Characters from the webcomic "Who Made Me a Princess".
Warning: The majority of the tropes here are spoilers from the completed webnovel. You have been warned.
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Athanasia de Alger Obelia
The Treasure of Obelia
The only daughter of the Emperor of the Obelia Empire, Claude, and his late unofficial consort, Diana. She is the first princess and the only heir to the throne of the Obelia Empire. Originally dying in her first life at her father's hands, a woman named Lee Jihye found herself reincarnated as the pitiful Athanasia. With the knowledge of what will happen to her, she tries to prevent herself from falling to her bad ending.
- The Ace: The only daughter of Emperor Claude de Alger Obelia and the sole heir to the throne of Obelia. A bright kid who manages to memorize Sociological Theory and speak Common Pascal Tongue. To add to that, many boys in the webtoon are smitten for her, she's a certified a beauty and she is also a talented and capable enough magician to shock Lucas with an offhanded display of magic.
- Achievements in Ignorance: Her spell to create gold coins is implied to be very difficult, but she has no clue because Lucas only taught her a few forms of magic.
- Affectionate Nickname: She is called by her nickname, "Athy", especially by Jennette.
- Angelic Beauty: Ijekiel even called her an "Angel" since she fell from the sky in their first meeting.
- Becoming the Mask: The current Athanasia started acting as a cheerful Daddy's Girl for her survival but eventually, she finds herself starting to see her father, the supposed Big Bad of the original Athanasia's tragic story, as her family and parent after going through a long, slow process of Defrosting Ice King. And that reason is why the current Athanasia is terribly hurt that her progress got back to square one because of Claude sacrificing his memories of her in his attempt to bring her back after suffering from a magic rampage that almost killed her. While he does get to recover the memories he had of his daughter, what follows after that is definitely not so pleasant for our Athanasia.
- Berserk Button:
- Telling her that she should just be happy that she should be married to a prince and live her life without worries irritates her.
- Degrading her capabilities as a magician and the heiress of the throne is also a no-no.
- Using her as a pawn for your plans is also an absolute no.
- Beware of the Nice Ones: Known to be exceptionally kind, even to Lucas. But this girl also has her limits. One notable example would be her stunt on Claude's birthday during the memory loss arc, where she strikes at a few guards with magic when they try to remove her by force and then gives Claude a cold congratulatory speech before storming out.
- Big Fancy Castle: As the story progresses, Athanasia manages to get her well-deserved castle after Claude orders her to live in the Emerald Palace.
- Blood from the Mouth: Happens to her twice and both times from magic overload.
- Bookworm: Athy's intelligence isn't just due to being an adult, she is also very studious and likes learning. Lucas mentions that she studies all the time (taking after her father). Her love of books is such that Claude gifted her with her own private library.
- Child Prodigy: Sociological Theory, Arlantian language, common Pascal tongue, just name it and she'll gladly show you how bright she is. And she is also a gifted magician. This is probably because she was reborn with an already-adult mind.
- Costume Porn: There is no time that Athanasia appears in shabby clothes. Just look at her debutante ball dress.
- Daddy's Girl: Her Plan C for surviving the events of The Lovely Princess is to act cute and be Claude's most favored child. She succeeds at becoming Claude's beloved daughter this way until he loses his memories of her, putting her back at square one. However, she's able to get him back with time and his memories eventually return.
- Deliberately Cute Child: The main crux of Plan C. Athy notes that Claude likes when she's being aggressively cute and insolent rather than quiet and frightened so she plays it up.
- The Dog Bites Back: When she receives more than her fair share of suffering at Claude's hands during the memory arc, she shows him up at his birthday banquet and marches out, refusing to be removed by the guards.
- Downer Ending: The ending of the original Athanasia's life in The Lovely Princess. Her mom died in childbirth, and her dad blames her for her mother's death. She is forced to live in a pitiful situation all her life in the Ruby Palace. Her dad didn't love her and, instead, loved her half-sibling. And just when you thought she could at least be happy with Jennette as a friend, she is falsely accused of trying to poison her half-sister and died at the hands of her father at the young age of 18, who told her that he never saw her as his daughter. He didn't even mourn or show remorse after he was told that Athanasia was innocent. It's no wonder the new Athanasia is so desperate in making the latter's situation in her second life much happier.
- Dreaming of Times Gone By: Athanasia often dreams sequence of events showing a woman she dubs as "Fairy Lady" and an unknown man whenever Claude is around.Unbeknownst to her, the unknown man is Claude and the woman is her now deceased mother, Diana. She only becomes slightly aware that the dreams are Claude's own memories during the time she's in a coma due to her mana running wild.
- Dude Magnet: Ijekiel and Lucas harbor feelings for her. Even Cabel and Lucas' alternate selves have crushes on Athanasia.
- Generation Xerox: Depending on the situtaion, Athanasia looks like exactly like her mother and father. She also takes after her father in magical ability, intellect, and occasionally temperament.
- Giver of Lame Names: Even Lucas lampshades how bad she is at naming her pets.
- She named her first pet and magical beast Blackie
- And a blue bird she named Bluey
- Averted when she has her third pet whom she named Nox; even Lucas was shocked that she gave a better name.
- Hilarity Ensues: She knows how dangerous her father can be, but it doesn't stop her from plotting to hit Claude while he's sleeping after the boat incident between the two of them. He wakes up just as she's about to do it and she quickly covers for it by singing him a lullaby... which he buys.
- She hits Lucas after he transports her to the Alpheus' residence in the middle of the sky. Her face shows that she isn't even slightly happy about it, but she's fine afterwards.
