History Webcomic / DearNemesis

* FootDraggingDivorcee: PlayedWith since they're only betrothed, but despite Calmia's attempts at breaking off their deal after she becomes the countess, Rudbeckia staunchly refuses to dissolve their engagement.
* ForWantOfANail: Ellua's survival makes Calmia realize how much his death influenced her life in the previous timeline. Her rejection by their father left her alienated at the family estate, where servants didn't even talk to her for fear of the count, and vulnerable to Storoni's manipulation, since he was the only person to acknowledge her existence. The rumours surrounding Ellua's death placing the blame on his sister also influenced Calmia's reputation long before she entered high society.

* ImprovisedLockpick: PlayedWith. Calmia realizes there are not enought keys to open all the locked books in the secret library, but figures out she can open them using the jewels of Ighalo if they're cut to be narrow enough to fit into the keyhole (they don't need to be cut into the exact shape).

* MySiblingWillLiveThroughMe: Somewhat subverted with Calmia in the first timeline, who cut her hair and put on her brother's clothes hoping it would make her resenful father treat her as Ellua. After she gets brutally rejected, with her father declaring he won't see her until she grows her hair out again, she decides to keep it short just to spite him. Several flashbacks also portray her wearing dresses and it's implied she started permanently wearing male clothing only after she was mocked for her somewhat frumpy dress at her debut outing.

* FloralThemeNaming: Kalmia, phlox, rudbeckia and primula (Storoni's surname) are all genera of flowers.

* AccidentalMurder: [[spoiler: In the first timeline Storoni never intended to feed Calmia the same potion they gave Rudbeckia. However, since Rudbeckia switched the potions, it ended up killing her. This eventually drives Storoni insane.]]

* AccidentalMurder: [[spoiler: In the first timeline Storoni intended to feed Calmia the same potion they gave Rudbeckia. However, since Rudbeckia switched the potions, it ended up killing her. This eventually drives Storoni insane.]]

* PurpleIsPowerful: Calmia is portrayed wearing purple in promotional artwork for both novels and the webtoon. Given her ambitions, it safe to say it has more to do with power than [[GracefulLadiesLikePurple grace]] (although she definitely becomes more ladylike in the second timeline).

* FeedTheMole: Calmia keeps being nice to Storoni in front of the household servants, since she knows most of them report back to Rudbeckia and she wants both him and Storoni on their toes.

* EntertaininglyWrong: Calmia initially assumes Rudbeckia is seeking a "beneficial engagement" in order to strenghten his chances to inherit the dukedom. [[spoiler: He's actually also a regressor and the reason he proposed to her was to keep an eye on her and, more importantly, Storoni.]] She fairly quickly figures out the truth, however, while [[spoiler: Rudbeckia still has no idea she also went back in time and keeps wondering about some of her decisions.]]

* FeedTheMole: Calmia keeps being nice to Storoni whenever they are seen together at the Phlox estate by household servants, since she knows most of them report back to Rudbeckia and she wants both Storoni and her fiancé on their toes.

* FootDraggingDivorcee: PlayedWith since they're only betrothed now, but despite Calmia's attempts at breaking off their deal after she becomes the countess, Rudbeckia staunchly refuses to dissolve their engagement.

* InheritanceMurder: After Ellua's death in the first timeline, Calmia is accused of sabotaging his saddle with this motive in mind. Note that she was a ten year old girl at this point. [[spoiler:It's later revealed it was Storoni's work in order to make Calmia the heiress.]]

* FootDraggingDivorcee: PlayedWith since they're only engaged now, but despite Calmia's attempts at breaking off their deal after she becomes the countess, Rudbeckia staunchly refuses to dissolve their engagement.

** And this is just the second timeline. In the first one, in addition to completely rejecting her, Calmia's father never taught her anything she should know as his heir, instead giving all his knowledge to Storoni and basically treating him as his own son. Calmia didn't know about the basement library until the second timeline.

* TheUnfavorite: Calmia to her father. He isn't a particularly loving father to Ellua either, but he clearly puts his son's wellbeing over hers.

