Characters / Ascendance of a Bookworm - Myne

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Myne | Ferdinand
Commoners and Temple Members | Nobles (Ehrenfest)

Myne

Debut: Part 1 (Volume 1)

Voiced by: Yuka Iguchi (Japanese), Reba Buhr (English), Valca Ponzanelli (Latin American Spanish)

^{Click here to see Myne's appearance in Part 2}

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The main character, who starts the story as essentially a modern-day Japanese young woman in the body of a sickly five-year-old. Having been an obsessive bookworm in her previous life, her goal in her new one is surrounding herself with books once again.

Initially resigned to make books herself from scratch due to her family being too poor to afford them, her use of her modern-day knowledge to give herself and her family a better life ends up giving her better options than she could hope for. In the long run, one of those options results in her spending a lot of time in the Noble's Quarter under the name of Rozemyne.

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• The Ace: After investigating her, Justus says she's "too good at everything." She's extremely learned even for a modern adult, with access to technological knowledge well in advance of her world, and the magical power of the highest nobility.
• Achievements in Ignorance: Myne doesn't know what magic can't do, so she often ends up doing what others think is impossible.
• Adaptational Nice Girl: The anime cuts out a lot of Myne's disgust with her family or leeching behavior, because it made her look really unsympathetic. It can still be seen via some of her oblivious selfishness when she's seen bothering her sister or implicitly refusing to help out around the house in pursuit of her pet project.
• Adopted into Royalty:
  • At the end of Part 2, she is made to be adopted by Sylvester, the current archduke of Ehrenfest, after being attacked by a foreign noble.
  • In Part 5 Volume 5, Rozemyne is in talks with the royal family about joining them to get Grutrissheit. Since she needs to be a member of the royal family to get access to the forbidden archive hidden inside the underground library, and waiting until she comes of age takes too long, Trauerqual and Sigiswald suggest to cancel her adoption contract with Sylvester and adopt her into the royal family.
• Adoptive Name Change: Zig-zagged with her Rozemyne identity. From the official story's perspective, this is averted because she kept the name given to her by her biological father when her adoptive father adopted her. From the perspective of what really happened, this is played straight since the name change occurred alongside her custody effectively shifting from her real birth family to Karstedt's and as a direct consequence of signing the adoption contract with Sylvester.
• Adoptive Peer Parent: Due to events near the end of Part 5, Rozemyne becomes Aub Alexandria and is set to marry Ferdinand, in accordance to Trauerqual's royal order. That order includes adopting Letizia, who is only four years younger than Rozemyne, though due to Rozemyne's sudden growth in Part 5 Volume 7 they at least don't look like they are the same age anymore.
• Afraid of Needles: She really doesn't like to have her finger pricked to seal a contract.
• Always Someone Better: Tuuli and Lutz try their best to improve their speech, their technical and academical skills, but when faced with Rozemyne they realize that they Can't Catch Up, as Rozemyne is way ahead in her education. Ferdinand saw to that by promising her books (which she would have gotten access to anyway). Though slightly intimidated by this, they use this realization as a motivation factor to work harder.
• Ambiguously Bi: Myne's narration reveals that she pays quite a lot of attention to the physiques of both men and women. Despite not being her type, she gets excited when Benno passes her a secret note, and she often comments on how hot women like Corinna, Brigitte, or Eglantine look. She also at one point comments on how unbelievably cute Hannelore is and notes that someone might have taken it the wrong way if they had heard her.
• Amicable Exes: If one can even call her engagement with Wilfried a real romantic relationship. They never viewed each other in a romantic way, and the stress and pressure Wilfried receives eventually sours their relationship. Once Wilfried gives up on becoming aub and their engagement is cancelled, they go back to their sibling relationship.
• Amnesiac Hero: Near the end of Part 5, Mestionora temporarily borrows Rozemyne's body. After she leaves, Rozemyne cannot remember anything that is more important to her than books (her commoner family and friends), but also her more traumatic experiences like the Battle of Gerlach (which made her develop a fear for feystones). Ferdinand restores her memory after sharing his own memories with her.
• Animal Motifs: Myne is compared several times to a shumil, a feybeast. Shumils are small and weak creatures, which have mana, with black/blue fur and golden eyes. They also aren't confrontational unless their loved ones are in danger, at which point their emotions and mana run rampant, turning their golden eyes into rainbow-colored ones.
• Annoying Younger Sibling:
  • Myne can come off as really selfish and bothers Tuuli often, like asking her for things she picked up in the forest or to get fresh water from the well to wash herself every day.
  • Starting in Part 3, Rozemyne's older siblings, specifically Cornelius, also have to deal with her book cravings. In Part 4, Cornelius also deliberately doesn't tell her about his relationship with Leonore exactly because he thinks she will either tell their mother, Elvira, about it, or she will try to support them by creating embarrassing opportunities for him and Leonore to spend more time together while they are guarding her.
• Badass Bookworm: While she spends the majority of her time reading and doing paperwork, Rozemyne is a powerhouse as a mage. In Part 4, after acquiring her schtappe, she can transform it into various shapes and weapons like Leidenschaft's Spear, Schutzaria's Shield, Flutrane's Staff, the Cloak of the God of Darkness, but also unconventional weapons from Earth like a water gun that instead shoots magic arrows.
• Bad Liar: Lutz immediately knows when she is hiding something. Ferdinand comments on how she can't really lie very well, a bad trait to have in noble society.
• Barrier Warrior: Myne mainly uses defensive magic in Part 2 in the form of Deflector Shields made from wind (that can Detect Evil) or Healing Hands at the end. This is also reflected in her personality, as she hates violence.
• Benevolent Boss:
  • Myne's actions involving her attendants causes their attitudes towards her to improve, sometimes dramatically, such as Gil's complete reversal. Once she becomes the orphanage director in the temple, she teaches the orphans skills that dramatically increase their value, which makes it harder for them to be bought by someone who would mistreat them.
  • Due to her past, Rozemyne is very accommodating towards commoners and treats them exceptionally well. She regularly pays the soldiers who escort her temple members back and forth to Hasse and Ehrenfest extra and takes extra care that the women in her entourage like Wilma, Rosina, and Ella, are not put in a situation where lecherous men could take advantage of them.
  • Rozemyne is known to treat her retainers better than most nobles. Unlike Ferdinand for instance, she doesn't dismiss people who are lacking in something, she tries to actively help them improve and motivates them with rewards, such as when she organizes a team that helps Angelica pass her grades (and avoid expulsion), when she teaches Damuel her mana compression method for free, or when she chooses Brigitte's province first to set up the paper industry in Ehrenfest. She also makes sure that all of her retainers get along and are not bullied by others, which is why she kicks out Traugott after he starts belittling Damuel in Part 4 Volume 2. In late Part 4 and Part 5, she also warns other nobles to not treat the children of the former Veronica faction, who gave their names to her, badly.
• Benevolent Mage Ruler: At the end of Part 5, Rozemyne becomes the aub of Alexandria (as a Ruling Couple with Ferdinand). One of the first things she does is building a library city, where eventually temple classes will be held where nobles and commoners alike can study. She intends to reform the temple, just like she did with Ehrenfest's temple, and restores the mana-starved lands. With her status as Mestionora's avatar, she also shields the former Ahrensbach from any further punishment after Detlinde cooperated with Lanzenave to usurp the throne and take over Yurgenschmidt's foundation.
• Best Friend: She quickly befriends Hannelore from Dunkelfelger and becomes her best friend. Hannelore comes to love books and they are of similar status, making this possible.
• Beware the Nice Ones: Myne is a sweet girl, but people are terrified of her when she's angry. It's played for laughs at first, but it's later shown that it's because she's subconsciously releasing an oppressive aura that makes her look terrifying. At the end of Part 1, a threat to her parents sends Myne into a tranquil but still Unstoppable Rage, almost killing the High Bishop by Crushing him with her mana, nearly stopping his heart. It's only after being told by Ferdinand that if she killed the High Bishop, her parents would be blamed, that she calms down.