- Instant Expert: After awakening her magic power, Athy can cast difficult spells almost effortlessly. She does eventually need instruction but proves a quick learner (which is a good thing since Lucas is terrible teacher).
- Meaningful Appearance: Possessing crystalline eyes in Obelia means that the person is a member of the royal family. It also links to the ability of the royal family to use a special kind of magic.
- Meaningful Name: Royals are named for immortality or eternity. Athanasia is Greek for "immortal".
- Missing Mom: Athanasia's mother, Diana, died due to giving birth to her. Athy did see her in her dreams, it's just that she wasn't even aware it was her... until she grows older and realizes that the dreams she saw are Claude's memories of his time with Diana.
- Money Fetish: Athanasia loves gold, jewels and money. It's due to both Lee Jihye being extremely poor and Athy hoarding jewels and gold in case she has to run away. Hilariously, one of the first spells she casts is summoning money. In the webtoon, it becomes a Once Done, Never Forgotten moment for the maids, Lily included, when they recall Athy's childhood.
- Morality Pet: She serves this to both Claude and Lucas, as later on she is the only person holding them down to prevent them from doing violent things.
- In Lucas's case, he cares about no one except for Athanasia. If something bad did ever happen to her, it is implied that Lucas might end the world they are in with just a snap of his fingers. Even implying that you would do something bad to her puts him off really bad.
- In Claude's case, Athanasia's presence itself greatly changes his decisions, most notably during Jennette's verdict. He was originally planning to execute her but a mere glare from her makes him change his mind. Athanasia even said in her monologue during that scene that Claude can't stand it if she ever harbors resentment towards him.
- Not Blood Siblings: Played With. Athanasia and Jennette are related to each other. But Jennette is actually Claude's niece, not his biological daughter through his ex-fiancee. Meaning, Jenette would actually be Athanasia's cousin.
- Oh, Crap!: Athanasia was aware that mentioning Diana in front of Claude was a Big "NO!" but can't stop herself from indirectly doing so, and she panics appropriately. The most notable Oh, Crap! moment she has is when she takes a sip of the tea Claude is drinking and said the same exact words Diana used to describe the tea. It even adds fuel to the fire that the same tea is Diana's favourite.
- Older Than They Look: Athanasia is in the body of a young girl now, but she died as a young adult and kept her original mind when she reincarnated. This leads to her being incredibly mature for her age. Lucas once makes a comment that causes Athanasia to think that he figured out her status as a reincarnated person.Lucas: Right, you're not a kid.
- Orphan's Ordeal: The original Athanasia had a Missing Mom and a neglectful father who ignored and disowned her. Lee Jihye was an orphan.
- Power Copying: It's implied that the spells Athanasia casts are from copying Lucas' magic. Teleportation, illusion, summoning money are all spells he cast on her.
- Power Incontinence: Her magical reserves are so massive that the leftovers are split into a holy beast she named Blackie lest she get killed from it. This stopped being a problem after season 1 since she absorbed Blackie. It's also hinted early that her magical reserves are the reason why Diana passed away in childbirth, because her body couldn't handle the strain.
- Pretty Princess Powerhouse: Don't expect her to just sit around and do pretty things all day because she's a competent magician herself and is just below Claude and Lucas in terms of her magical capabilities.
- Reincarnate in Another World: Of course. The webtoons go further and imply that Athy might be a triple reincarnation - she's also the original Athanasia reborn.
- Sacrificial Lamb: The original Athanasia was killed by her own father without even doing anything wrong, falsely accused of poisoning and for what? According to a Lovely Princess fan, it's to demonstrate how much Claude cares about Jennette in the story. Even the reincarnated Athanasia thinks it's too cruel to kill her for such a poor reason, especially when she believes the original Athanasia would have poisoned herself in Jennette's place had she know because it would make her father sad.
- Spanner in the Works:
- The reincarnated Athanasia meeting her father at age 5 rather than 9 as the canonical In-Universe novel dictates derailed Duke Alpheus' plan to introduce Jennette to Claude as his biological daughter.
- The webtoon also shows that this one meeting also derailed Anastacius' plan to ruin Claude and take the throne of the emperor from him. Though the fact that Claude loses his memory of her brought the plan back to motion, the reincarnated Athanasia's influence and familial bond with Claude is still there to delay that.
- Athy meeting her father at age 5 derails Claude's black magic spell that he cast on himself which would have eventually removed his memories and feelings of Diana - and Athy by proxy. Furthermore, it's implied that Athy's passing wish to know her mother forced Claude to remember Diana and broke the magic further. In contrast, original Athy met Claude too late to break the spell.
- Spoiled Sweet: She's the beloved and favored daughter of the Emperor of Obelia who was gifted with the treasury, lives in the Emerald Palace, has her very own library and was even given four rose gardens. Adding to that, she's kindhearted and humble. Rather than feel entitled to these gifts, Athy appreciates them wholeheartedly as she was desperately poor in her former life.
- Sweet Tooth: Really loves her sweets.
- Time Master: Athy's true magic power is related to time, as revealed in the webtoon. In particular, she can rewind time on a person. Lucas suspects that this may be how she transmigrated.
- Trademark Favorite Drink: Lippe Tea a quirk she shares with her mother.
- Trademark Favorite Food: Sweets are her all-time favorite, notably chocolates. Even Claude took notice of it.Claude: You seem to like the cake more than you like me
- Troll: Athy is not above taking advantage of her young age to get away with trolling everyone around her. She feeds Claude sweets while pretending not to notice he hates them, treats Duke Alpheus as a dog and teases Felix at every opportunity.
