Monica Duval/Relationships

## Relationships

### Annie Duval

Annie is Monica's biological sister, both in the main timeline and past timeline. She is the second princess of the Duvalin empire and is a year younger than her elder sister. In "The Tale of the Princess Heroine", Annie tried to put her sister on the throne because she disliked the idea of having any one of her brothers on the throne. Now, Annie and Monica both have no interest in the throne, they dislike each other, but are close because they have to try and survive with only each other.

Monica first viewed the original Annie as pitiful, she was born a coward and a weak princess in a family of merciless killers, she was always in the shadow of her bratty and abusive sister. Monica has now viewed the Annie she is with now as courageous and brave, but a bit dumb in the head sometimes.

Monica only trusts Annie as they already knew each other before their reincarnation to this world. They stay close and try their best to not draw the attention of any of their family members, to see the opposite results. Annie and Monica are complete opposites soon after the one year time jump. Annie starts training in swordsmanship so she can fight and keep her and her sister safe from any harm while Monica practiced in the art of dance, sewing and studied hard to pass all of her classes. Monica and Annie have two things in common, and that is their love for food and money.

In the earlier episodes, Monica always blames Annie for their failures and they seem to not be fond of the fact they have to stay in the same room, always complaining to Clementine. Annie always took the blame, however, she always puts up a fight against her sister who always placed the blame on her. Monica was the merciless one, being bothered by Maelie's snitching to their parents, she threatened the servant to the annoyance of Annie, thinking they were only going to confrot her and let her go.

Now, Annie pays no mind to her sisters threats to seemingly innocent people as she herself has become used to the ways of the Duval imperial family, she abuses her power and enjoys torturing people as she doesn't view them as real people, however, she has a soft spot for pretty people like her mother or handsome people like her brothers.

Monica and Annie are always seeen together, to the point where it feels weird to the two of them if they are seperated, but their seperation is due to the fact they have decided to study different subjects. Annie gets used to being scolded by her older sister while Monica always lectures the princess on what she calls "Survive your crazy family 101" and "How to be a princess 101". Annie is grateful for all the lessons her sister has taught her on etiquette and how to speak formally, like a true princess, even though Annie disregards these rules because she follows Silas, whom she looks up to dearly. Monica usually gives Annie up to Silas, so she can work without dealing with her annoyance of a sister.

### Eloise Duval

Eloise is Monica's adopted sister and is the third princess of the Duvalin Empire. She is also the original female lead in the original novel. Monica is very wary of Eloise, but she is not sure if Eloise is an ally or an enemy, but Eloise doesn't have any strength neither does her magic which isn't anything harmful, this is why Monica chooses to see her as a neutral force.

Before meeting Eloise, Monica hoped for the story to go exactly as planned, but without the fact that Monica and Annie are the villains. Monica has already planned to be friendly at first and then distance herself from the young girl, Monica and Annie has also talked about whether there will be a new villain if they are no longer the villains. Her brothers has revealed to the two of the adoption of a new princess before Eloise had arrived at the palace, but they were calm and didn't seem against it, to the suprise of all of her brothers.

During their meeting, Monica is rather friendly towards the new princess, even gifting her a new dress. Eloise really enjoys Monica's company, even if Monica wanted to keep a distance from her and would rather her bother her parents instead of herself. Monica has expressed her outward affection for Eloise, to the annoyance of Ikarus Duval, but Monica says her interactions with Eloise are all fake, to make sure she, along with her sister, Annie, have a chance at survival.

Monica is the reason why the rest of the family, not including Annie, dislikes Eloise. The poisoned tea was a gift from Alora Astier to Eloise, as a "welcome gift". Eloise accepted it and knew that Monica liked tea and wanted to try it with her dear eldest sister, this led to Monica being effected by the poison and slipping into a short coma. Eloise was blamed for the incident and rumours spread of the adopted princess poisoning the kind and welcoming first princess. Ikarus was the most eager for Eloise to get convicted of attempted murder against the first princess, but Annie protected her.

When Monica was awoken, she cleared up everything and welcomed Eloise back into the family, to the dismay of everyone. Rumours now spread of Monica's kind gestures to ensure the safety of Eloise, and Monica's popularity increased while Eloise's was indifferent. Eloise is known to be jealous of Monica and Annie, having the attention of the family and being the favored by their parents, but she stills loves them for always protecting and looking out for her, even if she isn't a true princess.

