Lucette/Profile

**Lucette Riella Britton** is the character you play as in Cinderella Phenomenon. She is the crown princess of Angielle, who has lost her title due to the effect of a Fairytale Curse. When you begin the game, it is possible to change her first name to something else.

## Appearance

Lucette is a slender girl of average height with pink and red tinted hair, looking similar to her mother. However, she has golden eyes and fairer skin, which are traits she inherited from her father. Her hair is very long that goes down to her waist but keeps it up for most of the game. She has neatly cut bangs that falls just above her eyes with two longer strands on each side to frame her face. Her hair is perpetually tied up by being put into two braids that meet to right side of her head where she then ties it into a side ponytail. Despite being dressed by the servants in palace, Lucette comments that she does this hairstyle by herself.

She wears a few different outfits over the course of the game, which can all be seen in the gallery. Although the dress she wear predominantly wears throughout the game is a baby blue and white dress with dark blue accents and many details such as the white lily design on the skirt of her light blue dress and the dark blue frills on the sleeves, hem and some accents on the dress itself. She also wears baby blue mary jane shoes with a thick heel and dons an elaborately designed golden headband.

## Personality

During the prologue, she is shown to be cold and dismissive towards everyone, earning her the nickname Ice Princess from those around her. She is distrustful towards anyone who attempts to show her kindness, believes in the worst intentions from everyone, and thinks so little of her subjects that she believes any horrible situation they could end up in is deserved. She is harsh and overly critical of those who work for her, firing many people for any mistake they could make. Despite her step-family attempting to be nice to her, she speaks harshly towards them and thinks of them as lesser for being commoners, going as far as to think of her step-mother as a 'lowly baker'. She also believes that those who are unfortunate enough to be afflicted by the Fairytale Curse should be banished from the kingdom as their curse prevents them from working as efficiently as everyone else.

After being cursed, she makes it clear that she can't understand the concept of doing something for someone without expecting anything in return. She doesn't want to do anything for other people, and when she does, it's because it benefits her in some way. When given work at the Marchen, she refuses to do the cleaning as she considers that work beneath her, which leads to Mr Broom coming into existence to force her to do some work for her keep. In her thoughts, she thinks of how the reason she wants her title is because it's her birthright, not because she feels any sense of responsibility, showing that she can be quite entitled.

In each route, she gets close to one of the five love interests, as she needs the help to return back to her normal life. Each boy that she is with shows her kindness that she has never experienced before, causing her heart to metaphorically thaw. She grows to care for that boy, worrying for their safety and feeling frustration whenever she being prevented from helping the boy. Once she has learnt how to be compassionate to the specific boy who is helping her, she gradually begins to show it to other people.

Even as she changes, some of her traits do remain consistent. Lucette is exceptionally stubborn, often taking matters into her own hands the second she doesn't get an answer to a query. Often, her stubbornness leads her to sneaking out and getting herself in trouble. Though she has no skill to survive on her own, she doesn't just stand by when there is danger and in Karma's and Waltz's routes, insists on learning how to defend herself so she can be of some use and not have to rely on other people to risk their safety for her. She is very proactive and feels she must be able to do something the second she notices something goes wrong.

She is also very blunt to the point that she has no tact, but this also makes her a very honest person who is upfront about her thoughts. However, as vocal as she can be, she is also very secretive of her feelings and keeps those to herself. This is due to her growing up and believing that her showing emotion and vulnerability is a weakness. As such, she doesn't talk that much to others and instead thinks many details that she doesn't share with the people around her. While she exudes confidence, which fits her upbringing as a princess who expects everyone to accept her behaviour and stance without question, deep down she is insecure of people hating her and judging her to be a terrible person despite having done nothing wrong. Though she claims to not need anyone, there is also an underlying loneliness that she eventually gets to work through.

## Curse

*Main article: Fairytale Curse*
Lucette was cursed with the **Cinderella** Fairytale Curse, although her curse is the opposite of the tale. Rather than being a kind girl with nothing who becomes a princess, she is a princess that loses everything, becoming a peasant. She was cursed due to her cold demeanour by Delora, to allow her to find good within herself before becoming the Tenebrarum Bearer. The conditions of her curse states that no one remembers that she is the Crown Princess of Angielle. The only exceptions are the cursed, witches, and fairies as they are immune to the affects of a Fairytale Curse.

When she was cursed, a necklace with one glass slipper appeared around her neck. The second glass slipper pendent is incomplete. To break her curse, Lucette must complete the second glass slipper by performing three good deeds that come from her heart. However, as she is the next Tenebrarum Bearer, the curse will also break on its own once she becomes 18 as the Tenebrarum Bearer cannot be cursed. Although Lucette is never told this by the Marchen as they intend for her to learn to become better by doing her good deeds.