- "Well Done, Daughter!" Gal: What the original Athanasia felt to Claude, who only looked at Jennette.Novel! Athanasia: What will it take for you to love me?
Claude de Alger Obelia
The current Emperor of the Obelia Empire and Athanasia's father. He is introduced as the one who killed the original Athanasia by his own hands. In the new timeline, the reincarnated Athanasia attempts to prevent this fate by forming a warmer relationship with him from the get-go.
- Always Someone Better: To his brother. Claude was smarter and more magically powerful than Anastacius and that served as a source of resentment, cumulating in the fight for the throne.
- Amnesiac Resonance: During the memory-loss arc, Claude has forgotten the past several years he spent growing close to and loving Athy, so he starts treating her as bad as, if not worse than, he did when she was a baby as a result; despite this, his love for her isn't gone, and the original webnovel makes it explicit that each time he hurts his daughter in his confusion and anger he feels incredibly guilty about it and can't figure out why. Similarly, when she disappears he starts worrying himself sick over her and admits he doesn't know why he cares so much.
- Blackmail: Kind of. He tried doing it to Diana, telling her that he won't love Athanasia, even going as far as telling her that he would erase any memories he has of her and if she wanted to, she can visit and watch Athanasia as a ghost. What did Diana do? She smiled at him, as Claude described in the novel.
- Brilliant, but Lazy: He's usually shown sleeping, lazing around, having tea with his daughter, or dumping paperwork on Felix. But he is said to be a ruler who is much better than the former tyrant Emperor, his brother.
- Boyfriend-Blocking Dad: Expressionless as he may seem, Claude doesn't like it if some pests are hovering around Athanasia. Just ask Ijekiel. In the final book at the novel, he nearly attempted to murder Lucas because of how much he liked his daughter, but came to approve of him when Lucas decided to bring a baby dragon as a new pet for Athanasia.
- The Comically Serious: He's cold and calm no matter what nonsense is going on around him. Even Athanasia acting cute to him won't change his expression.
- Drowning My Sorrows: He always do this whenever Athanasia's birthday comes around, which is also the anniversary of Diana's death. Ouch.
- Doting Parent: Ordering that the chair Athanasia is sitting on his office should be soft? Getting pissed at the mere speculation of someone saying horrible things in front of Athanasia during her debutante ball? Gifting Athanasia with a private library and four rose gardens? Hiding the drawings Athanasia gave him and even casting preservation magic on them? We get it, Claude. You don't really love your daughter that much.
- The Emperor: He is literally the Emperor of Obelia. At first Athanasia views him as the typical evil emperor due to how he acts in the original story, but she eventually abandons this notion.
- Everyone Can See It: It is obvious to everyone - Lucas, the guards, the nobles, even the people, that Claude loves and dotes on his daughter. About the only people that didn't notice was Claude and Athanasia.
- First Love: Penelope was his first love and fiancèe. Well, until she decides to screw with him and cheats on him with his own brother
- The Good King: Especially compared to his brother and father who were murderous, decadent and incompetent. Everyone might be utterly terrified of him but they willingly follow him because he's a decent ruler.
- Good Parents: Although at first he was horribly neglectful and nearly killed the infant Athanasia, he comes to be a protective and doting father after spending enough time with her.
- He Cleans Up Nicely: Not that he's ugly, but Claude usually dresses so casually whenever Athanasia sees him that it's an actual shock to see him dressed up properly for the Debutante.
- Hoist by His Own Petard: Claude's black magic spell on himself is what caused his own downfall in the original story as Anasticus simply amplified the spell until it killed him.
- I Have No Daughter!: In the original "The Lovely Princess" novel, he states that he never saw Athanasia as his daughter.
- Laser-Guided Amnesia: Claude loses his memory after trying to heal Athy from a combination magic overdose/black magic curse. His memory loss is due to Athy's magic reversing a black magic spell he cast on himself to forget Diana. It's the same spell that he cast on himself in the original Lovely Princess story.
- Laser-Guided Karma: Claude's original fate. He ends up cursed and killed by black magic due to spending too much time with Jeannette after sentencing his falsely accused daughter to death and showing no remorse for it even after the truth came out. The whole thing was a plot by Anasticus who retakes the throne.
- Literal Metaphor: Whenever Diana is brought up, Claude will brush her memory off claiming that he doesn't remember her. Everyone assumes that he doesn't want to talk about her due to him still grieving. Turns out he actually doesn't remember her due to the dark magic he placed on himself.
- Maternal Death? Blame the Child!: Claude initially blames Athanasia for Diana's death, since she died in childbirth. This is a source of great conflict for him at first as he can't bear to see Athanasia but can't bear to part with her either.
- Memento Macguffin:
- When Athanasia wished for her birthday gift from Claude in advance, she simply wanted a family portrait with the two of them like the other royal portraits. It was her final wish before Claude got memory loss.
- His daughter's drawings as well, even going as far as casting preservation magic on it.
- The tea he usually drinks. It's revealed that the Lippe Tea is actually Diana's favourite tea, according to Felix.
- Modest Royalty: Claude dresses in simple Roman-style robes, lives in a rather austere castle and has very few servants because he does everything himself. He spends more money and effort spoiling Athanasia. Chapter 102 revealed that his style of dress is because of influence from Diana.
- The Not-Love Interest: Athy might have love interests but they pale in comparison to her relationship with her father.
- Offing the Offspring: He killed Athanasia in the original novel, "The Lovely Princess", and almost kills her as an infant as well.
- Older Than They Look: Although Claude's real age isn't revealed, it's speculated that he is in his 30s, but he looks like he is in his early 20s. It is later noted that those with so much magical energy and talent usually live longer than most people and age slowly, so this is justified.
