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* KickTheSonOfABitch: He's responsible for pushing Tristan into using the Bote forbidden magic texts and grievously harming himself, and when the plot fails, is more than happy to tell him that using those texts have left Tristan disfigured, voiceless, unable to write, and dragged away to be paraded around in public, forced to try and garner sympathy, after internally musing about all of Tristan's horrific acts and then trying to paint himself as an innocent victim.


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* PayEvilUntoEvil: He's responsible for pushing Tristan into using the Bote forbidden magic texts and grievously harming himself, and when the plot fails, is more than happy to tell him that using those texts have left Tristan disfigured, voiceless, unable to write, and dragged away to be paraded around in public, forced to try and garner sympathy, after internally musing about all of Tristan's horrific acts and then trying to paint himself as an innocent victim.
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* AwesomebutImpractical: Even after Ivona gains the power of the Northern Ruins, she rarely uses Rukius in battle. Primarily because Rukius consumes an incredible amount of mana, draining her completely and preventing her from summoning other beasts to defend herself.

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* AwesomebutImpractical: AwesomeButImpractical: Even after Ivona gains the power of the Northern Ruins, she rarely uses Rukius in battle. Primarily because Rukius consumes an incredible amount of mana, draining her completely and preventing her from summoning other beasts to defend herself.

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* DidNotThinkThisThrough: His plans to smuggle the herbs Gaspar needs to cover his lack of summoning ability were foiled by the fact that he decided to use carriages camouflaged by invisibility and inaudibility magic through a crowded city square, in broad daylight, nearly getting a couple of children run over and killed. Yvona and Claude, on a hot-springs vacation, happen to spot said carriages and trace them back to the source, the herb market and then Yvona finds him right at the center of the smugglers.

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* DidNotThinkThisThrough: His plans to smuggle the herbs Gaspar needs to cover his lack of summoning ability were foiled by the fact that he decided to use carriages camouflaged by invisibility and inaudibility magic through a crowded city square, in broad daylight, nearly getting a couple of children run over and killed. Yvona and Claude, on a hot-springs vacation, happen to spot said carriages and trace them back to the source, the herb market and then Yvona finds him right at the center of the smugglers. He also didn't realize that his constant speaking up for Gasper when the Crown Princess visits him to see how he's doing with the plague situation would clue her into just how incompetant her cousin truly is and how Tristan is clearly the brains of the duo, though then again, she herself was doing a fantastic job of playing dumb around them and getting them to make the mistakes themselves.



* FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse: Despite his horrid childhood, where he was forced to go suck up to his EvilUncle to survive, he has no excuse for taking out his grudge on Yvona, who he saw was treated worse, stealing the fruits of her labor, and laughing at her when the noble lords and ladies mocked her for the fact that she was stuck with hand-me downs and left-overs as a result of her father's hedonistic lifestyle.

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* FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse: Despite his horrid childhood, where he was forced to go suck up to his EvilUncle to survive, he has no excuse for taking out his grudge on Yvona, who he blatently saw was treated worse, stealing worse yet ignored completely while he stole the fruits of her labor, and laughing at her when the noble lords and ladies mocked her for the fact that she was stuck with hand-me downs and left-overs as a result of her father's hedonistic lifestyle.



* HopeSpot: In chapter 64, Claude stomps off after Gaspar for "a little chat" after the narcissist insulted his wife right in his face, leaving Yvona and Tristan together. At this point, Tristan approaches Yvona seeking to suck up to her and reproaches her "for being mean after all he's done for her." Yvona turns his own tricks on him, using cleverly worded lies and half-truths to make Tristan believe there's an opening at Claude's estate and highlighting that the abusive Gaspar is beneath him. Tristan visibly lights up as Yvona skulks away, pondering how she has now effectively driven a wedge between her two abusers and has no plans to ever welcome Tristan if he dares show his mug at the Azentine estate.