### Fairytale References

Lucette is a princess that becomes poor and initially stuck in rags. This is the reverse of Cinderella, who is allowed to own nothing and forced to wear rags but eventually becomes a princess.

At the beginning, we learn that Lucette has a step-mother and two step-siblings. She believes them to be evil and plotting to have her step-sister, Emelaigne, take over Lucette's position as Crown Princess. This alludes to how in Cinderella, her step-mother and two step-siblings genuinely were evil and treated her terribly. Though also in a reverse to that, it turns out that Lucette's step-family are genuinely kind, and rather it was Lucette who mistreated them.

The job she's given in the Marchen initially is to clean by sweeping the floors. Cleaning was one of the prominent chores Cinderella is made to do in the fairytale.

Lucette is only able to achieve her happy ending by having the support from a guy that will eventually become her lover. Every route ends with Lucette falling in love before she becomes a princess again. Much like how Cinderella only achieves her happy ending by falling in love with a man and eventually becomes a princess due to that love.

In Waltz's route, when Lucette gives a child the teddy bear the child's father could not afford to get for her birthday, Waltz refers to Lucette as the child's fairy godmother. Waltz is intentionally referencing the fairy godmother in the Cinderella story that appears to give Cinderella what she needs to attend the ball.

## History

Lucette doesn't have many memories of her past due to having them erased by her mother, Hildyr. We do get a brief view of what she remembers during her dream sequences.

Lucette grew up relatively isolated and extremely sheltered. Her mother, Hildyr, would not allow Lucette to leave the palace to prevent her from ever finding out what a truly horrible ruler her mother was. Even after Hildyr's death, Lucette continued to remain hidden in her room. She had entered the town once after Hildyr's funeral and was met with hateful stares, which Lucette was not able to understand why she was hated, thus she became fearful of the townspeople and decided she was only safe within the palace walls.

For the first 13 years of Lucette's life, she had no one but her mother, as her mother made sure no one would ever become close to Lucette. Hildyr threatened Lucette's father, Genaro, to keep away from Lucette, making her believe that her father never loved her. Hildyr also indoctrinated Lucette into believing that anyone being nice to her was trying to use her for her status, firing servants that Lucette grew attached to, in a way to make sure Lucette could never question Hildyr's words on how terrible humans were. Hildyr would personally oversee over all of Lucette's lessons, forcing her to practice everything repeatedly without any complaints until she had perfected it. Despite this, Lucette was fooled into believing that only her mother ever loved her, believing that being cold and harsh was a sign of strength and thus never held this against her mother.

During the Great War, Hildyr dies, though Lucette only knows that she died in an accident. Lucette was given no other explanation on what happened. This death devastated her, causing her to feel more alone then ever. We learn from the prologue that her father did not speak to her for months at this time, cementing the belief to Lucette that her father never did love her.

A year before the game begins, Genaro finds an old flame of his, Ophelia, and their love rekindled. He marries her and brings her two children, Emelaigne and Rod, to the palace. Lucette was hostile to this decision, believing that Genaro was trying to her mother and her with this new family. It only made matters worse that Genaro tried to push Ophelia as Lucette's new mother and insisted that Emelaigne was Lucette's sister, despite that Lucette made it clear she did not ever want to see them as family.

## Relationships

### Love Interests

Rod

He is Lucette's step-brother. They first met a year ago when Genaro and Ophelia married. However, neither Lucette nor Rod saw each other as family, as Lucette despised his family and Rod hated Lucette. Initially, Lucette had no real thoughts on Rod, as he never spoke around her, so she was genuinely surprised when he first admitted to her that he hated her.

While Lucette is in the Marchen, Rod chooses to stop coming to the Marchen to avoid her. If you are on Rod's route, Lucette will choose him as a partner based on the notion that she may be able to get a good deed if she can right the wrongs Rod accuses her of having done. Lucette is persistent in this partnership, having Delora's help getting Lucette a job at the palace as Emelaigne's personal maid in order to spend time with Rod. Rod is resistent of this partnership at first, until being called out into how important it is for them to help Lucette.

The entire route focuses on Lucette learning more about the step-family she had resented so much and sympathising with them. She grows to care for Emelaigne and wanting to help her in all the lessons Emelaigne struggles with. She becomes protective of Ophelia when seeing nobles insult Ophelia simply because she used to be a baker. As Rod sees how Lucette treats his family with kindness, his hatred towards her dwindles and a genuine care for her develops. However, Rod is often contractitory of his feelings, speaking to Lucette too harshly at times to cover his own growing feelings for her. Meanwhile, Lucette grows to worry about Rod and wants to help him break his curse, despite believing he still hates her.

