in the books duchess hates raven because duchess has resolved to die as that’s whats told. she think that raven rebelling is incredibly selfish because she’s putting everyone at risk to get her own happily ever after, which duchess accepted she would never get at a very young age. i really liked watching them interact, they parallel one another in a way the tv show doesn’t cover. there are a lot of internal dynamics between the rebels/commoners/royals revealed in this story that the web series keeps out.
I don’t think they really bring up how horrible her story was. She was destined to die at like 22 and that the the conclusion to her story.
she never tried to steal the happy endings in ever after high either. she almost steals raven’s because she doesn’t know how terrible it really is(and grimm tricks her into it, of course) but she ends up not because she hurt her friends in the process and deep down she’s too kind to cause lasting harm on others because she’s actually very sweet just under a lot of pressure and stressed out because she is going to die in five ish years
her story gives a really good insight to how the characters interact with one another and she’s very interesting. i hate how the tv show portrayed her.
also her and lizzie are best friends and it’s really cute and there’s a lot of daring pining for lizzie but she dgaf about him