- O.O.C. Is Serious Business: He is known for being ruthless and cruel, having murdered his brother to forcefully get the throne and squashed any rebellion, so he leaves everyone astounded after complementing his daughter's appearance after their dance.Claude: You look as pretty as you looked when you first entered. Don't worry.
- Parental Neglect: He put Athanasia in the Ruby Palace as a baby to forget about her. And by the time Athanasia is 9 in the original story, he had all but forgotten about her mother to actually care about her due to his use of memory erasing magic to ease himself out of his grief.
- Parents as People: Claude was too grief-stricken by Diana's death to properly care for Athanasia and neglected her for the first 5 years (9 in the original "Lovely Princess" novel) of her life; even in the current universe, he spent his time mourning for her instead of celebrating Athanasia's birthday. A part of him also partially blamed her for Diana dying from childbirth.Athanasia: It's not that I'm "sad because daddy didn't make it. It's just... It makes Claude feel like a normal person.
- Papa Wolf: Whatever you plan to do, don't harm Athanasia. It doesn't matter if it's a person or an animal, or even physically or verbally, Claude will hunt you and probably cut off your tongue, feet or hands and hang it on the gates.
- In the novels, a noble tried to take an opportunity to gain his graces after seeing how bad Claude and Athanasia's relationship was judging by how she walked out of the party, insulting her manners to gain his trust, but even amnesiac Claude almost murders him for it.
- Please, Don't Leave Me: Delivers one to Diana in desperation.Claude: Don't go, choose me.Now, in this moment,Instead of the child that is eating away at your life as we speak!
- Pretty Boy: He is so handsome that you'll momentarily forget that it's the same guy who parents a 14-year old daughter. Even Athanasia thinks so.Athanasia: (Internally) You sure you're a man with a kid?
- Real Men Hate Sugar: Claude hates sugar but puts up with it during tea time because Athy loves sweets. It's played for drama after he looses his memory because he can't understand why there's so many sweets and reacts poorly.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: For his ruthlessness, many agree that he is at least far more effective as a ruler than his predecessors.
- Star-Crossed Lovers: With Diane. Claude was the Emperor of Obelia and she was nothing but a mere dancer brought to entertain him. Not to mention, one is already dead and is always trying to look out for the other, while the other is alive but is trying to forget the other one just to cope with the pain. Fate really just wants them apart.
- So Proud of You: He may not boast about it a lot, but he knows how intelligent Athanasia is.
- Strong Family Resemblance:
- With Anastacius, his older brother. They can even be mistaken for being twins.
- And with the addition of Athanasia, she may look like Diana but when she's angry or snaps, she looks exactly like Claude.
- Tears of Remorse: In the webcomic, after regaining his memories and being made to actually apologize to Athanasia for how he treated her for the past few months, Claude cries a Single Tear while asking for forgiveness.
- Tsundere: A platonic example in the way he expresses his affection for Athanasia. This is played more darkly as, in her younger years, his affection for her is genuinely mixed with hatred because she brings back painful memories of Diana and blames her for surviving when Diana died. As he warms up to Athanasia, though, it gets mostly played for laughs.Claude: (Handing Athanasia the key to the treasury) This is bothersome so you hold onto it.
- The Unfavorite: As the spare of the royal line. It's reflected in his name: Claude is derived from Latin world for "limping"
- Wide Eyes and Shrunken Irises: His initial reaction after seeing his daughter cough up blood in front of him.
Lucas
Imperial Magician
The Magician of the Black Tower
Introduced as a gifted child magician who cured the princess from her "sickness", Lucas is the youngest imperial magician who is a Child Prodigy and Athanasia's playmate. He is then revealed to be the Magician of the Black Tower
- The Archmage: The most powerful mage in the setting and makes no bones about it.
- Awesome Ego: In-universe. He's handsome and the best, and he knows it.Lucas: The Black Tower Magician has always been handsome!
- Anti-Mentor: Lucas' teaching involves him describing spells with sound effects and expecting his pupils to understand. Athy is probably the only person who can learn from him.
- Betty and Veronica: The Veronica to Ijekiel's Betty. While Ijekiel gives off a more kind and princely atmosphere, Lucas displays a cold and manipulative personality that doesn't care about anyone except Athanasia.
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Lucas may act nice and friendly if the situation calls for it. But Athanasia and anyone who knows of him are aware that he's not at all nice and friendly, and in fact is pretty rude even to Athanasia during their first meeting.
- Brick Joke: In one of the extras in the final book of the novel, Lucas asks what Athanasia would like for a gift and she suggests "Maybe a dragon" jokingly. Days after he asked that, Lucas actually caught a baby dragon for her as a pet.
- Brilliant, but Lazy: As a result of living a long life, Lucas is a very competent magician that is even greater than Athanasia and Claude combined, and is even on par or greater than Ijekiel and Athanasia when it comes to intellectual knowledge, but he would rather spend his entire time messing around or teasing Athanasia rather than giving all his time to do paperwork. The only flaw he has is that he is very bad at teaching others magic, something that even Athanasia mentioned.
- The Bus Came Back: Lucas makes a return to Athanasia after completing his trip to the World Tree.
- Childhood Friends: With Athanasia. They've been together ever since he was given the job as the Imperial Magician and as her playmate.
- Childhood Friend Romance: With Athanasia again. Even Ijekiel knew he wouldn't stand a chance since it is clear that Lucas is one step above him. He's been with Athanasia ever since they were children, has known her longer than him and has been her friend ever since.
- Crazy Jealous Guy:
- When Athanasia requested that the doll Lucas made for her should be "a handsome boy", he refuses it quickly since he doesn't want it.
