Hannelore

Hannelore (ハンネローレ, Hanneroore) is an archduke candidate from Dunkelfelger and Lestilaut's younger sister.

Hannelore is a rather quiet looking girl with light-pink, almost purple hair that she usually wears in two tails. Her eyes are a vibrant shade of red almost exactly like that of a proposal feystone dyed by someone born in winter. She is small for her age, though still taller than Rozemyne.

Due to being reprimanded often during her strict upbringing, Hannelore is shy, timid and unconfident. When it comes to people relationship, she is constantly worrying about whether she has caused displeasure in other people, making her appear hesitant and apologetic. She is nervous around large gatherings of people, but can become quite animated when discussing books with Rozemyne. It appears that Hannelore likes to visit the Royal Academy Library in person, unlike most other archduke candidates who prefer to have their subordinates bring books to their rooms.

As relatives of the king's third wife, Hannelore and her brother Lestilaut occasionally visisted her and her son Prince Hildebrand at their royal villa in the Sovereignty, but didn't form a particularly close relationship with the prince.

Spoiler from Part 4 Volume 7 In the past Hannelore didn't care too much for books. But this changed when Lady Rozemyne of Ehrenfest lend her a book. Unlike the stories popular in Dunkelfelger, which tend to be written in euphemism-heavy, old and difficult to read dialects, the book Rozemyne lent her was written in modern vernacular and both easy and fun to read. It also fit the young girl's taste for romance much closer than the popular Dunkelfelger literature which is almost exclusively about fighting in some form or the other. This awakened Hannelore to the joy of reading and made her eager to read more Ehrenfest books.

On the first day of the first year's court etiquette class, while only being called out by her duchy's rank rather than name, Hannelore is told that she needs to carry herself more confidently and maintain the dignity expected of an archduke candidate of a greater duchy.

After the incident in which her older brother confronted Rozemyne rather over the possession of the magic tools Schwartz and Weiss, she writes a letter addressed to the Ehrenfest archduke candidates to arrange for a tea party to foster new connections. According to Hartmut's investigation though her real reason for this meeting is to apologize for her brother's rude behaviour.

At the tea party where Ehrenfest invited all other duchies at once, Hannelore was unable to bring up the situation with her brother, believing that with so many other people watching and listening it would not be the right time and place to discuss such matters. She did however manage to make friends with Rozemyne over their shared appreciation for books and the two promised to lend each other a book each. Unfortunately Rozemyne passed out from the excitement right after making that promise.

Hannelore, thinking that the collapse was her fault in very distraught. None of Wilfrieds efforts to console her and tell her that it was not her fault had any success and thus he ended up walking her all the way back to her own dormitory and personally apologizing to her brother for the incident.

Spoiler for Part 4 Volume 6 Unbeknownst to Rozemyne, due to her already having passing her music lesson on the first day Professor Pauline performed the song she learned from Rozemyne and Rosina during their tea-party in music class. Hannelore takes a great liking to the song and wishes to learn it in the future.

In the autumn following Hannelore's first term at the Royal Academy, she and her brother were invited to Prince Hildebrand's baptism, alongside Eglantine.

During the fellowship gathering in Rozemyne and Hannelore's second year at the academy, when the Ehrenfest archduke candidates greet their Dunkelfelger equivalents, Rozemyne tells Hannelore how much she enjoyed the book she had lent her. Lestilaut appears impressed for a moment that Rozemyne was able to dicypher the archaic dialect in which the book his sister hand lent out was written, though he quickly falls back to his arrogant attitude or perhaps trying to provoke her by pointing out Ehrenfest's short history. Rozemyne does not rise to the bait and remains acting humble, but Hannelore is rather upset with him for his impolite comment.

The two promise to have a tea party together where they will not only return the respective lent books, but also lend each other even more books, before Wilfried urges them to delay any more book-related talk to this tea-party, so they won't hold up the proceedings of the gathering any more than they already have.

Spoiler for Part 4 Volume 6 During their shared second year at the royal academy Hannelore finally gets the chance to properly apologize to Rozemyne, much to the girl's surprise.

As it turns out Lestilaut never had any selfish reasons to persue mastership over the magic tools Schwartz and Weiss, but thought he was acting on behalf of his sister. After seeing the two shumil-like magic tools the first time Hannelore whispered dreamily that she wished she could be their master without thinking. Upon hearing this though, her brother started his quest to obtain said mastership for her sake without ever bothering to ask or tell her about it. Hannelore only learned of his brash actions well after it was too late and the issue had already come to Prince Anastasius' attention.