Often times, Lucette can get frustrated at how much Rod refuses to tell her anything. Although she always remains persistent in her goal to help him and is never deterred in her attempts to try to understand him more. There are often sparks of moments in their relationship where the two are a little competitive, as seen when it comes to their dancing ability. Lucette learns that goading Rod into seeing something as a challenge of his skill is the easiest way to have him engage in something she wants.

Karma

He is one of the boarders at the Marchen. They first meet in the toy shop on the day Lucette is to be cursed. The meeting is only brief, with Lucette being amazed by Karma's great grace and beauty. They properly do get to meet after Lucette has been cursed and been brought to the Marchen (which, Karma played a role in ensuring Lucette arrived in the Marchen).

Intially, Lucette does not seem aware that Karma rescued her on the night she was nearly mugged on the streets, and she finds Karma to be exceptionally vain and shallow, calling him a narcissist. She also only finds out Karma is a man when Waltz tells this to Rumpel, which causes her to bitterly think about how if the women of Angielle knew, they'd be angered to find out that it was man posing as a woman who was that beautiful.

If you are on Karma's route, Lucette approaches him for help with breaking her curse as he was one of the people that offered to help. Despite that he admits he can only give her opportunities to do good and not actually teach her to become good, she still wants him as a partner. At first, he mostly uses this partnership to get Lucette into doing things for him, such as carrying his bags, which Lucette seems to accept is better than having to deal with Mr Broom. While they're out shopping, Karma asks her for some info on her family life, in exchange for a little on his own. Though Lucette is cautious, she begins to open up to him.

Eventually, Delora lets Lucette know of Karma's main job at the Marchen, which is to train Garlan and Jurien as well as protecting the Marchen at night. Lucette then chooses to spend every night with Karma, watching him train the knights as long as she can before she needs to sleep for her work in the morning. Between this and shopping, Lucette ends up spending every day and night with Karma, which causes them to grow closer slowly over Lucette's stay at the Marchen.

Karma is very playful and loves to tease, which Lucette always meets it back with her snark. She finds some of his antics funny, as this is the route where she laughs the earliest in. Whenever his temper gets out of control, Lucette is always there to tell him that he's gone too far, which always causes Karma to stop before he does something he regrets. He becomes more protective of her, giving up the little sleep he has to follow Lucette around in case something goes wrong. She also begins worrying about him when his curse begins to activate, causing him pain, not that Lucette knows what the cause is. After Karma gets a small injury while protecting Lucette, she decides she doesn't want him taking the risk again and talks him into teaching her how to fight with the sword.

Rumpel

He is one of the boarders at the Marchen. They first meet in the Marchen, after Rumpel is found unconscious by Garlan and Jurien and brought to the Marchen to recover. Initially, Rumpel's comments paint him as a mindless flirt and Lucette does not want to bother talking with him.

If you are on Rumpel's route, Lucette feels compelled to attempt asking him for help with her curse but she questions in her mind why she would pick him. However, Rumpel tends to notice the attempt to approach him and he will always go to her before she leaves the room. Unlike with the other boys, Lucette behaves more of a tsundere than usual which causes a lot of the beginning of this relationship to need Rumpel to pursue her, as opposed to other routes where Lucette is the one to begin pursuing that guy.

As the route progresses, Lucette notes all the ways that Rumpel is unconditionally nice towards her. Although she doesn't understand why, as her mother always taught her that anyone being nice to her is to use her for something. Eventually, Lucette does confront Rumpel about this and all she is told that he does it to see others happy, which is not something Lucette could easily comprehend but it is the start of where she accepts that Rumpel truly is very kind and selfless. It becomes a thing that she feels so strongly about that whenever anyone were to criticise Rumpel for his flaws, usually Karma, Lucette feels the need to defend Rumpel based on how kind he is to her, regardless of whether her defence is related to the criticism or not.

Their bond develops as they help each other to break their curses. To help Lucette, Rumpel teaches her about kindness by showing her how it feels when someone is being kind to you. She does become a better person for this, while also learning that there needs to be a limit on how selfless one can be. As she gets to know Rumpel, she does see that he can be so selfless it becomes selfish, and she helps him to see that too. This becomes more evident as while Lucette is helping Rumpel to break his curse, he learns he was cursed in order to learn this same lesson.

The relationship between them becomes very wholesome once Lucette learns to trust Rumpel more and softens up around him. Rumpel enjoys showering Lucette with compliments whenever he can, and behaves like the perfect gentleman around her by opening doors for her and carrying her bags. Meanwhile, Lucette looks out for him in her own way, as she knows that Rumpel won't look out for himself. It is most obvious in how involved she was in trying to get the journals needed to break his curse from his ex-fiance, Bria. However, Lucette's constant moments of questioning some of the things Rumpel does, like refusing to be paid for his work, come out of a place of Lucette worrying about him rather than her questioning his kind actions. As Rumpel is always putting Lucette's needs and happiness above his own, it is balanced by Lucette very bluntly reminding Rumpel of the things he needs to do to take care of himself too.

