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Who Made Me A Princess Reacts: Jeweled Eyes of Secrets (Legacy Version)

Summary:

! As of January 2025, this work is being rewritten and will no longer be receiving any more updates.

 

Most of the WMMAP cast has been teleported to a random theater in another world! A girl named Momo will be making them react to: Who Made Me A Princess

 

Chaos, fluff, and drama ensues.

Notes:

Hey there! It's been a while~

I haven't been posting ever since my Sailor Moon fic because oh boy so many things happened, first my pc broke, then school ended, then family problems happened QAQ And to top it all I had zero motivation to write... But then I decided to get in to reading manhwas and here we are in a wmmap fanfiction -3-

I'll be writing this fic mainly using an ipad WHICH SUCKS BY THE WAY so thats one reason why there will be slow updates :joy:

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Chapter 1: Before You Read

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  • First and foremost, I will tolerate no Jennette bashing in this fic. This is a Jennette welcome household!!

    · I started working on this fic around June 2023, I’m not sure how long this will take until it’s finished but let’s just enjoy the ride shall we?

    · Personalities aren’t perfect but I’m trying my best. If you see any inaccuracies lore-wise or personality-wise feel free to point it out and I’ll fix it. Even for grammar mistakes since my eyesight is really bad sooo, and I also do not have a beta reader. We’re diving in head first >:)

 

  • I'll only be making them react to the webcomic. If they release side stories in the future I might consider adding them to the list.

 

  • Breaks will happen every 5 or so chapters. It's just for characters to organize their thoughts, discuss with others, eat, rest or take a bath. It’s mostly so that I don’t get burnt out while writing heh

 

  • I'll try to add bonus chapters, maybe holiday chapters etc. Where the characters just chill around and do holiday related stuff.

 

  • I'm a huge Lucathy shipper, but they won't be the main focus. I'll include little snippets of them, mainly on breaks and bonus chapters.

 

  • As for the update schedule— it's going to be quite inconsistent but I'll try to get at least a few chapters every month. 

 

  • I’ll be basing off Diana’s personality from other fanfics mostly (and the wiki) since I haven’t read the novel yet and there’s barely any Diana content in the webcomic QAQ

 

  • Lucas also knows about her reincarnations (like they actually sat down and talked about it) and that's why he won't be so surprised about the modern world shenanigans since he asks Athanasia about it out of curiosity. 

 

  • I'll put small headcanons every now and then to add some flavor to the characters -w-

 

  • Momo is honestly just a spectator here, she’ll have dialogue for sure but her main purpose is to just clear any confusion and all of that. 

 

  • Diana’s timeline: 1 month before she got pregnant

 

  • Lucas’ Timeline: Around a few weeks after Athanasia’s coronation. They are already dating. 

 

  • Claude and everyone else’s timeline is after Athanasia's debutante. (Maybe like 1 week or so)




 

Chapter 2: Welcome Everyone!

Summary:

The whole wmmap cast gets teleported to another world?! A lot happens and now they will be reacting to the life of our princess.

Notes:

If you see any erorrs please feel free to point them out in the comments :>

Happy reading everyone!

(See the end of the chapter for more notes.)

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The sound of someone groaning filled the quiet and dark room. The source of the voice— Felix Robane, Princess Athanasia’s personal guard, was trying to get up. He was put in a rather uncomfortable position, but besides that, where in the world is he??

Felix suddenly jolted up and looked around frantically. He was in an unfamiliar place, he could not see the Princess around. The redhead started to panic, then he noticed another person move near him.

 

.

 

Claude was just about to call in Athanasia for their regular teatime when he suddenly blacked out. When he regained consciousness, all he could see was darkness. He tried to get up but it felt like his body had been asleep for months, it was hard to move. He also noticed that he can’t use any magic in here, even the slightest bit which confused the emperor even more.


Claude also realized that he was not in his room, nor his office, most definitely he wasn't in any of the Palaces. 'Athanasia! Where is she?' Was his first thought, he forced himself to stand up then he heard Felix call to him.


"Your Majesty!" Felix dashed towards him and tried to assist Claude in standing up.

"Where on earth are we?” Claude snapped at the knight, “this is definitely not the palace.” He added while observing where they were


Felix gulped, "I apologize Your Majesty, but I am also as confused as you are. Before this, I was on my way to the palace while accompanying her highness and suddenly blacking out." He explained, "there's also other familiar faces here.." Felix pointed out.


Claude analyzed the huge room. It looked like a theater but there was no stage in front.  'Where is she…' He asked himself, finding no sign of the princessr in the dark room whatsoever. "Wake the others up. Someone here might have an answer." He ordered the crimson knight, who quickly nodded and went over to the front rows to wake everyone up.

 

 

Felix thought it would be best to wake up the Imperial Magician, Lucas.  Since obviously, he knows magic so he might have a clue as to why they were in here. Felix went up to him but was surprised when he saw Lucas open his eyes before he could do anything.


"Where the hell am I? Why are you so close to me?" Lucas asked, leaning away from the knight. Felix looked surprised for a second, was the magician’s hair this long and why did he sound older? 

"So you have no clue where we are?" Felix asked, the magician gave him a blank stare.


"Did you not hear what I asked a few seconds ago? Obviously, I don't." Lucas replied. He looked around, 'Athanasia isn't here..' He suddenly became disappointed and also worried about her whereabouts. He tried to track her mana but alas, he also couldn’t feel the mana of the princess nor could he even use his own magic. 


Felix moved on to wake up Anastacius who was still disguised as Viscount Patterson. He was the only person in the room that the knight didn't recognize. But before he could get to him, Lilian York, or Lily for short, woke up.

Lily stood up, trying to remember what happened, her memory was hazy, the last thing she remembered was talking with the other Emerald Palace maids. Then she suddenly looked panicked, she realized that she was not in the palace grounds. "Where is her young highness!?" She looked around desperately trying to find her but to no avail. 

“We aren’t too sure where we are or where her highness is as well.” Felix responded, “do you remember anything before waking up here?” He asked the maid who shook her head.


‘’I was only talking to the palace maids and that’s as far as my memory goes…’’ Lily added.

Anastacius woke up shortly after and Felix moved on to the next person. He groaned and sat up. Where was he and why does he feel so light? He was also weirded out by the fact that there was no sign of Carax in his mind at all. The disguised Viscount couldn’t remember a single thing before waking up here no matter how hard he tried.

'Carax, is this your doing? Where the hell are we?' Anastacius called out for the vengeful spirit but to his surprise, he didn't answer, the former emperor couldn't even feel his presence which surprised him more.

The last two people in the room also started to wake up. It was Ijekiel and Jennette. The two looked confused at their surroundings.

 

"...Where are we, Ijekiel?" Jennette asked in a slightly panicked tone while looking around.

"I don't know either.." Ijekiel answered, also quite shocked. But was slightly less worried when he saw familiar faces

Before anyone else could speak, all the lights in the theater suddenly turned on and a girl was shown sitting at the very front row, facing all of them. She looked to be around the same age as the princess and Jennette. She had white hair with pink tips and was wearing odd clothing which was a pink and lavender hoodie and a simple skirt. 

"You, who are you?” Claude demanded. “You seem to be the reason why we’re here.”

"Wait a second…" The woman trailed off, she squited at them, her face looked like she was trying to remember something. "Hold on, I'm forgetting someone important." She says, confusing everyone else. 

"You never answered his Majesty's question." Felix mentioned but was ignored. The pinkette snapped her fingers and everyone looked at her, confused until they heard someone from above.

"Kya!" A female voice shrieked and they all looked up to see a blonde haired-woman falling from the very covered ceiling. How did it happen? Probably magic, the others thought.

Without a second thought, Claude caught the woman falling. The action shocked everyone in the theater. When did this guy suddenly have the heart to save a person other than Athanasia?

The woman in Claude's arm went silent for a bit, most likely processing the situation. "Claude?" She suddenly blurted out. Shocking everyone in the room who recognized her voice.


But none were more shocked than the man carrying her in his arms.

Beautiful golden blonde hair, dancer clothes from Siodonna and that voice. This was no doubt Lady Diana. 

'Lady Diana!' Lily stared at the woman in Claude's arm tearfully, 'but how?.. She passed away years ago…'

Everyone who knew Diana asked the same question in their heads.

"Diana..? How?.." Claude asked quietly as he let her stand up.

"Hm? Is something wrong, why do you look so surprised?” Diana asked her lover, trying to recover from the fall moments ago

Claude then hugged her tightly, Diana was a bit taken aback from the action but still hugged him back. Everyone in the theater wonders if they should be watching this as it felt like they were intruding on the emperor’s privacy. So, they looked away in an instant..

Everyone except Lucas and Anastacius at least.. They couldn't care less.

They all sat in silence for a few moments, but then Claude looked at the girl in front not even bothering to let go of Diana. “Care to explain why we’re here?” 

The girl smiled, “let me introduce myself first, greetings everyone, you may all call me Momo.” 

“I have teleported you all in here to react to something. I mean no harm whatsoever.” 

“Do you think we’d trust you that easily?” Lucas asked

“Well, you all have no choice anyway. I’ll let you all go once we’re done reacting.’’ Momo shrugged.


‘’What do you mean by ‘reacting’ exactly?’’ Felix questioned


‘’Well, you all will be reacting to a certain princess!’’ Momo said cheerfully.


‘’Is there a reason as to why we’re reacting? Did something happen?’’ Diana asked.


‘’Speaking of the princess, where is she right now?’’ Lily asked worriedly.


‘’The princess is safe and alright, you will meet her soon. Just not now.’’ Momo explained, ‘’As for Lady Diana’s question, the reason you will be reacting is because I think it’s time for everyone of you guys to have some drama in your lives! The princess’ life sure is full of it.’’




The theater is left flabbergasted by how ridiculous her reasoning is. So much so that they can’t speak. An awkward silence engulfed the room until someone spoke,


‘’You are aware that I’m the emperor, right? I have matters to attend to in the palace. By keeping me here, people will surely notice my absence.’’ Claude stated firmly.


‘’You don’t need to worry about that, Your Majesty, time is stopped in your world temporarily.’’ Momo revealed, putting the audience in another wave of shock.


‘’Are you a magician by any chance? You must have great power to stop time.’’ Lucas questioned. ‘’Also, what do you mean by ‘our world’? Are you implying that we aren’t in our world ?’’