* RejectedMarriageProposal: The second prince himself proposes to Calmia via her father when she's 16. Count Phlox rejects the offer on the spot, claiming that their house does not deserve such honor, but it has more to do with his fear of getting tangled in politics than anything else.

* NotGoodWithRejection: Storoni. After Calmia gets engaged to Rudbeckia in the second timeline, he sulks about it for 3 years before trying to make a move on her. Calmia sort of strings him along to manipulate him, but rejects him or avoids the topic every time he tries to press her.

** In the same vein, the Bonnette family, while also implied to be wealthy, are no longer respected as talented artists, something they were famous for in the first place. Calmia even invokes it when talking with Hailey as a CommonalityConnection.

* UpperClassTwit: Rudbeckia shows shades of that, being rather dismissive of his concerned servants, asking Count Phlox why he allows someone as lowborn as Storoni to address his children so familiarly, being rather conceited about his looks, and, in the both timelines, teasing Calmia about her "cheap looking bracelet". However, Calmia notes he was otherwise known for appreciating people for what they did instead of who they were, and his blatant dislike of Storoni has different reasons than his social station.

* ShrinkingViolet: Hailey Bonnette, another one of the young noblewomen Calmia befriended at the debutante ball. In order to boost her confidence (and get access to someone who can be of use to her future plans, as she knows from the first timeline) Calmia encourages her to try her hand at sculpting the jewels of Ighalo/

* ShrinkingViolet: Bonnette Terracoma, another one of the young noblewomen Calmia befriended at the debutante ball.In order to boost her confidence (and get access to someone who can be of use to her future plans, as she knows from the first timeline) Calmia encourages her to try her hand at sculpting the jewels of Ighalo/

* AccidentalMurder: [[spoiler: In the first timeline Storoni intended to feed Calmia the same potion they gave Rudbeckia. However, since Rudbeckia switched the potions, it ended up killing her. This ends up driving Storoni insane.]]

* AccidentalMurder: [[spoiler: In the first timeline Storoni intended to feed Calmia the same potion they gave Rudbeckia. However, since Rudbeckia switched the potions, it ended up killing her.]]

** [[spoiler: Mirroring the above incident, in the second timeline Rudbeckia and Ellua plan to give Storoni Ellua's horse as the parting gift, with the reins cut. However, when Ellua tells Calmia about it, she refuses to approve this.]]

* HatesTheirParent: Downplayed, but in both timelines Calmia gives up on trying to appease her father. In the second one, when he collapses in front of her, she doesn's seem particularly concerned, instead still pressuring him to make her his heir with a smile on her face. Also, neither she nor Ellua show much attention to their father being confined to his bed following his stroke, instead using him for basically rubberstamping all their decisions regarding the estate.

** She also recognizes "Glen", the man Storoni meets behind her back, as second prince's spy she saw multiple times under multiple names in her previous life.

* EvenTheLovingHeroHasHatedOnes: Ellua is an all-around NiceGuy and the most unambiguously good person in this story, but he openly loathes Storoni, reacting with genuine disgust when the latter even stands close to him. When Calmia considers asking Storoni for help with paperwork after their father is rendered bedbound and they overwork themselves trying to keep up, Ellua actually begs her not to go to him, offering to work even harder despite being exhausted.

* FlashbackNightmare: As her relationship with Rudbeckia progresses, Calmia starts to dream about the night she killed him with increasing frequency. Interestingly, she initially considered getting rid of him to be her highest achievement, only to grow remorseful of her actions.

** As it turns out, running the family estate as pair of barely prepared teenagers is actually hard work. Calmia and Ellua spend a lot of time poring over documents and after working themselves almost to exhaustion, they have to conclude they still need help. Even after employing more people to help with paperwork, they're still mostly stuck at Pliaze without much time for travel or entertainment.

