History Webcomic / TheAbandonedEmpress

* PoorCommunicationKills:
** Lighter than most examples. It's implied that the reason Aristia never develops an attraction towards Carsein is because he keeps giving off mixed signals or backing off when he says something flirty. These noncommittal gestures leave her unsure as to whether he loves her or wants to be her big brother, so she subconsciously hesitates to approach him herself.

* MasterOfTheMixedSignal: It's implied that the reason Aristia never develops an attraction towards Carsein is because he keeps giving off mixed signals or backing off when he says something flirty. These noncommittal gestures leave her unsure as to whether he loves her or wants to be her big brother, so she subconsciously hesitates to approach him herself.

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* RomanticRunnerUp: Carsein. While Allendis has his own personality flaws that make him a genuinely bad choice, Carsein is honest, supportive, loyal and much quicker to realize his own shortcomings and biases than Ruve. The only problem there is that Tia has him super firmly in the friend zone.
* SelectiveObliviousness: It's not that Tia doesn't know how Allendis feels. It's that she can't respond to it. [[spoiler:Having her acknowledge this outright and turn him down causes an intense burst of possessiveness that almost ends with her death]].

* IllGirl: Aristia's health is just bad enough that she's never been able to train properly, which leaves her rather unsuitable to be an heir to a military family. Even after she gets into better shape she still has really bad stamina and little strength, so despite her implied talent there's not much she can really do.

** [[spoiler:Duke Zena]] despises the Moniques, while there are some purely political reasons, that's not what he harps upon. One big reason for his attitude, especially towards Aristia, is that [[spoiler:her mother is the daughter of his little sister and a commoner]].

* EasilyForgiven: [[spoiler: Jieun]] specifically calls Aristia out on how she refuses to hold a grudge against the crown prince for [[spoiler: What he did in the original timeline.]] It's later justified as [[spoiler: it's revealed that the prince was under the influence of a poison that would make him much more prone to anger and violence.]]

* HeroWithAnFInGood: Jieun was not a bad person, but she ''was'' incompetent through no fault of her own. This left her wildly unprepared for the responsibilities that come with being a co head of state. [[spoiler:Even after struggling to catch up to Aristia she still isn't familiar enough with the job and ends up getting scammed when trying to run a charity.]]

The Abandoned Empress is a webnovel written by Yuna with a webcomic adaptation drawn by Ina. The webcomic has an official English translation on Tappytoons [[https://www.tappytoon.com/series/abandonemp/1 here]] and the original can be found on Kakao [[https://page.kakao.com/home?seriesId=49917642 here]].

* PairTheSpares: An extra chapter heavily implies that Jieun and [[spoiler: Allendis will find love together while in exile.]]

* ThePoorlyChosenOne: Jieun is uneducated in subjects that an Empress needs to know, making her unfit and incopetent. She also shows no desire to study and improve, choosing to just shove her responsibilities into others.

* EsotericHappyEnding: An extra chapter heavily implies that Jieun and [[spoiler: Allendis will find love together while in exile.]]

* AdultFear: Later in the story, one of the main sticking points between the main pairing is that Aristia is poisoned. While she survives, she also learns that the poison is also known to cause infertility, often permanently, and she has indeed stopped menstruating. This causes her to reject the confession she receives, believing that her partner will change his mind in the end if he is unable to have a child of his own blood with her. Inability to start a relationship because of lack of self worth plus relationship troubles caused by sterility? Yup.

* {{Deconstruction}}: Of the {{Isekai}} genre. Especially with Jieun and the outcome of the original timeline. [[spoiler:Jieun lacks the training she would have received to become a ruling leader, making her completely unqualified and was forced to face the reality of how unprepared she was when Tia is later executed and she had to take the duties of ruling a country, because she had long been believing herself to be an Isekai heroine where things will go her way and Tia the villainess, and [[RealityEnsues the world doesn't care about what narrative value you would have in the plot]]]].

* RealityEnsues: Jieun being a student from the real world is woefully unprepared when she gets transported into the new world. This causes her to become a burden to almost everyone as she is unable to tackle their politics, nor handle important administrative work.

** Ruve's grudge against Tia is rather unfair in nature: He blames her for a childhood event she had no control over that she can't remember due to trauma and then as the two grew up was always compared unfavorably to her. She hasn't the slightest idea what he has against her because she's always loved him a lot and tried to get along with him in her own quiet way.

** [[spoiler:Jieun]], mostly as a result of NeverMyFault, has this towards everyone in the entire empire. In particular, Aristia for "taking everything from her" and Ruveliss for [[spoiler:dying in battle when she was pregnant]].

** [[Duke Zena]] despises the Moniques, while there are some purely political reasons, that's not what he harps upon. One big reason for his attitude, especially towards Aristia, is that [[spoiler:her mother is the daughter of his little sister and a commoner]].