‘’For your first question, I’d like to keep that information for myself. As for your second question, yes you are currently not in your world.’’ She revealed, once again, everyone is just getting more and more surprised by each revelation made by her.


‘’Do you think we’d believe that?’’ Claude gave a small laugh.


‘’Well, I don’t expect you to believe me right away, but it’s true. You’re currently in a country called Japan— which is where I am from. This world is much more modernized and advanced than yours.’’ Momo explained.


‘’I’d like to ask something,’’ Ijekiel raised his hand to speak, earning the attention of everyone. ‘’What is your world about?’’ He inquired


‘’Magic does not work here. And you might be asking how Lady Diana is here, the answer is simple, she’s from the past though I suppose some of you might’ve come to that conclusion already.’’ Momo informed, ‘’A certain someone here is also from the future of your current timeline.’’ She adds and subtly eyes Lucas, though brief, it did not go unnoticed by observant eyes like Claude, Anastacius, and Felix.


The rest of the audience is still speechless from what Momo just revealed.


‘’If magic does not work here then how did you manage to interfere with more than one timeline?’’ Lucas asked, he noticed that he was the one Momo was referring to as someone from the future.


‘’That’s a secret! When you react you’re going to see many things like timeskips, flashbacks and more so don’t be that surprised.’’ She reassured, although the whole theater looked skeptical they decided to trust her words.


Well a lot of them are still suspicious of her, it became clear to them that they cannot escape from here. Being able to stop time in their world while transporting them to ‘her world’ at the same time must mean she’s someone very powerful. Probably even more powerful than the tower magician himself.


‘’Food and other necessities will be provided, bathrooms are to your left.” Momo points to the two doors on the left side of the theater.


‘’Thank you for your kindness, miss Momo!’’ Jennette thanked her, Momo smiled.


‘’No problem! Are there any more questions?’’ Momo asked the theater

 

“I have one..” Diana raised her hand to speak, “If I’m from the past, did something happen to me in their timeline?” She was referring to Claude’s and the others. The dancer felt like something did happen judging from her lovers’ reaction before.

 

The theater was dead silent which made the dancer think her suspicions were true.

 

“Lady Diana… You already know the answer, do you?” Momo asked, breaking the silence

 

“I suppose so..” Diana responded, “I also have another question, who is the princess?” 

 

Momo smiled softly, “she’s your future daughter. Athanasia de Alger Obelia.”

 

Diana’s eyes widened, a daughter, oh how she wanted to meet her right now.. She might’ve not been in her daughter’s life for long…

 

“Don’t worry my Lady! You’ll meet her a little later along with everyone else.” Momo reassured the dancer. “Now are there any more questions?” She asked.

 

“Um.. Since you’re not from our world, could you tell us what your world is about? Like your culture and other stuff— if you don’t mind of course!’’ Jennette asked shyly


‘’When we have the time, and everyone agrees to it, why don’t we explore my world?’’ Momo asked, ‘’You’ll get to experience it for yourself, now isn’t that fun?’’

“Wow! That’s amazing! Getting to learn and experience this new world that’s completely different from ours isn’t that exciting, Ijekiel?” Jennette exclaimed, her eyes were practically shining from enthusiasm. Anatascius looked at his daughter and felt happy?.. When he saw Jennette smiling. 

 

“Yeah, I’m also curious about this whole new world myself.” Ijekiel replied

 

“Alright then, I’ll let you look around this world because you will be reacting to quite a long list of things. And you might get bored being holed up here for so long”


‘’That would be lovely.’’ Diana smiled


‘’Any more questions?’’ Momo asked, the others shook their heads. 

“If there are no more questions, I’ll give you all a few minutes to be comfortable, snacks and food will be served soon. If you feel like washing up, the bathrooms are always open. We will be reacting shortly.”

 

…..

 

“They trusted you faster than I thought”

 

“I’m just that amazing hehe.” 

 

…..



After a little less than 30 minutes had passed and everyone was sitting down and comfortable. There were snack trays in each row filled with dessert, sandwiches and other types of food. They had blankets and pillows as well. It looks like a huge slumber party from Momo's perspective 

 

“I’m back everyone!” They all turned around to the very back row of the theater. Momo was sitting there with 4 or 5 snack trays and a lot of pillows.. No one even questioned it.

 

The projector above opened and it showed the title on the big screen in front. Everyone else was amazed at the foreign technology.

 

The screen lit up and it showed the words:

 

[Who Made Me A Princess



Episode 1/125]

 

“That’s quite a lot..” Lily whispered to Felix who was next to her. The knight nodded in agreement.

 

“We will be starting now, lights off!” 



….

Notes:

kudos are always appreciated ~w~ thank you for reading!

Chapter 3: Episode 1

Notes:

Formatting this is a pain in the asshole.

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Episode 1 now playing…

 

The episode opens up to a plain white screen. "What will it take for you to love me?" A female voice sobbed out, her voice strained and hoarse from crying too much.

 

Most of the audience recognized the voice in an instant.

 

“It’s the princess… It seems like she’s crying, why?” Ijekiel asked out loud.

 

“Who is she talking to?” Claude asks.

 

“Princess…” Lily trailed off, worry was evident in her face, same goes for Diana.

 

The white screen slowly fades to show Athanasia on her kneeling in front of a tall figure.

 

"Should I become like Jennette?" Athanasia is seen gripping on the pants of an unknown man while sobbing.

 

“H—huh?!” Jennette exclaimed, she was confused, why is Athanasia crying? Why did she ask if she had to be like her??  

“My baby please don’t cry….” Diana said to the screen, oh how badly does she want to hug her daughter and tell her everything will be alright.

Claude glared at the screen. Who dared to make his daughter cry? Such nerve they have. He’d make sure they would be silenced immediately.

 

Oh the irony  

 

“Is it just me or does the princess look older here….?” Ijekiel mumbled

‘Interesting.’ Anastacius thought

Lucas stayed silent but if you paid close enough attention to him, you could see he was trying his absolute hardest to not break the armrest of his seat.

 

It then showed Athanasia, in tears looking up to the unknown man. "If I do, then will you call my name dearly like you do hers? And watch me with warmth in your eyes?" 

 

‘Is this in the future? The princess looks a bit older like Ijekiel said…’ Jennette thought, as far as Jennette knows, His Majesty still doesn’t know she’s his daughter, much less acknowledging her as his own over Athanasia. ‘Please let this be fake! I don’t want to see my sister like that!’ The brunette feels like she’s going to cry.


Anastacius looked at Jennette worriedly, feeling a sudden urge to comfort her so she would not cry. A tissue box appeared at his armrest out of nowhere, he gave them to Jennette, first she was surprised at the sudden gesture but she mumbled a ‘thank you.’ And accepted the tissue box, proceeding to wipe the small tears that were already forming on the corner of her eyes.

Diana stared at the screen, starting to tear up, the same goes for Lily. They were equally worried for the princess.

“What on earth is happening here?” Claude turned to ask Momo.

“Just keep watching.” Momo didn’t answer the question, much to his displeasure.

Lucas stared at Claude briefly. The emperor noticed this but was more focused on what’s displayed on the screen.

Claude is then shown looking down at the poor princess, his face showing no emotion whatsoever. 

 

“Claude… What are you doing..!? Comfort her!” Diana said to the Claude on screen. 

Everyone in the room agreed silently.

Ijekiel looked at the screen worriedly while patting Jennette's back to comfort her because she was on the verge of crying. He also was very confused, is Jennette a member of the Imperial Family or something? Why is she mentioned here so much? He’s seen the emperor act towards the princess a few times, albeit only briefly but he could tell how much his Majesty cared for her. So there should be no way this is real right?

 

"Will you hold me in your arms… Without pushing me away?" Athanasia sobbed. 

 

"Such a thing won't happen until the day I die." Claude replied coldly. The screen showed Athanasia's teary jewel-like eyes. 

 

The theater went dead silent. Everyone is shocked at how Claude treated the princess. Including Claude himself.

“Claude…? You wouldn’t do that right?” Diana looked at her lover. This has to be some sort of cruel joke. Surely Claude won’t treat their daughter like that, right? 

“Diana I— This never happened.. I would never..” Claude trailed off. 

Diana held his hand, “I trust you.” She told him quietly. 

‘Hm.. And I’ve heard that the emperor loves his daughter dearly..’ Anastascius thought

‘‘It’s a well known fact that his Majesty loves the princess very much… There’s no way this will happen.. But this looks too real..” Felix mentioned.

Lucas gritted his teeth, he hated seeing his princess in pain. Even if he knows this is all in the past, he still feels a small urge to do something to the emperor..

 

"Why is that?" The princess choked out, "I'm your daughter too, father… I was by your side much longer than Jennette." The screen then focused on Athanasia's face, full of tears, eyes swollen from crying too much.

 

Claude glanced at Jennette briefly. What in god's name is he doing there? He only has one daughter and that is Athanasia. 

 

The screen focused on Claude again. "You fool." He said while looking down at her.

''...Why would you call our daughter that...?'' Diana asked quietly.

'That piercing contempt.' Athanasia's thoughts were heard. She looked up at her so-called father while her tears still kept flowing like a never ending waterfall.

 

‘So we can hear her thoughts huh…’ Anastacius thought, slightly interested. Never had he seen something like that, could it be magic? It wouldn’t be that far-fetched since it looks like this is set some time in the future.

 

'His voice digging into my ears was more cruel than ever.' The princesses' trembling hands let go of Claude's pants. More tears dropped on the cold marble floor.

 

"There was never a day I considered you my daughter." Claude told her with a straight face. Not feeling an ounce of guilt.

 

The room fell silent once again. Everyone was utterly shocked at how this emperor was treating the princess..

“This is a lie. This never happened and never will.” Claude stated firmly.

“Surely this isn’t true… You’ll never say this to our child..” Diana said while staring at the screen, ‘please let this be fake…’ She hoped.

Claude turned to Momo once again, “if this is some terrible joke, I won’t stand for this.”

“It’s not. Just keep watching.” Momo denied while munching on some popcorn.

Lily was already crying while Felix is handing her out some tissues he got from who knows where.

 

The screen then showed an angle where the pitiful princess on her knees and the cold emperor are both shown.

 

Then it focuses on Athanasia and the screen fades to white.