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* HopeSpot: In chapter 64, Claude stomps off after Gaspar for "a little chat" after the narcissist insulted his wife right in his face, leaving Yvona and Tristan together. At this point, Tristan approaches Yvona seeking to suck up to her and reproaches her "for being mean after all he's done for her." Yvona turns his own tricks on him, using cleverly worded lies and half-truths to make Tristan believe there's an opening at Claude's estate and highlighting that the abusive Gaspar is beneath him. Tristan visibly lights up as Yvona skulks away, pondering how she has now effectively driven a wedge between her two abusers and has no plans to ever welcome Tristan if he dares show his mug at the Azentine estate. Later on when he confronts Yyona for suposedly not giving him what she promised him, she instead drops the mask, tells him that she KNOWS everything he did to her, and that no amount of attempting to deny it will work anymore, as she casts him aside and tells him to now fend for himself like the parasite he is, even as he continutes to falsely cry innocence at what she's talking about.



* StrongFamilyResemblance: A minor, early plot point. Tristan and Yvona look pratically like they could be brother and sister and did in fact grow up together, which is one of the reasons why Tristan pushed Gaspar to pursue her. If the two had a child, it would look like ''him.''

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* StrongFamilyResemblance: A minor, early plot point. Tristan and Yvona look pratically practically like they could be brother and sister and did in fact grow up together, which is one of the reasons why Tristan pushed Gaspar to pursue her. If the two had a child, it would look like ''him.''



* RightForTheWrongReasons: He may have gone to Duke Azentine's home to lecture him for the "blasphemy" of using an herbal cure to fight the plague strangling the kingdom, but he is right to check up on the duke since there is something seriously wrong. Not only is the holy sword starting to reject Claude, but chapter 63 has '''Yvona''' worried because Claude is acting as if something is speaking by borrowing his voice, and their romp through the ruins in the Azentine estate did, in fact, have them make contact with some kind of powerful entity with a less than pleasant history.

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* RightForTheWrongReasons: He may have gone to Duke Azentine's home to lecture him for the "blasphemy" of using an herbal cure to fight the plague strangling the kingdom, but he is was unintetionally right to check up on the duke since there is ''is'' something seriously wrong. Not only is the holy sword starting to reject Claude, but chapter 63 has '''Yvona''' worried because Claude is acting as if something is speaking by borrowing his voice, and their romp through the ruins in the Azentine estate did, in fact, have them make contact with some kind of powerful entity with a less than pleasant history.



* TooDumbToLive: He goes to Duke Azentine's home, alone, to berate a Duke and slander his wife to his face, in his territory, and refused to back down when Claude calls him out on how he doesn't have a leg to stand on, especially since Claude is armed, he knows Claude is armed, and Claude has the legal right to respond with force, including deadly force if need be, to any slander against his house. How, just how, did he expect that to go well? Was he expecting God himself to suddenly descend and intervene or something? Naturally, when he is sent back, he ends up fired as a priest and is excommunicated from the temple for his stupidty.

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* TooDumbToLive: He goes to Duke Azentine's home, alone, to berate a Duke and slander his wife to his face, in his territory, and refused to back down when Claude calls him out on how he doesn't have a leg to stand on, especially since Claude is armed, he knows Claude is armed, and because he is no longer in the safety of the Temple, Claude has the legal right to respond with force, including deadly force if need be, to any slander against his house. How, just how, did he expect that to go well? Was he expecting God himself to suddenly descend and intervene or something? Naturally, when he is sent back, he ends up fired as a priest and is excommunicated from the temple for his stupidty.



* GreaterScopeVillain: He's behind the terrorist attack against Claude and Yvona. He's the backer to the auction house. He sabotaged the "anti-plague" church statues with dark magic, and possibly introduced the plague itself. [[spoiler: And he is directly responsible for the demon king's summoning in the previous timeline, seeking to do the same in the current timeline, because in the original timeline, the demon king's revival eventually caused the temple to slowly lose influence and threaten to render it redunant in the public eye.]]
* KickTheSonOfABitch: He's responsible for pushing Tristan into using the Bote forbidden magic texts and grievously harming himself, and when the plot fails, leaving Tristan disfigured, voiceless, unable to write, and dragged away to be paraded around in public, forced to try and garner sympathy, after internally musing about all of Tristan's horrific acts and then trying to paint himself as an innocent victim.

