History Characters / KarinasLastDays

** He suddenly remembers in one chapter that in the past, he gave Abelia’s room the closest to the stairs for her doctors, his eldest son the next to her because he’s his heir, his youngest son next just cause, and Karina’s the furthest away because he felt like it. While shooting down Karina’s protest due to her fears of her room being so isolated and far away from everyone.

* ParentalFavortism:

* DrJerk: He’s warned by his mentor not to play favorites with the patients, but he does just that with Abelia because he’s reminded of his own dead sister, even borderline into a romantic attraction. He doesn’t notice that Karina had a a crush on him for a time, until he tears into her of what a terrible person she was for ALMOST getting Abelia injured.

* KickTheDog: One time he witnessed Karina getting badly injured by a falling bookcase, no thanks to Abelia’s antics over demanding her sister’s attention. Rather than care for her injuries or scold Abelia, he rips into Karina for almost getting her sickly little sister injured. ''' Even proclaiming that he’s glad that she got hurt''' instead of Abelia, all the while imagining that he’s sees herself as his own deceased sister.

* BerserkButton: Anything to do with Karina’s family can easily set him off. Given how extremely neglectful they’ve treated her, it’s understandable.

* AbusiveParents: Where do we begin?!

* CantTakeCriticism: A major personal pet peeve for him. He can never comprehend nor admit whenever someone calls him out on being a horrible father to Karina since he never would admit to loving her in the same manner as his other children.

** He believes Karina is selfish and immature for daring to think for her own happiness, despite never giving her any rights to be her own person, nor love her in the same manner as his other children. And he’s been enforcing this belief onto Karina ever since she was a little girl. He’ll also throw tantrums like a bratty teenager whenever someone criticizes his poor parenting.

** Denies that Karina is fatally ill, but a servant reveals that he received reports that she sounded sick outside her room. He demands to know why he wasn’t informed of this until now, but the servant pointed out that he was, but at the time dismisses the report under the excuses of his work while voicing his belief that Karina can take care of herself since she’s an adult. Rather than admit he was wrong in ignoring Karina’s wellbeing, he bluntly tells the servant that he should have told him anyway.

* UngratefulBastard: He enforces on Karina to be the perfect sister by praising her older brother and doing whatever her younger siblings ask her to do while never treating her with the same praises and adoration he gives to her siblings. He’ll rip into her whenever she falls out of line but denies he’s a bad parent just because he’s bought all important living conditions except love. And he has the audacity to believe Karina is the ungrateful one of the two for daring to run away to someone who genuinely grew to love her.

* AbusiveParents: She’s just as bad as her husband, if not worse. And THAT’S saying something.

** Also like her husband, she also has the audacity to question where everything went wrong as they both point out that Karina should have voiced her displeasure. Flashbacks show of both her and her husband responding to Karina [[CallingTheOldManOut calling them out on their abuse, neglect, and favoritism]] by threatening to disown and abandon her to the streets.

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler: When she overhears Karina’s letter to their father, she’s horrified over the the revelation of Karina’s intentions to never return while revealing that [[YourDaysAreNumbered she’s dying from]] [[ThereIsNoCure the art disease]]. She runs to her room crying once she realizes that Karina did briefly come back to put her to bed, especially lamenting that her big sister means every word in her letter and feels bad over treated Karina badly.]]

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* ReplacementGoldfish: Nocturn cares a lot about Abelia because she reminds him of his little sister, who died young.

A gruff doctor who Karina sees when she isn't feeling well, since she doesn't want to rely on the ignorant family doctor. He diagnosed her with art disease and helped her get to the north, but ended up following after her after being concerned over her wellbeing. [[spoiler:He also has art disease, which has slowly destroyed his eyesight, and has given up on embroidery as a countermeasure]].

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: While he initially acted as a DrJerk towards Karina, he softens up once he figures out how bad her home life is, and chases after her up to the north. Justified, as [[spoiler:he too has art disease; it's implied her determination to live her final days to the fullest shook him out of his own cynicism about his own disease]].

* TheUnfavorite: This was her status to her family. In short, they treated her more like she was a mere nanny to her younger siblings while showering the rest of her siblings with praises.
* YourDaysAreNumbered: Due to her strong passion in painting to cope with dealing with her family’s neglect, she’s diagnosed with the fatal art diseases, and doesn’t know when she’ll succumb.

* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: Shares this status with his twin sister. While he doesn't have a grudge against Karina like Abelia does, Feldon does take advantage of his older sister's docility and frames or shoves responsibility for his pranks onto her. At one point he went crying to his lot her in order to force Karina to give him her own birthday gift, then threw it away when it grown to worn out.

* Annoying YoungerSibling: Shares this status with his twin sister. While he doesn't have a grudge against Karina like Abelia does, Feldon does take advantage of his older sister's docility and frames or shoves responsibility for his pranks onto her.

* BerserkButton: Anything to do with Karina’s family can easily set him off. Given how extremely neglectful they’ve treated her, it’s understandably justified.

