Detlinde

Detlinde (ディートリンデ, Diitorinde) is the daughter of Aub Ahrensbach and his first wife Georgine, and Sylvester's niece.

She is an archduke candidate of Ahrensbach currently enrolled at the Royal Academy.

Detlinde has dark green eyes and beautiful blonde hair. She takes after her mother, Georgine, and is said to look even more like her grandmother, Veronica.

Detlinde is a confident girl who is warm to those she likes, but contemptuous to those she sees as inferior to her. As an archduke candidate of a greater duchy, she is used to getting what she wants.

She uses backhanded compliments and false concern to insult those she dislikes, and often plays the victim in social situations. However, her ploys are usually more convincing to boys than other girls.

Detlinde was born as the daughter of Aub Ahrensbach and Georgine, his third wife. When the first wife died, Georgine became the new first wife. Because her mother is the older sister of Sylvester, Detlinde is also a cousin to Wilfried and his siblings (as well as Rudiger from Frenbeltag).

Detlinde first meets Rozemyne and Wilfried at their first year fellowship gathering at the Royal Academy, where the archduke candidates of different duchies formally greet one another. She greets her cousin Wilfried warmly, but ignores Rozemyne and shows contempt for her.

They later meet again at dedication whirl practice, when Detlinde invites Wilfried to a “cousins tea party.” Reluctant to let him face such a risky social situation alone, Rozemyne points out that she’s also Detlinde’s cousin by adoption and tries to argue her way into being invited as well. However, Detlinde rejects her and plainly says that she does not consider her a cousin.

When Rudiger, Detlinde and Wilfried’s cousin from Frenbeltag, asks to join, Detlinde agrees after some hesitation. However, her vindictive smile suggests that she only agrees to spite Rozemyne.

At the cousins’ tea party, Detlinde grills Wilfried about how the Ehrenfest students raised their grades so drastically in such a short time, why Lamprecht's marriage was denied and whether Wilfried is already engaged. While Wilfried later describes it as an amicable meeting, Rozemyne suspects that Detlinde’s veiled insults might have gone over his head.

At Ehrenfest’s joint tea party for all other duchies, Detlinde attempts to damage Rozemyne’s reputation by exposing her background in the temple and revealing that she was absent from the Royal Academy because of the Dedication Ritual. However, Wilfried and Rudiger chime in to support Rozemyne. They explain that both Ehrenfest and Frenbeltag face such a serious mana shortage that archduke candidates are needed to conduct such tasks, and the guests feel sympathetic for their unfortunate situation.

Later at the same party, Rozemyne hands out small samples of rinsham to Eglantine and her friends. Detlinde asks for a jar to use herself. When Eglantine chides her for her making demands after being blatantly rude moments before, Detlinde insists again on the basis that Rozemyne is her cousin. Rozemyne reminds Detlinde that she previously told to her face that they were not cousins.

However, Justus signals to Rozemyne that she should give Detlinde a jar anyway, and she realizes that it will benefit Ehrenfest to reinforce its familial relationship with Ahrensbach in such a public setting. She gives Detlinde the rinsham, saying she values their relationship as cousins.


 * After Rozemyne revived Schwartz and Weiss, Professor Solange remarked that a "Lady from Ahrensbach" inquired rather insistently how to became the new master of the magic tools. While it is not confirmed, it is highly likely this was Detlinde, planning to take the shumils away from Rozemyne.