• Big Sister Instinct: Try to harm Charlotte and you will regret it. One of the things Viscount Joisontak didn't expect was how far Rozemyne would go to protect Charlotte, as Rozemyne immediately chased after Charlotte when she was kidnapped and ordered her own guard knights to rescue her little sister.
• Big Sister Worship: Myne absolutely loves Tuuli and finds her adorable. Despite Myne's often very selfish and childish demands, Tuuli obliges and tries her best to be a good big sister to Myne.
• Blessed with Suck: Myne has ungodly amounts of mana in her body, but as a commoner she has no way to release it on her own, which causes it to build up and risk killing her. This is known as the Devouring and is the fate of most commoners with magic.
• Blow You Away: Deflector Shields made from wind are one of the first spells Myne can consciously cast.
• But I Read a Book About It: At least two of her attempts to make something to write on fail for this reason. During the winter she tries to make papyrus based off her vague memories of reading about it, but she's never really sure whether she's doing it right^note She wasn't even close. Papyrus was more glued together than woven together.. Either way, she gives up out of frustration at how incredibly long it's taking her. When the weather warms up, she tries to make clay tablets. Unfortunately, she apparently doesn't know how to take care of clay to remove impurities like air pockets, causing them to explode when she dries to dry them near a fire. She does eventually succeed to making paper based off what she's read about the process, but it basically requires her to reverse engineer it and invent the tools herself based on what she has available to her. She also requires an assistant to do the hard parts for her as she literally cannot handle the labor on her own.
• Butt-Monkey:
  • Especially early on, Myne's plans to make books fail because something happens that she didn't foresee. However, as she gains more allies and becomes more experienced, she turns her plans to make books into an industry that spreads everywhere.
  • A Running Gag is that Myne somehow loses consciousness because she loses control of her emotions and mana. Most of the time it involves books.
• Cannot Keep a Secret: Over the course of her social mobility, carelessly sharing information becomes more and more dangerous. Unfortunately, she has zero brain-to-mouth filter when she's enthusiastic or deep in thought, resulting in this becoming a frequent lecture topic from both Benno and Ferdinand. The only secret she does a decent job at keeping is the exact source of her knowledge.
• Catchphrase: "He who shall not work, neither shall he eat!" becomes something of a mantra for her when dealing with recalcitrant subordinates - and is used even when it's inappropriate, as when dealing with the orphanage children (who need to be given the opportunity to work first).
• Chaste Heroine: While she can easily see other people being in love with someone (like Ralph and Tuuli, Leonore and Cornelius, or Anastasius and Eglantine), she is not able to notice the subtle signs of affection directed at herself that are common of noble society, even not understanding the obvious staples of courting for nobles, which makes her a Clueless Dude Magnet. Any romantic hints are ignored because she never experienced romantic love in her life. The love she shows to others and that she perceives is always of familial nature.
  • Lutz was never open about it to Myne, but she was his First Love. As their connection throughout Part 3 and 4 grows thinner, he gets over it. Part of the reason why Myne never viewed him the same way is their mental age difference.
  • In Part 4 Volume 6, Third Prince Hildebrand falls in love with Rozemyne, which is why he frequents the Royal Academy Library to see her. While Hartmut and Charlotte see this, Rozemyne doesn't. Due to Hildebrand accidentally assuming she is Charlotte, she thinks he is in love with Charlotte instead.
  • In Part 5, she fails to realize that Lestilaut has a crush on her. To be fair to her, his own sister Hannelore doesn't realize this, either, not even when they see that most of his paintings portrait either Rozemyne or Eglantine whirling.
  • In the later parts of Part 5, Ferdinand has developed feelings for her and by the time she goes through her Plot-Relevant Age-Up, he has been blatant enough with his feelings for everybody else to see it and assume that they are in a relationship. What's worse is that she is too dense to realize her own feelings for Ferdinand. In Part 5 Volume 5 she becomes desperate to the point that she hurts herself when she is denied access to Grutrissheit (which she needs to negotiate for Ferdinand's life) and subsequently is willing to marry Sigiswald, a terrible partner, to save Ferdinand's life from execution. In Part 5 Volume 7 and 8, she gathers an army and invades a duchy to save Ferdinand's life. When she later learns that she accidentally got engaged to Ferdinand, she doesn't mind this at all, yet she still says she doesn't love him romantically, which baffles both nobles and commoners alike. While she claims she would do what she does for him for any other person she views as family, no one buys it.
• Child of Two Worlds: As she does the titular ascension, she absorbs many disparate cultural values, going from modern Japanese to abject poverty peasants, affluent merchants, temple worker and high ranking nobility. This gives her a unique perspective when dealing with each distinct group, something that Ferdinand and Sylvester exploit from time to time.
• A Child Shall Lead Them: In the second half of Part 5, Rozemyne steals Ahrensbach's foundation, thus becoming Aub Ahrensbach. She keeps that position at the end of Part 5, making her the only underaged aub in the country. This is why in the Hannelore spin-off (which plays after Part 5) the age to acquire a schtappe is moved to the final year at the Academy, to prevent this from happening again.
• Cloudcuckoolander: Myne's head is full of books. It's almost all she ever thinks of, and the easiest way to distract her to the point she Forgets to Eat is to let her read books. In Part 1, Benno and Lutz are fully aware of her obsession and try their best to keep her in check, but during her baptism she is left alone and makes rash decisions to join the temple, just so she could read books. Her family and Benno are absolutely furious when they learn what she has done.
• Combat Pragmatist: Rozemyne usually doesn't mind resorting to what some knights would say is very unconventional fighting. Lestilaut thinks she is fighting dirty, but Rauffen and Ferdinand approve.
• Cool Big Sis:
  • She wants to become a cool sister for her little brother, Kamil, after he is born, though her sudden adoption at the end of Part 2 makes this impossible.
  • After meeting Charlotte, Rozemyne has made it her goal to become a sister worthy of Charlotte's worship and tries her best to look like a big sister who will do anything for her. The same happens with Melchior later on.
• Creepy Child:
  • She turns Ax-Crazy when books are harmed. She unintentionally Crushes Fey, when he and his friends trample on Myne's clay tablets. In Part 2, Myne is so furious that Egmont, a blue priest, vandalized the book room in the temple, that she seriously considers to kill him as punishment.
  • Rozemyne disturbs the people with how full her work schedule is every day and how vastly superior she is to other noble children like Wilfried, who is supposed to be the same age as her. When Wilfried's tutor, Moritz, questions Rozemyne's improbable age, she tells him that it's due to Ferdinand's strict teachings, and she doesn't want him to pry any further. Unfortunately, the way she phrases it, it sounds like she is making an Implied Death Threat to him.
    "This is surely the result of Ferdinand's teachings. And while there may be more to it than that, the scriptures say that those who try to learn a woman's secrets rarely meet a pleasant end," I said, punctuating my warning with a dark laugh. This time, Moritz looked at me with genuine terror.
• Cool Teacher: Myne playfully teaches the children in the orphanage how to read by making karuta and playing cards, and the first books she prints are simplified picture books of the bible that teaches the names of the gods. She also advises the gray priests and shrine maidens to switch the subject once they get bored, so the children won't stop paying attention, just like Japanese children in school. Her methods prove to be very effective, as the orphans can read, write and do basic math after only one winter, which shocks Sylvester. Mainly because his own son, Wilfried, isn't even close to what the orphans accomplished after several years of education. In Part 3, Rozemyne successfully applies the same methods to Wilfried, much to the delight of Rihyarda and Florencia, and later on does the same with the noble children during winter.
• Cuddle Bug: Myne loves hugs, and they also have practical use, since they calm her down. Her parents, Tuuli or Lutz usually hug her a lot, though only Lutz and Ferdinand still do so after she becomes Rozemyne, and Lutz can't hug her at all anymore after she is forbidden from using her secret room in Part 4.
• Cute Bookworm: Says so right in the title. She's completely obsessed with books and if she doesn't have any, she'll do whatever is needed to produce them. She also is self-admittedly a wallflower, and given her small stature and weak physique, she appears to be younger than she actually is.
