Lawrence Rosan

**Lawrence Rosan** is a recurring character and antagonist in *The Villainess Lives Twice.* He is the son of Marchioness Millaira Rosan and Emperor Gregor Kratez. He is also the half-brother of Artizia Rosan.

## Appearancer

All the people say that he is very similar to his mother, Millaira. He has her white hair and eyes. He usually wears luxury clothes, typical of nobles.

## History

His parents are the Marchioness Rosan and the current Emperor. Birth in the 460 year of Empire. During his childhood, he was immensely doted by his mother, which led him to take her love for granted. Despite this, Lawrence is sensitive when his legitimacy to the throne is doubted. When he was a kid, he usually went to the emperor's office and played with him or made him jokes.

While he was growing he started to understand that he was an illegitimate son with a dubious right to the throne. That caused him to develop an inferiority complex. Adding his average abilities and his egocentric education, caused him to become narcissistic.

In the first timeline, he discovered Artizea's intelligence after an incident with the emperor's daughter, Charlotte Eunice. He used her as his principal conspirator, and after his marriage with Lysia Morten, he became emperor as he had wished. But his reign was horrible. He made a lot of disproportionate scorched earth campaigns, caused by real or imagined offenses, without thinking about the consequences for the people.

His relationship with his wife was very toxic, without sons, and abusing her in private. After Lysia's death, he married another woman and they had a son, Abe. He murdered his proper son and accused Artizea of his death and a lot of other crimes. By the time between Artizea's jailing and the time travel, the empire was destroyed and he killed his mother because she was scolding him because he had a lot of affairs.

In the second timeline, he doesn't discover Artizea's talent and decides to use her as a marriage tool. He makes an attempt to make an alliance with the Duke Cedric, but he refuses in the moment of Cedric wasn't flattering. He receives the news that his mother abused Artizea in front of her fiance and other people, and the subsequent move to another place. In his rear conversation with Artizea, she gives him the idea to be adopted by the Empress Katherine to become the Crown Prince. He takes seriously the idea when he sees the Empress taking the place of the mother in the Artizea's wedding. He had a problem when Cedric discovered a media of human trade because he was involved by a friend who made human hunt.

During the Artizea's honeymoon, he was in the capital, making efforts to be pleasing to the empress. He goes to the empress's birthday party with a gift and the intention to be her accompanying. The plan ends suddenly when he receives the notice that Miraila was accused of attempting to murder kids in a pagan sacrifice to curse the empress. After that, he is hidden in his mansion until the emperor orders him to go to the south in the role of co-state secretary. The idea was make other people produce merits in Lawrence's name. This work fails too, because he is accused of ordering the murder of the Queen of Emmeil.

## Personality

Narcissistic, egocentric, with an inferiority complex. These are the three principal defining features of Lawrence. He is narcissistic, thinking the things and people only in the way that they serve him like tools. He has a problem with his inferiority complex as he is an illegitimate son with only average abilities. He is painfully aware that he needs help to become emperor, but he hates all the people who are better than him in anything or do not spoil him, so he doesn’t have really any useful allies. Except for Artizea in his last life, his faction was all the emperor’s allies or useless people. When he became emperor, his ego got out of control, and he killed all his allies and enemies for real or imagined offenses motivated by paranoia and jealousy. In his second life, we can see that Lawrence doesn't have any experience or ability to be gentle with other people without the other's advice, because he never made the effort to be liked by others voluntarily. His ego blocked him from trying it for much time. He is also disturbed by little offenses like interrupting him when he is talking or not arriving immediately when he calls, which demonstrates that he wants absolute obedience from other's parts and he doesn't accept less of that.

## Relationships

### Mirailla Rosan

She is his mother, but he only thinks about her as an obstacle. He takes for granted her love and attention, and doesn't do anything for her if it hasn't any benefit.

### Artizea Rosan

She is his half-sister and, in the past life, the principal reason why he became emperor. But he only thought of Artizea like any other tool, and when he had become emperor he locked and tortured her because he was jealous of her intelligence.

### Gregor

He is his father, but Lawrence is piqued because Gregor didn't make him the Crown Prince since the beginning. When Gregor tries to give him advice, he is only frustrated. Lawrence never thought that Gregor's love was limited and unstable and probably only thought about his love in terms of becoming emperor. Even with Gregor probably knowing this, he gave him a lot of support in both lives, while Lawrence was useful and a good son (in appearance). But when Lawrence demonstrated to be useless without Artizea in this timeline, Gregor gives up on him. Their relationship is between apparent (and fragile) filial moments and Gregor wishing that Lawrence had more talent. Lawrence hates to be compared so he doesn't like this Gregor's attitude.

### Lisia Morten

She was his wife in the past timeline. He apparently loved her but in a toxic way. In the end, he only loved her like an object to possess and also was very jealous because Lisia was more popular than him.

### Amelia Harper

He only thought of her as a person sent by the emperor. He takes her advice seriously, more or less, but not for liking. By Amelias's side, she only thought about Lawrence like a royal brat.

### Cedric Evron

In both lives, he was one of his possible rivals for the throne. In the first life, they probably didn't meet personally and Artizea was responisble to fight with him. In the second life, in the first moment, Lawrence tries to attract Cedric to his faction by other's advice. But right away he gives up on the idea because Cedric's attitude is only formal and not cajoler like the rest of his faction (excepting people like Harper who are emperor's consultans, so Lawrence must put up with them and pay attention to them). Also, it could be because Gregor compares Lawrence with Cedric in some moments and he hates feeling inferior to Cedric, or think that he needs him.

### Empress Katherine

In the first timeline they hadn't any contact between them until the empress's death. In the second, he tries to be adopted by her by Artizea's advice. He tries to be appreciated by her giving her gifts and cleaning his public image. After Miraila's issue, he decides to offer her a more succulent prize, the fall of actual Duchy Riagan. It doesn't work like Lawrence had thought and the effort is in vain.

## Trivia

Lawrence is a derivation of Lorenzo, even Lorenzo is used in traductions, and means *winner.* It is ironic because, he has a lot of defects rassociated with leaders, but he is not a winner or has leadership's habilities. He destroyed his empire in only 10 years of government alone.

## Gallery

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