 

Claude was heartless until the very end.

 

It showed a slightly faded out picture of Athanasia on her knees while Claude is looking down at her.

 

The deepest of despair like never before flooded Athanasia's eyes…

 

[  -"Lovely Princess"

Chapter 8, 

   Twisted Faith -   ]

 

“Lovely princess? Chapter 8?” Ijekiel asked out loud, why did it seem like this was from a book or something? 

“Such a title makes it seem like it’s a story book… Albeit not a happy one from what we’ve seen so far..” Jennette said in between small sniffles, she was trying her absolute hardest not to cry but seeing Athanasia like that hurts her a lot..

‘I don’t think his Majesty would allow a book like that to be published…’ Felix thought.

The screen suddenly turned black, then it was slowly fading to reveal a certain blonde princess. It was Athanasia, but this time, instead of begging for her life in front of her father. She is shown as a baby.

 

“How is that possible? It showed her in her teens a few moments ago and now as a baby?” Anastacius asked.

“It’s a thing you’ll see every now and then when you react. Consider it a normal thing from now on. As I said before, this will cover different timelines as well as timeskips, and it also shows stuff from the past.” Momo explained

‘What a vague answer, but this kind of technology is amazing.’ The disguised viscount thought.

“The princess was adorable when she was a baby!” Jennette exclaimed, though she was unnerved about what was shown before, along with the rest of the audience.

“She’s so cute!” Lily and Diana said in unison. They were both gushing over how adorable and cute she was.

 

'HUH?!' Athanasia exclaimed in her mind and dropped the rattle she was holding, a small ‘jing!’ was heard when it hit the soft carpet.

 

The screen then showed a baby Athanasia in the middle of a carpet. The rattle she dropped is shown rolling further and further away from the princess.

 

'What's this? Why did I suddenly think of that novel?' Athanasia asked herself

 

'The romance novel I read because a customer left it behind.'

 

“Novel? What does she mean by that? Also what about a customer? She’s a baby and she can’t work… And no one visited the Ruby Palace when the princess was that young…” Lily trailed off. 

‘’How can she even read at that age?’’ Felix added

“Is this connected to the ‘Lovely Princess’ title we saw a while ago?” Ijekiel asked, but was unfortunately ignored once again. The boy sighed. Poor guy.

 

It then showed a black screen but it slowly fades to a woman finding a book on a table. The woman wore plain clothes and the surroundings showed unfamiliar machines.

 

“Who is she? Is she someone related to the princess?” Diana asked the three people next to her, after all they were the closest to Athanasia. Claude, Felix and Lily shook their heads.

“No, my Lady…There’s no one the princess knows that matches that woman's description when she was just a baby..” Lily answered.

 

The novel titled 'Lovely Princess' is then focused.

 

'The title and plot were tacky and childish too.'

 

“So it is connected…” Ijekiel muttered.

“I don’t remember reading any books like that to the princess when she was that young.” Lily said, another thing she couldn’t wrap her head around at is how the princess’ vocabulary sounds very advanced for her age. Most of the people in the theater took notice of that as well.

“The way she thinks makes it seem like she’s an older person..” Anastacius pointed out, earning the attention of most of the theater who kind of forgot he was there.

 

The screen then goes back to Athanasia.

 

'Did I recall that book because the princess that gets executed in it… Has the same name as me…?' Athanasia added. 

 

“Executed? Book? This is confusing.” Claude turned to Momo again, “would you mind explaining?” He asked.

Momo shook her head, “nope. Just watch.” Claude clicked his tongue, this woman is getting under his skin.

 

It then showed the baby princess trembling while an image of her getting executed pops up in her head.

 

'Get out of my head this instant!' Athanasia scolded herself, 'what a jinx!' The princess is then seen moving around, the golden rattle rolled towards a maid who was sitting down sewing.

 

“Yeah! Bad thoughts lead to bad outcomes! You must always think positive, princess!” Jennette cheered, Diana and Lily agreeing as well.

‘They seem to get along..’ Everyone except the three women thought

 

"Hmm?" The maid looked at Athanasia, she then noticed the rattle. "Oh, brother. How clumsy, she keeps dropping it." The maid said out loud while trying to make the baby hold on to the rattle.

 

'Babies don't have a good grip, dummy!' Athanasia thought.

 

Most of them chuckled at the princess’ remarks, while also being concerned at how well developed her vocabulary is.

 

"Don't be a nuisance and play with your toy, miss."

 

“It’s been years but I feel like I should talk to that maid… Calling the baby princess a nuisance when she still can’t move around or talk as she wishes..” Lily said quietly


‘’She’s obviously a baby, why would she be a nuisance?’’ Anastacius thought out loud.

 

'She picked it up from the ground and gave it back to me without even wiping it… Is she belittling me for being an ‘outcast’ of a princess?' Athanasia asked herself, 'I sure hope not…'

 

“Even if she’s an ‘outcast’ they should still treat her like a princess… A baby’s health is very fragile; they can’t just leave her on the floor like that..” Diana pointed out. “I do hope that my daughter isn’t being treated like that anymore.” The dancer turned to Lily.

“Don’t worry my Lady, I can assure you that the princess is being treated better.” Lily responded, “I wish I was able to do something about this early on…”


‘’Also, an outcast of a princess?’’ Diana turned to Claude who stayed silent, slightly averting his gaze elsewhere, ‘If he did something for her to earn that title– Oh I will–’

 

                                                                                       Athanasia cried out and dropped the rattle again.

 

"What's wrong?" The maid asked, "ugh, I already have my hands full with all this sewing!" She complained, going to where the princess was. "Here let me get that for you."

 

Lily sighed quietly, she should really talk to that maid about how she used to treat the princess. Even if she treats her better now— that kind of behavior is still unacceptable.


‘’Is sewing really that more important than the princess?’’ Ijekiel said.


“I mean, it’s your job to take care of her.” Anastacius said bluntly

"Nyo!" Athanasia whisked her hand away, 'I don't want this, it's not what I want!' She cried out in her mind, 'Do you really think a rattle would be entertaining at my age!?'

 

“Well you are a baby.” Lucas replied to the screen.

“The princess sure was a very bright baby…” Jennette mentioned.

 

"Are you bored with it now?" The maid asked, Athanasia nodded. 

 

The maid picked the princess up, "let's lay you down." She said and put the princess down on her cradle.

 

The maid is then seen leaving the room. 'Is she going to the head maid?' Athanasia thought, 'if you're coming back with another rattle, don't bother.'

 

                                       The scene shifts to Athanasia again, "uaun…" She tried to reach for the baby mobile but alas, her hands were too short.



“How adorable!” Diana cooed, Jennette was practically squealing at the sight

 

"Auu." The princess complained. The screen focused on her blue jewel eyes sparkling.

 

'Haa… I'll never get used to this.' Athanasia thought.

 

   I went to sleep after taking some sleeping pills…' The screen then showed a black haired woman lying down on the floor.  A cup and pills were seen next to her.


Most of the audience were alarmed by her thoughts.


‘’Sleeping pills?! At that young of age?’’ Diana exclaimed in worry.


‘’Moreover, who is that woman? Why does the princess’ thoughts keep showing her?’’ Jennette asked.

 

                                                                        'And I woke up to all this.' It showed Athanasia wrapped in a small towel.

 

                                    'This makes no sense! Me, suddenly becoming a baby?' She questioned 'And to top it off, I'm a princess. This is crazy.'



‘’This is so bizarre… Is it implying that the black haired woman we kept seeing is the princess?’’ Ijekiel asked. To his surprise, he finally got an answer.


‘’Pretty much. They’re more or less the same person’’ Momo answered


‘’Is that even possible?’’ Felix thought out loud

"Princess!" The maid burst out from the bedroom door. Not bothering to close the door behind her.

‘Ah this girl does it all the time!’

                     The maid is then seen handing over the same rattle to Athanasia.“The head maid said  our budget is low. You’ll just have to play with this.”


Diana tilted her head in confusion, ‘did Claude forget about her or something? Why is she being treated like this?’

‘Is she allowed to abruptly open a door to a baby’s room like this?’ Athanasia questioned

                      The maid went back to what she was doing before, which was sewing. “I won’t coddle you if you start crying. I’m very busy right now!”


‘’This really isn’t how you should treat the princess…’’ Jennette pointed out, the whole room agreeing.


‘’You should really talk to them about their past behavior.’’ Felix says to Lily who nods in agreement.

‘How cold! I’m a baby… She should be nicer to me…!’ Athanasia stared at the maid dumbfounded. ‘I guess not every princess is treated like one…’ She thinks while a single tear falls dramatically from one of her eyes.


Most of the audience chuckled at how dramatic both her thoughts and the angles are done.

‘From being an orphan in my previous life, it’s nice to be reborn as a princess..’


It’s safe to say the room is quite shocked after hearing that.


‘’What!?’’ Jenette exclaimed. ‘’She can remember her past life? How is that even possible… Do you know how, Ijekiel?’’ Jennette asked, reincarnation was a foreign concept to the brunette.


‘’I’m not sure myself, but the princess makes it seem believable…’’ Ijekiel responds, lost in his own train of thought.


‘This is the first time I've actually seen something like this… And here I thought reincarnation was a myth..’ Anastacius pondered


‘’She was reborn? And she was an orphan before…’’ Diana said sadly, she wished she were alive at that time to give her all the love she very much needed and deserved.


‘That means His Majesty was her first ever father then…’ Felix thought with a small frown, remembering how Claude treated her when she was younger. A part of him was relieved their relationship is better now.


‘So she’s been reincarnated.. No wonder she thinks very differently than someone at her age..’ Claude thought.


Lucas is probably the only one unfazed besides Momo, already knowing her secret. So he stays silent.

The screen showed the maid sewing while Athanasia is lying down on the crib.

 

‘But why did it have to be a princess that everyone hates…!’ Athanasia thought tearfully


‘’How can anyone hate her?!’’ Jennette exclaimed, startling a lot of the audience since they were still a bit shocked at the revelation that happened earlier.


‘’I agree, how can anyone hate her? Our princess is very lovable, albeit a bit mischievous at times but still.’’ Lily says, Felix, Jennette and Diana nodding in agreement


END OF EPISODE
To Be Continued



‘’I’d say that went pretty well!” Momo said as the projector closed.