• Daddy's Girl: Gunther loves both his daughters very much. The Urano version of Myne comes to accept him as her father and loves him just as much.
• Dead Guy Junior: Invoked. One of the layers of deception in her Rozemyne identity is being the secret daughter of a deceased noblewoman. The woman was named Rozemary and was Karstedt's third wife. However, this was done so Lady Elvira, the first wife, will accept to pass her off as being officially her fourth child.
• Death Seeker: In an extra chapter in Part 1 Volume 2, Effa remembers how the original Myne (pre-Past-Life Memories) used to tell her about her fun dreams of a better life and how she wants to be asleep forever, which Effa interpreted as a wish to die.
• Debt Detester: Myne doesn't like owing people and always intends to return the favor. This in return means that in her opinion, everyone needs to be rewarded for their hard work.
• Declaration of Protection: Rozemyne practically never gets violent, except when someone endangers her family, her friends, her retainers, or books. In Part 4 Volume 8, after it's decided that Ferdinand will leave Ehrenfest and go to Ahrensbach, she promises that she will protect Ferdinand, even if she has to go against the royal family or the gods, because Ferdinand is family to her. Hearing that and seeing to what great lengths Rozemyne goes for him makes Ferdinand slowly shift his "Geduldh" from Ehrenfest to her.
• The Defroster: Myne is High Priest Ferdinand's. It begins in Part 1 Volume 3, when Myne and her parents protect each other from the High Bishop, and everything she does from that point on slowly defrosts Ferdinand's stoic and overly rational self, which the people close to Ferdinand notice. Especially her sharing her memories with him and showing him the love she received from her mother shakes him to the core. From that point on, Ferdinand shows much more trust towards Myne, such as when he doesn't even bother doing a poison test when she gives him snacks, which surprises Eckhart considering Ferdinand's past.
• Delicate and Sickly: Double blow for Myne, as she is constantly bedridden and exhausted. She's a tiny girl highly prone to fevers, and on top of that has to struggle with the Devouring, which is caused by mana inside her body going berserk. At one point, the high priest tries giving her a relatively mild punishment by shutting her inside a poorly-heated room alone for several hours, only for her to end up collapsing with a fever because Myne's body can't take any punishment, even cold weather. As revealed at the beginning of Part 3, she had several close encounters with death that crystalized clumps of mana in her body, which made traditional treatment for Devouring not possible.
• Desperately Craves Affection: Myne needs emotional and physical support when she is upset. This is very important to keep in check, as she otherwise leaks mana, which can be treated with feystones and Cooldown Hugs. In Part 2, during winter in her first year as an apprentice blue shrine maiden, she is forced to stay in the temple and dearly misses her family. However, she must not get too close to her attendants, to keep the relationship between master and servant firmly professional and separated. Ferdinand is the one who gives her her needed hugs. In Part 3, she gets them from Lutz when they are in her hidden room, or Ferdinand when they are alone.
• Disappeared Dad: Urano never grew up with a father figure in her life. Not so in her second life, where she meets several people who all act like a father to her in some way, like Gunther, Benno, Mark, Ferdinand, Karstedt, and Sylvester.
• Ditzy Genius: Justified. Myne has Past-Life Memories and is mentally an adult educated woman with tons of knowledge from the books she read. However, she is too obsessed with books and she lacks a bit of what others in her new life would call common sense, as she grew up in a completely different world.
• Drama-Preserving Handicap: By the end of Part 5 Volume 8, she's technically both the reigning archduchess of a greater duchy and a Zent candidate. Part 5 Volume 9 gives her a phobia of feystones that is bad enough that she can't stand seeing them anymore to navigate, which balances the power she's wielding by that point.
• Dude Magnet: It's often remarked how pretty Myne already looks, but when she's grown up, she will become a true beauty. Ferdinand early on already notes that once she comes of age, she will receive plenty of marriage proposals, since she has an insanely large mana capacity.
• Elemental Motifs: Wind. Feystones that are dyed with her mana tend to turn yellow, which is the Goddess of Wind Schutzaria's color. Schutzaria's Shield is the first divine instrument that Myne can magically create and one of Schutzaria's subordinate gods is Mestionora, the Goddess of Wisdom, who is linked to knowledge and books. Incidentally, Myne's sister, Tuuli's, name is Finno-Permic for wind.
• Even the Girls Want Her: Myne is a compassionate and beautiful girl, her directness even attracting women who are slated to marry. That includes Freida, Charlotte, Hannelore, and Eglantine.
• Extremely Protective Child:
  • It's generally a bad idea to harm or threaten the people she cares about, which includes her family and her various guardians.
  • In Part 3, she takes upon herself to lighten Ferdinand's workload as much as she can when she realizes he's not going to do it for himself. When she tries to include the portion coming from Ferdinand's own Childhood Friends in her efforts, they start teasing her about acting like she's Ferdinand's mother. In Part 4 Volume 7 she promises to protect him, even if it's against the royal family or the gods. Why? Because he's family to her.
  • At the start of Part 5, she gets really angry when lower-ranking duchies start badmouthing Sylvester in her presence. Her decision to hold a Dedication Ritual at the Royal Academy is partially motivated by her desire to clear up Sylvester's and the temple's bad reputation.
• Eye Colour Change: Myne's eyes turn rainbow-hued when her mana runs wild.
• Faking the Dead: The actual reason she's living as Rozemyne after a certain point in the story is that Myne's death had to be faked after a noble from another duchy tried to kidnap her, both for her family's safety and her own.
• First Love: Myne was Lutz's first love. Rozemyne is also Prince Hildebrand's first love, though this has more dire consequences.
• First-Person Smartass: The story is told from Myne's view. While the narration is full of snark, Myne usually keeps these thoughts to herself.
• Fish out of Temporal Water:
  • Myne grew up on modern Japanese values, which has warped her values from a medieval perspective. This leaves her looking careless and with a strange attitude. Lutz, the only one to know she's not a native, eventually comes to understand why her behavior is so strange when he becomes an official merchant apprentice: She has to fight against years of living with completely different values and has to constantly fight against her natural instincts, much like how as an apprentice he has to constantly keep in mind cleanliness, proper speech, and hygiene, things he never had to care about before.
  • In Part 4, Rozemyne says that she feels like Urashima Tarou after learning that she slept for almost two years and didn't grow at all in that time. Her youngest female attendants have come of age, Gil has had his growth spurt all while being less than a year away from his own coming of age and even her little sister, Charlotte, has become bigger than her.
• Flat-Earth Atheist:
  • Early on, Myne takes it so for granted that magic doesn't exist that she completely dismisses the first hints that this is not an entirely mundane world. During Myne's first experience outside of her home, she sees the temple and decides to avoid it as much as possible because she's an atheist. One guess where she ends up two years later. She later learns that magic functions by invoking the names of the gods.
  • Averted in the anime. She's very quick to start giving thanks to the gods, at least once she sees the temple library.
• Foil:
  • Ferdinand serves as a foil to Myne. They actually have a lot in common, and over the series she influences him as much as he influences her.
    • Rozemyne is criticized as being too direct and emotional, which is the complete opposite of Ferdinand, who is viewed as callous, too rational, and stoic.
    • Myne is actually Older Than She Looks (especially when the years of her life as Urano are added to it). Ferdinand meanwhile is Younger Than He Looks. He is constantly mistaken to be 5-10 years older than he really is.
    • Their upbringing is very different. Myne was raised with love, and Urano was also deeply loved by her mother. Ferdinand on the other hand was abused by his stepmother and neglected by his father. Ferdinand's food was also constantly poisoned by Veronica, which is one of the reasons why he has trust issues. On the other hand, Ferdinand knows he can put so much trust into the food Rozemyne offers him because the food Urano's mother cooked for her was tasty and made with love. Rozemyne would never tamper with food to poison anyone.