Fritz

He is Lucette's personal knight. They met when he first got the job as her personal knight three years ago, so there is already a foundation to their relation that has happened prior to the game starting. When you first meet Fritz, Lucette states that he is the only person she can tolerate, which is a very big deal when she couldn't stand nor trust anyone else in the beginning of the game.

While he doesn't have much presence in the other routes, Lucette will always think of him in the routes she's not in the palace, showing that deep down she has some concern for him. If you are on Fritz's route, Lucette's get separated from Waltz in the crowd, which is when Fritz finds her. She chooses to go with Fritz, while the Marchen has no idea where she's gone off to, and she stays in Fritz's home for a while, where Delora eventually finds her.

During the time spent in Fritz's home, he takes her out around the town, showing her all of the bakeries he enjoys going to. We see from this that Fritz remembers a lot of small details about Lucette, such as what her favourite baked good is and other small things she likes. It's evident early on that Fritz has had a crush on her long before the events of the game, and he notices these small things about her due to those feelings. However, Lucette never noticed this and doesn't quite understand why he notices this much about her, as this is her first true interaction of someone caring for her.

Lucette begins to slowly start noticing things about Fritz too. When he talks to her about how difficult a relationship one can have with their dad, as he can very much relate, Lucette realises she's never seen Fritz and his father, Alcaster, together in a room at all. When out getting pastries, she can ask to get a croissant, purely based on the fact that she notices he likes the croissants at that bakery the most and wanted to try it to see why he likes them so much. However, it doesn't go further as the events of the story gives Lucette other things to worry about, and the time she can spend with Fritz becomes much rarer.

Eventually, Lucette meets Varg, the alter ego formed due to Fritz's curse. Varg has a fascination with Lucette and enjoys trying to toy with her. Initially, Lucette is afraid of him when he tries to capture her during an escape, she quickly learns that there is no reason to be afraid of him when his job is to capture her and nothing more. She stands up to him, which ruins his fun, as the curse prevents him from doing anything to harm her to instill that fear into her again. The stronger Fritz's feelings for Lucette grow, the more they bleed into Varg, causing him to desire her affection, despite knowing she only has eyes for Fritz. Lucette often will demand that Varg let Fritz out and tells Varg that he is nothing compared to Fritz, making it very clear who she prefers. Although she stands up to him easily when they're alone, the second someone else is around, Lucette becomes worried for their safety and takes active steps to protect those other people, knowing that Varg has no reason to hold back on them as he does with her.

Regardless of Lucette's negative feelings towards Varg, it is through Varg that she finds out how Fritz feels about her. Additionally, it is Varg's sacrfice in the end that allows Fritz and Lucette to be together. Due to Varg's existence and the massive amount of tragedy that occurs in this route, the relationship between Fritz and Lucette still has to grow by the end of the route. They do have some dynamic of Fritz wanting to be there for Lucette as much as possible, paying attention to the little things just to be able to provide those for her to see her be happy. He's the first person to realise how sad a person she actually is and he strives to make her happy enough to smile. Meanwhile, Lucette has faith that Fritz will be there for her, but she is still trying to get to know him, especially when she learns how much of himself he hides from everyone.

Waltz

He is one of the boarders at the Marchen. Due to Lucette's memories being erased, she does not remember their first meeting from their childhood. However, when they re-met each other in the game, it's during a street performance that Waltz is giving on the day that Lucette is to be cursed. The meeting is only brief, and they properly get a better meeting after Lucette has been cursed and brought to the Marchen (which, Waltz played a role in ensuring Lucette arrived in the Marchen).

Initially, Lucette is not made aware of the fact that Waltz and her used to be friends when they were children. He is helpful towards her when she needs it and is friendly enough, but he otherwises leaves her to form other relationships at her own pace if she is on any other route. If you are on Waltz's route, he will divulge who he is, who her mother is and that Lucette had her memories erased much earlier than in any other route.

At the beginning of Waltz's route, he is surprised that Lucette turns to him for help in breaking her curse, though he does still help her. He takes her out to town as he's doing his shows, giving her time to see how the townspeople are, as Lucette knows nothing of them. During their trips, she sees one father wanting to get a bear for his daughter that he can't afford, which makes her think about how unloved she felt by her own father. While Waltz isn't able to help her with mending her relationship with her father, he is able to open her eyes in how familial love looks among the commoners that Lucette had never bothered to gotten to know before. He helps her to also get to know the children of the town by having her at his shows and play with them.

