Tanis Lionheart

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## Tanis Lionheart

### Status

 **Deceased**
Sacrificed to summon a Demon King

## Relationships

### Relatives

* Count Bossar (Father)
* Eward Lionheart (Son)
* Cyan Lionheart (Stepson)
* Ciel Lionheart (Stepdaughter)
* Eugene Lionheart (Adopted son)

## Professional Information

### Affiliations

* Lionheart Family
* Bossar Fief

## Appearance

She is the first lady of the Lionheart Family and therefore the wife of Gilead Lionheart. She gave birth to Eward Lionheart but is unable to give birth to another child.

## Appearance

Tanis has long ligt brown hair and cyan blue eyes. She is in average height.

## Personality

Tanis was shown to have been an extremely strict mother to her son Eward. Due to him being her only child and likely due to her inability to have anymore children, Tanis would constantly pressure him to excel at everything and would become extremely angry and displeased at him should he fail.

Due to the situation of her husband taking in Ancilla due to her inability to have children, Tanis his shown to hate her and has developed a competitive rivalry with her, resulting in the two fiercely using their children to gain favor with the rest of the Lionheart Family by forcing them to compete against each other in the hopes that their own son becomes the next Patriarch.

However, underneath this, Tanis has shown to genuinely love and care for her only son as well. This is seen where despite her constant pressure for him to do better and her frustrations due to his lack of abilities or talents of the typical Lionheart, Tanis genuinely wishes to support her only son and believes in him to have the necessary ability to become the patriarch of the family despite everything saying otherwise. Tanis herself completely supports Eward's dream to learn magic, as shown by her allowing and supporting him to go to Aroth.

Later after the debacle of Eward attempt at black magic, Tanis further showed her devotion to him by refusing to allow him to face further humilation by being sent home to the Lionheart Main Estate, where he would be mocked and held in contempt by not only by his half-siblings but also by the servants and household knights due to his failures and willingly abandoned her position and power as the Lionheart Estate’s mistress and head wife of the main family of the Lionheart clan and instead care for her son in her family’s home.

Similarly to her son, Tanis has been shown to have the tendency deflect the blame for any of her mistakes to someone else and avoids taking responsibility for the consequences of her actions. This is seen where Tanis herself refused to acknowledge that her negative parenting and suffiocating expectations for Eward was the true culprit for how he turned out, as these high expectations and demands themselves were the reasons for the gradual degredation of Eward’s psychological and emotional well being as he desprately desired to escape from them, but at the same time he desprately wanted to please his mother and make her proud of him. As shown after the debacle of Eward’s attempt to become a black mage, Tanis pushed all responsibility to Gilead for being a “neglectful” father to Eward and believes that he favors Ancilla’s children and his adoptive son over their son, refusing to acknowledge Gilead attempts to help Eward by giving him as many opportunities as he could to succeed in his dreams.

However, despite covering for him and protecting him, its been implied that Tanis herself did this more out of her own self-interest than the love she felt for him. This is seen where where after bringing him to her parent’s home, Tanis actively lamented and frustratingly vented her lost hopes to him due to his failures to become a skilled person worthy of being a Lionheart and her disappointment at the failure he had become, completely ignoring Eward’s own despair and pain over his failures and worsening his psychological health. Furthermore, its been implied that Tanis also allowed or was oblivious, to the negative treatment her father and her families’s servants inflicted on him during their stay in the Bossar Fief.

This implies that her bringing him to her family’s manor was more to protect her own standing and prevent herself from being ridiculed for having raised such a failure by the public by hiding him away in her family’s home.

## Story

After the debacle of Eward's attempt to learn Black Magic which then resulted in his exile from both Aroth and the Lionheart Estate, Tanis was shown to willingly leave behind her place as the Lionheart's Main Matriarch and Mistress of the Estate in order to protect him and bring him back to her family's estate in order to continue his magic lessons to allow him to follow his dream, showing much she loves him.

However, as implied by Eward, despite protecting him and covering for him, Tanis’s treatment of him was implied to have worsened. As seen during Eward’s memories and admitted in his diary, Tanis was shown to have begun berating him for his mistakes and of how he turned out, with her saying that she wished that he was more like his younger half siblings or even like his adoptive brother and lamanated to him her original hope to raise him as a capable individual rather than the failure of a person he was now. Tanis herself was not alone in this treatment of him, her father was stated to have come to despise him and its been implied that her other relatives and even their servants treated Eward in the same manner.

This in the end only worsened Eward’s mental state and rendered him susceptible to the corruption of the Demon King Remnants within The Demon Spear and the Annihilation Hammer, resulting in him finally snapping and killing her, her father, their relatives and servants within the Bossar Fief.

After killing them, Eward would use Black Magic Necromancy in order to animate their corpses and “play house” with them. This allowed him to make them act like the family he always wanted, giving him nothing but their “unconditional” love and support. This also allowed him to make it seem like the populace of the Bossar Fief was still alive and allow Eward to move unnoticed without suspicion.

Later after Eward’s death, Tanis’ body, along with the bodies of her family and servants, were finally found by the Black Lions, who immediately began investigating Eward after his defeat and death.

## Trivia

* She is very troubled the fact that she can't bear another child beside Eward Lionheart.
* She resents her husband Gilead Lionheart for taking Ancilla Lionheart as his concubine.
* Despite being the first wife and official mistress of the Lionheart estate, Tanis was stated to be inferior to Ancilla in handling its day to day affairs and the servants of the main estate in truth did not hold her in high regard in comprison to the respect they had for Ancilla.