Angelica/Relationships

Angelica’s parents are known to be outstanding attendants, and they feel somewhat strained by her repeated failure to live up to the standards expected of a noble. When anything unexpected happens, they are quick to assume that it is her fault.

To avoid situations where Angelica and their family would suffer from her blunders, they try hard to keep her out of positions of power. They were not consulted before she entered Rozemyne’s service, but would have objected if given the opportunity. Later, when Angelica is forced to take supplementary classes at the Royal Academy, her parents beg Rozemyne to dismiss her. They also are resistant to her engagement to Eckhart, and request for her to be made a third wife rather than a first wife.

Angelica's younger sister is Lieseleta, Rozemyne’s apprentice attendant. They have a good relationship. While Lieseleta is often exasperated by her sister's lack of interest in responsibilities beyond her service as a guard knight, she works hard to complement Angelica’s flaws and support her when possible.

From the beginning, Angelica was a loyal retainer to Rozemyne. However, her loyalty intensified after Rozemyne's helped her to pass her classes at the Royal Academy instead of dismissing her from service. She also feels deeply grateful to Rozemyne for giving sentience to her manablade, Stenluke.

Angelica is devoted to Rozemyne and intends to serve her for the rest of her life. She readily serves in the temple, a place other nobles view as repulsive, and gets along well with the commoners in Rozemyne’s service. She is willing to defend her even against higher-status nobles, as she demonstrated by pinning Wilfried to the ground and even raising her blade against Ferdinand.

Angelica treats her attendant, Friedel, without any special concern. She seems to take his assistance for granted and does not think about it further.

Because they both served Rozemyne as apprentice guard knights right after her baptism, Angelica has been working with Cornelius for several years. She defers to his authority as the higher ranking noble and a generally more intelligent person. Cornelius also helped Angelica study as part of the “Raise Angelica’s Grades Squadron” and later tutored her to help her graduate at the Royal Academy.

After Rozemyne was poisoned after Charlotte’s baptism, both Angelica and Cornelius felt frustrated by their failure to protect her and trained under Bonifatius together. They have a good working relationship, but otherwise have little in common.

After the attack on Rozemyne after Charlotte's baptism, Bonifatius was impressed by Angelica’s skills and decided to make her his student. She underwent grueling training with him and grew much stronger, becoming his most prized disciple.

He was so pleased with her progress that he insisted Angelica marry into his family. Because Cornelius and Lamprecht had prior relationships, and Traugott was disgraced, it eventually fell to Bonifatius’s grandson Eckhart to be engaged to her.

Angelica is engaged to Eckhart as his second wife. She accepted the engagement out of blind trust for her teacher, Bonifatius, and does not seem to have any feelings for her fiancé, either positive or negative. She comments that she feels a little sorry for Eckhart since “he could be anyone,” because her only requirement of a fiance is someone who allows her to continue to serve Rozemyne.

However, it appears to be a mutually beneficial arrangement. Eckhart is reluctant to remarry after the death of his first wife Heidemarie, and he appreciates that Angelica is uninterested in love and romance. Both he and Angelica are happy to use the engagement as an excuse to avoid social obligations.

When Rozemyne tells Angelica that she hopes she will treat the gray priests and gray shrine maidens at the temple with courtesy, she takes the request to heart. Her efforts to be friendly are a bit over-the-top at first, which makes Fran and the other attendants uncomfortable.

Over time, however, they develop a mutually polite relationship. Unlike most nobles, she does not mind deferring to the authority of the attendants, provided it doesn’t interfere with her guard duty.

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