- After bringing her back from her meeting with Ijekiel, he looks pissed and even questions why he is in a bad mood.
- In the novels, he burns Athanasia's gloves after her visit to the Alpheus residence, saying "it's already tainted". In the same scene, he tells her outright that she's his.
- Drama-Preserving Handicap: Half the reason that he got a Nerf in the webtoon. Lucas could have solved things easily. However, Lucas is prevented from trying to solve the problems Athanasia faced as unlike the webnovel, some of his methods have realistic and dangerous consequences and it's something that Athanasia wish to prevent.
- Green-Eyed Epiphany: Invoked after Athanasia and Ijekiel's meeting on the flower field. He even questions why.Lucas: Why am I in such in a rotten mood?
- Long-Haired Pretty Boy: His first appearance has him with long hair; though he cuts it later, he eventually grows it back to its original length.
- Mayfly–December Romance: A downplayed example. By the time the novel ends, Athanasia is 18 years old though she has mentally lived multiple lifetimes. Lucas is thousand of years older than her. Both facts doesn't stop them from having a romance.
- Merlin and Nimue: With Athanasia, he teaches her magic and eventually has a relationship with her.
- Mysterious Past: The only thing known about Lucas is the fact that he became the Imperial Magician at a young age, and he introduces himself as a talented child magician who cured Athanasia of her "incurable disease", which is only Athanasia having so much magic in her body that it nearly killed her. Later, it's revealed that he's actually The Real Magician of the Black Tower who lived for thousands of years.
- Nerf: Downplayed. While his webtoon counterpart is still just as powerful as his main webnovel counterpart, circumstances in the webtoon prevented him from fully utilizing his knowledge and power so as to not seem like he can solve the issues right away. This is lampdshaded in chapter 90 that while Lucas may be able to solve things, Athanasia refuses to have him solve all the problems because of the political ramifications some of his actions could cause.
- Older Than They Look: Lucas may look like a kid who is the same age as Athanasia, but he is actually thousands of years old than her
- Pretty Boy: Lucas is drawn as a beautiful and (occasionally) long-haired young boy, with Athanasia noting his good looks.
- Put on a Bus: He starts a journey to find the World Tree to recover his magical reserves and leaves the Imperial Palace. But after he leaves, everything goes downhill.
- Saying Sound Effects Out Loud: Lucas may be brilliant in magic but he's awfully bad in teaching it. Even Athanasia lampshades it when he decides to teach her by using sound effects.
- Secret-Keeper: In the webtoon adaptation. he is aware that Athanasia had been reincarnated all along, with the implication that he also knew in the webnovel adaptation.
- Single-Target Sexuality: He only has eyes for the sweet Princess Athanasia, and it's implied he didn't understand love at all until she came along.
- Snark-to-Snark Combat: Again with Athanasia. Their conversations and her monologues usually involve them bickering, annoying or insulting each other.
- Spanner in the Works: The webtoon reveals that Lucas taking a branch from the world tree caused some natural disasters to happen outside its realm when the world tree tried to defend itself from Lucas, one of which is the landslide that killed Jennette's aunt who planned the Frame-Up of princess Athanasia back in the original novel. Her death means that the reincarnated Athanasia won't be framed as a result.
- Sugar-and-Ice Personality: If you're not Athanasia, don't even try to act like you're close with him. Jennette found out the hard way after getting too comfortable with Lucas because he's Athanasia's friend; he told her harshly that she shouldn't talk to him like how Athanasia does because she isn't Athanasia.
- The Stoic: He looks bored all the time, and is either seen reading a book or doing his job as the Imperial Magician. When he does rarely show emotions, it always involves Athanasia's ridiculous requests to him.
- Tall, Dark, and Handsome: He's tall in his first meeting with Athanasia, darkly colored via his hair and outfit, and is handsome enough that he's the talk of Athanasia's teaparty.
- Tsundere: A male example. He denies having feelings for Athanasia, yet the readers fully know he likes her. Athanasia does manage to catch his feelings for her, but even she questions if he really likes her or not.
- Unwitting Instigatorof Doom: In the webcomic, Lucas insulting Aethernitas led to the Obelia royal family being the way it is in the present.
- Will They or Won't They?: With Athanasia. Most of the time that they are seen together ends up them bickering, snarking and taunting one another, even going as far as sending each other to someone else's house via teleportation.
Jennette Margarita
- Artificial Human: Jennette isn't a full person but a Chimera, a being born from a human and black magic.
- Awful Truth: Jennette is not Claude's daughter conceived through his fiancee, her mother. She was conceived by Claude's brother, Anastacius. Jennette doesn't take the news well, since she pins so much of her happiness on being Claude's daughter. In the novel, she learns this near the finale, where in the webtoon, she learns of this after Anastacius reveals himself to Athanasia during the first meeting she attended in her father's place.
- Break the Cutie:
- In the webnovel, The Reveal of the Awful Truth broke her beliefs into smithereens. Unlike the Webtoon version, Jenette discovered this very late and did not take it as well as her webtoon self had.
- In the webtoon, this happens after Anastacius reveals himself to seemingly be alive to everyone else and her initial belief of wanting to be loved with a family with Claude and Athanasia is broken to pieces now that she knew who her father actually was, her chances of being in a loving family lost.
- Charm Person: As a "Chimera", the black magic around her allows her to make people like her and works based on her subconscious will. This also explains why Claude warms up to her in the original novel.
- Green-Eyed Monster: Jennette is secretly jealous of anyone that gets close to Claude and Athanasia.
