initially presented with, and even when she ''does'' recognize this flaw, she still has a bad habit of simply shifting extremes when offered evidence contrary to her initial views. [[note]]At the start of the story, Estelle identifies Jansgar as an evil nation, because it took her nation's liberty. When Estelle is shown ''one'' example of Ersha ''benefiting'' from Jansgarian rule, she ''immediately'' switches tacks and believes she was a horrible person for ever following a corrupt king. Even accepting that Ersha's nobility was corrupt, the entire rest of the story leading up to Estelle's time in Ersha ''frequently'' exposed just how horrible the nobles within Jansgar could be, and even if Ersha benefited from economic upheaval following Jansgar's conquest, that didn't change the fact that ''socially'' Jansgar is still rife with sexist practices that makes even Ersha react with confusion.[[note]] This unfortunately has a habit of blindsiding Estelle in any sphere of politics beyond the court, as national, international, and local politics often require something closer to GreyAndGrayMorality to function in properly.
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* BlackAndWhiteInsanity: A crucial flaw Estelle slowly comes to realize about herself is that she is ''terrible'' at judging people, institutions, and nations beyond the superficial details she's initially presented with, and even when she ''does'' recognize this flaw, she still has a bad habit of simply shifting extremes when offered evidence contrary to her initial views. [[note]]At the start of the story, Estelle identifies Jansgar as an evil nation, because it took her nation's liberty. When Estelle is shown ''one'' example of Ersha ''benefiting'' from Jansgarian rule, she ''immediately'' switches tacks and believes she was a horrible person for ever following a corrupt king. Even accepting that Ersha's nobility was corrupt, the entire rest of the story leading up to Estelle's time in Ersha ''frequently'' exposed just how horrible the nobles within Jansgar could be, and even if Ersha benefited from economic upheaval following Jansgar's conquest, that didn't change the fact that ''socially'' Jansgar is still rife with sexist practices that makes even Ersha react with confusion.[[note]] [[/note]] This unfortunately has a habit of blindsiding Estelle in any sphere of politics beyond the court, as national, international, and local politics often require something closer to GreyAndGrayMorality to function in properly.
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* FatalFlaw: As Estelle slowly comes to realize for herself, her BlackAndWhiteInsanity and blind loyalty towards people she feels personally support her holds her back immensely. She may have been the greatest knight of her entire generation, but that meant nothing when she labeled Jansgar as 'evil' and Ersha as 'good' without bothering to contemplate the very obvious cracks in Ersha's proverbial wall that would ''allow'' Jansgar to so easily take over. Despite her own impoverished upbringing, Estelle was ''completely'' blind to the terrors others like her faced throughout the kingdom, even if she was able to identify most of Ersha's nobles as hedonists and corrupt officals. Estelle's obliviousness to the political machinations of everyone around her and the mere idea she could be betrayed by people who at some point supported her meant Estelle was left ''woefully'' unprepared when Khalid - who had several reasons for wanting to destroy Ersha's power structure Estelle never investigated - stabbed her while she was unprepared.
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* FatalFlaw: As Estelle slowly comes to realize for herself, her BlackAndWhiteInsanity and blind loyalty towards people she feels personally support her holds her back immensely. She may have been the greatest knight of her entire generation, but that meant nothing when she labeled Jansgar as 'evil' and Ersha as 'good' without bothering to contemplate the very obvious cracks in Ersha's proverbial wall that would ''allow'' Jansgar to so easily take over. Despite her own impoverished upbringing, Estelle was ''completely'' blind to the terrors others like her faced throughout the kingdom, even if she was able to identify most of Ersha's nobles as hedonists and corrupt officals.officials. Estelle's obliviousness to the political machinations of everyone around her and the mere idea she could be betrayed by people who at some point supported her meant Estelle was left ''woefully'' unprepared when Khalid - who had several reasons for wanting to destroy Ersha's power structure Estelle never investigated - stabbed her while she was unprepared.
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* GreyAndGrayMorality: Though the story initially appears to apply BlackAndWhiteMorality to the Jansgar and Ersha dynamic, part of the overall message of the story is that both sides have their advantages and flaws. Though both nations are filled with corrupt nobility, Jansgar has an overall better handle on its domestic corruption and was supported in its effort to take Ersha by Ershans suffering in squalor under local nobility that turned out even worse. Jansgar still was the aggressor in the conflict, however, and has its own flaws. Though its economy does a better job supporting the commonfolk, what few rights women have in Ersha are ''utterly'' suppressed in Jansgar, and Jansgar is beginning to see a downturn in its productivity and status as an empire because it is literally becoming too big to properly police and maintain. Part of what makes Eozif the BigGood is that he is the most aware of both nations' problems and feels that separating Ersha from Jansgar will ultimately help both sides, as it would allow Jansgar to prune territory and give Ersha a fresh start.
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* BlackAndWhiteInsanity: A crucial flaw Estelle slowly comes to realize about herself is that she is ''terrible'' at judging people, institutions, and nations beyond the superficial details she's initially presented with, and even when she ''does'' recognize this flaw, she still has a bad habit of simply shifting extremes when offered evidence contrary to her initial views. [[note]]At the start of the story, Estelle identifies Jansgar as an evil nation, because it took her nation's liberty. When Estelle is shown ''one'' example of Ersha ''benefiting'' from Jansgarian rule, she ''immediately'' switches tacks and believes she was a horrible person for ever following a corrupt king. Even accepting that Ersha's nobility was corrupt, the entire rest of the story leading up to Estelle's time in Ersha ''frequently'' exposed just how horrible the nobles within Jansgar could be, and even if Ersha benefited from economic upheaval following Jansgar's conquest, that didn't change the fact that ''socially'' Jansgar is still rife with sexist practices that makes even Ersha react with confusion.[[note]] This unfortunately has a habit of blindsiding Estelle in any sphere of politics beyond the court, as national, international, and local politics often require something closer to GreyAndGrayMorality to function in properly.
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* FatalFlaw: As Estelle slowly comes to realize for herself, her BlackAndWhiteInsanity and blind loyalty towards people she feels personally support her holds her back immensely. She may have been the greatest knight of her entire generation, but that meant nothing when she labeled Jansgar as 'evil' and Ersha as 'good' without bothering to contemplate the very obvious cracks in Ersha's proverbial wall that would ''allow'' Jansgar to so easily take over. Despite her own impoverished upbringing, Estelle was ''completely'' blind to the terrors others like her faced throughout the kingdom, even if she was able to identify most of Ersha's nobles as hedonists and corrupt officals. Estelle's obliviousness to the political machinations of everyone around her and the mere idea she could be betrayed by people who at some point supported her meant Estelle was left ''woefully'' unprepared when Khalid - who had several reasons for wanting to destroy Ersha's power structure Estelle never investigated - stabbed her while she was unprepared.
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* UnknownRelative: [[spoiler:It's heavily implied that Estelle's mother was the half-sister to Lucifela's mother, meaning that the two are cousins.]]
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* UnknownRelative: [[spoiler:It's heavily implied implied, if not outright stated, that Estelle's mother was the half-sister to Lucifela's mother, meaning that the two are cousins.]]
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* UnknownRelative: [[spoiler:It's heavily implied that Estelle's mother was the half-sister to Lucifela's mother, meaning that the two are cousins.]]
