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Wilfried: I really hated the idea of you marrying Father when he's so much older than you and spent years raising you. Just viscerally upsetting.
Rozemyne: Okay... but Ferdinand is fifteen years older than me, and did way more to raise me than Sylvester ever did. Why are you fine with us being married?
Wilfried: Aside from you being nuts about him? I just wouldn't wish either of you on anyone else. You deserve each other.
Rozemyne: Rude!
And actually, since I’m on a big Ascendance of a Bookworm kick right now, I also want to talk a bit about Wilfried.
I think it was @rozemynelovebot who relatively recently made a post discussing their very complicated feelings towards Wilfried? Hopefully I’m right. Anyways, it was a post that of which I really enjoyed reading, and I want to add onto that discussion, if just a bit.
I really like Wilfried as a character, because more than any other, he feels like an actual child to me. Children in this series have a tendency to show a lot of maturity, even at really young ages, and while I do think that is reflective of real life (children irl are WAAAAY smarter than most adults give them credit for. they’re people too), I do think it goes a bit too far sometimes.
Ultimately that’s just my opinion, but it reflects my thoughts towards Wilfried. He’s impulsive, brash, naive, thick-headed, arrogant, and thinks he knows everything: which is exactly like many a teenager.
But that’s not all there is to him. Much like his father, Wilfried can be kind and thoughtful. Ultimately he wants to do good for the people around him, and he grows to understand the qualities of people that one should hold respect for. As the story progresses, he does grow and change, and it’s so great to see.
And yet…he’s so dumb. He’s a spoiled brat, who doesn’t understand anything about the real world. As far as I remember, he never comes to realize just how often he’s so easily manipulated by the people around him. He’s blind to the harm he often causes, and unlike his father, he never shows that greater judgement you’d want to see in someone who’s supposed to be a leader.
He makes decisions and says things without thinking, he forgets his place and orders around people he has no business ordering around, and he never truly understands either of his sisters.
It’s hard to blame him due to the damage Veronica’s obsessive love caused him growing up, especially since that damage is so difficult to see. But at the same time, much of his faults are, well, his fault.
How many times does he refuse to grow as a person? How many times does he accept when he’s made a mistake? He almost never comes to these conclusions himself, he only ever evolves when given external pressure and expectations. It’s almost like he has little to none self reflection, and what self reflection he does show is, ironically, inherently selfish.
So I love Wilfried, just as much as I hate him. I want good things for him, but I know that, without some radical changes, he should never be a leader.
thinking about the tragedy of Wilfried and the divide between him and his family caused by Veronica… how the first thing he says to Rozemyne is that he considers her “just as much [his] sister as Charlotte” without knowing that Charlotte doesn’t consider him her full brother and resents him a lot of the time. how Wilfried doesn’t even know or understand just how much some of his fondest memories were miserable to his siblings. even if he loves them that gap will always be there
I WILL DEFEND WILFRIED TO DEATH, HE IS ALLOWED TO BE A CHILD, FUCKING DAMMIT!!!! I DON'T CARE, I LIKE HIM AS MY OWN SON I NEED TO PROTECT FROM INEPTS WHO DON'T SEEM TO UNDERSTAND HOW CHILDREN WORK LIKE!!!!
AND HE IS NOT USELESS, I SAW A COMMENT ABOUT SOMEONE CALLING HIM USELESS, HE GETS BETTER, BECAUSE THANKS TO SOMEONE HERE WHO SHARED WITH ME THE ENTIRE LIGHT NOVEL OF AOB I COULD SEE HOW IMPORTANT IS WILFRIED.
Fine, I am done screeching like a banshee, but hate of a child is what I WILL NEVER tolerate. I will FIGHT tooth and nail for Wilfried. And I hate Veronica a lot, someone fuck that bitch(not in that sense thank you) but I want her to suffer an utter slow and painful torturous death. If Wilfried was raised by his parents(Florencia specially), he would not be lacking in his studies, it was because of that bitch that Florencia could not educate her son better, she's strict and loving, kids need a mix of both, sterness and love, but love overall must be a lot in order to succeed in life.
Basically it's me going ballistic when kids get hatred for being kids, as if the people hating him was never kids who fucked up once in their life, I FUCKED UP a lot being a kid and yes, I got my ass beaten with a belt multiple times, but I was LOVED and now I thank my mother for who I turned out today!!! Wilfried can succeed, he DOES become better even though, he won't be the next Aub(That's what I got, that he lost his succession rights and they now go for Charlotte or Melchior)
Anyways, Wilfried is my fictional son now. NO ONE is allowed to talk ill of him.
To be honest it is best if Wilfried was spoiled, bratty and so naive because had him been properly educated since day one, and still spoiled, he would have turned such a smart brat, the kids in the orphanage? He would have obliterate them, would demand praises and bowings.
So in all honesty I'm glad Wilfried did not turn into a smart brat, that way I would've not liked him as much as I do. Better start with a humbling at being foolish than humbling an arrogant, smart, Princely kid.
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