- It's All About Me: Jennette wants a relationship with Claude and Athanasia but doesn't seem to notice how her desire affects others and gets jealous when other people spend time with them, coming across as selfish. It's implied that this is partly due to an over-idealized vision of what family means as people who will always offer unconditional love and support. This is also contrasted with Athanasia who realizes that even familial love requires work.
- It Was with You All Along: The webtoon makes it clear that both Ijekiel's father and Anastacius care for her like a daughter and that Ijekiel loves her like a sister meaning that Jeanette always had the family she wanted, she just never realized.
- I Just Want to Be Loved: The webtoons version of her wants a loving family more than anything as she always felt out of place in the Alpheus family.
- Meaningful Appearance: Possessing crystalline eyes in Obelia means that the person is a member of the royal family. This is the reason why Ijekiel's father and everyone around her were fooled into thinking that Jennette is Claude's daughter. He's horrified when he learns that Jennette is actually conceived by Anastacius, not Claude, late in the novel. Additionally, her crystals eyes are actually residual magic leftover from her creation as a "Chimera" and when the residual magic is all taken away, her eyes are actually green instead of blue.
- Morality Pet: In the webtoon, Jenette ends up being one to Anastacius, and Anastacius growing attached to his daughter ends up being the one thing holding him and Aethernitas back from killing Claude outright.
- Naïve Everygirl: As a result of her sheltered upbringing she's incredibly naive and trusting. This is especially present in the webtoon where she confides in her father's strange guest who's actually Anastacius in disguise.
- Nice Girl: She's incredibly kind and tender-hearted, to a point where she becomes Athanasia's best friend in the original timeline and the one of the series.
- Not Blood Siblings: Played With. Jennette is indeed related to Athanasia and Claude... but by a technicality; more accurately, she is Claude's niece.
- Parody Sue: Jennette, at first, is introduced as a sweet girl with good qualities and lovable in the original book, "The Lovely Princess". In the current, and expanded, version of the world, it's revealed Jennette has been using subtle black magic without her knowing it; this caused people to like her and to single out others, the original Athanasia being a victim of it. She's also been raised as a very sheltered Naïve Everygirl, which makes her susceptible to being an Unwitting Pawn. And since she was born through usage of black magic, she also eventually brought bad luck towards the people she wanted to be a family to, namely Claude and Athanasia, before she suffered from that bad luck herself.
- Pet the Dog: The webtoon gives Jennette an extra pet the dog moment by making her request the reason why Athy is allowed back in the palace. (In the novel, Athy gets caught when she enters the palace to visit Lily)
- Secretly Selfish: Despite her kindness, she put her own desires as first priority, not thinking about what others would feel about it. She isn't aware of this due to her sheltered upbringing, but in a bonus chapter in the novel, her original Lovely Princess counterpart is aware and unrepentant for it.
- Sheltered Aristocrat: She is raised in a very sheltered way by the Alpheus family so Ijekiel's father can make use of her relation with the royal family to gain a standing in the political scene.
- Spanner in the Works: As much as she is an Unwitting Pawn, Jeanette also serves as this. Her genuine friendship with Athy derails people's plans even just a bit.
- Unwitting Pawn: The completed Webnovel reveals that Jennette, the heroine of the original story is this as she was raised as sheltered as possible and made her susceptible towards manipulations by others, including and not limited to, Ijekiel's father, her own father, etc.
- Walking Spoiler: Big time. It's hard to talk about her without discussing the fact that Jennette isn't really related to Claude in the sense that they are father and daughter, and also about the circumstances of her birth.
Ijekiel Alpheus
The son of Duke Alpheus and the male lead in the original novel, "The Lovely Princess".
- The Ace: Smart, handsome and skilled with swordmanship. He's also one other person who can match Athanasia in intellect and studies.
- All Love Is Unrequited: Ijekiel fell for Athanasia but she didn't exactly reciprocate his love, believing that she isn't the right person for him. Later, he felt that he didn't deserve her because of what his father had done... but fortunately for him, in the extras in the final book of the webnovel, Athanasia is implied to have reciprocate his love in one Alternate Universe.
- It was even pointed out by none other than Jennette in a very offending way in the Webnovel, she told him that he would never, ever be with Athanasia since she has Lucas by her side. Even going as far as telling him they were on the same boat; Ijekiel was none too pleased with her statement.
- Beware the Nice Ones: In the webcomic, as kind and patient as he was, he still had limits to his patience and his kindness doesn't make him dim-witted as he's still someone raised to take over the Alpheus household.
- Cool Big Bro: Is genuinely kind and patient to Jennette like a brother would be.
- For Want Of A Nail: Because Athanasia met him very early before he left for Arlanta, Ijekiel never came to love Jennette and fell for her instead.
- Hidden Depths: The cool and level-headed Ijekiel also has a soft and kind side to him.
- Love Interest: In the original "The Lovely Princess" novel, he is the love interest of Jennette. In the current universe, while it's implied that Jennette does see him in a romantic light, his romantic interest is shifted to Athanasia due to For Want Of A Nail effects in play.
- Spotting the Thread: In the Webtoon version Ijekiel was alarmed when he heard his father asking for a glass of rum, something that he has never done while working. This eventually prompts Ijekiel to discretely meet with Felix some time after Anastacius has revealed himself to be Not Quite Dead to the general public to discuss of the recent chain of events.
Felix Robain
- Bash Brothers: Implied with Claude during his younger days in Obelia.
- Butt-Monkey: Both Athanasia and Claude mercilessly tease him at his expense which leaves him the butt of very many jokes.