* {{Workaholic}}: Calmia. After being chastised by Rudbeckia for basically sitting on her hands during the 3 years between their engagement and next meeting, and discovering the basement library, she throws herself into studying and working to become the countess and learn everything about the jewel of Ighalo and the beasts. She stays up for 3 nights studying the locked books and eventually collapses from exhaustion on the last day of her debutante ball, suffering from a fever. Later, after she assumes the duties of the countes after their father falls ill, both she and Ellua overwork themselves to the point where they have to hire another person to help them handle all the estate affairs. Even then, Calmia is so busy with developing Pliaze and making sure it will be secure from monster attacks, she constantly rejects princess' invitations to the court.

** Rudbeckia, to a lesser extent, also becomes more jealous of his fiancee, appearing almost from thin air wherever some man tries to flirt with her.

* NeverASelfMadeWoman: This is Calmia's biggest issue, in both timelines. In the first one, she only became the countess because her twin brother died, leaving her father with no other choices, and even then, he treated Storoni more like his heir, while Storoni was puppeteering Calmia all her life [[spoiler: until he decided he doesn't need her anymore]]. In the second one, despite all her talent and hard work, she still becomes the countess only because Ellua willingly gave up his position for her. Even though Pliaze territory flourishes thanks to her, after arriving to the capital, Calmia is only seen as the fiancee of future Duke Matari and sister of Ellua, who just became an overnight sensation thanks to his linguistic skills, while people only talk about her looks.

* PoorCommunicationKills: While Calmia's knowledge [[spoiler: that Rudbeckia is also a regressor while he remains oblivious of her]] gives her the upper hand in many situations, this also leads to her fiance severely underestimating her and creating even more problems, mainly when he rejects the idea that she's the one who ordered spying on Storoni, which leads to Rudbeckia intercepting a very important letter regarding Storoni's moves and Phlox family losing their library as a result.

* SpannerInTheWorks: Rudbeckia and Calmia are both this to each other. On one hand, Rudbeckia comes from a more powerful family, is slightly older, lives in the capital and is in general given much more freedom than Calmia, who's constantly undermined by her father due to her sex, kept in a provincial estate with virtually no friends or supporters besides her twin brother and is a target of manipulation for many men around her. On the other hand, being out of general sight gives her many opportunities (mainly establishing trade with Ighalo and getting her hands on as many Ighaloan jewels as possible before trade negotiations even start and Rudbeckia begins to monitor the market) while she has a major advantage over her fiance: [[spoiler: she knows he's a regressor, and he doesn't know she is one as well, until she basically spells it out for him]].

* CantKillYouStillNeedYou: [[spoiler: Calmia and Storoni basically won in the first timeline, managing to put the second prince on the throne while the first princess basically gave up without a fight after her lover left her. However, to secure his legitimacy, the prince still needed the official support of Rudbeckia, head of the most powerful noble family in Elmark and a popular hero in the eyes of the common folk thanks to leading the fight against the invading monsters, so Storoni came up with a plan to poison Rudbeckia with a potion that would remove his will and make him into a puppet. Rudbeckia caught wind of it and used magic jewels to concoct a poison that would instead kill him and send him back in time, swapping it with Storoni's potion.]]

* EvilGloating: When he realizes Calmia and Ellua are getting overwhelmed with work after the count falls ill, and correctly assuming she's about to ask for help, Storoni gloats at Calmia that she shouldn't have rejected him earlier, but he might help her if she begs him. This backfires when Calmia instead rejects him again and goes on to hire a modest, hardworking minor nobleman to help them handle then estate.

* CantKillYouStillNeedYou: [[spoiler: Calmia and Storoni basically won in the first timeline, managing to put the second prince on the throne while the first princess basically gave up without a fight after her lover left her. However, to secure his legitimacy, the prince still needed the official support of Rudbeckia, head of the most powerful noble family in Elmark and a popular hero in the eyes of the common folk thanks to leading the fight against the invading monsters, so Storoni came up with a plan to poison Rudbeckia with a potion that would remove his will and make him into a puppet. Rudbeckia caught wind of it and used magic jewels to concoct a potion that would instead kill him and send him back in time, swapping it with Storoni's potion.]]

* EvenTheLovingHeroHasHatedOnes: Ellua is an all-around NiceGuy and the most unambiguously good person in this story, but he openly loathes Storoni, reacting with genuine disgust when the latter even stands close to him.