    • Myne starts out as a very selfish person, but over time starts to care about other people and takes responsibility. Ferdinand initially does not care about his own wellbeing. He was raised to serve Ehrenfest and its archduke, but at the end he starts to truly desire Rozemyne and a family for himself. This is also very ironic because Rozemyne is seen as a selfless saint, while Ferdinand is compared to a demon lord.
    • Both are noted to be highly intelligent and talented, which is why both were brought into Ehrenfest's archducal family to support the duchy and its future ruler. Both Rozemyne and Ferdinand become the top-rated students of their year multiple times in a row. In fact, after reading the first volume of "Fernestine", Hannelore initially assumes Fernestine is Rozemyne (it's a genderbent Ferdinand).
    • Both have a desire to be largely independent of others and are Debt Detesters. Rozemyne doesn't take the money she gets from her guardians for granted and always intends to either earn her money herself or pay people back later. Early on, Myne reaches the conclusion that if she can't buy something, she just has to make it herself, which is not unlike Ferdinand, who makes all his potions, magic circles, and magic tools himself, and like Rozemyne earned a fortune by selling their products to others, since his Wicked Stepmother cut all his funds back then. Amusingly, since they are both Debt Detesters, in Part 5 they keep trying to outdo each other with return gifts.
    • Rozemyne and Ferdinand are obsessed with their recreational activities, but while Rozemyne only wants to reads books all the time, Ferdinand wants to spend time doing magical research. Both also are so much into their hobby that they lose track of the time and skip their meals. Their retainers are struggling with making them eat food. The difference is that Ferdinand's body is much fitter than Rozemyne's, so he doesn't collapse just because he forgot to eat one meal.
  • Rozemyne's guard knight Angelica is a Dumb Muscle. Rozemyne on the other hand is extremely physically weak, which she makes up for it with her mind. This is why together the two of them make a good Brains and Brawn team. Other people also note that Rozemyne and Angelica lack an interest in romance, are very competent in what they are doing, and show no motivation for anything that doesn't have anything to do with their desires.
  • Rozemyne is one to Second Prince Anastasius. Their backgrounds are the complete opposite, which can also be seen in their behavior. Anastasius acts too much like a noble and is very indirect, Rozemyne doesn't act enough like a noble and is criticized for being too direct.
• Friendship Favoritism:
  • Freida gets pouty when she realizes that while Myne is her best friend, Freida isn't Myne's. She gets very jealous when she sees Myne treating Lutz much more like a friend than her.
  • At the end of Part 2, Myne casts a great blessing for those who are dear to her. Besides her family, the people she blesses are Lutz, Benno, Mark, Dirk, Fran, Ferdinand, and Damuel. Her blessing did not reach Freida or Leon for instance. Karstedt later warns Rozemyne not to tell Sylvester or Ferdinand that Damuel received Myne's blessing, too, if she doesn't want him to be teased by Sylvester for the rest of his life.

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• Good with Numbers: Her first step up from "just a poor family's sickly child" happens when she impresses someone who actually knows how to do math with her calculation skills. They are good enough that it ends up being the bulk of the work she does for the temple as well. In fact, one of Ferdinand's few and far between moments of humor is referring to Myne as his calculator.
• Grand Theft Me: Invoked, but averted. As Lutz grows more aware of her strangeness he realizes she cannot possibly be a sickly five-year-old girl and more or less accuses her of being a demon that stole away the real Myne's body. However, it's an aversion: Myne was already dead when Urano got there and before Lutz even met her, and the latter never wanted to come to such a crappy place in such a feeble body to begin with. invokedWord of God even states that there was no transmigration of souls involved, Myne is Urano's Reincarnation and Urano's personality manifesting is due to Past-Life Memories changing Myne's original ego into a copy of her previous self rather than true possession.
• Height Angst: She's Older Than She Looks in big part because she's very short for her age. She gets very frustrated when her inability to do a given task has more to do with her size than with her health and welcomes any sign that she is growing, even a little. It get even worse starting Part 4, as the nature of her two-year coma keeps her from growing at all during that time. When she goes to the Royal Academy after waking up from said coma, it's not rare for furniture meant to accomodate people a year younger than her chronological age to be too tall for her.
• Heroic Host: Near the end of Part 5, Rozemyne allows Mestionora to temporarily take over her body two times. After Mestionora leaves, Rozemyne is filled with Mestionora's mana, which rapidly regenerates, forcing Ferdinand to find a way to nearly drain Rozemyne completely of that mana to redye her. Mestionora also locked away part of her memories, making Rozemyne forget everything she cares about more than books.
• Heroic Neutral: Myne generally avoids conflict as much as possible. It's a hassle for her, and if all the other person does is insult her, she will just ignore it. As long as you don't threaten her life, her family, her friends, or her reading time, she is quite apathetic and indifferent to what is going on.
• Heroic Self-Deprecation: Rozemyne is very embarrassed when people bring up her heroic deeds for the orphanage and thinks they are exaggerating. From her point of view, she helps the orphanage for very selfish reasons, as she can't bring herself to read in the book room in good conscience, while people were starving in the building next door. The workshop that she builds also produces paper and prints books because she wants to spread books to the world, and teaching the orphans to read and write serves to increase literacy, so that they can teach even more people, who may write their own books. She is the only who thinks so, though, everyone else agrees that she went far and beyond what any other orphanage director or blue priest/shrine maiden has done before her, which has rightfully earned her the full adoration of every orphan in the temple.
• High Priest: In Part 3, Rozemyne is inaugurated as Ehrenfest's High Bishop.
• Hypercompetent Sidekick:
  • Otto teaches Myne how to read and write to eventually make her his assistant. By the end of Part 1 Volume 1, he admits to Benno and Corinna that Myne is actually doing over 70% of his work when she comes to the gate.
  • She becomes this in Part 4 after she and Wilfried are engaged. This would make Wilfried the future aub, but as always Rozemyne is overshadowing him by far, which he does not take well.
  • Starting in Part 5, she is this to Sylvester as well. After Ferdinand leaves Ehrenfest, Rozemyne practically becomes his replacement.
• I Gave My Word: Her word is her bond. If Myne promises something, she will keep it. Her promise to introduce Lutz to Otto and the merchant trade is initially the only thing that motivates her to keep the Devouring in check and survive. However, she's prone to Loophole Abuse. In Part 3 Volume 1, she has to promise to Ferdinand that she will not sell any more of Wilma's printed illustrations of him again. Well, she doesn't. She just gifts them to the ladies in the Noble's Quarter, which technically does not break her promise.
• Ignored Expert: At the end of Part 2 Volume 3, Myne tries to tell the women from the neighborhood coming to help and the midwife to disinfect their hands to protect Effa from Death by Childbirth. They largely ignore her because she is just a child and dismiss her as a Neat Freak. However, having learned that while Myne is a bit weird, she is usually right, her family listens to her advice afterwards to protect Kamil.
• I Hate Past Me: Seeing Wilfried selfishly calling everything and everyone unfair, when he is the one who is getting spoiled, enrages her. However, at the same time Wilfried's attitude reminds Rozemyne of how she also initially was really selfish to the people around her.
• Inconsistent Spelling:
  • Officially her name is spelled Myne but has been translated as Mine or Maine. Crunchyroll's subs use "Main".
  • Rozemyne likewise also has several different spellings, with "Rose-" being a popular choice. Due to concerns of mispronouncing her name like the English word "rose", the author insisted on "Roze-".
• Informed Attractiveness: Myne is described to have a pretty face, which she inherited from her mother, Effa. Her gleaming Raven Hair, Ivory Skin and golden eyes are also frequently pointed out to add to her beauty as if she was blessed by the God of Darkness and the Goddess of Light themselves.
• Innocently Insensitive
  • At the start of the story she views her family with disgust because they're a bunch of dirty peasants. This is hardly their fault, though, because pretty much everyone is a dirty peasant due to a lack of access to clean running water, easy methods of heating and affordable soap. Not only do they don't live like this by choice, but since all their neighbors are the same they have no point of reference to understand why Myne might be bothered. She does eventually get over it, especially once she begins inventing ways for them to stay cleaner, such as inventing shampoo.