‘’It was quite short..’’ Diana pointed out. Most of the audience agreeing with her statement

‘’Princess Athanasia’s story is divided into a lot of episodes so you would be able to understand it better. That’s why I’ve brought you all here to react to them all.’’ Momo informed, ‘’since majority of you all feel that it’s pretty short, let’s just get started with the next episode, shall we?’’

Everyone gave a nod of approval and the screen lit up again.





[     Who Made Me a Princess
              Episode 2/125          ]

Notes:

ill be posting this on wattpad too sometime this day (@_peachyLi)

 

edit: both ao3 and google docs keep recoginzing dialogue and reaction dialogue to be one paragraph. so when i like use the formatting thing it keeps messing both of them up wtf

Chapter 4: Episode 2

Summary:

A continuation of the first episode, a lot of shocking information is revealed and Claude's ego may or may not be shattered by a baby Athanasia..

Notes:

Hi! I'm alive :D We just started school, and holy crap, I am tired. Not to mention I published this fic just a few days before school started and we already got bombarded with assignments and multiple tasks. I've been busy with a lot of stuff regarding my family too so that sucks but we got our new chapter out!! I apologize for grammar mistakes since I am half asleep while editing this. Also a very long chapter this time:O

 

Happy reading everyone! Wattpad release will be tomorrow<3

(See the end of the chapter for more notes.)

Chapter Text

Episode 2 is now playing…



The screen lit up once again, Athanasia’s voice can be heard.

‘My father of this world…’



The audience looked interested at what she was about to say about his Majesty.


Claude’s back is then shown, he was in regal attire while holding the infamous red fur cape for royal heirs that dragged on the floor.

‘...Was a real psycho.’ She finished


‘Couldn’t have said it better.’ Everyone except the man himself, Claude, thought.


The emperor felt his ear itch all of a sudden, ‘is someone talking about me?’ Claude thought.


It then cut to baby Athanasia lying down, her face looked horrified. ‘’Ewya.’’ She blurted out.

‘Whoa, goose-bumps.’ The princess thought. She is seen trembling a bit from fear.


‘’Our poor princess…’’ Lily said sadly.


‘According to what I overheard from the maids talking,’ Athanasia thought, the maids who were busy cleaning were visible for a brief moment.

‘The Ruby Palace that I’m currently living in was originally where the emperor’s concubines live.’


‘’Why would you leave her in there…’’ Diana frowned slightly.


The screen showed the palace for a split second and then showed various women seated together, presumably the mentioned concubines.

‘In short, the emperor’s harem.’ She finished, ‘...Or so it was until the day I was born,’


‘’What does she mean by that?’’ Jennette asked Ijekiel, she never heard about what happened to the Ruby Palace so…


‘’I think we’ll find out in a bit.’’ Ijekiel responded, although he had heard about some rumors before about what happened there.


The background suddenly changed to that of a rather disturbing one.. A pool of crimson is seen. Thankfully, it wasn’t that graphic.


‘’Eek!’’ Jennette shrieked, Anastacius looked at her worriedly, ‘that caught me by surprise! What happened there…’ The brunette wasn’t particularly fond of blood..


‘’What on earth happened? Why is this so gorey…’’ Diana asked. Claude and Felix froze. The dancer turned to her lover who didn’t give an answer.


‘When the emperor killed everyone in the Ruby Palace.’


‘’What! Why?...’’ Diana asked out in shock. Claude still gave no answer.. Oh how he is testing Diana’s patience right now.


Jennette was also very shocked, ‘I heard that his Majesty is very… Terrifying but I didn’t know it was to this extent!’


‘’I’m glad the princess doesn’t remember seeing it….’’ Lily muttered.


‘No wonder her highness was so afraid of his Majesty when they first met…’ Felix thought.


Then it showed Diana in her famous pink dancer outfit, she was practically glowing amidst the crowd watching her dance. 

 

"Wow… This is the first time I've seen myself perform.." Diana whispered in awe.


‘’U-uhm… Lady Diana you’re really beautiful!’’ Jennette exclaimed. Though she was still unnerved about the scenes before this.


A lot of the audience agreed.


‘’Thank you dear.’’ Diana smiled, Jennette blushed. The whole room felt that she was brighter than the screen itself.


‘My mother was a dancer invited to the royal banquet.’ 

Diana smiled fondly, that banquet gave her many beautiful memories. One of them being, of course, meeting her only love there was the biggest thing that happened there.


‘She drew the emperor’s attention and was deflowered by him… But then she was forgotten…’ Athanasia trailed off.


‘’That’s not true.’’ Claude muttered, Diana heard this and smiled and held his hand. This sudden gesture took the emperor by surprise but soon after he clasped her hand back.

Felix and Lily glued their eyes to the screen. The two tried their best to be as quiet as possible..


‘And died, leaving an infant behind, who was me.’ The screen then showed a newborn Athanasia wrapped in a blanket while crying.


'My daughter…' Diana smiled.


‘Since then, the emperor has cast me aside too, his baby girl…’ She thought sadly. Her crib is seen in a dark room.

Claude suddenly felt like holes were being drilled on the side of his head, he turned to see Diana smiling… Menacingly.. The emperor shuddered.. 

"Care to explain, my dear Claude?" Diana's expression did not change. The room felt a cold aura all of a sudden.

Felix and Lily were both shocked and terrified of the supposedly sweet and kind lady Diana… 

"I—" before Claude could say another word the screen continued to play, Diana's smile grew wider.


‘So I was raised by the wind rocking my cradle… I mean, by the maids of the Ruby Palace.’ Images of the palace maids are seen for a bit until it focuses on Athanasia again.


‘’How dramatic.’’ Lucas chuckled.


‘What’s this dirtbag of an emperor doing throwing his daughter and wife aside?’ Athanasia thought bitterly. ‘Some family..’


The audience was surprised to hear the princess call her own father a dirtbag. Some found it funny, mainly being Lucas and Anastacius.

‘Dirtbag?’ Claude raised an eyebrow, slightly irritated. On the other hand… She certainly had a good reason to think that.


‘Leaving a baby like me here, where he committed such a cruel massacre…’


‘Her anger is justified.’ The audience thought


‘Haa.. Since hearing that story for the first time I’ve been having nightmares every night.’ Athanasia is seen whimpering while asleep.


‘’Poor princess..’’ Jennette looked at the screen sadly.


‘But what scares me more than the nightmares…’


‘Is the emperor I’ve never even met yet.’


‘Fair enough.’ The whole audience agreed.


‘Even when I was born a princess I didn’t get to be lucky…’ Athanasia thought, ‘what if he suddenly goes ‘cuckoo’ again and tries to kill me?... Like he killed everyone else in the palace…’ The princess asks herself worriedly.


‘’Do I look like some crazy bastard who would suddenly just kill an innocent person? Or how she calls it, ‘going cuckoo’?’’ Claude asked nonchalantly. Everyone in the theatre wonders if he was being sarcastic or not. But Claude was definitely serious..

To (almost) everyone’s relief, Diana responded to his question, ‘’dear… Though a lot of rumours about you are heavily exaggerated… But yes. You do look like someone who would do that.’’ The audience was shocked at her response. Claude gave her an offended look, but it’s not like the emperor can punish her for her boldness…


‘I should think of something else, this is scaring me.’


Lily frowned, ‘she’s too young to be even worried about dying at the hands of her own father… Or just dying in general… I wished I knew about this sooner to at least comfort her before…’ The nanny sighed.


‘’Uaang.’’ Athanasia attempted  to say something but failed, ‘the name I got this life was given to me by my birth mother.’


‘I’m glad he kept the name for her.’ Diana thought.

‘’A beautiful name it is.’’ Lily said with a smile. Felix nodded in agreement.


The words [ The Undying Athanasia ] are visible on the screen.


‘Such an extravagant name for an ‘’outcast’’ princess like me.’ Athanasia commented.


‘’The princess is no outcast though…’’ Jennette trailed off.

‘’I agree, in fact, her highness is quite popular.’’ Ijekiel added.


‘It’s the same as the ill-fated princess in that romance novel ‘’Lovely Princess’’.’ A silhouette of Athanasia from the novel appeared.

‘I suppose mother meant for me to live long and prosperous in the emperor’s care. Unfortunately, the Athanasia from the novel faces a tragic death at the age of 18.’


This set the audience to another wave of confusion and shock.


‘’What!? So that novel from the last episode and the scene where the princess was crying were all related?!" Ijekiel asked. Everyone but Lucas had the same question as him.

"You got it, congrats." Momo responded nonchalantly.


‘’Also, does this mean we all are also characters from that novel…?’’ Jennette asked, honestly, she was quite scared to find out the answer..


‘’It may come as a shocker to a lot of you all, but yes, you are all from a novel called ‘Lovely Princess.’ Which coincidentally, is the novel princess Athanasia transmigrated to.  

The others didn't know how to respond, so they kept quiet.


A shadowed figure that was obviously Claude was shown from a brief moment with Athanasia on her back on the side.

‘By her father, the emperor himself, no less!’ Athanasia exclaimed in her thoughts, ‘ugh.. Why do I keep thinking about it?!’ She asks herself, ‘this isn’t good…’

"Whatever happened in that stupid novel will never happen in real life." Claude stated firmly.

"If I may ask, why did his Majesty, in the novel, do that to her highness?" Felix asked Momo, 'so far, his Majesty's relationship with the princess has been great so I don't understand what made his Majesty kill her… But then again the first scene last episode showed something very different..…' The knight thought.

'Because that bastard in the said 'novel' is apparently blind.' Lucas thought bitterly.

"That's something you'll find out in a later episode, for now you're open to theorising if you want."

"Is it related to that chimera?" Lucas eyed Jennette who let a small 'eek' out of surprise. Though he already knows the answer it won't hurt to start a bit of chaos out of spite.

"Perhaps… The little lady's name was mentioned quite a lot but let’s not jump to such conclusions yet… The answer may be revealed later’’ Diana replied, she just noticed that Jennette had the same jewel eyes all Obelian royals have…

Jennette felt conflicted— she also noticed from the last episode that it was clear that the emperor favored someone over her sister, unfortunately, that someone was her…  Was that why the princess was so on guard when she met her on her debutante ball…? She needs to apologize to her after all of this… Although she never did it to the princess in this life— she felt guilty for what happened to the Athanasia in the novel…

Anastacius glanced at Jennette, who looked like she was having all sorts of different emotions going on. He decides to pat her on the head… This interrupted the girl’s train of thought. She turned to look at him and gave a small smile as thanks. Huh… This was weird… Why did he feel happy?