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* EvenEvilHasStandards: Even Benedict knows what a coniving little parasite Tristan is, and how he has unrightfully earned his influence by mooching off of others who are more talented or wealthy while whinning about still deserving more. He tells him as such after Tristan is left disfigured by the Bote forbidden texts.
* GreaterScopeVillain: He's behind the terrorist attack against Claude and Yvona. He's the backer to the auction house. He sabotaged the "anti-plague" church statues with dark magic, and possibly introduced the plague itself. [[spoiler: And he is directly responsible for the demon king's summoning in the previous timeline, seeking to do the same in the current timeline, because in the original timeline, the demon king's revival and subsqeunt eventually caused the temple to slowly lose influence and threaten to render it redunant in the public eye.]]
* KickTheSonOfABitch: He's responsible for pushing Tristan into using the Bote forbidden magic texts and grievously harming himself, and when the plot fails, leaving is more than happy to tell him that using those texts have left Tristan disfigured, voiceless, unable to write, and dragged away to be paraded around in public, forced to try and garner sympathy, after internally musing about all of Tristan's horrific acts and then trying to paint himself as an innocent victim.
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* BitchInSheepsClothing: He originally wins Yvona over by treating her kindly, but once she was in a fiance relationship with him, the gloves came off and he began to abuse her, making her more and more desperate to earn his affection by pushing herself until she broke and died.

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* BitchInSheepsClothing: He originally wins Yvona over by treating her kindly, but once she was in a fiance relationship an actual engagement with him, the gloves came off and he began to abuse her, making her more and more desperate to earn his affection by pushing herself until she broke and died.



* RevengeMyopia: After putting Yvona through a lot of grief, including screwing around on her, he has the gall to demand vengeance when she so much as calls him out on his narcissisms.

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* RevengeMyopia: After putting Yvona through a lot of grief, including screwing around on her, he has the gall to demand vengeance when she so much as calls him out on his narcissisms.narcissism and scummy behavior.



* FreudianExcuse: Because Uncle Collin was born a few minutes before his unnamed father, his house was in abysmal poverty, due to Collin using his rights as first-born to strip everything away from his younger sibling to support his hedonism, leaving Tristan no choice but to suck up to Collin to survive. To escape Collin, he tried to curry favor with Duke Azentine, but since the duke doesn't respond to empty flattery, and Tristan was only one of many, he missed out. Then he saw Gaspar and immediately realized the latter's envy, so latched on and began feeding the narcissist's ego to manipulate him.

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* FreudianExcuse: Because Uncle Collin was born a few minutes before his unnamed father, his house was in abysmal poverty, due to Collin using his rights as first-born to strip everything away from his younger sibling to support his hedonism, leaving Tristan no choice but to suck up to Collin to survive. To escape Collin, he tried to curry favor with Duke Azentine, but since the duke doesn't respond to empty flattery, and Tristan was only one of many, many who had done the same before, he missed out. Then he saw Gaspar and immediately realized the latter's envy, so latched on and began feeding the narcissist's ego to manipulate him.



* MoralMyopia: He schemes to manipulates Gaspar to marry Yvona and steal her accomplishments so he can be the power behind the throne, engages in a homosexual and adulterous tryst with Gaspar to keep the manipulation going, turns a blind eye to all the abuse Yvona suffers from her father and Gaspar, but when everything goes to hell because Yvona dared to marry Claude Azentine and actually be happy, and Princess Sehez notices how inept and incompetent Gaspar really is, making her strongly consider taking the throne herself, and then Gaspar starts being violent and abusive to him personally, it's Yvona and the princess that are trying to steal everything from him, denying him his happiness.

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* MoralMyopia: He schemes to manipulates manipulate Gaspar to marry Yvona and steal her accomplishments so he can be the power behind the throne, engages in a homosexual and adulterous tryst with Gaspar to keep the manipulation going, turns a blind eye to all the abuse Yvona suffers from her father and Gaspar, but when everything goes to hell because Yvona dared to marry Claude Azentine and actually be happy, and Princess Sehez notices how inept and incompetent Gaspar really is, making her strongly consider taking the throne herself, and then Gaspar starts being violent and abusive to him personally, it's Yvona and the princess that are trying to steal everything from him, denying him his happiness.