  • In the early parts of the story she often ignores her family asking her to help with daily chores because she doesn't take the struggles of medieval life seriously and doesn't really recognize how difficult it is to take care of someone as weak as her. She'll doing something like trying and failing to make papyrus mid winter while they're doing things to keep the family from starving to death. Their pointed hints genuinely fly over her head at first, but eventually she comes to recognize the situation and that she shouldn't be taking them for granted, even if she finds it difficult to see eye to eye with them.
• In-Series Nickname: Invoked by having her noble name contain "Myne". If someone who knows both her identities slips up in front of someone who only knows Rozemyne, she can pass it off as a nickname.
• Interclass Friendship: While Benno and Freida are both still commoners, they are of much richer and more influential families of merchants. The relative positions on the social ladder are flipped when it comes to Rozemyne, but she is explicitly not allowed to be friends with people below her status. Nobles beneath her have to be subservient to her, let alone commoners. This is why she is glad to have Hannelore and Ferdinand around; the former is only slightly higher in status since she is from a greater duchy, and the latter is technically her guardian and senior, but they are Vitriolic Best Buds.
• Intergenerational Friendship:
  • From the perspective of her mental age, all her friendships with children, the first being Lutz.
  • From the perspective of her physical age, all her friendships with adults, the first being Otto.
• Instant Expert: In Part 2 Volume 2, Myne is sent to support the Knight's Order to deal with the aftermath of their trombe extermination. She is given a magic tool ring by Ferdinand for this mission. She instinctively channels her mana in the tool and blesses the knights with a Magic Enhancement. When she realizes this, she cuts off her mana to not exhaust herself.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Initially, she's rather self-centered and indifferent unless books are involved. But she's not actually a bad person, she just doesn't have a true understanding of the situation. Later, when she discovers just what dire straits the orphanage children are in, she feels she has to help even though nobody would really expect her to do anything at all. Character Development helps her work more toward "heart of gold" and less toward "jerk."
• Leeroy Jenkins: Myne's eagerness tends to get her drawn into situations where she could be taken advantage of before her friends and family can even realize that's something she needed to be warned about. At the end of Part 2, Benno fears that, with Myne turning into a noble, that there will be nobody in her immediate circle who can keep that side of hers in check.
• Like Parent, Like Child: Effa notes that while Myne might have inherited her looks, personality-wise she is much more like Gunther. They are pretty stubborn and charge ahead to fulfill their dreams, choosing way different paths than their parents (Gunther's parents were woodworkers, and he became a soldier; Effa is a dyer, but Myne secured a job as a merchant).
• Living Emotional Crutch:
  • Myne starts to become one to Lutz. Myne was the first person who encouraged Lutz to follow his dreams to become a merchant, and arranges the meeting and deal that binds them to Benno, which allows Lutz to become an apprentice at the Gilberta Company. She also teaches him to write and do math, while offering emotional support when he runs away from home because his family seemingly doesn't accept him. She solves the problem with the help of Ferdinand and clears the misunderstandings. Lutz wouldn't know what to do if Myne wasn't there for him and breaks down in tears when she is nearly overwhelmed by the Devouring, begging Benno to save her.
  • It's implied that Rozemyne's presence is needed for the orphans. If she were to die, they fear that the temple would revert back to what it was before she joined it. At the end of Part 3, her attendants are depressed when they see how close to death she is after she was poisoned, and they all hope that she will recover.
  • Rozemyne becomes this to Roderick. He became miserable after Wilfried stopped associating with Roderick, as the former Veronica faction lost power and were punished, and their children were isolated by everyone else. His father treated him as useless and regularly beat him to the point that Roderick grew suicidal. What gave Roderick new hope was Rozemyne's book that her workshop published while she slept in her jureve. It contained a revised version of Roderick's story that he told her in the winter's playroom in the previous year, and he felt like he was recognized by someone. After Rozemyne awakes, she assesses Roderick fairly (regardless of his family's faction) and rewards him for the stories he brought to her. Roderick wishes to dedicate his life to Rozemyne then and later swears an oath of loyalty to her.
  • It's shown in Part 5 that she is this to Ferdinand. Ferdinand dearly misses Rozemyne's presence after he left Ehrenfest at the end of Part 4. They write to each other, and send each other gifts, and when Rozemyne disappears for a while, Eckhart wishes for her to return soon, since he knows that Ferdinand needs her.
• Loss of Identity: The Devouring not only nearly killed her body, it actually destroyed all of the original Myne's personality and replaced it with the one from her past life; the Myne we know is more or less Urano Motosu, a 24-year old librarian, in a 5-year-old's body.
• Loved by All: The children of the temple's orphanage absolutely adore her and even compete for her affection.
• Mage Born of Muggles: In Part 1, Benno mentions her condition, known as the Devouring, is actually caused by having mana despite not being of noble blood. It later turns that there is a treatment, but among commoners it's little-known and prohibitively expensive. As a result, almost none of those with the condition live to see past the age of baptism, which is stated to be 7.
• Magnetic Hero: Rozemyne isn't bound to factions and their squabbles. She takes everyone in that wants to support her dream to read and create books. And that includes the children of the former Veronica faction. She manages the children's playroom in Part 3 Volume 3 perfectly and creates a harmonious atmosphere. Many of Rozemyne's retainers praise her for giving everyone a fair chance to prove themselves, which is how she wins over the noble children that should have naturally been loyal to Wilfried, like Roderick, Matthias, and Laurentius.
• Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe: Inverted for Rozemyne. Everyone is made to believe Rozemyne is the daughter of Karstedt and Elvira, but when she meets her dead namesake, Rozemary's, mednoble relatives, they immediately start declaring that Rozemyne must be Rozemary's daughter. Of course none of them know that neither Elvira nor Rozemary are actually Rozemyne's mother, since she was originally a commoner.
• Meaningful Appearance: When Myne first puts up her hair, Tuuli tells her only adult women do that. So to compromise she only puts up half her hair. This also reflect that she is an adult in a child's body.
• Meaningful Name:
  • Both "Myne" and "Urano Motosu" are based on a complicated wordplay with alternate readings and ateji (kanji chosen for their pronunciation and less for their meaning), which is not easily explainable in English. ^ExplanationMyne is based on her original name Motosu Urano (本須麗乃), which is derived from the phrase "本は須らく、うらのである" ("Books are naturally mine.") 本 (Hon) can also be read as Moto and 須 can be read as su, hence her family name Motosu. 麗乃 is just ateji for うらの (U-ra-no) because the kanji look pretty for a girl, and "Ura no" means "my/mine" (in English). "Mine" written in katakana gives マイン (ma-i-n). The author was then consulted which romanization looks best for the English audience and she chose Myne. Note that she also mentions that "main" comes from "main character" in German, but that's actually not true.
  • Notable aversion for Rozemyne. The "Roze-" part has nothing to do with the Latin/German word for "rose". It has no meaning in that world and the matching pronunciation is a coincidence. The author was more concerned about the English audience pronouncing her name correctly, which is why Rozemyne was chosen.
• Merlin and Nimue: Starting in Part 3, Ferdinand teaches Rozemyne magic. While Ferdinand is older than her in this world, Urano is actually older than him mentally.
• Messianic Archetype: In Part 3, as the new High Bishop and Aub Ehrenfest's adopted daughter, Ferdinand and Sylvester work hard on trying to make Rozemyne look like a saintess, chosen by the gods. How she helped turn the orphanage around and her looks help, as her hair is colored like the God of Darkness, while her eyes look like they came from the Goddess of Light.
• The Mind Is a Plaything of the Body: Subverted. Myne sometimes acts very childish, as one would expect from someone her age, even though she is mentally an adult woman in her mid-twenties. However, flashbacks show that even as Urano, she was acting very childish sometimes.
