Isabelle Rusty Ashet

**Isabelle Rusty Ashet** is one of the main antagonists of *Father, I Don't Want To Get Married!*. She is the current Empress of Ashet Empire, the second wife of the current Emperor Darius Zeferon Ashet, the stepmother of crown Prince Maximilian Kasin Ashet and the biological mother of Princess Beatrice Evelyn Ashet.

## History

### Past

Not much is known about Isabelle expect she was the concubine of Darius Zeferon Ashet where she makes Maximilian Kasin Ashet's life miserable and she was carrying Beatrice Evelyn Ashet in her womb at the time.

After poisoning Latisha Ashet, Isabelle marries Darius and becomes the second and current empress of the Ashet Empire.

## Personality

Isabelle is a power-hungry and selfish individual, a woman who enjoys a lavish life and only looks out for herself, willing to poison the former empress Latisha Ashet to gain the title for herself and attempt to assassinate and slander the crown prince Maximilian Kasin Ashet to get her daughter Beatrice Evelyn Ashet the position just for her to gain more power. Later, she sired a child with another man to gain the throne of the emperor.

Additionally, Isabelle is shown to be a cruel and manipulative woman, even to her daughter, Jubelian Eloy Floyen described Isabelle as "*A woman who regularly torments her daughter out of a twisted sense of maternity.*" Have no problem using Beatrice as a tool for her, not only tormenting and overwhelming her daughter with toxic expectations and limiting Beatrice's freedom but even giving her off to Mikhail Albert Hessen as a way to gain the support of the Marquis.

However, despite her greed and cruelty, Isabelle truly cares for Beatrice and loved her deeply despite the expectations. Shocked when Mikhail and Darius Zeferon Ashet threaten her to poison Beatrice but instead of following them, she drinks the poison all by herself and tells her daughter to survive. Additionally, for Beatrice's survival and safety, she is willing to put aside her hatred toward Maximilian and side with him in dethroning the emperor and taking down Mikhail, making herself a witness even when she is dying of intoxication.

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## Physical Appearance

Isabelle is an attractive woman despite being in her middle years with salmon-pink hair styled in ringlets at the tips with bangs hanging on the right side, blue eyes and red lips.

As the nation's empress, Isabelle enjoys a luxurious lifestyle and has many gorgeous gowns of many colors and expensive accessories and jewelry.

## Relationships

### Family

#### Darius Zeferon Ashet

Isabelle was once Darius' concubine before becoming his wife after Latisha Ashet's death. Darius only favored Isabelle during her pregnancy as he believe that the child is an archmage, thus allowing her to do as she likes, including killing the current Empress and harming the Crown prince. Darius later give her the position and power of an Empress. However, despite being husband and wife, they only see the values the other person will bring to them as Darius sought a person to give birth to an archmage in the Ashet Royal family while Isabelle is after the power and influence of the Empress, which is heavily implied when their relationship turns cold after Beatrice Evelyn Ashet was born.

In public, they look like a loving couple, however, their relationship is rather distant and they rarely interact with each other. The relationship between husband and wife turns worse when Isabelle conceives a child with another man, but later hit rock bottom when Isabelle learns that Darius has attempted to harm Beatrice at the hunting festival and that he is planning to kill her daughter via poisoning.

Unfortunately for Darius, who underestimates Isabelle's subsurface mother's love, Isabelle thwarted his plan and drank the poison herself using the poisonous drink and make herself a witness to all her malevolent husband's sins. Before succumbing to the poison and dying, Isabelle shouted at Darius to go to hell.

#### Maximilian Kasin Ashet

Maximilian is Isabelle's stepson and archenemy. Their relationship is extremely terrible for Isabelle was the cause of Max's misery and the one who the the responsibility of poisoning Latisha Ashet. She attempted to assassinate and slander the crown prince for her power-hungriness and Max has no qualms about humiliating her publicly. However, as Max grew stronger with time, he only regards her as an insignificant enemy as she is powerless without her position and support, he also deemed her as foolish for seeing and chasing something so frivolous as power much like other nobles. Additionally, his priority is Jubelian Eloy Floyen and then getting rid of Darius Zeferon Ashet and Mikhail Albert Hessen.

However, unexpectedly to Max, Isabelle is willing to put aside their antagonistic relationship and sides with him and Regis Adri Floyen upon learning that Darius is planning to get her daughter killed in the banquet. When Max is about to be condemned by Mikhail and the emperor's underling, Isabelle have drank the poisonous glass and acted as the witness to Mikhail and Darius' crimes towards her daughter and confesses their sins to the public before dying, allowing the crown prince and the duke of Floyen to successfully take down Darius and the Marquisate Hessen.

#### Beatrice Evelyn Ashet

Beatrice is Isabelle's daughter. Although they are mother and daughter, their relationship is rather bitter as Isabelle always abuses her daughter emotionally and only sees her as a tool to get more power and influence. Always shoved her daughter with her toxic expectations and stressed her out. As demonstrated in their conversations throughout the series, they never trust each other in terms of being mother and child as Isabelle only frivolously sees things while Beatrice cherishes her friend who truly cares about her. However, it is indicated that Beatrice did care about her mother and wanted her love, praise and attention.

However, like all members of her family, Beatrice underestimates her mother's love for her as Isabelle drinks the poisoned glass instead of her daughter and wished her to survive. As Isabelle succumbed to her death, Beatrice rush towards her and hugged her body while shedding tears in grief.

### Rivals

#### Mikhail Albert Hessen

In **Chapter 70**, when Mikhail knows that Isabelle is pregnant and threatens her that he will reveal to everyone about her pregnancy if she doesn't "lend her power" to him, she eventually agreed to his offer. However, Mikhail broke his promise and reveal the fact to Beatrice Evelyn Ashet, which angered Isabelle so much that not only did she refuse to do business with him any longer but even jumped whenever someone mentioned him. Mikhail later threatened her to do his and the Emperor's bidding to poison Beatrice, which shocked Isabelle greatly.

However, much like everyone involved in the incident, Mikhail underestimates Isabelle's maternal instinct when she drank the poisoned glass of wine and reveals all of his attempts, crimes, and his cooperation with Darius Zeferon Ashet before dying, resulting the Hessen Marquistate and the Emperor losing their power and status and Mikhail was apprehended.

## Etymology

* The name **Isabelle** means "pledged to God/God is perfection/God is my oath" in Hebrew and French.
	+ Shortened to **Belle**, it also means "beautiful" in several different languages.
* Isabelle's middle name **Rusty** is the name delivered from a nickname that was originally given to someone with a rusty, or reddish-brown, hair colour.

## Trivia

* Ironically, Isabelle died of intoxication to protect her daughter Beatrice Evelyn Ashet, which can be considered her karma as Latisha Ashet died in the same manner in her hands.