‘She is the reason for almost everything that happened in the past, the other half is that blind emperor.’ Lucas thought, yes all of those painful years for Athy are long over— but a part of him still holds a grudge towards Claude, mostly because of his princesses’ first life.


The doors to Athanasia’s room slammed open, revealing three maids.

They went to the princess’ cradle, ‘’hm? She’s still not asleep?’’ One of them asked


The disguised viscount snorted, ‘’do you really think a baby would be sound asleep after abruptly opening those doors? It’s like asking if water is wet.’’ Seems like his brother did a fine job employing maids with very high education.

‘’I agree, it’s quite a pointless question indeed.’’ Diana replied.


‘’Do we really need to be here? She can’t move on her own anyway.’’ Another maid complained.


Lily frowned, the old maids were worse than she thought. ‘And some of them still work in the palace…’ She rubbed her temples, ‘though it’s good to know that no maid treats her highness that way anymore..’, Felix looked at her with concern but she just smiled briefly at him.

‘’Firstly, it’s your job to take care of her, secondly she’s a baby, who knows if she suddenly learned how to move and or fall off the crib. Though I think the princess is too smart for that, still.’’ Ijekiel pointed out.

Diana frowned at the scene, how could they treat her like that and belittle her that much? She’s a baby for heaven’s sake! Another thing that bothered her is Claude allegedly abandoning her..

‘I had no idea how severe this situation actually is… Not that I bothered looking into it before in the first place, but now I can at least check if those maids still work in the palace.’ Claude thought.


‘’You know how fussy Lillian is. So much trouble, that one.’’


‘’I’m not fussy, I was just simply worried about her highness’ wellbeing.’’ Lily denied. ‘’Plus, it’s our job to take care of her, and she’s a child… So why should I not be strict over you ladies…’’ The nanny sighed.

‘’I thank you for that, you might be the only person that actually cared for her that time…’’ Diana thanked the nanny who was surprised by what the lady suddenly said.

‘’No worries my lady, I am just doing my duty and that is to take care of the princess.’’ Lily smiled.


‘’Think of this as taking a break.’’

‘’What if she starts crying?’’ One of the maids questioned.

‘’Rock her cradle, so she’ll fall asleep faster.’’ Another suggested.

‘Aah, this again, let’s not take it out on me ladies, we’re all stuck here in the Ruby Palace together.’ Athanasia thought. ‘People would think I’m such a crybaby from the way you talk, I’m the most docile baby I know of!’


Jennette had to suppress a giggle that almost came out, she quickly covered her mouth with her hands, ‘the princess surely has a way with words even as a baby…’


‘’Really? I doubt that, you’re quite the opposite of docile when you’re older.’’ Lucas laughed.


‘’How rude!’’


‘’Actually her highness was a very quiet baby once upon a time..’’ Lily smiled slightly, remembering how she used to fuss over how quiet she was.


‘’How long have you known each other by now?’’ Claude raised an eyebrow, ‘’by the looks of it, you seem like you are from our future.’’ He was referring to Lucas.


‘’Haah, finally someone noticed! I’m a few years ahead of you all.’’ The magician revealed, surprising those who didn’t catch on yet, mainly being Jennette, and Diana. Anastacius wasn’t as surprised as he noticed Momo hinting that someone is from the future in this room. Same goes for Ijekiel.


‘’You haven’t answered my first question.’’ Claude reminded him.


‘’Quite a while now.’’ Lucas grinned. Claude somehow found that grin very unpleasant, so much so that he wants to remove it from his face permanently, but he knows he does not stand a chance against that child— no, man?


‘Lily even worries that I don’t cry enough, too.’ Lily is shown carrying the baby princess with a worried look.


‘’...And is that not a good thing?’’ Claude asked, the others were startled by his question and even thought he wasn’t being serious…

‘’Not exactly your Majesty… Yes it may spare us the headache at times but from a caretaker or a mothers perspective— a baby that doesn’t cry enough would make it hard for us to find out their needs…’’ Lily answered.

‘’Claude I’m sure there are parenting books somewhere in the Imperial Library…’’ Diana trailed off, Anastacius is doing his absolute best not to cackle.  Claude on the other hand was shocked at his lovers’ words but maintained a calm look. Was he really that bad?


‘The emperor never came to see me, so I suppose they’re all belittling me as an ‘’outcast’’. Am I resentful?-- No way!’


‘’I mean it’s fair if she is resentful..’’ Jennette mentioned.


‘’Not once did you come to visit her…’’ Diana slowly turned to Claude who felt a chill run down his spine. ‘’I understand you’re busy as emperor but, not even once?’’ Diana was resisting every urge to not hit him right now…


‘My goal is to stay a forgotten princess, out of his sight for as long as I can!’ Athanasia revealed, ‘I’d be set for life if I run off with some ornaments from this room. So please, forget me.’ She begged.


‘’That plan is going to go in shambles.’’ Anastacius pointed out. Once again, slightly surprising those who forgot he was there. He was also amused by how desperate she was to get away from her father, though it’s a given, knowing that she’s somewhat aware of her fate ahead.


Claude silently agreed with what the viscount said, though he still can’t quite put his head around who this person is and how important he is. ‘Just what was going on in her head when she decided to bite off a part of that statue…’ He wondered.


‘’No wonder small ornaments have been missing around her highnesses’ room before she met his Majesty… I just assumed it was one of the maids stealing again..’’ Lily said.


‘’Were the maids stealing a big problem in the palace?’’ Diana asked the nanny. She nodded.


‘’Yes, my lady, though I would assume some details about it may be revealed later on. It was a big thing before, thankfully it got resolved before his Majesty could interfere.’’

‘I only found out about that issue just a few months ago.’ Claude thought.

“His Majesty doesn’t even think of her but she’s surrounded by luxuries,” a maid mentioned, “what a life!” She exclaimed

‘Yup.’ Athanasia agreed internally, ‘this is a palace after all, I get three meals a day, a nice and cozy bed.’ She added. ‘No matter how bad I got it, it’s still the life of a princess.’


‘’Were her expectations that low?’’ Diana frowned.


‘’Unfortunately, yes, she didn’t have high expectations for this life at the start— already experiencing poverty in her last life.’’ Momo explained, a lot of people felt bad for the princess.


‘I’m going to grow big and strong, steal some gold and run off.’ She says, eyes full of determination.


‘’With that body of hers I’d be shocked if she can even get past her bedroom door.’’ Claude responded.


‘’Her highness did learn to walk very early on..’’ Lily added.


‘I should get out of this crib first.’ Athanasia thought while stretching her small arms.


Some chuckled at her random gestures while some found it adorable— mainly being Diana and Jennette.

“Eat your meals, exercise and grow big and strong, Your Highness!” Lily’s voice of encouragement can be heard in the background.

“We’re nothing but candles in the wind. We’d be dead with a snap of his finger…” A maid sighed worriedly.


‘’Am I that frightening?’’ Claude asked out loud, earning some weird looks from the others. He could’ve sworn he felt his ear itch again, is someone thinking some nasty stuff behind his back?

“Yeah, why did we have to be the ones assigned here…” Another maid complained. “Did you hear about that ghost coming out of the kitchen every night?” She added.


‘’How scary…’’ Jennette whispered.

“It creeps me out. Who knows when we might end up like that too?” 

Athanasia is seen looking at the two maids conversing from her crib. ‘Yep. I don’t want to live in a place like this either.’



‘Fair enough.’ The audience thought.


She clenched her fist, ‘the moment I gather enough money to escape with, I’m out of here!’ She exclaimed.


‘’The princess’ determination is quite something…’’ Jennette pointed out,

‘’That’s how her highness has always been growing up..’’ Lily mentioned with a smile, she knows once the princess has her mind on something she will never give up until she receives her desired results.





The screen then cuts to Athanasia playing with? Caressing? A golden ball. “Ehehe,” she looked at the ball in amusement.



‘’Cute!’’ Diana cooed. Jennette agreed too.


“Do you like it that much?” Lily asked, taking the golden ball away from the princess. Athanasia exclaimed in surprise, trying to take the ball back.

‘Come to mama, you sweet sweet gold!’ Athanasia thought, she rubbed her small and chubby cheeks on Lily’s. The nanny cooed at the gesture.


‘’She probably likes the fact that it’s gold.’’ Claude pointed out.

“Oh my!” Lily then kissed Athanasia’s cheek, while the princess got her golden ball back.

‘’So… cute..’’ Jennette subconsciously raised her hands, wanting to hug the adorable baby or just give her cheeks a small pinch.. Anastacius looked at her with concern..


‘’How sneaky of her, I never noticed she did that until now..’’ Lily mumbled. ‘’Though I recall moments where she has done this on more than one occasion.’’


‘’I’m quite envious you had these moments with her, she’s just so adorable!’’ Diana exclaimed.


‘’It’s quite an honor to be the one that spends the most time with the princess, especially when she was young..’’ The nanny looked at the screen fondly.

 



‘I can now crawl around the carpet with ease.’ Athanasia thought, a view of her crawling while Lily watches over her.  ‘It’s an emperor’s castle after all.’ She mentioned, ‘these all must be real gold and jewels right?’ She looked up, an array of golden decor was given focus.

‘Lily must have thought that I like sparkly things.’



‘’Indeed I have, though I did wonder one time where some of them went…’’


The scene shifts to Lily offering the baby princess a bunch of different golden, shiny toys. “I’ll bring you a new one when you get tired of it.” The nanny says with a smile.

‘Miss you are my cornucopia!’ Athanasia exclaimed while looking at the various toys in awe.



Some of the audience laughed at her thoughts. Though it made sense why she thinks of Lily that way, probably being the only person who would actually treat her with care in the princess’ eyes..

 

 

‘The palace itself was luxurious, but due to the dwindling budget, I never got much to myself!’ Athanasia mentions.



‘’Why was that anyway? I’ve noticed this being mentioned in the last episode too,’’ Diana asked her lover. Isn’t it the emperor thats usually in charge of maintaining the palace budgets? The dancer thought. Claude merely shrugged in response. Diana sighed, did he really forget about their daughter?


