Original Penelope Eckhart/Relationships

*For the Penelope Eckhart of the events of the story, see: Penelope Eckhart/Relationships.*

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## *Daughter of the Duke - Love Project!* Main Characters

### Ivonne Eckhart

Penelope despised Ivonne because she was constantly compared to her for the last six years. She feared that Ivonne's re-entry into the Duchy would get her kicked out to the streets. On the day of the one-year anniversary of Ivonne's disappearance, she prayed that Ivonne would never come back.

### Derrick Eckhart

Derrick is Penelope's adopted eldest brother, but he doesn't view her as a sister or even part of the family. He took an instant dislike to her, considering her a "filthy thing". Siyeon notes that Derrick's Affection Score always drops whenever she chose any dialogue option that had the word "brother" in it and she concludes that he probably felt disgusted of being called this way by Penelope.

He takes every chance to scold her and blame her for everything. He also considers Penelope to be childish and undeserving of the Eckhart name.

**This section contains spoilers! Do you want to read them?**
In the Side Stories, it is revealed that Derrick has always been attracted to Penelope, but due to his guilt of losing Ivonne, he wasn't able to show it. To suppress his feelings for Penelope, he would abuse her verbally and emotionally.
### Reynold Eckhart

Reynold is Penelope's second oldest adopted brother, he is the most outright hostile towards her and the most likely to kill her in the beginning as his starting Affection Score is -10%. Nevertheless their relationship is the most complicated and nuanced in the story and, ironically, the most sibling-like relationship.

Just like Derrick, Reynold hated Penelope from the first second, but in the beginning he tries to shallowly hide his contempt. Everything changed when he caught Penelope in the attic, praying that Ivonne would never return. He saw this action as blatant disrespect and baseless hatred towards his real sister so he accused Penelope of theft to punish her and gave himself a reason to hate her more openly. Most of his hatred towards Penelope comes from the fact that he sees her a shallow and spoiled fake lady who took his sister's place.

He clashed with Penelope often, always finding something to be angry at her for. Even so, it seems that Reynold thinks of himself as a good person so he tries to find reasons to fight her. This was showcased in the necklace incident and the numerous times in the story when he tells Penelope to cause a scene so he can have an excuse to be violent towards her, angering him deeply when she refuses and proves her level-headedness.

### Callisto Regulus

In Normal Mode, Callisto is the one who always kills Penelope, just like when Callisto discovers that Penelope is responsible for poisoning Ivonne, he brutally kills her.

### Winter Verdandi

We know the least about Penelope and Winter's relationship. We can assume that he either had a neutral or negative impression of her considering that he was on Ivonne's side and brought her back right on Penelope's coming-of-age ceremony.

### Eckles Khan Delman

Eckles served Penelope in Normal Mode, but little is known about their relationship. Penelope Eckhart, the one possessed by Siyeon, mentions that out of all of the Love Interests, in Normal Mode, Eckles was the only one that pitied Penelope until the end. However, it is later revealed that he tried to remain neutral whenever his master would clash with Ivonne for his own survival. Also, he betrayed Penelope by revealing that she was poisoning Ivonne.

## Eckhart Dukedom

### Duke Eckhart

She and Duke Eckhart first meet each other when she was still living in the streets. Noticing her similarity to his lost daughter Ivonne, Duke Eckhart decides to adopt her.

### Emily

Like the rest of the staff, Emily liked to make Penelope suffer. She would serve her mistress rotten food and hurt her with a needle.

## Nobility

### Gloria Kellen

A year before Siyeon appears, Penelope was invited to a tea party by Gloria Kellen. Gloria provoked Penelope to gain the men's sympathy and being crowned as the Queen of the Hunt. To hide this incident, Duke Eckhart gave a diamond mine to Gloria's father in exchange for his silence.

## References

1. ↑ Manhwa: Season 2, Chapter 48
2. ↑ Manhwa: Season 2, Chapter 74
3. ↑ Manhwa: Season 2, Chapter 75