• A Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Read: Downplayed. When High Priest Ferdinand is forced to read her mind to verify whether she is dangerous to others, he fears that he might get carried away by Myne's mind, since the magic he's using to do it lets him feel her emotions as well, and they're 'synchronizing' too well. Myne just proceeds to imagine being back in various places in Japan and having an everyday conversation and lunch with her mother. Despite the mundanity involved, the sheer love and gratitude Myne has for her mother, and the regret of being unable to give her a proper goodbye until then drives Ferdinand to tears and break off the connection. Ferdinand afterwards says he has never felt worse - but the implication is that this is because he was emotionally numb and he had not felt emotions so strongly in a very long time.
• Mistaken for Spies: After Ferdinand realizes she clearly has had an education and is not just a prodigy, he suspects she could be a threat to the duchy. It takes a mind-melding magic tool for him to realize the truth.
• Neat Freak: She comes across as one due to vastly different hygiene standards. On the one hand, she has given both Tuuli and Lutz better prospects by having them wash before interacting with people who care about cleanliness more than they do. On the other hand, the women assisting with a childbirth have trouble taking her request to wash hands seriously. The cooks Benno hires also are shocked when they learn how they have to keep themselves and the kitchen clean at all times, but are forced to obey. Her obsession with cleanliness has also vastly improved the conditions in the orphanage, whose post-baptism residents were already used to keeping themselves cleaner than the average poor commoner.
• Never Got to Say Goodbye: Her main regret concerning the mother she had as Urano is that she never got to give her farewell to her before dying.
• New Life in Another World Bonus: Deconstructed. Myne has vast knowledge of modern technology and food, and ridiculous amounts of magical power in her new life, but she lacks the strength, skills and money necessary to take advantage of this. She quickly tires out, and almost no one takes her seriously. The mana is destroying her body from the inside out, practically making it an inversion before she's informed of its true nature and gets the means to properly channel it. As isekai cheats go, it's not a useful one for almost two years.
• Nice Girl: Myne is generally a kind person, though she often doesn't understand what a burden she is to others, and can be pretty single-minded. This actually makes one of her attendants highly uncomfortable because he expects to be treated firmly. A noble is not supposed to be so accommodating or polite to their inferiors, so he feels somewhat insulted: he's being a good attendant, but she isn't being a good master.
• No Social Skills: Zig-zagged, as while she is somewhat able to read people and is capable of speaking with others on friendly terms at most, she is a self-admitted wallflower to the point that even the one-time Puppy Love-like interaction between her and Lutz sends her floundering. She still misses and misunderstands emotional cues and reactions from other people a lot, especially when books are involved. This gradually changes while she is slowly learning how to act like a noble during her apprentice shrine maiden training at the temple in Part 2, and later on in Part 3 after becoming Rozemyne, Aub Ehrenfest's adopted daughter. However, she is two years behind in her social education in Part 4, which leads to her acting outrageously again, especially when books are involved. For instance, she is clearly snarking at Prince Anastasius in their first scene together. She thinks he didn't notice, but he does, which is why he doesn't like her at all initially.
• Not Allowed to Grow Up: Downplayed and Justified. A side effect of suffering from the Devouring (not being able to release one's pent-up mana) is stunted growth. Coupled with her forced jureve sleep that lasted two years, she is frequently mistaken to be 3-4 years younger than she really is, which is why people are Expecting Someone Taller. At least until the second half of Part 5, when Rozemyne meets Erwarmen who mistakes her for Ferdinand and sees that she's small, so he asks the God of Growth to "fix" it and gives Rozemyne a Plot-Relevant Age-Up.
• Not Quite the Right Thing: Her usual Nice Girl attitude helps with two of her attendants, but offends the third because it makes him feel disrespected due to complex social rules Myne doesn't really understand. The issue isn't cleared up until she explains that she's basically borrowing his help and is not his proper master.
• Obsessed with Food: If there is one thing Myne shows interest in besides books, it's food. The food in her world is notoriously bland, which is why she aims to recreate as many recipes from Earth as she can. While she has no trouble recreating western food, she struggles to find the ingredients to make Japanese food. This is why Rozemyne is very happy to hear from Aurelia that Ahrensbach has a sea and there is an abundance of fishes and exotic spices there. Talking about a seemingly irrelevant subject such as food makes Aurelia open her heart to Rozemyne.
• Ojou: In Part 2, Myne is treated like a noble blue priest and is given attendants, who are supposed to train and treat her like a noble. Starting in Part 3, she is treated this way outside of the temple as well, after becoming an archnoble through adoption.
• Older Than They Look: Myne is not as young as she appears. She just happens to be very small and sickly. It becomes a plot point at the end of Part 2, when her noble guardians need to prepare to baptize her as Rozemyne a full year after her real baptism to keep people in Noble's Quarter from wondering why they haven't seen her before, and someone comments that it would be possible to wait for another year to do it and still have people believe she's only 7. Exacerbated at the end of Part 3. An assassination attempt left Rozemyne at death's door, so plans for her to use the jureve potion are put through, with the understanding that she will be in suspended animation during it. It takes almost 2 years for her to wake up, still looking like she's 7 or 8 years old at best.
• Omniglot: Downplayed. invokedWord of God mentions that Urano studied multiple languages to a degree where she can at least read them half-decently with some help, mostly so she could read more books. That helped her pick up on the setting's writing system.
• Once Done, Never Forgotten: During her first winter as Rozemyne, she collapses to getting hit with a single snowball because her health is just that poor. It gets brought up several times after that, including a side chapter that happens at the beginning of the following winter. It gets brought up again three winters after it happened by people who mention just how weak she is. The fact that the people who threw the snowball was her own adoptive brother while his friends were ready to throw more, alongside the two following winters overlapping with the time for which she's in a coma doesn't help much with people forgetting the incident, either.
• One Woman Industrial Revolution: As a means to her goal, she introduces plant-based paper as a substitute for parchment, movable type, the printing press, and associated technologies to raise money. She also increases literacy and, in the end, publishes books.
• Only Friend: Myne is Freida's only friend. Since Freida was stuck at home most of the time before her baptism, and since she is set to leave the lower city and live in the Noble's Quarter once she comes of age, she doesn't have any friends. Her wish to save and bind Myne to her family's store was also a wish to stay friends with her once she had to leave.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: She is so traumatized by the state of the children in the orphanage as well as the blue priests' refusal to improve the conditions that she can't find enjoyment in reading.
• Otaku: A book otaku through and through. Myne knows how to make books from scratch, and trying to find a way to read books is initially the sole thing that gives her the motivation to keep living. After finally getting access to the library in the temple, she gets so consumed with reading she Forgets to Eat. Ferdinand shortly after learns that he can bait and punish Myne by offering books to read or forbidding her to read respectively. When he reads her memories in Part 2 Volume 2, he has to tell her to show him something other than books and libraries, so he can see something else from her world.

P — Z

• The Paragon: After taking counsel with Lutz, in order to improve the orphanage's conditions Myne has asked Lutz and Tuuli to teach the orphans how to forage in the forest, cook and mend clothes for themselves. Thus, they would become much less dependent on the temple's trickle-down of leftover food system. The Myne Workshop in the orphanage that produces games, paper and prints books also largely serves as a source of income, so that they may buy food when they cannot forage.
• Pathetically Weak: Her bad health leaves her with very little physical strength and she often struggles to do manual tasks that children her age and later children who are actually a year younger than her accomplish effortlessly. It sometimes becomes a source of self-deprecating humor because of her First-Person Smartass.
• Power Incontinence: Myne has enormous amounts of magical power, but no way to release it by herself. This becomes especially dangerous when her emotions run wild. If she gets to excited, she may faint.
  • In Part 1 Volume 1, she Crushes Fey with her leaking mana, when he and his friends don't look where they are walking and destroy her clay tablets. She does it again in Volume 3, when High Bishop Bezewanst orders his attendants to attack Myne's parents and capture Myne. In Part 2, she regularly releases her mana into magical tools, which allows her to control the flow of her mana better. Once she gets a hold of more magical tools, she can focus her mana better, allowing her to cast blessings and project shields.