* StrongFamilyResemblance: A minor, early plot point. Tristan and Yvona favor a bit, which is one of the reasons why Tristan pushed Gaspar to pursue her. If the two had a child, it would look like ''him.''
* TransTribulations: Deconstructed. Not only does he live in a society that doesn't even comprehend the concept of gender dysphoria, but he's got a raging case of Venus envy, frequently fantasizes (at least verbally) about actually being a woman, deeply resents being male, and completely ignores the glaring downsides of being female, like the fact that they have virtually no legal standing, can't choose their wedding partners, and have no means to flee abuse, focusing on what he sees as "perks," such as being a GoldDigger, and having the means to marry into a higher social strata, rather than having to earn it by merit.

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* StrongFamilyResemblance: A minor, early plot point. Tristan and Yvona favor a bit, look pratically like they could be brother and sister and did in fact grow up together, which is one of the reasons why Tristan pushed Gaspar to pursue her. If the two had a child, it would look like ''him.''
* TransTribulations: Deconstructed. Not only does he live in a society that doesn't even comprehend the concept of gender dysphoria, but he's got a raging case of Venus envy, frequently fantasizes (at least verbally) about actually being a woman, deeply resents being male, and completely ignores the glaring downsides of being female, female in the very Empire he is a citizen of, like the fact that they have virtually no legal standing, can't choose their wedding partners, and have no means to flee abuse, focusing on what he sees as "perks," such as being a GoldDigger, and having the means to marry into a higher social strata, rather than having to earn it by merit.



* TooDumbToLive: He goes to Duke Azentine's home, alone, to berate a Duke and slander his wife to his face, in his territory, and refused to back down when Claude calls him out on how he doesn't have a leg to stand on, especially since Claude is armed, he knows Claude is armed, and Claude has the legal right to respond with force, including deadly force if need be, to any slander against his house. How, just how, did he expect that to go well? Was he expecting god to suddenly descend and intervene or something?

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* TooDumbToLive: He goes to Duke Azentine's home, alone, to berate a Duke and slander his wife to his face, in his territory, and refused to back down when Claude calls him out on how he doesn't have a leg to stand on, especially since Claude is armed, he knows Claude is armed, and Claude has the legal right to respond with force, including deadly force if need be, to any slander against his house. How, just how, did he expect that to go well? Was he expecting god God himself to suddenly descend and intervene or something?something? Naturally, when he is sent back, he ends up fired as a priest and is excommunicated from the temple for his stupidty.



* GreaterScopeVillain: He's behind the terrorist attack against Claude and Yvona. He's the backer to the auction house. He sabotaged the "anti-plague" church statues with dark magic, and possibly introduced the plague itself. And he is directly responsible for the demon king's summoning in the previous timeline, seeking to do the same in the current timeline, for reasons unknown.

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* GreaterScopeVillain: He's behind the terrorist attack against Claude and Yvona. He's the backer to the auction house. He sabotaged the "anti-plague" church statues with dark magic, and possibly introduced the plague itself. [[spoiler: And he is directly responsible for the demon king's summoning in the previous timeline, seeking to do the same in the current timeline, for reasons unknown.because in the original timeline, the demon king's revival eventually caused the temple to slowly lose influence and threaten to render it redunant in the public eye.]]



* LightIsNotGood: As the grand priest, he specializes in light magic, but he's trying to summon the demon king, with little, if any, care for the huge loss of life that would require.

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* LightIsNotGood: As the grand priest, he specializes in light magic, but he's trying to summon the demon king, with little, if any, care for the huge loss of life that would require.require because he wants to ensure the demon king's return will make the temple remain important in the public eye.]]



* RippleEffectProofMemory: Or PeggySue. He has memories of the previous timeline and speaks as if he's also a regressor.

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* RippleEffectProofMemory: Or PeggySue. He has memories of the previous timeline and speaks as if he's also a regressor. [[spoiler: It's because he's the one responible for the regression in the first place, by using Claude's feelings for Yvona and desire to save her following her death in the original timeline to set the stage for the demon king's revival in the new one.]]

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