When he is telling her of the past she has no memories of, he does it while also trying to get her opinion on his puppet shows. It is here, we learn that Waltz first learns how to make his puppets from Lucette, who used to make puppets in her childhood all the time. Although it is unbelievable at first, Lucette does trust Waltz enough that she takes the news of being the new Tenebrarum bearer easily compared to most routes because the news is coming from him. This trust she has for him grows further, as when Waltz is injured by Varg, Lucette finds that she cares for him so much she cries in front of him despite believing that crying is a weakness.

Due to the nature of Waltz's curse, the relationship never develops into anything romantic while he's a child. It's only after he breaks his curse and becomes a man again do they date. Although they also have the return of Hildyr to deal with, they do still spend a lot of time together. Waltz teaches Lucette in magical combat every day, as she needs to prepare to stand up against her mother. However, they do take time outside of that to also explore their romantic feelings, such as Waltz using his magic to set up a romantic atmosphere when the two share their first kiss together.

Despite that much of their attention is focused on stopping Hildyr, Lucette and Waltz still have a dynamic that fits a very classical kind of romance. Waltz both shows Lucette the world she has been sheltered from all of her life and actively woos her with sweet gestures, like setting up the scene for their first kiss. Unlike the other routes, there isn't an issue Lucette needs to support Waltz in, so the development on her side of the relationship focuses more on how she grows to care and trust Waltz. Even though Waltz makes it clear how he can and will protect her when he has his magic again, Lucette doesn't stay on the sidelines as she hones her magical skills so she doesn't need to endanger Waltz for him to keep her safe.

### Family

Genaro

He is Lucette's father. Their relationship begins as very tense and distant, with any conversation we see between the two ending in an argument. While growing up, Genaro was never there for Lucette, unbeknownst to her, because he was threatened by Hildyr to keep away from Lucette. However, Lucette only saw this as her father not loving her and wanting nothing to do with her. This feeling of being unwanted is cemented to her after Hildyr's death, when Lucette wasn't even able to speak nor see her father for the months when she was in mourning.

When Genaro remarries and brings in a new step family, it led to feelings of resentment in Lucette, as if she and her mother were being replaced. With very little tact, Genaro demands that Lucette consider Ophelia, Emelaigne and Rod as her new family, despite that Lucette is not ready to accept them. This only fuels her to despise them. It is unclear when this began, but Lucette feels so distantly from Genaro that she calls him "Your Majesty" rather than father, as it reflects how she feels no fatherly love from him.

Whenever Lucette is in town and focuses on any child with a father, she laments how despite having no wealth, they are still far happier than her and have a more loving family relationship than her. She even thinks of Genaro's actions as having abandoned her back when she was still in the palace. Even more, the two have such a strained relationship that Genaro isn't even able to notice that Lucette has had her memories erased.

However, even with their relationship that strained, there are signs that Genaro does care for his daughter. Even though Hildyr forced herself upon to him to have Lucette be born, it was Genaro who chose Lucette's name. Whenever Lucette had a birthday and her mother forbade her from celebrating it, Genaro was the one to organise a secret surprise that would lead Lucette to a hidden room with all manners of sweets and dolls for her to play with. He'd leave a note, telling her to keep it a secret, so Lucette would never mention it in front of Hildyr. Although, she also believed it was her mother who was setting these surprises, as Genaro always signed the note from M. When Lucette is cursed, Genaro orders for her room to be left as is except for keeping it clean, as he only has a feeling it's for someone important.

It is only during Waltz's route where Lucette does get to begin reconnecting with her father. Unfortunately, he dies just as he remembers who Lucette is.

Hildyr

She is Lucette's mother. From the beginning of the game, we see that Lucette idolises her mother and believes her to be perfect in every way. Though Hildyr had died four years ago, Lucette is still mourning her loss as she felt that Hildyr was the only parent who ever loved her and the only person she could trust to not harm nor use her. She describes Hildyr's actions as being strict but that it was necessary to build Lucette up into a strong and capable princess. As such, the reason Lucette is so cold to everyone initially is due to how Hildyr raised her.

Hildyr was always present in Lucette's life and there for every lesson she had. Whenever Lucette made a mistake, Hidlyr would insist Lucette kept practicing until perfected without any complaint or rest. Anytime someone tried to get close to Lucette, such as a servant or children in the town wanting to play with her, Hildyr would stop this and telling Lucette that these were people trying to use her and she need to distance herself to remain safe. Lucette was never allowed to leave the palace under the belief that it was too dangerous for her outside and she was only safe within the palace walls.

As the game goes through more of Lucette's memories, we see that Hildyr is cold and manipulative towards Lucette. Hildyr intentionally keeps Lucette isolated so that Lucette is starved for any form of affection from her. Despite that Lucette knew her mother thought birthdays were pointless and forbade her from celebrating her own, she still was willing to believe her mother loved her enough to hold the secret birthday surprises her father organised for her.