‘’And another problem was the staff stealing…’’ Lily sighed, she was really glad that the situation was resolved fairly quickly before the emperor found out about it.


The real question was, would he even do something about it during that time?

 

It then shows Athanasia, a little older, crawling, trying to grab the rolling ball. “Gya, uwuaah”

‘I’ll take this with me when I run away, ehe!’ She pulls the ball closer to her. ‘Ah! I’m drooling!’


‘’Just how obsessed is the princess with gold…’’ Ijekiel wondered.

‘’She doesn’t seem as obsessed with it as of right now.’’  Lily replied, ‘’but I did notice when her highness was very young, she would always prefer golden toys or shiny ones over regular ones.’’


The background changes to an outside view of the Ruby Palace shortly after. 


‘My days in the Ruby Palace were peaceful,’ Athanasia thought, ‘I was nervous at first. I never heard from the Emperor for months, so he must have really forgotten me.’


Diana stared at Claude briefly. ‘The more this episode continues on, the more I see that Claude is being a terrible father… If only I was still alive that time to give him a good smack on the head… Well, there’s nothing stopping me now, right?...’ Seeing Claude never spare a glance towards their daughter is really testing the dancer's limits.


Claude shifted in his seat uncomfortably, he felt that itch in his ear once more. ‘Is someone talking about me behind my back?’



It then showed two maids in the palace kitchen talking to each other.


‘’Did you hear?’’
‘’There’s a ghost in the laundry~’’


‘Even those who were always on their toes seemed to be more at ease, too.’ Athanasia mentioned.


‘I’m eating my meals, exercising, getting enough sleep and growing day by day. It will be great when I can walk though.’ Athanasia is seen crawling on the floor, ‘that way, I can collect my escape funds faster.’


‘’It’s good to know that she’s healthy.’’ Diana mentioned


‘’Well her highness has always been a healthy child, she barely gets sick..’’ Lily responded.


‘But is it just me?’ Athanasia asked herself.


The audience looked curious to see what she would say next.


‘Seems like some trinkets are disappearing from my room…’ A scene showed the princesses’ room missing a few vases.


‘’Ah.. So this is what you were talking about.’’ Felix turned to Lily who nodded.


‘Is Lily putting them away so I don’t get hurt?’ Athanasia groaned, ‘hmm?’ She looked as if she noticed something.


‘’I only put some away that were directly on the floor and could fall on the princess …’’


‘’WAAHH!’’ She suddenly cried out, ‘I should get my diaper changed first. How embarrassing…’ The princess thought.


‘’At the end of the day, she’s still a baby…’’ Lily smiled fondly at the screen.


The screen turned white but then showed Lily reading a book to the baby princess.

‘’The sorcerer of the Tower had the strongest power among all the sorcerers in existence.’’ Lily mentioned.


‘’Finally these history books got something right!’’ Lucas exclaimed. ‘’They always spread soo much msinformation.’’ He exasperated. Some gave him weird looks, some ignored his remarks.


‘A sorcerer…!’ Athanasia stared at the book, very intrigued. ‘So there are sorcerer’s in this world.’


‘’It’s very surprising that you don’t have magic in your world.’’ Anastacius pointed out.


‘’Trust me, you would be worshipped here like a god if you can use magic.’’ Momo answered.


‘’Are you a god then? Or a sorcerer perhaps? Considering how you were able to abduct us from different dimensions, I’d assume my guesses weren’t that far off.’’ Anastacius asked.


‘’That’s a secret. I blend in easily in this world.’’ Momo responded. Anastacius looked at her, slightly suspicious.


‘I knew this wasn’t just some random foreign country! I’m really in a fantasy world!’


‘’Err!’’ Athanasia pointed out to the Tower that was in the book.


‘’The sorcerer of the Tower was so powerful, he could easily bring an empire to ruins.’ Lily continued.


‘I wanna see it too! I wanna see real magic too!’ Athanasia exclaimed.


‘’And for that reason, they freeze their own hearts,’’ it showed a block of ice in the shape of a heart surrounded by chains, a red shape was visible in the center, presumably the actual heart of the sorcerer. ‘’Because such powers could be used for trivial things if passion overcame reason and emotion overcame rationality.’’


Lucas gave a small nod, barely noticeable to what the nanny said on the screen, ‘they’re more knowledgeable than I thought.’


The screen went back to Lily and Athanasia again. ‘’There are theories that the sorcerer from the tower destroyed the kingdom before our Obelian Empire.’’ Lily mentioned.


‘I’m going to see magic someday with my own two eyes!’ Athanasia thought. ‘Hmm?’ Something piqued the princesses’ curiosity once more.


‘’Oo dis?’’ Athanasia pointed to a picture of Claude in the book.


‘’So she recognizes her father too..’’ Diana said with a small smile.


‘’Oh my, do you recognize who he is?’’ Lily asked, slightly surprised and amazed.


‘Nope.’



The audience laughed at how blunt her response was.


‘’Forget what I said earlier then..’’ Diana said awkwardly.


‘’Truthfully, I was under the impression that the princess remembered her father that time..’’ Lily added.



‘’Yes, that’s right, it’s your father, princess.’’ Lily revealed.


‘What?!’ Athanasia thought in shock. ‘That damned bloke who left his wife and child and is out there doing God knows what?’ She asked herself in disbelief.



The audience was caught off guard with her sudden remark about the emperor. Lucas burst out laughing while Anastacius gave a small chuckle.
‘’Am I seriously getting cursed out by a literal baby? My daughter, might I add..’’ Claude’s face looked genuinely offended. Anastacius was trying his best not to burst out laughing just like Lucas. Has she been cursing him out in her mind ever since childhood? He wondered.


‘’That was surprising… I never expected her to say that about him..’’ Diana suppressed a laugh to be considerate towards Claude who’s face looked absolutely dumbfounded.



‘’Bee baa! Eeeya!’’ Athanasia continued to smack the page where Claude’s picture was in, ‘bastard! Trash!’ She cursed him out in her mind.


The whole audience was certainly amused at the princess blatantly insulting her father. Of course, with the exception of her father, Claude himself.


‘’How wonderful is my daughter’s vocabulary as a baby. I am definitely amazed.’’ Claude said nonchalantly.


‘’This is rather amusing..’’ Felix slipped, crap. He could feel Claude’s glare pierce right through him. ‘’Apologies, your Majesty, it was a slip of tongue.’’ He quickly apologized. Claude wasn’t convinced by that apology at all.



‘’My my, our sweet princess is certainly a bright young child!’’ Lily mused.



‘’Bright child, yeah definitely.’’ Lucas said snorted.



‘The current emperor of the Obelian empire…’ Claude’s picture is given focus. ‘....Is the hero who brought an end to the tyrannical, devil-worshipping evil emperor before him?’



Anastacius raised an eyebrow, ‘evil emperor? She must be referring to me, yes I can understand the evil emperor part, but when did I ever worship a devil? What did that novel of hers say about me…’ He pondered



‘This scumbag who left his daughter out here, after massacring a palace of people is portrayed as some kind of great heroic king!’ She kept throwing curses at the picture. ‘I know it’s just a storybook, but come on!’ Athanasia stared at the book angrily.



The rest of the audience who were able to hold their laughter before— started to laugh now, even Diana. Claude looked at Diana with the face of someone who had been stabbed in the back.


‘’I’m sorry my dear, but our daughter insulting you is quite entertaining…’’ Diana whispered


‘’That reminds me, I’ve never told you the Majesty’s name. Would you look at this picture again?’’ Lily pointed to Claude’s picture.


‘I’m not curious! What is there for me to know about that dirtbag?!’ Claude’s picture is once again, focused.



‘’I have so many unique nicknames from my daughter, I am very amused.’’ Everyone could’ve sworn they could see a vein popping out of his forehead.


‘’The princess seems to have really disliked his majesty before huh…’’ Jennette trailed off.


‘’It would be a surprise to no one if she still dislikes me to this day,’’ Claude’s expression was barely readable. It would seem like his daughter’s insults took a toll on the emperor’s ego…


Diana pats his shoulder to somewhat comfort him… It worked, slightly…



‘’Your father, his Majesty Claude de Alger Obelia.’’ Lily starts, another picture of Claude is seen, this time his actual face is shown instead of something from a book. Athanasia continued to listen to the nanny either way.


‘Huh?’ Athanasia thought.



‘’What kind of response was that?’’ Ijekiel asked out loud.



END OF EPISODE 2



‘’Can we please continue?’’ Jennette was very desperate to find out what happened after.


‘’Sure, but first, any thoughts for this episode?’’ Momo asked.


‘’I am quite surprised, I never knew her highness disliked his Majesty so much before…’’ Lily trailed off. She noticed that she was very on guard with him when the princess was younger but apparently it was more than that.


‘’This was amusing, very amusing.’’ Lucas had only just gotten over laughing around the last seconds of the episode.


‘’Though my concerns were more on first, my daughter being the most adorable baby on the planet, and secondly of course, Claude practically abandoning her…’’ The second part was muttered.


‘’I am not sure how to feel at this point.’’ Claude said monotonously.  Felix actually felt bad for him.


‘’I was also surprised by the reveal that the first part of the last episode was all in a novel… Well the better way to say this is that we are all characters of that novel.. As well as the princess reincarnating in it.’’ Ijekiel continued to mumble.


‘’I have to agree with the young lord, that part was quite a shock.’’ Anastacius added.


‘’Well then, be prepared for more surprises in the future, you may have a small break before we continue. So feel free to use the restroom, sort out your thoughts, or just rest.’’ Momo says while munching on some cookies, ‘’That concludes episode 2, we will be continuing after the break.’’


‘’I’m afraid to face daddy the next time we meet now…’’

‘’Well you did insult him countless times throughout your childhood..’’



[ Who Made Me A Princess:

Episode 2/125 ]

Notes:

Hello!! We're at the end of the chapter, that was quite a long one! I put a few hcs here and there and I'll point them out below, but first, I want to rant because it was so painful trying to to format the texts. AO3 keeps recognizing them as a single paragraph for whatever reason and no amount of spaces can make them separate. I'd go as far as to say that this chapter release was delayed by a day because of this formatting problem. If anyone knows any methods on how to do this more efficiently PLEASE let me know. I will be eternally grateful to whoever you will be TwT

So I'm not sure if I mixed up fanon and canon with this one--- but I hc Lucas holds a small grudge against Claude mostly because of how he treated Athanasia in the first life, as well as the first few years of this life, and that grudge isn't going away anytime soon.