* PerfectlyArrangedMarriage: His engagement with Karina was set up by her parents, but he loathed it because he saw her as unworthy to survive up north. He eventually came to genuinely love Karina.

[[folder:In General]]

A count's family that rules a decent-sized land near the capital. They appear as a well-adjusted, warm family with many accomplished members. However, their happiness depends on the neglect and sadness of one of its members: Karina.

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* CharacterDevelopment: At the start of the story, he’s insensitive to Karina’s plight, but sees himself as a caring big brother, despite purposefully clashing his graduation celebration at the same day as her birthday while refusing to reschedule it for another day. Once Karina runs away, this brings out the BigBrotherInstinct in him and finally makes him realize how badly she must have had it. He’ll even chew out his father over his denial of being a terrible parent.

* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: Shares this status with her twin brother. Karina hates that her parents favor them over her while Abelia doesn’t have a shred of concern over her major emotional scars, but is in the most ecstatic behavior whenever she expects Karina to do whatever she’s told.

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** He refuses to see any fault he had in neglecting Karina into running away and expects HER to grovel for his forgiveness.
** Denies that Karina is fatally ill, but a servant reveals that he received reports that she sounded sick outside her room. He demands why he wasn’t informed of this until now, but the servant pointed out that he was, but at the time dismisses the report under the excuses of his work while voicing his belief that Karina can take care of herself since she’s an adult. He refuses to admit he was wrong in ignoring Karina’s wellbeing and bluntly tells the servant that he should have told him anyway.
** As mentioned above, he would threaten to disown and abandon Karina to the slums whenever she called him out on his neglect, so she gave up on talking it out with him. And he has the gall to expect Karina to simply tell him of her complaints.

* UngratefulBastard: He enforces on Karina to be the perfect sister by praising her older brother and doing whatever her younger siblings ask her to do while never treating her with the same praises and adoration he gives to her siblings. He’ll rip into her whenever she “falls out of line” but denies he’s a bad parent just because he’s bought all important living conditions except love. And he has the audacity to believe Karina is the ungrateful one of the two for daring to run away to someone who genuinely grew to love her.

** She admits she would sometimes act even more sicker to make Karina stay with her because she felt jealous that Karina had a healthier body than her and hated that Karina can put out to parties and make friends while she couldn’t.

** Denies that Karina is fatally ill, but a servant reveals that he received reports that she sounded sick outside her room. He demands why he wasn’t informed of this until now, but the servant pointed out that he was, but at the time dismisses the report under the excuses of his work while voicing his belief that Karina can take care of herself since she’s an adult. He uses to admit he was wrong in ignoring Karina’s wellbeing and bluntly tells the servant that he should have told him anyway.

* ParentalNeglect: See above for the full details. In short, he views Karina more like a nanny than his own child. But he’s in denial that he’s a horrible parent solely because he’s sheltered her and bought whatever necessity she needed, but never realizes it was love that was the most important of all.
* UngratefulBastard: He enforces on Karina to be the perfect sister by praising her older brother and doing whatever her younger siblings ask her to do while never treating her with the same praises and adoration he gives to her siblings. He’ll rip into her whenever she “falls out of line” but denies he’s a bad parent just because he’s bought all important necessities except love. And he has the audacity to believe Karina is the ungrateful one of the two for daring to run away to someone who genuinely grew to love her.

* SpoiledBrat: She revels at her family showering her with affection while pushing Karina to stay by her side like she was more like a nanny than an elder sister. She admits she would sometimes act even more sicker to make Karina stay with her because she felt jealous that Karina had a healthier body than her and hated that Karina can put out to parties and make friends while she couldn’t.

** In the past, Karina would try to call out both of her parents over their blatant neglect towards her while showering favoritism to her siblings, but they would threaten to disown her for daring to complain to them, so she gave up on talking it out to her parents.
** In one flashback, she called out her mother over coddling her younger brother while giving her nothing but disdain, all because she forced Karina to give away her birthday gift to Feldon. Her mother starts her usual tirade and expectations of Karina existing as nothing more than the “perfect big sister, but this made her snap and declare she wished she was an only child. This only earned Karina a BitchSlap and TheReasonYouSuckSpeech from her poor excuse of a mother.
** [[spoiler: The reason she gives this trope in letter form is because she learned from her past experiences that it’s pointless to tell them in person because said parents are in denial that they’ve treated her terribly. In the letter she reprimands her father over his demands that she exist as nothing more than a mere footstool for the family (especially to Abelia) while [[ItsAllAboutMe only caring about the family’s reputation.]] She’s happy to finally have someone like Milian by her side who truly loves and never threatens her, unlike her parents. Her dad is appalled that she’s ungrateful, [[TheTapeKnewYouWouldSayThat until he reads that she expected him to say just that]] while questioning him why he never seen her cry because she gave up on earning her family’s genuine love. She ends her letter by asking to never contact her again unless it’s for her funeral arrangements.]]
* TheUnfavorite: This was her status to her family. In short, they treated her like she was a mere nanny to her younger siblings while showering the rest of her siblings with praises.
* YourDaysAreNumbered: Due to her strong desire to paint to cope with dealing with her family’s neglect, she’s diagnosed with the fatal art diseases, and doesn’t know when she’ll succumb.

