YMMV / Morgenregen: The Black Forest Fairy

• Designated Hero: Frieder. For all his liberal leanings he seemed obsessed with blood and status, and didn't seem to care for the little people on his side the way Erik did. The fact that his men died while trying to protect him from Morgenregen's home intrusion doesn't seem to bother him at all.
• Jerkass Dissonance: Erik may be a jerk, but it's hard not to feel for the way he's rejected outright for the throne by his father—not because he's The Evil Prince who seems to delight in Disproportionate Retribution, which is actually a valid reason, but because Frieder is blood. Of course it was a common enough mindset in the period depicted, leading to Values Dissonance.
• Unintentionally Sympathetic: Erik. He seems to genuinely respect and value those under his authority the way Frieder is not shown to do. Of course, the way everyone outside his immediate circle can go to hell for all he cares doesn't exactly scream good ruler material, either.
• Values Dissonance: Frieder's being a classist snob by modern standards is a good example.
  • Eider's insistence that only Frieder can be heir, even though Erik is his eldest "son" through adoption.
  • Erik's actions in Schallenberg would make him an international criminal by today's standards, but just harsh by the standards of his own.