Monica's act dropped as soon as all evidence was against Eloise after the Imperial Family poisoned the fake princess. She was taken to jail and nothing has been heard from her since.

### Irvin Duval

Irvin Duval is the current emperor and the biological father to Monica. In "The Tale of the Princess Heroine", he never once showed emotions to Monica and Annie and only cared about the charming and kind Eloise. He was also the cause of death for both Monica and Annie.

Monica's first impressions of the emperor were not good, she only saw him as a horrible father and a ruthless tyrant who ruled the empire with fear. She had planned to stay as far away from him as possible, to avoid being executed by him. She always had to keep her younger sister under control to not draw the attention of the emperor and empress.

Monica seemed calm and stable in front of the emperor, treating him like an emperor rather than a father, but when he was always nearby, she becomes nervous and always felt like she could faint at any moment when she is with him. She felt that if she left the palace or was kidnapped, he would not waste his resources or breath to track her and her sister down, but she would be proven wrong soon. Monica always put on a formal act in front of the emperor so he could find her boring and leave her alone, unlike all the other female leads she has seen do in the manhwas she always reads.

Monica has found that the emperor seems interested in her ever since she transported here because of her kindness and eagerness to stay away from him. Irvin seems to care for the first princess, even before Eloise arrived, which is maybe why he seemed so frustrated and uninterested in Eloise who always wants his attention and would rather spend his time with his calm yet hard to understand daughter. He is willing to put his daughters above his empire and made sure that they are not hurt in any way. He also greatly dislikes Eloise after adopting her, finding her annoying and stupid, the complete opposite of Monica and Annie. He is willing to go all out on special events as he gifted Monica a new room on her 17th birthday.

Soon after Annie's magical abilities were exposed in court, Irvin spent his time with his daughters to keep their magic in check, especially since they are quite dangerous. He now sees the two as capable candidates for emperor, but he doesn't want to switch his favourite child, Ikarus, for Monica and Annie.

Irvin knows he is a bad father to Monica and Annie, neglecting them in the past up until they started acting weirdly towards him and his wife. He knows the near perfect resemblance between Monica and Monara Duval and the fact she ended up with Monara's magic was not a coincidence.

### Serena Duval

Serena Duval is the current empress and the true power behind the Duvalin Empire. She is the wife to Irvin Duval and the biological mother to Monica Duval. She loves her children dearly, but she was always busy and could never spend time, leaving them to be raised by nannies and servants.

Monica liked the original Serena, but she favored Monica more than the protaganists. She saw Serena as a smart and powerful woman who was charmed by the young Eloise and was swayed away from her duties, but in truth, it was the very opposite. Serena stayed by Eloise's side to make her keep studying, making Eloise very stressed due to all of the studies that she was doing.

Monica is more calm towards Serena than she is with Irvin, she saw her mother as a neutral force, but leaning more towards an enemy, Monica stayed nervous by her mother's side, but she could keep calm because of a few lines in the novel where Serena expressed concern or guilt towards her daughters. Monica always smiled in front of her mother, unlike she is towards her father. Monica has expressed concern on how her mother was born so beautiful, even as a child when she saw a few paintings and potraits of her mother at the age of 5.

Monica seems annoyed that Serena is not expressing affection towards Eloise and has changed course, directing her affection at Monica and Annie. She tries her best to be the perfect daughter and avoid them at the same time. Serena never takes no as an answer and kept inviting her daughters to have tea with her in her rose garden which is forbidden to even Idris and Silas, so it being opened to Monica and Annie says something that is not what Monica and Annie had ever wanted. She also allowed them to have the best education, something she steered all of her sons away from, besides Idris. She steered all of her children, female or male, towards swordsmanship, but Monica and Annie got the best and top education, but Annie soon quit.

Serena was surprised by Monica and Annie's manifestation of their magic and always believed they had magic. She always wrote to them, especially since Serena lives in Lyonhall Palace while Monica and Annie is staying in Dawnton Palace at the moment..

### Ikarus Duval

Ikarus Duval is the Crown Prince, and is the heir to the throne. He is the biological brother of Monica Duval and is the oldest of the 6 children. He was always his parents favourite, even in the original novel. Out of the entire family, he was the only one who ever paid attention and loved Monica.

Monica didn't really care much for Ikarus as he wasn't shown much in the original novel, but that didn't mean she disliked him, she liked him because of his devotion to his sister, but didn't see the hype around this character, but that is because she haven't the two sequels soon after the originl novel was released.

