Athanasia de Alger Obelia/Relationships

## Relationships

### Claude de Alger Obelia

Claude, emperor of the Obelian Empire, is the father of Athanasia. In "The Lovely Princess", he has almost no emotional bond with Athanasia, even going as far as saying he "never thought of her as his daughter" before her execution. This hatred is attributed to the fact that Diana, the dancer who Claude loved deeply, died while giving birth to Athanasia. After Athanasia's transmigration, Claude treats his daughter with indifference at first but comes to treasure her as time passes.

At first, Athanasia views Claude as a tyrant capable of murdering anyone at his will. This image she has is due to her reading of the novel *Lovely Princess*, and she's wary of him. She believes that in order to survive, she must be on his good side. However, as time passes by, she views him as the father she never had and comes to enjoy his company so much that she even asks him for favors such as being her partner during her first dance at her debutante, or to have a painting of the two of them.

Her influence over him is so great that Athanasia is capable of calming Claude down when he's in a foul mood, like the time when at her debutante, Athanasia is tired and wanted to head back to Emerald Palace to rest. Claude believed that she wanted to leave because someone had been rude to her, so Athanasia clung onto his arm and told him that she missed her father and that's why she had left the debutante. Once Claude was calmed and decided to head back home with his daughter. Another time when Claude got mad was when Felix started to talk about how Athanasia eventually would get married and he wouldn't be able to spend time with the adorable Princess. Claude demands Felix to leave and never to show at their private tea parties. Athanasia calms Claude when she comments that she wanted to be with Claude forever, and that even if she ended up getting married Claude would still be her favourite person. Though Claude retorts about how she tends to say cheesy things, Athanasia can see he's no longer upset.

At the end of Season One, when Athanasia falls ill and is surrounded in what appeared a mana explosion, Claude risks his life to save hers. This puts them both in a 10-day coma, with Athanasia waking up first. Upon her waking Claude, it is revealed he has amnesia and has completely forgotten Athanasia, transforming their relationship into how it was in "The Lovely Princess". After seeing the painting he had commissioned of the two of them, he is convinced she is a dark wizard who put a spell on him. Throughout this time he is determined to kill her the next time they meet. They eventually meet in the rose garden where he, despite knowing that the protection spells on her were placed by him, he attempts to finish the deed. Before the situation could escalate any further, Athanasia teleports away, leaving Claude beside himself in anger and confusion.

She goes into hiding and only returns every once in a while to the Palace to check on people dear to her, amongst them, her father. After having some meetings with Jennette, in which his memories Athanasia jogged in his mind, he's asked by Jennette if he didn't miss Athanasia, to which he responds he didn't know, but he wouldn't try to harm her anymore. So, he was willing to let her live in the Palace again.

Though, he doesn't regain his memories, he tries to hold regular meetings with her, the way they used to.

### Diana

Diana is a dancer who died whilst giving birth to Athanasia. She is mainly depicted as "fairy-like" and graceful. Athanasia only sees her mother in brief dreams, where Diana interacts with Claude.

In a sense, Diana saves Athanasia from death during the Ruby Palace massacre and secures her place as Obelia's next heir by giving her child the name "Athanasia", which Claude found humorous. Athanasia is often told she possesses similar traits to her mother, in both looks and personality.

### Anastacius de Alger Obelia

Anastacius is Claude's older brother who is allegedly dead due to Claude killing him in a fit of anger for having an affair with Penelope Judith. He harbors ill intentions towards the family, but he doesn't want to harm his daughter. He takes on the facade of a gentleman who offers advice when needed to Jennette Margarita, but he is a cold, heartless man in reality. Athanasia first notices Anastacius at her debutante, and then a second time when she and Jennette went to the market. Athanasia is aware of his cold demeanor unlike Jennette, but she doesn't think much past that. They run into each other a third time at the Alpheus manor while she stayed their undercover and this interaction physically and mentally shocked them both.

### Jennette Margarita

Jennette Margarita is the daughter of Penelope and Anastacius. She was the product of an affair and experimentation. She is said to be born due to dark magic which made Athanasia view her as someone dangerous yet harmless at the same time due to jennette's kind personality. Athanasia already knew the truth of her origins, but decided to keep it a secret in order to spare Jennette's feelings despite the fact that she knows the truth will inevitably be revealed eventually.

at first, Athanasia was very cautious of Jennette because of what happened in The Lovely Princess novel. They first meet at the debutante and multiple times later at Athanasia's tea parties. Athanasia initially attempts to keep Jennette at a distance, but they inadvertently grow closer. Although they were friends through formality, they began to spend a lot more time together after Athanasia ran away from the palace. She would often stop by the Alpheus Manor as a means of refuge.

this greatly developed their sisterly relationship, But Athanasia still view her as a threat to the kingdom because of her problematic situation and her naivety which makes her easy to be manipulated and used by others, this changed when Jennette confronted Athanasia by opening up to her which resulted for the two to have complete trust towards one another.

### Felix Robane

Felix is Athanasia's personal guard who was first introduced as the bosom brother of Claude and he was sent over to guard the 5-year-old Athanasia. Felix is not affiliated with Athanasia in the original "The Lovely Princess." However, in the current timeline, he plays a role as her personal guard. He becomes very attached to Athanasia so much, that even Claude tries to tease him telling him he "has become quite the nanny" seeing how Felix became familiar of Athanasia's whims to carry her anywhere she desire. It was revealed that the reason he was fond of the princecss, even before, was because Felix was in good terms with Diana when she was Alive and held her in high regards. Even Claude became evidently envious of Felix and Athanasia's close relationship that he would make him follow them 10 steps behind.