* PerfectlyArrangedMarriage: His engagement with Karina was set up by her parents and he saw it like it was a mere business investment. He eventually came to genuinely love Karina.

** Denies that Karina is fatally ill, but a servant reveals that he received reports that she sounded sick outside her room. He demands why he wasn’t informed of this until now, but the servant pointed that he was, but at the time dismisses the report under the excuses of his work while voicing his belief that Karina can take care of herself since she’s an adult. He bluntly tells the servant that he should have told him anyway while refuses to admit he was wrong in ignoring Karina’s wellbeing.

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* AtLeastIAdmitIt: When visiting Karina’s art gallery, he calls out his father over his extreme neglect while point out that both of Enphric himself, along with his parents and his younger siblings are at fault for pushing Karina away. His father [[NeverMyFault denies any wrongdoing]] because he [[WantsAPrizeForBasicDecency sheltered, clothed, and bought Karina “whatever she wanted”,]] but Enphric calls him out on this because he didn’t show her the same love he gave his other children, while admitting he’s treated her just as badly.

* As mentioned above, he would threaten to disown and abandon Karina to the slums whenever she called him out on his neglect, so she gave up on talking it out with him. And he has the gall to expect Karina to simply tell him of her complaints. Even in his letter to Karina, he reprimands her for running away, but mostly because of his fears of the risk of damaging their family’s reputation while showing only concern for Abelia’s sickly condition getting worse because of Karina’s long absence, while threading to disown her AGAIN even though she’s already out of his life.

* AbusiveParents: She’s just as bad as her husband, if not worse.

** Like her husband, she shames Karina by comparing herself to your younger sister due to her sickly condition, but by recent times Karina had discovered she has been diagnosed with art disease.

* EvilRedhead: She comes off as a doting mother and dutiful wife, but pushes her eldest daughter to the corner while coddling her other children.

* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: Shares this status with her twin brother. Karina hates that her parents favor them over her while Abelia doesn’t have a shred of concern over her major emotional scars, but is the most ecstatic behavior whenever she expects Karina to do whatever she’s told.

** In one flashback, she called out her mother over coddling her younger brother while giving her nothing but disdain, all because she forced Karina to give away her birthday gift to Feldon. Her mother starts her usual tirade and expectations of Karina existing as nothing more than the “perfect big sister, but this made her snap and declare she wished she was an only child. This only earned Karina a bitchslap and ReasonYouSuckSpeech from her poor excuse of a mother.
** [[spoiler: The reason she gives this trope in letter form is because she learned from her past experiences that it’s pointless to tell them in person because said parents are in denial that they’ve treated her terribly. In the letter she reprimands her father over his demands that she exist as nothing more than a mere footstool for the family while only caring about their reputation. She’s happy to finally have someone by her side who truly loves and never threatens her. Her dad is appalled that she’s ungrateful, [[TheTapeKnewYouWouldSayThat until he reads that she expected him to say just that while questioning him why he never seen her cry because she gave up on earning her family’s genuine love. She ends her letter by asking to never contact her again unless it’s for her funeral arrangements.]]]]

* PerfectlyArrangedMarriage: His engagement with Karina was set up by her parents and he saw it like it was a mere investment. He eventually gave to genuinely love Karina.

** He and his wife have quoted that Karina should have voiced her displeasures. In the past, he and his wife would often threaten to disown and leave Karina to fend for herself on the streets whenever she called them out on their bullshit.

*** A couple nights later, Karina asked her mother if they could sleep together, but is told no because she believes Karina is too old for it while allowing Feldon to come to bed with her instead. Once again her mother berates her “immature behavior” and demands she act like a proper big sister. This was the final straw for Karina, who promptly declares that she wished she was an only child, but who could blame her?! Yet her mother goes as low as to slap her hard across the face and shame Karina over her outburst.
** Like her husband, she shames Karina by comparing herself to your younger sister due to her sickly condition, but by that time Karina had discovered she has been diagnosed with art disease.

** [[spoiler: The reason she gives this trope in letter form is because she learned from her past experiences that it’s pointless to tell them in person because said parents are in denial that they’ve treated her terribly. In the letter she reprimands her father over his demands that she exist as nothing more than a mere footstool for the family while only caring about their reputation. She’s happy to finally have someone by her side who truly loves and never threatens her. Her dad is appalled that she’s ungrateful, [[TheTapeKnewYouWouldSayThat until he reads that she expected him to say just that while questioning him why he never seen her cry because she gave up on earning her family’s genuine love. She ends her letter by asking to to never contact her again unless it’s for her funeral arrangements.]]

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[[folder:Dr.Winston]]

The representative of the Carlos family.