Another lucathy hc is that Lucas would sometimes call Athanasia 'Athy' or 'My princess'. Just for spice :)

It's reallly hard to write Diana and Anastacius, like their reactions probably took the longest to write. Diana was barely mentioned in the webcomic so I imagine her to be a chaotic woman... And for Anastacius... Well he's Anastacius...

I really wasn't sure on how to make them react to them being characters from a novel.... But I wanted to give some light on it since some reaction fics I read where MC transmigrates to a novel, all the others usually just ignore that fact. With that being said... I didn't give that much focus on that either but I wanted to at least mention it.

I added a lil' character thoughts section at the end for fun, should I continue adding them every other chapter or so?

You might see some small edits the in the following days--- it's usually just me checking for any grammar mistake etc. etc.

Wattpad release would be a few hours after this because I will be uploading this fic tomorrow.. (it's currently sept. 1 while I'm writing this note.) The wattpad version has pictures from the webcomic in between reactions so if you're into that feel free to check it out sometime.

It's really hard to maintain a decent writing schedule, I don't think I'll be able to update during the last week of september till the middle of october, it's gonna be exam season and I need good grades..

Final edit: so I've decided to just not use any text format for this whole fic now... This will be the same for all chapters in the future ;-;

Final Edit number 2 or 3?? I really should not post my chapters at night… I’m finding so much grammar mistakes and spelling mistakes, I’m so sorry to those who read it and noticed it, I’ll try my best to avoid them in the future

That's all for this chapter! Thank you for reading and if you enjoyed it consider dropping a kudos <3

Chapter 5: Episode 3

Summary:

Novel information dump! How would the cast react to it? Diana is quite ready to knock some sense to Lovely Princess Claude any time now.

Notes:

We're bacccccck!! Sorry for the long wait, I've been really busy, I know I say that all the time but yeah hahah, I finished writing the chapter dialogue, just not the reactions a week after updating episode 2 but after that fell into a hole of zero motivation to write, so I took a break while I sort out some academic related stuff!

Anyways enough stalling, happy reading everyone! <3

(See the end of the chapter for more notes.)

Chapter Text

Episode 3 is now playing….


The same photo of Claude in regal attire is shown once again.

‘’Your father, Claude de Alger Obelia.’’ Lily revealed. Athanasia stared at the book in wonder.

‘Hmm? What did you just say?’ Athanasia asked internally. She looked over to Lily who patted her on the head.

‘’She obviously, said my name.’’ Claude said nonchalantly.

‘’His Majesty. Claude de Alger Obelia.’’ Lily repeated once again with a fond smile. The baby princess paled.

Athanasia looked at her nanny, wide-eyed. ‘No way…’

‘Why does he have the same name as the Emperor from that book?’ The novel cover of ‘’Lovely Princess’’ is shown for a moment, ‘ugh…’

‘’M-maybe because we’re from that book… I do recall Miss Momo confirming that last episode… It seems like her highness isn’t aware of that fact, yet.’’ Jennette was still a little unnerved from the reveal last time.

‘’And your name is Princess Athanasia de Alger Obelia.’’ Lily continued, the baby princess looked surprised.

‘And I have the same full name as the princess from the book…?’ Athanasia asked herself in disbelief.

‘’The similarities between his Majesty and her Highness from that book to reality is quite distinct…’’ Felix pointed out.

‘’You are the Majesty’s precious daughter.’’ Lily said with a smile.

It was rather obvious to most of the audience that what the nanny said simply was just a white lie.

Felix narrowed his eyes on the screen, he then turned to Lily, ‘’I mean this with no offense miss Lily, but you weren’t actually serious when you said this right…?’’ The last part was only whispered.

The nanny shook her head slightly, ‘’I just wanted to give some sort of comfort to the princess back then, even if it meant lying, though it’s clear that the princess is too smart for that, even at that age. But still.’’ She told the knight with a straight face. As her highness’ nanny since birth, she practically considered the child as her own even.. She’d do everything in her power to make sure the princess is happy. Even if it meant getting her hopes up.


But the more she thought about it, did she really do the right thing? Especially considering what happened in the novel, from the nanny’s perspective Athanasia from the novel was said to be hopelessly yearning for her fathers love and attention since childhood. Maybe she was the start of that yearning by giving her false hope..

‘Whoa…. It’s uncanny how identical things are. And how annoying…’ Athanasia trailed off..

‘Does she find it annoying that she’s my daughter?’ Claude pondered, ‘well, on the other hand, that’s certainly a good reason to be displeased..’

The page with Claude’s picture is focused.

‘Is it just me?’ Athanasia started.

‘Why am I getting shivers down my spine? Haha…’


‘Hmm, is this foreshadowing something?’ Anastacius thought.





‘Let’s see…. How did that novel go?’ Athanasia asked herself.


‘’I assume we will get information about that novel now..’’ Ijekiel trailed off.. He was very interested to know what could’ve happened that made the emperor’s and princess’ relationship so bad in that novel.

‘’About time. This should’ve been addressed since episode 1.’’ Claude said, he was getting rather impatient, it feels like this whole ordeal was being dragged on purposely.


An unknown machine is shown, it was unfamiliar to almost everyone in the audience… To those who know, well it’s a computer monitor.


‘’Wow…’’ Jennette said in awe, ‘’what kind of machine is that?’’ She turned to Ijekiel who also looked interested by the unknown machine.

‘’I’m not sure either…’’ Ijekiel kept looking at the screen.

The viscount turned to look at Momo, ‘’is this what you mean by your worlds’ technology being more advanced than ours?’’

‘’Yes. It’s called a computer.’’ Momo replied.

‘’What does this ‘computer’ do then?’’ Diana asked out of curiosity.

‘’It’s hard to explain… You can find out anything inside that machine, you can also send messages to other people with the use of that, regardless of how far you are from each other, search for anything you would need to know and many more, in short, it’s a machine that can store and process more knowledge than a regular human mind can comprehend.’’ Some stared at her wide-eyed, how can such technology exist without the use of magic? They wondered.

‘’This world is really fascinating….’’ Jennette couldn’t wrap her head around how a machine can do that, but she was really intrigued by the woman's explanation.

‘“Lovely Princess” is a romance fantasy novel that was a big hit online.’

‘’What does she mean by ‘online’?’’ Claude raised an eyebrow, that word is definitely not part of their vocabulary.

‘’The word ‘online’ basically means the internet, the internet is one of the main reasons why the ‘computer’ exists. Anyone with a computer can communicate to each other online from every corner of the world. The novel the princess is speaking of is rather famous.’’ Momo explained. Once again shocking the audience, is that really possible? They had so many questions right now…

‘’So, you mean to say that the novel that we’re supposedly originally from, was famous…’’ Felix mumbled, this is still very similar to their world where if something was trending it would be the talk of all nobles and commoners alike… Yet the only difference is they somehow made it more complicated but also more easier…?

‘’Yup, that’s about it.’’ Momo confirmed.

Also another thing, is it just him or did this seem more like a tragedy novel than romance? That question was more of an afterthought to the knight.

‘Maybe I should give them a cellphone if we go outside.’ Momo thought.


The screen showed Jennette and Athanasia, both sitting down, but Athanasia is facing the opposite side from the brunette while Jennette was the only one whose face is visible.


‘Wow! It’s really interesting to see myself that isn’t a reflection…’ Jennette stared at the screen in fascination, ‘though I find it strange that the princess’ face isn’t shown…’

‘Like the title, there are lovely princesses in the book.’ She mentioned.

‘Among the two princesses of the Obelian empire, the protagonist is—’

Most were already expecting the protagonist's name would be Athanasia.

‘The second princess, Jennette.’

Jennette was shocked, to say the least, ‘‘Eeh?! First of all… I’m not even a princess…’’ Jennette exclaimed.  ‘At least not yet… His Majesty has yet to recognize me but besides that— shouldn’t sister be the protagonist?!’ She asked herself frantically.

‘’Princess Athanasia is much more suited for that role…She’s basically the perfect princess you would see in every fairy tale, though she’s way more than that! Still, I can’t understand this…’’ Jennette felt her cheeks start to warm up. Anastacius looked at her with concern.

‘’Cheer up, the princess is just explaining the start of the novel, we’re likely to get an explanation soon so don’t look so distraught.’’ He reassured her, it worked slightly.


‘The princess is a beautiful lady with an angelic heart.’

Jennette is shown at the screen not long after, she had a bright smile and like the princess’ description of her, she definitely looked beautiful. Almost like an angel some would say.


‘I-I feel like this novel is exaggerating these things too much…’ Jennette thought, very flustered. ‘What about the princess? She’s more beautiful in my opinion..’


‘And she is beloved not only by her nation, but by the whole continent.’ Athanasia pointed out.


‘Is that really how it is in that novel… It’s hard to imagine me being loved by a whole continent…’ Jennette thought in disbelief. She would be content with just a loving family.. ‘This is really overwhelming me..’

Ijekiel gazed at her with a concerned look, ‘I guess this is too much information for her to handle…’


The screen showed Jenette being offered flowers from a suitor from presumably another nation.


Anastacius felt a slight sense of irritation upon seeing the image, that was strange… Would he be able to track that man down even without his face being visible? He wondered.


‘And among those who adore Jennette,’

Claude’s face is shown once again, he had a piercing glare with his jewel-like eyes slightly glowing.

‘Was her father, emperor Claude.’


Many were shocked by this. Some expected it. They either noticed from what the first two episodes were showing or already knew beforehand. Those who knew before this were Lucas and Momo.

Claude clicked his tongue, ‘’how many times do I have to make it clear that I have only one daughter. This is getting bothersome.’’ Jennete winced at that.

‘Hmm, so she’s managed to win the favor of my little brother in that novel. Though I would assume the chance of that happening in this reality would be close to none.’ Anastacius thought.

‘Can I really be like the Jennette from the original novel…? Maybe if I try hard enough I can live a happy family with sister and his Majesty..’ Jennette thought, maybe just maybe…


A hand holding a bloodied crown that royal heirs and rulers usually wear is shown. Everyone assumed the hand holding the crown was Claude.