  • Her power incontinence is partially explained in Part 2: As her mana grows, to stop it from overflowing, she "compresses" it which creates more room in her body for mana. Then it fills up again, and she has to compress it even further. Because of this continual cycle from the age of 5, Myne has a massive amount of mana, putting her at the level of archnobles or higher. If one doesn't compress one's mana in time or enough, it forcibly spills out, killing them horribly in the process, so they syphon it out with magic tools instead. Commoner children with mana usually just die because they both don't know the technique and lack magic tools to siphon it out. Noble children usually don't compress their mana at all, since:
    1. It is an advanced technique taught at the Royal Academy that children usually can't grasp when too young (Myne was able to do it, because she has the mentally developed mind of an adult).
    2. It is very dangerous with a high chance of dying.
  • In Part 2 Volume 3, Myne is chided for going almost berserk after Rosina and Fran's carriage was attacked by unknown assaulters. Ferdinand points out that this emotional outbreak could have killed her if she hadn't had the tools to channel her raging mana, and even then she went completely overboard because the buff she gave Karstedt, Damuel and Sylvester was too much, causing her to collapse.
  • Starting in Part 5, Rozemyne is completely free of hardened mana clumps inside her body after taking two jureve baths. Coupled with the divine protection ceremony, where she received the protection of all primary gods and over 40 subordinate gods, her mana output becomes too hard for her to control and her schtappe is of too poor quality to handle everything, which is why she stops compressing her mana as much. This gets fixed in Part 5 Volume 5 after she visits and prays in the shrines of the primary gods. After praying to all gods, her schtappe is upgraded and she doesn't feel any pain anymore.
• Protectorate: There are too many people who would want to harm her, which is why a lot of people have sworn to protect her, namely her family, Ferdinand, Damuel, and Aub Ehrenfest himself. Benno and Mark are also very protective of her, even if the former claims he's only doing it for profit and not because he likes her.
• Proud Beauty: Sort of, Urano is very pleased that her face as Myne is such a cute one, which she mentions frequently. So while she doesn't show off, she does consider herself to look very pretty, which is also acknowledged in universe by other characters as well.
• Rags to Riches: She goes from being a well-off but poor commoner to borderline nobility. Later becomes Rags To Royality when she is adopted by Sylvester.
• Raven Hair, Ivory Skin: Myne is born with midnight blue hair and golden eyes. Due to being bedridden, she doesn't get out a lot, which is why her skin is very white. She also doesn't do much physical labor due to her weak body, which, coupled with her washing herself every day and using the rinse shampoo, gives the impression that she is actually a noble.
  Benno: Her hair was the color of the night, so silky that light gleamed off it. Her skin was pure white with not a speck of dirt to be found. Her hands were smooth like those of a noble who knows nothing of labor or household chores. Even her teeth were white.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: Myne is one of the nicest and most beloved blue robe-wearing temple members, and Fran and Ferdinand try to teach her to become a better authority figure, like listening to both sides of a dispute to see whether Both Sides Have a Point, before making a decision.
  • In Part 2 Volume 2, Myne accommodates the rules and tasks for Rosina, by making her stop playing the harspiel late at night and giving her paperwork. This lessens Fran's burden, while at the same time doesn't ruin Rosina's hands, as she does not have to do physical labor like Gil or Delia.
  • At the end of Part 2, she pleads to Sylvester to spare Delia's life, despite working for the High Bishop, as she is too young, was misled and had no malicious intentions. She manages to reduce Delia's punishment to life imprisonment in the orphanage, the place that she never wanted to see again, while at the same time allowing Delia to stay with and raise Dirk.
  • In Part 3, Rozemyne has to accept that she cannot save everyone, nor does everyone want to be saved by her. Only a handful of the Hasse orphans accept her offer to join the temple, as Rozemyne was largely ignorant of an orphan's life outside of Ehrenfest Capital. She also didn't know they were a valuable source of income for the town and just taking them away invited problems for both the mayor, who had promised them to another noble already, and the town, because they need the money. Orphans outside of the temple are given lands to cultivate upon reaching adulthood. Rozemyne has neither the money nor the interest to save anyone who doesn't want to be taken in by her, which pleases Ferdinand, seeing that her Chronic Hero Syndrome has been curbed.
• Secret-Keeper:
  • In Part 4 Volume 8, Rozemyne learns about Ferdinand's past. Ferdinand reveals his connection to the Adalgisa palace, his mother from Lanzenave, and that he was destined to die.
  • In Part 5 Volume 7, Rozemyne learns that Ferdinand has the other half of the Book of Mestionora she is missing, and that his name was Quinta.
• Shipper on Deck:
  • Myne gets a really big grin when she sees Ralph's crush on Tuuli, of which she approves immediately.
  • Rozemyne also likes to ship the people that she spends time with, as long as they are happy together. This includes one of her gray priests, Volk, with his commoner girlfriend, Carya, but she most notably ships her guard knights, Damuel and Brigitte, together in Part 3. She also wants to support Cornelius' relationship with Leonore.
• Signature Headgear: Her hair stick, which is used by nobody else around her for obvious reasons. It also sets her apart from the original Myne.
• Skilled, but Naive: Myne has lots of ideas from her past life in her head, but does not realize the ramifications of them, and inadvertently gives away information for free or cheap at the beginning, which earns her some stern lessons from Benno and Freida on how to act like a merchant.
• Sleepyhead: Due to Myne's ill body she quickly tires out and needs a lot of sleep to recover. Her caretakers and guardians often take note of her physical condition and then send her to bed.
• Spanner in the Works: She's prone to accidentally being one, as the plans people, including enemies, have for her sometimes get foiled simply because of how foreign her thought process is to everyone else.
• Squeamish About Slaughter: Some of her early instances of Faint in Shock come from witnessing animal slaughter up close for the first time because of the time period in which she has landed. Luck has it that she reincarnates right around the time her family is stocking up on meat for the winter. She eventually gets used to it to an extent.
• Squishy Mage: She has one of the strongest mana capacities in a medial duchy, all while being so out of shape physically that one of the first things she does after being taught how to make a highbeast is use it as a magical mobility scooter; her noble home is so big that it takes a lot of walking to go anywhere she wants to be.
• Starting a New Life: Her identity as Rozemyne, the adopted daughter of the archduke of Ehrenfest, was retconned into existence after a failed kidnapping attempt towards her.
• Strong Family Resemblance: Other characters often mention that Myne has inherited her mother's good looks.
• Super Gullible: Myne is not a trained merchant, so she at the beginning falls pretty easily for tricks and sweet talk employed by Benno or Freida.
• Supreme Chef: Played with. The place where Myne lives hasn't really developed the restaurant business model yet, so any professional cook basically only has nobles for clients or is a personal chef themselves. As such, knowledge about cooking is fairly basic and Myne comes across as an extremely good cook even with fairly basic recipes.
• Sweet Tooth: Sugar and pastries are rare, so as a low-class commoner Myne doesn't get to eat sweet things a lot outside of fruits or honey. In Part 1, Freida manages to bait Myne into coming to her house by offering her sweets. Myne also accepts sugar as payment for teaching Freida's chef recipes.
• Sympathetic Slave Owner:
  • As she's the orphanage director, any purchase of an unemployed gray priest or shrine maiden has to go through her. She sees no reason to refuse the transaction if one of the adults finds someone they want to serve and the person can afford them.
  • She goes further down that path as Rozemyne:
    • She technically owns Rosina due to having brought her from the temple orphanage, but was willing to let her return to Christine's service if she wished to do so.
    • She populates the Hasse branch of the temple orphanage by buying orphans from the town's leader.
    • In the end, the best solution she comes up with for Dirk's future is leaving a pre-signed submission contract between herself and Dirk with Delia.
• Talented, but Trained: Myne has huge amounts of mana trumping even Sylvester, and she also slowly gets a grasp on her mana flow and how to cast spells, but still occasionally has problems controlling her powers. Ferdinand decides to train her before sending her to the Royal Academy when she turns 10.
• Telepathy: In Part 2 Volume 2, when the trombe extermination goes awry and Myne is in danger, she screams for Lutz to help her. Lutz somehow heard Myne and saw a vision of what happened, and worriedly went to the temple to look for Myne.
