this post was submitted on 27 Nov 2023
16 points (100.0% liked)
PrePub - Ascendance of a Bookworm
240 readers
1 users here now
Navigation Links:
A Space for discussing the weekly chapter releases.
Even though this is a separate community please be aware that Post titles and in some cases the first few lines of text will be displayed in the local and all feeds, so avoid spoilers there as much as possible anyway. Thanks.
synonyms
- Ascendance of a Bookworm
- Honzuki no Gekokujou
- 『本好きの下剋上』
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
I find it ironic that Rozemyne wasn't considered a bigger threat to Georgine's plans than Ferdinand or Bonifatius. It's possible that they believed Fraularm's rants about her being dead or at least too ill to be of consequence. They must not have found out that Rozemyne was the responsible for ruining Viscountess Dahldolf's plans either. Georgine is a cold calculator like Ferdinand and can guess what moves he'll make, but she'll never be able to foresee the actions of the chaos gremlin!
Remember that the vast majority of the country, believes that Rozemyne was merely proped up as a figure head and that all her accomplishments, were truly Ferdinand's. And in the year, that would have proofen that she was the real deal, she disappeared before classes even started.
You could even argue that the very first year in which she was deprived of Ferdinand's support, her streak of first-in-class stopped right away... granted, that was due to absence, but why complicate your narritive with facts, when that would mean you might have to admit you were wrong, all the times you shit talked the girl and her "upstart" duchy.
Most duchies students or aubs have witnessed dedication, starbinding, or gather spot renewing rituals performed by Rozemyne. Pretty sure they know she's the real deal.
With "the real deal" I didn't mean her mana capacity, or performing religious ceremonies, that is beyond dispute. I meant in terms of inventing, coming up with things, making decisions and all that. It's hard to consider someone a threat, who you believe to only ever have followed the instructions of Ferdinand and who supposedly has no combat potential, due to being just a kid, who's not even in the knight's course and of poor health.
Also while witnessing her doing religious ceremonies might have been a real stand-out initially, keep in mind how by now Charlotte and Wilfried also held Dedication Rituals, the Dunkelfelger pre-battle ritual is producing true blessings and nobles performing gathering spot healing rituals has become relatively common. Furthermore even Wilfried used a divine instrument in the bride-stealing ditter (which is literally on video, thanks to the Dunkelfelger fan-gallery by the way), and thanks to the research we know that Dunkelfelger has been transforming schtappe into a divine instrument (the stuff of the post-ditter calming ritual) for ages. So none of those things really contradicts the narritive that Rozemyne is just doing as she's been told by Ferdinand.
The only really unique thing about her, would be that she's firing off blessing unintentionally, but that could also be an elaborate act, as far as nobles of other duchies are concerned. Rozemyne had to work hard to convince people she didn't intentionally steal Schwartz and Weiss's mastership and only accidentally released a blessing in music class after all.
So to sum it up, there are plenty of ways for stubbon and ignorant nobles to cling to the notion of her being a fraud, maybe a particularly mana-rich one, but still a fraud. We know better, and the number of nobles who does too, is ever growing, but there are still plenty of either naturally or willfully ignorant ones out there too.
Oh and I just noticed: When Georgine and Detlinde put their plans in motion, Rozemyne was still missing, extremely ill or potentially even dead, as far as they knew. Rozemyne woke up only what, one or two days before the attack on Ferdinand happened after all.