- Conflicting Loyalty: After Claude loses his memory, Felix is caught between his loyalty towards Claude and his support for Athanasia. He doesn't want to overtly oppose his Emperor and friend but he also doesn't want Athy to be hurt. In the webtoon, he compromises by obeying Claude but doing it poorly.
- Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: He is often the Butt-Monkey of the webtoon but he's one of the best knights in the Empire who have an undeniably known reputation being the Emperor's most trusted ally and the Princess' knight. It's implied at points that he's incredibly dangerous in battle, but just never shows that side to Athanasia.
- Dork Knight: Felix is known for being the Emperor's most trusted ally and his friend whom he have known for such a long time, Claude even trusted him enough to protecting his beloved daughter. He also has a formidable reputation in helping Claude squash any rebellion, gaining him the title of being "The Red Blood Knight", but he is a very adorkable knight who is prone to Athanasia and Claude's teasing, much to their fun.
- Full-Name Ultimatum: Claude usually refers Felix by his first name but will occasionally call him by his full name when he's about to give a serious order.
- Heterosexual Life-Partners: Again with Claude. His mother was Claude's caretaker and the two of them have been together for a long time. Felix is one of the few people, the other being Athanasia, who can restrain his rash action or nag him at his nonchalant attitude.
- Implied Love Interest: In the webcomic, with Lily, Athanasia's maid as they are often paired up and shown together in the comic.
- Luminescent Blush: He didn't take Athanasia's teasing well after she found out about his reputation in the past.
- No Hero to His Valet: Felix regards Claude as a friend first and emperor second.
- Older Than They Look: He was mistaken for a young man by a few visiting young ladies in Athanasia's tea party; you wouldn't realize that he is Claude's age due to how young he looks.
- Only Friend: Is the only person Claude truly trusts as a friend.
- Red Baron: The Red Blood Knight, to which Athanasia gave it a Punny Name "The Red Blood Cell Knight".
- Vitriolic Best Buds: With Claude. He nags him and doesn't give a damn if he's the ruthless emperor of Obelia. It irritates Claude, but Felix does have a point with some of the things he says.
Lilian York
- Affectionate Nickname: Athanasia calls her Lily.
- Hero Worship: She admires Diana greatly and it's one of the reasons why she volunteered to be Athanasia's maid.
- Implied Love Interest: In the webtoon, Lily and Felix are often paired up, get some moments together and Athy is a Shipper on Deck. Their exact relationship isn't defined, leading to this trope.
- Mama Bear: She is very protective and caring of Athanasia who is like a daughter to her. Unfortunately, in the original "The Lovely Princess" novel, this led to her demise as she stepped in to defend the rightfully innocent Athanasia.
- Parental Substitute: Served as a mother to Athanasia.
- Undying Loyalty: Literally as she dies for Athanasia.
Anastacius de Alger Obelia
The former Emperor of the Obelia Empire who was killed by Claude after he attempted to kill him. He is only shown in flashbacks.
- Ascended Extra: In the webtoon, he plays a much bigger role in the scheme of things than he did in the original novel.
- The Dreaded: Just mentioning his name brings enough fear from the other characters. Ijekiel's father is horrified to know about who Jennette's father actually was late in the novel..
- Cain and Abel: The Cain to Claude's Abel because he was envious of how much talented Claude was in magic and attempted to conceive Jennette artificially just to get back at him. In the webtoon, however, this was revealed to be part of Aethernitas' Body Surf and influence on him.
- Demonic Possession: In the webtoon, it's implied that Aethernitas, his and Claude's ancestor, had been possessing him and influence some of his decisions, even before his death.
- Even Evil Has Standards: In the webtoon at least, at one point the disguised Anastacius decides to brainwash Jennette with a hexed present so she'll be easier to control, despite the damage this would do to her soul. He balks and removes the enchantment at the last second; evidently even he's not evil enough to hex his own innocent daughter whose only wish is for a loving family.
- Only Mostly Dead: It's later revealed in the webtoon that Anastacius is barely hanging on a thread when Aethernitas brought him back to life, and since his body is slowly failing and succumbing to death's door as his wounds reopened, Aethernitas began to consider pulling a Demonic Possession to Jenette.
- Spared By Adaptation: In the webtoon, he is spared from death thanks to Jenette begging mercy and Athanasia's plea to Claude that Claude sent him and Jenette out to exile than to execute Anastacius to permanently render him dead.
- Strong Family Resemblance: He looks just like Claude with messier hair.
- Tall, Dark, and Handsome: With his hair color disguised, he falls into this.
- Used to Be a Sweet Kid: In the webtoon, a flashback shows that he used to be friendly and get along with Claude when they were children until he changed due to an unspecified event and their relationship turned to that of Cain and Abel.
- Walking Spoiler: Yes, it's hard to discuss him without going into his relationship with Claude and Penelope and his role in Jennette's birth.
Penelope Judith
Claude's former fiancèe and Jennette's Missing Mom who died in childbirth like Diana.
- Ambition Is Evil: Penelope cheated on Claude with Anastacius because he was the spare and she was aiming to be Empress of Obelia
- Asshole Victim: Really, not many but Jennette and her family missed her..
- Beauty Is Bad: She's committed many atrocities, but she's also noted as being a very beautiful woman.
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: She pretended to love Claude, only to cheat on him with his brother.
- First Love: She serves this to Claude until she decided to screw it and committed an affair with his brother.
- Missing Mom: To Jennette, she died before the story begun.
- Walking Spoiler: Talking about Penelope's history would include Jennette's true heritage and her past with Anastacius and Claude.