Learning Hildyr's true nature is always hard for Lucette, and initially she wants to reject the notion that her mother would be the cruel and tyrannical person that she is. However, she eventually grows to accept that reality, though it never stops her from loving her mother still. It is only in Fritz's and Waltz's route, where Hildyr returns, does Lucette genuinely realise that it is better for the world that her mother remain dead. It also causes her to understand the most why everyone regarded her with so much fear before. While Hildyr does claim to love her before her demise in these routes, based on Lucette's actions, it appears she does have her doubts as she learns to stand up to Hildyr rather than blindly follow her.

Emelaigne

She is Lucette's step-sister. Initially, we see that Emelaigne attempts to try get along with Lucette and spend time with her, however, Lucette finds these attempts to be feigned in some plan to take her title as Crown Princess. She will constantly remind Emelaigne that they will never be sisters whenever Emelaigne refers to them as such, not caring how her words Emelaigne whenever shutting the woman down. Lucette even appears regularly complains about Emelaigne to her personal knight, Fritz, judging by how he openly can ask Lucette about whether Emelaigne was one of the reasons for her sour mood.

It is only in Rod's route where Lucette gets the chance to know Emelaigne, as Lucette is stuck working as Emelaigne's personal maid. During that time, Lucette sees Emelaigne cry and admit that she never wanted to be a princess and dislikes all this pressure. While as a maid, Lucette can see that Emelaigne is still friendly towards Lucette, even easily apologising to her for anything that seems to bother her. At first, she cannot understand what Emelaigne hopes to gain from being nice towards the staff but then Lucette learns that this is because Emelaigne's attempts at being kind are genuine.

As Lucette warms up to Emelaigne, Lucette begins to help Emelaigne with her etiquette lessons that she struggles with. Additionally, Lucette grows to care for Emelaigne, as seen when Lucette worries for Emelaigne's safety when Varg is dancing with her, and tries to get him away from her. She even becomes the reason that Lucette openly uses as an excuse to deny admitting she is doing anything for Rod, and instead claims that it's for Emelaigne instead. At the end of this route, Emelaigne helps Lucette and Rod to sneak off and have time alone, as the two can't openly be together.

In every other route, while Lucette doesn't get to bond with Emelaigne and is seen to still not consider her family, Lucette still doesn't want to see any harm come to Emelaigne whenever a coup happens or Hildyr returns.

Ophelia

She is Lucette's step-mother. In the beginning, Lucette resents Ophelia as she feels that she's meant to replace her mother, which Genaro confirms with insisting she calls Ophelia "mother". Another reason she resents Ophelia is that she is constantly compared to be a better queen than Hildyr by the servants. Lucette also looks down on Ophelia, thinking her as a "lowly baker" who desires power along with her children.

However, if she's in Rod's route, after learning the truth about Hildyr, she realizes that even though Ophelia and Emelaigne knew how horrible her mother was, they still treated her with kindness and respect. She also is touched how Ophelia encourages Emelaigne to be friends with her. This leads to her to defend Ophelia when two nobles gossip about her later and get her second good deed.

In Karma's route, Lucette after learning the truth about Hildyr made her believe that because Ophelia is Genaro's true love, he didn't love her. This was a devastating blow to her. In Waltz's route, she feels guilty to approach Ophelia as she blamed herself for Genaro's death and avoids her, much to Ophelia's sadness. Before the Marchen leaves to Alcaster's speech, she approaches Lucette and comforts her, making Lucette appreciate her kindness.

In all routes other than Rod's, Lucette resolves to make amends with Ophelia, Rod, and Emelaigne at the end of the good endings.

### Mentors

Delora

She is the witch to curse Lucette and helps to run the Marchen. Initially, their relationship begins with some hostility, as Lucette is distrustful and bitter with Delora for having cursed her. In return, Delora can be quite harsh on Lucette and misses no opportunity to mock Lucette for her for the situation she is in. Delora makes it quite clear that she has her doubts that Lucette could ever be capable of doing a good deed. This is an opinion that does change over the course of the game as Delora sees how Lucette grows, and eventually Delora shows that she does truly believe Lucette is capable of breaking her curse.

On Lucette's 17th birthday, she was given a doll, who turned out to be Delora in a magical transformation to appear as a doll. For six months prior to the beginning of the game, Delora had been on Lucette's shelf, watching her selfish actions and hearing her justifications for being so cold. However, Lucette was unaware of this and considered Delora her favourite doll. This was the doll she most often would talk to and speak with all of her concerns and fears. She expresses how lonely she is and feels as though everyone hates her through no fault of her own. Due to her being so lonely, tells her dolls that they are her only friends and the only ones she can trust, and wishes that they could be real so they could speak back to her.