Ikarus, as his parents favourite could get away with many things, and that included abusing and bullying the original female lead, Eloise. Monica saw Ikarus as an ally, no matter what happened because of the original novel and his devotion to his sister, but she would rather stay far away from any of her family, so when she escapes, no one will come looking for her or her sister, but it has failed tremendously.

Monica is nice towards him and he is nice in return, but she enjoys Idris' company much more than Ikarus' which made him jealous and threaten Idris with death, but Idris brushed it off as a joke. Ikarus spends most of his time walking from Lyonhall Palace to Dawnton Palace to find his sister, usually in the hallways, talking to Annie. When Monica needs some information or just something in general, she usually goes to her father, but heads to Ikarus when he is busy with other things, which made Ikarus feel happiness since it made him think that Monica can trust him and ask him of anything.

Ikarus was there when Monica manifested her magic and was also there for Annie's, he was proud of the both of them, but mostly Monica. He didn't really care whether she had magic before or not, he loved her either way, he was just happy she had what she had always wanted. Monica also believes that Ikarus loves her because of their similarities, which isn't true, it's because Ikarus saw her when she was just a baby and promised to love and protect her forever.

### Idris Duval

Idris Duval is the Second Prince. He is the biological brother of Monica Duval and is the second oldest of the 6 children. He is known to be very wise and a very smart prince, very rare for a member of a warrior family.

Monica liked him in the original story, I mean, who couldn't? He was kind to the poor and loved studying among commoners, he always gave free advice to people who needed it. Monica loved him, he was a strong sorcerer who had a lot of mana and was taught by Cassius, he even taught poor sorcerers for free.

Idris was the odd one out of the family because he wasn't physically strong, but he had a lot of mana power. Monica saw Idris as an ally, sure, he may have been one of the people that sided with Eloise during Monica's sentence, but it was because Monica was being stupid and was trying to kill Eloise. She allowed him nearby her and her sister as she saw him as harmless towards them.

Idris started becoming interested in his sisters after they went against their parents and studied them even more after they manifested their magic.

Idris is the only one in the novel world to know that they are truly not his sisters as their souls have been swapped, but he doesn't care, as long as they don't take advantage of their positions or do anything to ruin Monica and Annie's reputation, then he'd let them be, he'd let them live in the bodies of his sisters.

### Silas Duval

Silas Duval is the Third Prince. He is the biological brother of Monica Duval and is the third oldest of the 6 children. He is known to be a strong fighter and is titled the mad dog of the family, a title he proudly displays.

Monica doesn't like the troupe of the 'mad dog' who is a brother to the main character and only is caring towards her, she finds him short-tempered and easily annoyed which is probably why she teases him a lot.

Silas is known to be what people thought of the Imperial family, crazy good with the sword and psychotic. Silas is known to not have a lot of mana, leading him to take a different path then the one he wanted, which was to follow his second brother, Idris, to study magic and magical abilities, but he failed the final entrance exam.

Silas was one of the first characters debut in the series, appearing in the first episode where he bumped into his sisters after they had their awkward lunch with their parents.

Silas has noted on the personality differences of his sisters from before and prefers it this way as Monica is kinder and willing to spend more time with him.

### Clementine

Clementine is the daughter of a duke and the head maid of the Dawnton palace and is the personal caretaker for the first and second princess.

Monica loves Clementine as she is loyal and caring towards the two princesses. She was the only person who the princesses never abused and they loved her dearly, sadly, she was executed soon after Monica and Annie because she begged the emperor to not do it.

Clementine is formal and caring to Monica and Annie, she was strict with them in some instances, but she did it for their own good, she took care of them after they were abandoned by their parents and left in Dawnton palace. She always played fun games with the two and sought out the best teachers to teach the both of them.

She appeared in the very first episode and just recently she has stopped appearing more frequently, but mentions of her name are very common as she is a likeable character.

### Alora Astier

Alora is the daughter of Count and Countess Astier, the fiance of the crown prince and the future empress of the Duvalin Empire.

Alora never appeared in the novel, but she did appear in the sequel novel following. Alora is known to be very manipulative, but always have a friendly face on. She is similar to her parents who resent the imperial family.

Monica never trusted her, from the first time she met her. After Monica was poisoned, Alora was the one Annie suspected to be the culprit due to what Eloise said before the poisoning.

Monica deeply distrusts Alora, but does admire her for her skills.