Brunhilde/Story

At the nobles’ winter gifting ceremony, Rozemyne encounters Brunhilde and remembers meeting her in the winter playroom three years previously. While Brunhilde is eager to talk to her, Charlotte intervenes to handle the conversation on her behalf.

When Rozemyne arrives at the Ehrenfest dormitory at the Royal Academy, Brunhilde once again approaches her and talks enthusiastically about her dream of spreading fashion trends to the Sovereignty. Rozemyne later sees her on the pre-vetted list of retainer candidates and selects her as an attendant.

Brunhilde is delighted to be chosen and immediately begins planning how to spread Ehrenfest’s trends at the Royal Academy. However, Rozemyne cautions her to be mindful of their position as a middle duchy and act slowly. They later decide together to have all the Ehrenfest girls use rinsham before the advancement ceremony.

Later, Brunhilde helps the other girls design new outfits for Schwartz and Weiss. She initially suggests that they should wait for Rozemyne before discussing it, but later gives in and starts proposing her own ideas.

Due to the unstable situation in Ehrenfest after the purge, Brunhilde suggests that she should become Aub Ehrenfest's second wife during a meeting between him and Lady Rozemyne. With Lady Florencia being pregnant, the Aub can't realistically take on another wife any earlier than two years without risking complications for the child and that makes Brunhilde quite ideal, since between her still being one year away from graduating and the customary one year engagement period she would only be able to wed him in two years either way.

Apart from the various advantages this will bring to Ehrenfest, the position of second wife of the Aub would allow Brunhilde to further her own dream of spreading Lady Rozemyne's trends and allow her to spread Lady Florencia's trends and maybe some of her own in addition.

With her sound arguments, she is able to win Bonifatius - who is also present at the meeting - over almost immediately and Sylvester rather quickly as well. Rozemyne is more resistant to the idea initially than her two male relatives, but is eventually won over too and gives her permission. Despite the marriage being Brunhilde's idea, for the sake of the duchy they will make it look as if it was Sylvester's and thus Brunhilde will refrain from making any preparations until after Sylvester made the proposal to her father Count Groschel.

A few days later, Sylvester officially announces their engagement at the Feast Celebrating Spring, and the pair exchange engagement feystones in front of Ehrenfest's gathered nobility.

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