Despite her not knowing about her brother's plans, this still makes her feel responsible for his misdeeds. That she tried multiple times to apologize, but always failed due to circumstances outside her control, like Rozemyne's collapse at the tea-party only exacerbated her guilt. To make matters even worse, the situation also resulted in Professor Rauffen constantly badgering Ehrenfest for ditter games ever since. Hannelore tried many times to make him stop, but without any success.

This even drove her so far that when she was finally able to apologize during their shared music lesson, Rozemyne doesn't even understand what Hannelore would want to apologize for in the first place, since she couldn't think of any wrong that she had received from her. After explaining the situation, Hannelore not only aplogizes on behalf of her brother and duchy, but also apologizes for taking so long to finally manage an apology. Close to tears she confesses that she fears that Rozemyne might have started hating her.

But to Hannelores great relief, Rozemyne states that she has absolutely no ill will or hard feelings toward her and happily offers her an invitation to the Library Committee. While not outright agreeing right away, Hannelore does express interest in the idea of spending more time in the library near Schwartz and Weiss.

In a much brighter mood now, Hannelore even works up the courage to ask Rozemyne if she would be willing to teach her the song that Professor Pauline had performed during classes the year before. Rozemyne happily obliges and the two agree to bring their instruments and musicians along to the tea party were they were previously only planning to exchange books.

Hannelore and Rozemyne both arrived for their shared practical lesson on schtappe transformation a few minutes early. In this time Rozemyne informed Hannelore that Professor Solange requested to have a tea-party with the two girls to discuss the library committee with them. Hannelore happliy agreed to attend and informed Rozemyne that she would most likely be free starting in ten days, so the two settled on this date and Rozemyne would later send out the official invitations. Due to Solange being the only librarian at the moment, the tea-party will have to take place inside the library.

During the actual lesson, Rozemyne transformed her schtappe into a copy of the divine instrument Schutzaria's Shield, explaining that due to her temple upbringing she found it hard to think of any other shape when visualizing a shield. Never having had an opportunity to see a divine instrument in person Hannelore hopefully asks if she would also use a divine instrument for her weapon transformation, leading Rozemyne to morph her schtappe into Leidenschaft's Spear without hesitation. Hannelore is impressed and thankful for her friend's actions.

Just like Rozemyne Hannelore didn't approach the example weapons the professors had provided, stating that she was familiar with the weapons on account of growing up in the knight-focused society of Dunkelfelger. Her only problem is choosing which weapon to pick as a mental image for her schtappe transformation.

When Rozemyne after finishing her exam lingered with her fellow students a bit more, she inadvertently ended up transforming her schtappe into a water-gun. Due to the contents of the lesson Hannelore mistook it for an actual weapon, making Professor Rauffen practically sprint to them to examine this new weapon himself. Despite Rozemynes insistence that it was merely a children's toy, Rauffen insists on her giving a demonstration. Much to his disappointment, the gun really only just squirted out a small stream of water and nothing more.

Feeling that she was the cause of Rozemyne having another embarrassing and annoying encounter with a person from her home duchy, Hannelore once again tries to apologize to Rozemyne for the inconvenience, but Rozemyne reassured her friend that she is free of any blame and that it was a mix of Rauffen's peculiar personality quirks and unfortunate timing.

Spoiler from Part 4 Volume 7
 * Cordula - Hannelore's head attendant and the adult retainer she took along to the Royal Academys ,


 * Highbeast: Hannelore's highbeast is a drivable shumil.
 * Mana Affinities: While her full set of affinities is still unknown, Hannelore is known to possess affinities to earth, light and darkness.

Spoiler from Part 4 Volume 6
 * Hannelore had an unnamed cameo during the court etiquette class in Part 4 Volume 1, in which she was admonished for not acting confident enough as an archduke candidate from a greater duchy.
 * Due to her red eyes, twin-tail hairstyle, small stature and timid behavior, Rozemyne thought she looks like a rabbit. Interestingly, Rozemyne herself was said to resemble Shumils, feybeasts that look very similar to rabbits.
 * A running gag with Hannelore is that she is always unfortunate with timing.
 * Among all characters introduced, Hannelore is one of the only two female nobles that tie their hair into two tails, the other being Philine. Coincidentally, both of them are shy book lovers that Rozemyne quickly became fond of.
 * She also similar to Freida in hairstyle and being someone with slightly higher status than Myne/Rozemyne when they first met, but she achieved something Freida couldn't -- becoming Rozemyne's best friend.
 * Privately Rozemyne thinks of Hannelore as "quiet and fluffy", but also a capable archduke candidate.