In every route, regardless of whether Lucette is in the Marchen or outside of it, Delora is always there to keep an eye on her and protect her from potentially corrupt witches. Although she does take more of a step back in looking out for Lucette in Karma's, Rumpel's and Waltz's routes as Lucette is still in the Marchen. Delora also will help Lucette when it's needed, though it comes in a very abrasive or teasing manner at Lucette's expense that it never appears like it is help in her perspective. Examples include when she needed a job in the Marchen to pay her board, and Delora decided to curse a broom to become sentient to force Lucette to clean as she had no actual skills for any job, or when she needed to get into the palace to partner with Rod and Delora decided to get Lucette a job she absolutely loathed in being Emelaigne's personal maid.

The biggest development this relationship gets is in Fritz's route. As Lucette is not spending any time with anyone who is part of the Marchen, Delora takes it upon herself to get closer to Lucette and encourage her to do her good deeds. When Lucette disappears and moves in with Fritz, it is Delora who finds her and stays with Lucette by pretending to be her doll again. As she is being more actively pursued, it is Delora is often always there to help Lucette evade her pursuers as well as try to work out what is going on with her. These events leading the two to grow closer than they normally would on other routes. When Lucette begins to doubt the Marchen due to Myth's words and confronts Delora about it, Delora is shown to be more concerned than she normally is when telling Lucette the truth about her mother, softening her explanations unlike in other routes. Although she is still very blunt most of the time when talking to Lucette, getting to know her more has Delora sympathise with Lucette the most in this route.

While Lucette takes a lot of these actions for granted and doesn't believe that Delora had any of her best interests at heart, once Lucette is used to bring her mother back to life and sees how cruel Hildyr is, Lucette begins to realise how much more care Delora had for her in hindsight. In Delora's final moments, she takes the hit to protect Lucette from Hildyr attempting to kill her, then she tells Lucette that if her daughter, Loreah, had lived, Delora would imagine her to grow up just to be like Lucette. This shows the beginning of a possible mother-daughter relationship the two could have had.

After Delora's death, Lucette is very notably affected by it compared to every other person to die this route, that Karma, Rod, Rumpel and Waltz all work together to try console her. When Rumpel makes her a hot chocolate, she is reminded of how Delora used to give her hot chocolate to calm her after they had escaped one of Varg's attempts to catch her.

Parfait

She is the Lucis Bearer and the owner of the Marchen. She is also the one to organise the plan to have Lucette be cursed in order to learn how to become a good person. Despite how difficult and cold Lucette is in the beginning, Parfait is always patient with her and speaks to her as kindly and friendly as possible. She constantly shows she has faith in Lucette becoming a good person and breaking her curse. Parfait is even the one to suggest that Lucette should partner with someone else from the Marchen, trusting that anyone there could help to show Lucette what true kindness is.

Unlike Delora, Parfait's approach is very hands off. While she is around the Marchen and can be spoken to at any time, she rarely checks up on Lucette's progress in breaking her curse. Given how certain Parfait is that Lucette can change, this could be an indication that she has that much faith in this plan working that it isn't necessary for her to intervene further than necessary. It is only when the kingdom is in danger by either Hildyr or Mythros does Parfait feel the need to come along to keep Lucette safe as Lucette will actively try to face the danger head on.

While they don't spend much time talking together, Lucette does respect Parfait and understands how much good she tries to do for everyone in the Marchen. It also appears that Lucette takes some influence from Parfait in how to behave as bearer. Though we don't get to see Lucette behave as bearer, we know that Lucette understands how her mother behaved as wrong and she is determined to not become like her. This is a viewpoint that is developed in part of Parfait explaining how Hildyr's actions had needlessly hurt many people and caused a war to break out.

Parfait talks about how important it is for the two bearers to work together and be in regular communication, thus it is implied that at the end of Rod's and Karma's routes, she and Lucette will work closely as Lucette learns how to become the new Tenebrarum bearer. Although it is not possible for this to happen in the other routes, Parfait does tell Lucette that she considers her to be important at the end of Waltz's route, indicating some level of attachment. Meanwhile, Lucette is genuinely saddened in every route where Parfait does die, and even has a grave dedicated to Parfait despite that fairies don't leave a body after death.

### Friends

Annice

She is one of the boarders at the Marchen. Not long before the beginning of the game, she had been working as a palace maid. On her first day of the job, she was given the task to clean Lucette's bedroom. However, when Lucette entered, she found the dress of her favourite doll, Delora, was torn. Assuming that Annice had done it, she fired her without a second thought. Initially, Delora tells Lucette that she should apologise to Annice for this, but Lucette believes she was within her right for firing Annice for being clumsy.

