Detlinde

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“	My apologies, but I see I must make this clear — you and I are not cousins.	”
— Detlinde to Rozemyne in Part 4 Volume 1 Chapter 20: Dedication Whirl

Detlinde
Name
Katakana:	ディートリンデ
Romaji:	Diitorinde
English Name:	Detlinde
Debuts
Light Novel:	Part 4 Volume 1
Physical Characteristics
Gender:	Female
Hair:	Blonde
Eyes:	Dark Green
Age:	13 (Debut) 15(Part 5 Volume 1) Born 2 years before Myne Rozemyne +3
Birth Season:	Winter
Magic
Aptitudes:	At most six elements
Location
Country:	Yurgenschmidt
Duchy:	Ahrensbach (Former)
City/ Province:	Ahrensbach City (Former)
Personal and Professional
Alive?:	Alive
Status:	Commoner Archnoble (Former) Archduke Candidate (Former)
Education:	Royal Academy Archduke Candidate Course
Occupation	Prisoner Archduke Candidate (Former) Royal Academy Student (Former)
Dislikes:	Rozemyne
Family members
Father:	Gieselfried (Deceased)
Mother:	Georgine (Deceased)
Brother(s):	Wolfram (Deceased) Blasius (Half-Brother)
Sister(s):	Alstede Letizia (Half-Sister, Adoptive)
Spouse(s):	Ferdinand (Engaged, Cancelled)
Grandfather(s):	Adelbert (Deceased)
Grandmother(s):	Veronica
Uncle(s):	Sylvester Ferdinand
Aunt(s):	Constanze Florencia (In-Law)
Relatives:	Wilfried (Cousin) Charlotte (Cousin) Melchior (Cousin) Henrietta (Cousin) Rudiger (Cousin) Rozemyne (Cousin, Adoptive) Aurelia (Cousin) Martina (Cousin) Letizia (Niece) Benedikta (Niece) Bezewanst (Granduncle, Deceased)
Schtappe permanently destroyed by Execution Magic

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

She was an archduke candidate of Ahrensbach enrolled in the Royal Academy 3 years prior to Rozemyne. After the death of her father, she was temporarily appointed as the successor of Aub Ahrensbach, but was stripped of the position and imprisoned after the failed Lanzenave invasion.

Appearance

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.

Personality

As an archduke candidate of a greater duchy, Detlinde is used to getting what she wants. This makes her extremely narcissistic and self-centered, thinking that the world revolves around her. She often makes unreasonable demands to get what she wants, blatantly disregarding the atmosphere and people around her. When things aren't going her way, she starts throwing tantrums and lashes out against her retainers.

Detlinde is warm to those she likes, but contemptuous to those she sees as inferior to her. 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 is quite prone to throwing out veiled or even open insults to others without appearing to consider the consequences of her words, even when such unkind words will clearly place her in a worse position. She is also extremely cruel towards people who oppose her, such that she gleefully conspired with Lanzenavians to slaughter and abduct nobles of Letizia's faction.

Despite all her unnoble-like traits, Detlinde is obsessively protective of her chastity before marriage, to the extent that she was not willing to share the same building as Leonzio, whom she recognized as her lover.

History

Detlinde was born as the youngest daughter of Aub Ahrensbach and Georgine, his third wife. When his 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).

She has several older sisters who are all married, including Alstede who was married to her half-brother Blasius. Her only brother Wolfram died shortly after the purges following the civil war. While she has a claim on the title of Aub, her niece Letizia has already been selected as the successor.

Throughout her entire childhood, Detlinde barely had any contact with her father. On the few times they met, Detlinde can only remember him chastising her with a disgusted look on his face without doting on her even once.

Likewise, she doesn't seem to feel particularly close to her mother either, who not once in Detlinde's life followed any of her daughter's suggestions and who didn't seem to care when Detlinde was sick. Even when ill, Detlinde had to keep working and studying.

Story

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Retainers

• Martina - Her cousin and attendant.
• Fatiehe - A former Werkestock noble working as Detlinde's attendant as a way to repay her lady's mother for her perceived kindness.

Trivia

• After Rozemyne revived Schwartz and Weiss, Professor Solange remarked that a "young lady from Ahrensbach" inquired rather insistently how to became the new master of the magic tools. While it is not confirmed, it is strongly implied to be Detlinde, planning to take the shumils away from Rozemyne.
• Both Wilfried and Charlotte remarked that Detlinde strongly resembled Veronica, but their reasons are entirely different.
• Her name is a German name, usually spelled as "Dietlinde" or "Dietlind". Detlinde was chosen in official translations to prevent the audience from associating her name with the English word "diet" and mispronounce it.
  • "Dietlinde" is derived from "thiot" (people) and "lind" (soft, tender) in Old High German, which is ironic considering the fact that she acts like a bully who couldn't care less about people beneath her.