When Athanasia found out Felix's alias that he earned in the battlefield, 'Knight of Crimson Blood', she used it as a chance to playfully tease him.

During the first season, Athanasia asked Felix to be her partner on first dance at the debutante. Though Felix felt honored to be considered by the Princess, he, like Lucas, knew that Claude wanted to be the princess' partner and tried to give Athanasia some hints. However, Athanasia ch remained oblivious to it which put him in an awkward position. Apparently, Felix gets 'tortured' by Claude constantly, until Athanasia finally asks Claude to become her dance partner. Felix thanks the Princess and makes a comment that he feels safe again.

In the second season, Felix is often seen defending Athanasia in front of Claude. He keeps pushing Claude to remember Athanasia and pulls references of their times together. It was implied later by Claude, that although the emperor had been looking for the Princess, Felix wasn't really trying his best in finding her, and that this was because Claude's insistence on murdering Athanasia at sight. However, when Claude wants to bring back Athanasia into the Emerald Palace again, he asks Felix to properly look for Athanasia since he had no intention in hurting her anymore.

Athanasia has only seen Felix as kind, and aloof at times. but on the day Athanasia decided to return to the palace she decides to secretly follow Felix assuming he wouldn't notice her because of her invisibility magic. yet, Felix was able to pinpoint Athanasia's exact location and even conjured a sword when he felt her presence, although he wasn't aware that the intruder was athanasia which made him deeply regret his action when he saw the teary-eyed princess in shock. to comfort the princess, he crouched down in order to make himself look smaller and harmless while comforting Athanasia

### Lucas

Lucas is a magician who took a form of a young boy and serves as Athanasia's companion. He is also responsible for keeping the princess's mana under control and detach any lingering curse sticking to her frequently. He is the only character who wasn't a character in the book, therefore Athanasia can't prejudge or read him like all the other characters and, instead, she learns about him over the time they spend together.

At their first meeting, Lucas tried to kill Athanasia using magical bubbles but stopped by Athanasia's Divine Beast, Blackie. Later in the story, it is evident that the magician slowly developed a liking to Athanasia as he frequently gets annoyed when Ijekiel spends time with the princess. Despite his cold attitude towards Athanasia, he is quite docile towards her after she hit him in the head due to offending her which he then stated "no one has ever hit [him] in [his] entire life, not even [his] parents". He deeply cares for Athanasia and even went as far as taking her outside the palace for a secret expedition and put an exact replica of Athanasia in her room to avoid suspicion.

Towards the end of the first season, Lucas leaves to find the World Tree in order to get its fruit and replenish his mana. Before he leaves, Athanasia questions whether he could just consume her mana instead. Lucas jokingly states that she only wishes for him to stay so that she can keep her mana stable. Athanasia retorts stating "How can you say that when I'm your friend?!". Lucas is shocked by this statement and eases her worries then he leaves. Lucas eventually returns to the palace and goes straight to meet Athanasia. Soon after, Athanasia asks Lucas to save her father, Claude, and gives him a kiss on the cheek as payment for his troubles.

### Ijekiel Alpheus

Athanasia sees Ijekiel as a 'high calibur male Lead' due to his high intelligence, brotherly figure and proper manners despite being young, a quality befitting of an ideal male lead.

Ijekiel met Athanasia when they were little. after Lucas suddenly casted a teleportation magic on Athanasia to the Alpheus Estate, it resulted for the young Athanasia's fall from the sky that led the young Alpheus on a peculiar encounter, prompting him to catch the princess. Due to this incident, Ijekiel assumed that Athanasia was an angel due to that bizarre meeting with her, coupled by the fact that the feathery dress she wore with the large white ribbon greatly resembled a vague image of an angel, thus, earning her the nickname 'Lady Angel" by Ijekiel. Later in the story, he developed a romantic attraction towards Athanasia as he stated that "I couldn't bear to watch that person cry again", pertaining to the Athanasia.

later on into the series, it was revealed that Ijekiel also had romantic feelings toward Athanasia as he felt love-at-first-sight on their meeting in the first timeline, which is seen when Jennette introduced him as her fiance to athanasia in that life.

### Roger Alpheus

Due to her knowledge of his character in the 'Lovely Princess' novel, Athanasia isn't quite fond of Roger because of his apparent schemes. She always tries her best to avoid being involved with him and always finds a way to refuse his offers which were an obvious attempt to build a connection with her as she sees it as Roger's 'investment' for the future to claim some the glory the royal family has to offer. She calls him 'whitey' or 'white doggy' in an innocent demeanor in order to vex him when she was younger but has grown out of that habit later on.

Although athanasia doesn't like Roger, she is aware that he's a discerning individual who would do his best to serve the empire and the royal family which earns a little of her respect.

### Lilian York

Lilian, or "Lily" as Athanasia calls her affectionately, is Athanasia's nanny and the one who raised her. Lilian volunteered to be Athanasia's personal nanny despite other's opinion towards her decision. ever since, she has taken care of Athanasia since she was a newborn, becoming a motherly figure for the princess. In more than one occasion, Athanasia has shown that she's grateful to her and how much she loves her as lilian is one of the people she valued the most. In one occasion Athanasia commented that Lilian "could be such a mom sometimes" when she praised the princess' scholarly skills. She's also very strict when needed, like the time she scolds Athanasia for getting a cavity and forbade her from eat chocolate,

Lilian seems to have some difficulty grasping the idea that Athanasia is growing up when she witnesses Athanasia giving Lucas a kiss on the cheek as his 'payment'. her alarming reaction on the scene led Felix to believed that the Princess was in danger.