• Terrible Artist: Subverted. Myne's drawings are largely based on the style she grew up with in her past life. Others, being used to the more realistic and detail-oriented style, think her drawings look really bad, which upsets her quite a bit.
• Thicker Than Water: While initially not recognizing them as family, the Urano version of Myne comes to cherish her family as much as or even more than she cherishes books.
  • In Part 1, Myne learns that she doesn't have much longer to live due to the Devouring. Freida suggests to make a contract with a noble, which would mean she'd have to leave her family forever, as unlike Freida she lacks the connections to negotiate a favorable deal with a noble. Myne chooses to stay with her family, even if it costs her her life, and even when she is supposed to join the temple, she refuses to live there.
  • In Part 2 Volume 3, after she demonstrated her power during the trombe extermination, many hostile nobles are targeting Myne. Ferdinand suggests to her to get adopted by Karstedt to protect her, but she again refuses because she can't leave her family. She even says she might even consider death if she was robbed of her family. Even after Ferdinand forbids her to print anything other than picture books for children, unless she becomes a noble, Myne refuses to budge.
  • At the end of Part 2, after a noble from another duchy tries to make Myne his slave, she makes a contract with Sylvester, binding herself to him and his family. Though she didn't know that this would happen, she accepts this quickly, as her existence and low status put her family in danger and she can neither protect herself nor them all the time.
• Thinking Out Loud: She has a habit of doing this when she is trying to figure out a solution to her current problem.
• Too Important to Walk: Justified. Due to Myne's frailty, slow walking pace and small size for her age, on many occasions, she's picked up and carried by those around her too impatient to match her slow pace. As Rozemyne, she finds Mundane Utility in her highbeast in making up for this.
• Trauma Button: After her first time in a real large-scale battle, feystones, due to having witnessed nobles dying.
• Triple Shifter: Besides doing administrative work with Ferdinand, she also has to manage her workshop and the orphanage, as well as study rituals which she has to perform as High Bishop. She eventually starts complaining that along with her education, she really doesn't get any free time to read. She only gets time to rest if her health starts to worsen and she catches a fever, though in some of those cases she will get one of Ferdinand's potions to quickly recover, if the situation demands it. Unaware people think she is Stealing the Credit. In Part 3 Volume 1 during Rozemyne's tea party which her mothers organized, Rozemyne is giving out her special cookies which end up being very popular. No one believes her when she says her own chefs used her recipe. In Part 3 Volume 2, Sylvester is confused when he hears Rozemyne is overworked and wants less work. Up until then, he assumed any duties outside of rituals that he kept piling on Rozemyne were done by Ferdinand and he let her take credit for it, which led to him thinking Ferdinand was bored at the temple and needed something to do. Wilfried also deeply regrets ever thinking she got treated more favorably and could laze around, while he had to study.
• Troubling Unchildlike Behavior: Myne's family and neighbors just think she is weird, but Otto and Benno are the first to realize that Myne is too smart and acts too mature, much like a noble. Lutz, who has known the original Myne, also eventually realizes that her Urano version is too different.
• Try to Fit That on a Business Card: As the story goes on, she accumulates quite a few titles. Some of it gets acknowledged when Rozemyne's diptych gets made and three crests wind up being put on it: that of her workshop, that of the noble family she was officially born into and that of her noble adoptive family. Her other titles are orphanage director, High Bishop and Saint of Ehrenfest. And that's before the fact that one of the purposes of her Rozemyne identity is to allow her to become a student at the Royal Academy kicks in.
• Undignified Death: Urano died being crushed by books that she hadn't put away properly.
• The Unfettered: She will do anything to make her dream of being surrounded by books a reality, and it also gets her in the most trouble when she doesn't think things through.
• Unperson: Of a sort. As part of faking Myne's death, she and her family have to sign a magically-binding contract forbidding them from acknowledging her as family, as well as one changing her name. This also automatically changes Myne's name on the active magic contracts that she's already signed to Rozemyne.
• Unreliable Narrator: Myne is the protagonist and narrates the majority of the story. However, she doesn't tell the reader things that she already knows unless she thinks it's relevant, and the way she narrates events does not always match with how other characters see it. This also becomes obvious in-universe in Part 4, when she sends reports to her guardians, but her reports are vastly different from what her retainers and her adoptive siblings report.
• Unwanted False Faith:
  • Starting in Part 3, Rozemyne is called the "Saint of Ehrenfest". Sylvester and Ferdinand spread this legend to make people accept Rozemyne as Sylvester's adopted child, who will protect Ehrenfest and bring prosperity to it. However, since she can't control her outbursts of emotion, and due to her insane mana capacities, she accidentally gives blessings far greater than ever, which makes people like Hartmut truly believe she is a saint. Rozemyne really doesn't like the attention though, and she also knows that she is far more selfish and troublesome than the legend makes it out to be.
  • In Part 5, Hartmut (now Rozemyne's High Priest) teaches the temple orphans to worship Rozemyne like a goddess. What concerns Rozemyne more is that nobles start to view her as the Mestionora' avatar, as she manages to acquire the Book of Mestionora, Grutrissheit, and Hartmut promoting his faith doesn't help.
• Vitriolic Best Buds:
  • Myne frequently clashes with Benno, who often scolds her and sometimes even hits her. Myne on the other hand often makes fun of Benno in return. However, she deeply trusts him, and she actually likes being scolded by him. Rozemyne almost never gets scolded by her "biological" parents. When she messes up, they just smile and ignore it or curtly point out what she needs to do better.
  • Rozemyne is constantly in a Snark-to-Snark Combat with Ferdinand, her guardian. However, she cares a lot about him, and Ferdinand has become much more expressive around Rozemyne, which his friends and retainers note is completely different to what he used to be like, and is a sign that he cares about Rozemyne, too.
• Voice of the Legion: In the anime, she gets this when she unleashes a large amount of her mana at someone.
• Wacky Parent, Serious Child: Zig-zagged with her noble adoptive father, who is one of the few members of the cast who can make her look like a level-headed person with some degree of common sense. The two of them are just as likely to start staring contests or discuss how adorable Charlotte is in the middle of professional meetings.
• Weirdness Coupon: People who spend any amount of time around her quickly reach a point where they constantly expect her to do something strange in the near future. Those aware of her love for books know all bets are off when they are involved.
• White Mage: In battle, Rozemyne practically never directly fights and leaves this to the knights in her entourage. Her involvement is limited to providing Status Buffs via blessings, healing any injured or protecting the people around her with shields.
• Womanchild: In a side chapter, Urano's childhood friend, Shuu, notes that Urano hasn't really grown up yet, despite being in her 20s already. Her reincarnation as Myne is thus also a bit like a Coming of Age Story for Myne.
• Workaholic: All the work she is doing mainly comes with the goal to spread books into the world, so that she can do nothing but read or work as a librarian eventually. Rozemyne herself underestimates how poor her health is, which she frequently ignores if books are involved. This is why Lutz, Fran, and Rihyarda are assigned to watch her health and send her to rest if she overexerts herself. However, this isn't entirely her fault. Rozemyne is given so much work that anyone who sees her schedule would think it can't be real or cry child abuse, because she is thoroughly worked to the bone, despite her poor physical condition and the fact that she is barely past the baptism age.
• Young and in Charge: At the temple, all her attendants are older than she is. Even the youngest of the two children is 8 years old, while she's 7.
• Your Days Are Numbered:
  • During Part 1, the story reaches a point where Myne only has six months to a year left to live before the Devouring completely consumes her unless she can get regular treatment. And the treatment would require both access to nobility and more money than she can reasonably afford.
  • The time she has left temporarily gets extended to five years after she joins the temple as an apprentice shrine maiden. Not because the treatment would stop working, but because everyone expects that she will be kicked out because of a new generation of nobles and priests coming of age. It disappears completely after she turns out to be too much of an asset to be left to die whenever the temple will no longer need her and she will have some sort of future among the nobility.

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