Diana
Claude's unofficial consort and Athanasia's Missing Mom who died early before the story kicks in. She is a dancer from Siodonna that is brought in the palace to entertain Claude. She appeared mostly on Athanasia's dreams.
- All Girls Want Bad Boys: She did fall for the The Stoic Claude, and managed to conceive him an heir at the cost of her life.
- Brooding Boy, Gentle Girl: The novel reveals that she had this relationship with Claude as she helped him to slowly heal from Penelope's actions... which makes her death even more painful for Claude to bear.
- Death by Childbirth: How she died. Her death prompted Claude to erase any memories related to her, and he neglected Athanasia because of this.
- Deceased Parents Are the Best: Diana may have died before Athanasia could meet her but her appearance on Chapter 100 solidifies her gentle and caring attitude towards her daughter. The first thing she did after meeting Athanasia is to smother her with kisses and hugs, telling her that she's been watching her and she's proud that she has grown up so well. She also told Athanasia that she feels regretful for not taking care and raising her and then she added that since she and Claude have felt her presence, they have loved her ever since then. She then ended their conversation by saying "I love you, my daughter, Athanasia.". Her words and her actions are enough to make Athanasia cry.
- Hot Consort: She is often depicted as being "a beauty that you couldn't take your eyes off' in the webtoon. Lily, Felix and, even Claude subtly remark on how beautiful she was.
- The Lost Lenore: To Claude. Her death left a major mark on him mostly for the worse.
- Missing Mom: She died after giving birth to Athanasia. Averted in another timeline, when Lucas jumps through other universes. He encounters Claude desperately begging Diana not to pick Athanasia, and he resorts to eating Athanasia's magic while still in Diana's womb. The extra implied that Diana lived in that universe.
- Never Say That Again: Athanasia knew and was aware that Diana was a forbidden subject. It didn't stop her from mentioning it unconsciously.
- Nice Girl: Diana appears rarely in the webtoon, but what is shown speaks well of her personality. She's able to tame Claude and helped him heal from Penelope's betrayal. She later even risks her life giving birth to Athanasia rather than picking a peaceful life with Claude. Lily looked up to her, and frequently showers Diana with praises with Felix whenever she's brought up. Even with Claude's Jerkass attitude, she understood the meaning beneath his harsh words and believed that Claude would take care of their only daughter.
- Plot-Triggering Death: Her death is the reason why Claude neglected and left Athanasia in the hands of the maids in the Ruby Palace and was forced to use black magic just to forget the pain he felt losing her.
- Replacement Goldfish: This is what Athanasia thought Diana's relationship to Claude was like after seeing Penelope's broken portrait on his room. It is actually not true, as Claude only kept Penelope's portrait as a reminder of what Penelope did to him (as the portrait itself had its frames broken off). Although she is his Second Love, Claude's actions after Diana's death are proof of how much he treasures her.
- Second Love: For Claude. She had become his One True Love whom he treasured deeply after Penelope's betrayal. That's why he is so hurt by the fact that she picked to give birth to Athanasia rather than staying by his side, knowing that she'll die if she continued her pregnancy. Unable to cope with her loss, he casted a black magic on himself to forget about Diana so he can be at ease with his grief.
- Star-Crossed Lovers: Again with Claude. He was the Emperor of Obelia and she was nothing but a mere dancer brought to entertain him. Not to mention, one is already dead and is always trying to look out for the other, while the other is alive but is trying to forget the other one just to cope with the pain. Fate really just wants them apart.
- Strong Family Resemblance: Athanasia often hears from Felix and Lily that she looks just like Diana, except for her eyes. Even Claude, who rarely mentions Diana, sees her for a split second in Athanasia and indirectly told her that.Claude: I forgot how different you are, no matter how similar you look
- Trademark Favorite Drink: Lippe Tea which she introduced to Claude.
- Unkempt Beauty: She may have messy hair but there's no denying that Diana is drop dead gorgeous.
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Aethernitas
An ancestor of the Obelia Empire's royal family.- Abhorrent Admirer: Not that he's ugly, but he turns out to be one for Lucas. In fact, most of his motivations lie in getting Lucas to admit that Aethernitas can be an amazing king.
- Big Bad: In both the webnovel and Webtoon, he's behind the strings of incidents that led to the bad luck befalling on Athanasia and Claude, taking advantage of Jenette's birth to his favor.
- Body Surf: In the webtoon, it's revealed that Aethernitas often possesses some of his descendants in an effort to find a sufficient vessel so he could enact his eventual revenge on Lucas.
- Chekhov's Gunman: He was first mentioned off-handedly by Lucas in chapter 20, as Lucas mistook him for Claude’s father. Athanasia told him that Aethernitas was dead for more than 200 years ago. It turns out that he’s more alive than they both thought.
- Demonic Possession: In the webtoon, it's revealed that he is possessing Anastacius's dead body with black magic and brought him back. While Anastacius still had full control throughout most of Season 2, at the beginning of Season 3, he gained full control of Anastacius's body. But because Anastacius's body is weak since he's actually Only Mostly Dead, Aethernitas eventually plans to possess Jenette.
- Greater-Scope Villain: Falls into this in the webtoon adaptation as he's majorly in the background until the start of Season 3.
- Revenge: In the webtoon, Aethernitas is heavily motivated by his revenge and being an Abhorrent Admirer of Lucas to the point that he wants to kill Lucas.
- Spell My Name With An S: In earlier chapters, his name was spelt as Aeternithas.
- Walking Spoiler: Even more than Jenette, Penelope, and Anastacius! It's difficult to speak of him without foreknowledge of the webnovel version of him to explain what his motive ultimately was and his influence and involvement in the plot of both the webnovel and webtoon.
