YMMV / The World of Otome Games is Tough for Mobs

• Harsher in Hindsight:
  • The jokes about Marie constantly being poor due to her circumstances become a lot less funny when you learn that she was constantly being saddled with debt in her old life and this one by other people and it resulted in her being unable to support her child so her parents took custody away from her.
  • Remember how Leon thought of Olivia as a Bitch in Sheep's Clothing only to be proven wrong once he started interacting with her? It turns outs there's more to it as Olivia would have been possessed by the soul of the first Saint once she obtains the Saint's Bracelet as revealed in the Marie Route SS, which in the game timeline is pretty early on. Another fragment of the Saint residing in the Saint's Necklace also tried to possess Marie, only to fail due to her huge big brother complex that the spirit was unable to overcome, which is also likely the case in the main story.
• Les Yay: Leon thought that Angelica and Olivia were developing in this direction. The latter getting a 120/100 love meter while trying to activate the kingdom's trump card only furthered his misunderstanding. The reality of the situation is that the two of them were really only close friends that bonded over time and due to their mutual love for Leon, with the two actually trying to drag Leon to the love meter just to get things straight, only for Leon to escape their grasp and the two getting evaluated instead.
  • Though seeing as they're fine sharing Leon and sleeping on the same bed, they probably wouldn't mind...
• Rescued from the Scrappy Heap: A lot of readers have warmed up to Marie over the course of the novel once her backstory is revealed and undergoes a Character Development. Being cute, having an ongoing What If? side story dedicated to her and The Reveal that she's Leon's younger sister from their previous lives certainly helps.
• Unintentionally Sympathetic: Even before her Heel–Face Turn, Marie was a lot more sympathetic that the author intended her to be. She was from a poor noble household where her family would neglect and abuse her, even going so far as to saddle her with their debt. And then when you learn that she's the reincarnation of Leon's sister whose life went downhill after his death because of her parents kicking her out of the house and later taking her child while declaring her an unfit mother, her having to drop out of college, and ending up with at least one boyfriend who saddled her with debt, another who impregnated and abandoned her, and a final one whose Domestic Abuse ultimately killed her. Even if she was responsible for her brother's accidental death, there is no way she deserved to die like that.