As Annice is not cursed nor a fairy nor witch, she is affected by Lucette's curse and cannot remember her. Despite that, Annice still shows respect to Lucette as a princess simply as she was told Lucette was one. Additionally, Annice is always very kind to Lucette, complimenting her for doing a good job at work and creating the salve for Lucette's injuries on her first night there. Lucette doesn't understand why Annice does this and tends to give her withering glares that intimidate Annice and make her feel nervous to talk.

It is only in Rumpel's route where Lucette takes the time to get to know Annice. As both Annice and Lucette are spending time with Rumpel, the two girls will at times be shopping together and doing work together. Rumpel also suggests that Lucette should learn to listen, which she first does with Annice one night when they're cleaning the tavern. It is then that Lucette finds out the truth of what happened the day she fired Annice; the girl had only been trying to save Delora from a bird that flew in from the window, and she had felt bad for failing to stop the bird before it ripped the dress. Lucette feels guilty for never having given Annice any chance to explain the situation and apologises for being so cold, despite that this apology confuses Annice.

Jurien

She is one of the boarders at the Marchen who used to be a knight in the palace. Lucette immediately recognises Jurien as having been one of the best knights in the Order of Caldira who was dismissed from the order prior to the events in the game. However, at the beginning of the game, Jurien has no memory of who Lucette is and thus, Lucette suspects she is only nice to her because she does not know who she is. Although, Parfait did explain that Lucette is Angielle's Crown Princess that no normal human can remember, and Jurien shows enough respect towards Lucette to still regard her as a princess.

There is not much reason for them to speak on most routes. While Jurien is often seen intervening in Karma and Rumpel's arguments, Lucette does not often get to interact with her outside of those moments. There is a brief moment where after Lucette has cleaned the Marchen floor, Jurien entering with Garlan caused Lucette to glare at them for tracking mud, and the two knights find her glare to be surprisingly intimidating.

However, in Karma's route, Lucette gets to know Jurien better by coming to the midnight training sessions with Karma. They even joke around a little, usually by trying to take shots at Karma's massive ego. Lucette even tries to distract Karma to help Jurien get a hit on him in one session. She also gets to speak with Jurien about how she feels about the men disrespecting her simply for being a woman without her title as a knight anymore, and Jurien makes it clear that regardless of what is said, she is still going to demand respect. Their talks also let Lucette learn more about how Jurien and Garlan grew up together, seeing how much Jurien does depend on Garlan but not ever seeing his actions to be more than just friendship.

This is the only time that Jurien openly feels injustice on Lucette's behalf by the fact that no one wants to tell her about the coup Alcaster is plotting. While it's not clear if she also feels this way in other routes, she is notably very vocal about it after getting to know Lucette better. When Lucette begins her sword training, Jurien assists with it on any night Karma is not able to train Lucette himself. Additionally, when Lucette insists on infiltrating the palace after Alcaster overthrows her father, Jurien is the first person to vouch for Lucette, saying that her ability in the sword has gotten better so she could be of help.

Garlan

He is one of the boarders at the Marchen who used to be a knight in the palace. Lucette immediately recognises Garlan as having been one of the best knights in the Order of Caldira who was dismissed from the order prior to the events in the game. However, at the beginning of the game, Garlan has no memory of who Lucette is and thus, Lucette suspects he is only nice to her because he does not know who she is. Although, Parfait did explain that Lucette is Angielle's Crown Princess that no normal human can remember, and Garlan shows enough respect towards Lucette to still regard her as a princess.

There is not much reason for them to speak on most routes, especially when Garlan notably doesn't speak up much except for when he's having to kick out the drunks late at night from the tavern. There is a brief moment where after Lucette has cleaned the Marchen floor, Garlan entering with Jurien caused Lucette to glare at them for tracking mud, and the two knights find her glare to be surprisingly intimidating.

However, in Karma's route, Lucette gets to know Garlan better by coming to the midnight training sessions with Karma. At first, she hangs around these sessions as she notices that Karma asks Garlan every night if he has told Jurien about his love for her yet. Lucette admits that she is not sure why she feels frustration on his behalf, but she does, which leads to her being invested in Garlan's love life. Eventually, the lack of confession becomes too much for her, and she tells him that pining with no answer is worse for him than being rejected, so he should ask. This, along with Karma support Lucette's assertions that Garlan should confess, spurs him into finally doing so. Which does lead to Garlan and Jurien getting together, and Lucette earning a piece of her pendant for doing a good deed.

When Lucette begins her sword training, Garlan assists with it on any night Karma is not able to train Lucette himself. Additionally, when Lucette insists on infiltrating the palace after Alcaster overthrows her father, Garlan does support her coming along and helping them out with what she's learnt from practice. In their last training session before they inflitrate, he makes it clear that he and Jurien will protect her in the palace.

## Trivia

* Lucette has a preference of sweet foods over salty.
* If she were to wear modern fashion, she'd mostly wear dresses and skirts.

## References

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