‘Hmm, that crown is most likely stained with my blood, that was quite a long time ago.’ Anastacius thought. ‘I wonder how many years back this device could record information.’

‘To his people, he is praised as a hero and savior of the nation.’  Athanasia mentioned, ‘but in truth, he is a heartless man who killed his elder brother, the proper heir, and sat himself upon the throne.’ She revealed.

‘Is that really how she thinks of me?’ Claude wondered.


‘Jennette was the kind of person who could melt the heart of even a cold-blooded man like him.

Another vision of Jennette is shown.

‘Claude only learned of Jennette’s existence when she turned 14.’

‘Jennette’s mother was Claude’s fiancee.’

Claude clicked his tongue in annoyance, remembering that woman once again irked him.

Diana looked at him with worry. ‘There are times where I wonder what happened between them, although Claude only talked about her briefly.’ She had heard some rumors during her stay in the palace..

A woman appeared on the screen, she had brown hair like Jennette, just a bit darker, though her face is not visible, everyone either assumed or recognized her as Penelope Judith, Claude’s former fiancee

‘After enraging him and losing her place as his bride-to-be, she died while giving birth to Jennette.’

‘Hah, so they made her the pitiful victim in this story? How ironic.’ Claude thought while glaring at the screen, Diana held his hand to calm him down.

The Alpheus crest and manor is shown shortly after.

‘Jennette’s aunt tried to protect her niece from Claude by hiding her away in the care of the Alpheus family.’ Athanasia continued.

‘After realizing her existence, Claude was cold towards Jennette at first. However, princess Jennette, being an unbelievably lovable person due to being a protagonist.’

Another vision of Jennette is shown, she wore a carefree smile that was warm enough to melt even the coldest of people.

‘Eventually melted the cold icy fort that was Claude.’

’That’s really all the reason his Majesty got swayed easily…?’ Ijekiel wondered, ‘I don’t deny that Jennette’s a lovable person but it seems very unlikely for her to win his Majesty’s favor that easily…’


The screen showed Jennette holding Claude’s arm.

‘After being supported by her father, the emperor, she was wed to prince Alpheus, the best man in the empire fit to be a husband, and lived happily ever after….’

Jennette blushed, ‘t-that was surprising..’

‘’Eww eesii.’’ (Translation: so cheesy.) Athanasia pouted.

Diana laughed at her remark, ‘’how adorable my daughter is.’’ She cooed, Lily nodded in agreement.

‘‘Awoo’’ Athanasia bit her blanket in anger, ‘Those bastards!!’

Jennette quietly laughed awkwardly…

‘On the other hand, what about the treatment of the first princess..?!’ She continued to pull the blanket while biting it in frustration.

‘’I’m actually quite curious of that myself.’’ Felix said.

‘‘The same goes for me, though it would seem that her highness will be a minor character in that story..’’ Lily added.

‘Athanasia was the first born princess and the same age as Jennette.’

The screen showed Athanasia looking down, her face is not visible,

‘‘Hmm? That’s strange, why is her face usually not visible in these?’’ Diana asked Momo out of curiosity.

‘’Ah.. Well, you’ll find out sooner or later.’’ Momo replied.

‘Athanasia’s existence was informed to Claude the moment she was born.’

The screen showed the inside of the throne room, two maids were seen kneeling down in front of Claude who was sitting on the throne. Looking down at them.

‘But, he leaves the child in the palace for concubines, thanks to that, Athanasia grows up to be a fragile princess, always on edge.’

Diana’s smile wavered.

Athanasia is seen again, this time, as a toddler. Some maids were visible but they were seen being occupied with their other duties. Not sparing a glance at the princess..


Lily looked at the screen with a slight frown, feeling sad for how the princess is being treated, ‘if it weren’t for her winning the hearts of some of the maids she would’ve had no one on her side besides me…’

‘The first time she ever sees her father is on her ninth birthday.’ Athanasia revealed.

‘’While I do hope their first  meeting will be a good one, I can’t say I would be surprised if it turns out to be the complete opposite.’’ Diana voiced out what almost everyone else was thinking. Even Claude agreed.

‘Led by the lights and noise of the banquet, Ahanasia leaves the Ruby Palace that night.’

The screen showed Athanasia looking out the window and getting down from her bed.

‘Where she meets Claude in the palace in the garden of the Emperor’s palace.’

The screen showed Athanasia passing through some bushes, and then Claude walked by.

Athanasia looked up at her so-called father in awe, unfortunately, this emperor did not look at her with the warmest look. Instead, he looked at her as if she was just some bug or a wooden branch that he happened to step on.


Diana felt conflicted, first, she absolutely wanted to smack some sense into her lover on the screen. Secondly, she feels absolutely terrible for her daughter.


Claude walked away, not sparing another glance, Athanasia flinched in surprise.

‘Of course, Claude turns away and leaves, uninterested.’

Diana sighed in disappointment, she should’ve expected this, and she did, she hoped that he would become a better father to her in the future but she already knows that’s not going to be the case. ‘I just hope he actually tries to be a decent father figure to our daughter this time.’


Claude pinched the bridge of his nose in frustration, ‘just how much of a fool I was back then?’


Athanasia stared at him, wide-eyed.

‘But to a girl like Athanasia who’s never received any affection, this was quite a fateful encounter.’ Athanasia mentioned.


‘’Poor princess…’’ Felix looked at the young girl on the screen with pity. ‘If it wasn’t for that fateful encounter during the palace, who knows what would’ve been of her relationship with his Majesty now.’

‘She tries with all her might to be loved by her father… Thus growing up into a beauty with both skill and grace.’

‘And on the day of Athanasia’s debutante when she turned 14,’

A vision showed Athanasia in the middle of other nobles, her figure was more shadowed than the rest of them. Possibly indicating how out of place she is.

Another vision showed Jennette and Ijekiel, hand-in-hand approaching the dance floor. Of course, everyone’s attention was on them since the pair were practically glowing brighter than any chandelier in the banquet hall.

Jennette gulped, already having an idea of what’s going to happen.

The two princesses are shown looking at each other, the difference was very noticeable. Jennette had a warm smile while Athanasia’s face was the look of horror.

‘Her dream gets shattered into pieces.’ Athanasia continued.

To say Jennette felt terrible for the princess would be an understatement. She felt even more guilty than before. ‘Why did the author of that novel make it so that I would be the only one to be happy with father and not also with sister?...’

‘Athanasia, with her gloomy and foggy disposition, and Jennette, bright and cheery as the sun.’

The two princesses were seen back-to-back, there was an obvious difference between them.

‘Perhaps it was inevitable that everyone loved Jennette more than Athanasia.’

‘’Is loving both princesses that hard to do?’’ Diana wondered, she was getting frustrated at the blatant favoritism, while yes, she does sympathize with the brunette, but her daughter mattered much more to her. It hurt the dancer to see Athanasia getting pushed off by the side. She knows full well Claude was the reason for this unfairness, maybe that’s why her hand is mere inches away from smacking his head.

Claude looked at the raised hand near his head, he could feel beads of sweat forming on his temples.

‘I don’t think the princess is much less lovable than Miss Jennette….’ Lily thought with a frown, having raised the princess since she was a baby, this also hurt. Maybe that was the reason for her thoughts.

‘’I think it’s more or less that way because it’s quite obvious who his Majesty favored in the novel, so naturally the nobles would want to get on her good side as…’’ Felix added.

‘’Well, you just made the reason darker than how it was in the novel..’’ Momo chuckled. Some gave her weird looks. But they already assumed she was strange from the start.

‘Athanasia was a really nice girl too, just that Jennette was supposed to be the best girl in the book.’

‘It’s always about this protagonist stuff… It’s rather frustrating to see.’ Diana clenched her fists, Claude looked at his lover with worry and concern.

The scene went back to present Athanasia, a part of her blanket is a bit damp now from her aggressive biting earlier.

‘Instead of being jealous of Jennette, she teaches her the ways of the palace.’ Athanasia mentioned. Her thoughts showed a vision of Athanasia teaching Jennette about something presumably related to palace etiquette.

‘’I wouldn’t put it past her.’’ Lily added.

‘’It’s very unlikely for her highness to meddle in jealousy.’’ Felix agreed.

‘Ah, you dummy. You should’ve looked out for yourself!’ Athanasia clenched her fists in frustration. ‘But Athanasia, she loses the very thing she ever wanted to Jennette, her father’s love.’

‘I feel sort of relieved that her Highness in the novel didn’t despise me…’ Jennette thought, ‘Though it wouldn’t be that surprising if she did….’

‘Well, I suppose you can’t lose what you never had.’ Athanasia thought.

‘’Haa..’’ Diana sighed in disappointment once again, she turned to Claude, ‘’I wonder why you just couldn’t, I don’t know, love them equally?’’

‘’You could ask that to the ‘me’ in the novel.’’ Claude replied, ‘’I don’t know how that fool can fuck up that badly…’’ He muttered quietly, ‘’I’m very much certain that I only have one daughter. I’ve no idea who that girl is, much less how she is my daughter.’’

‘O-oh.’ Jennette thought sadly.

The same vision of Jennette holding Claude’s arm was shown, the only difference this time is Athanasia staring at them behind Jennette.

Lily looked at the screen sadly, same goes for Felix.

‘On top of everything, this poor princess gets killed by her own father.’ Jennette is seen collapsed on the floor while Athanasia is next to her, a broken glass is also visible in front of them.

Safe to say, this alarmed the disguised viscount, ‘what the hell happened there?’ Before he paused, was he really concerned with that?

‘Accused of putting poison in Jennette’s glass.’

The whole theater suddenly fell to the edge of their seats. Most of them were in disbelief.

‘’Her Highness… Did that…?’’ Jennette trembled.

‘’Bullshit.’’ Claude said firmly. Lucas nodded in agreement. The magician held his armrest for his dear life.

‘’There’s no way… Just no way.’’ Felix said in shock,  ‘’this isn’t possible. This would never happen…’’

‘’I agree. There’s no way… Her highness of all people…’’ Lily agreed, ‘’her highness would never. This has to be an attempt to frame her..’’ She said quietly.

‘She was framed, of course. Jennette’s aunt was behind it all.’

The nanny sighed in relief, thankful that she was right. Same goes to Felix, Diana and Claude.

The same couldn’t be said for Ijekiel and Jennette.

‘’A-aunt Rosalia?!’’ The two exclaimed in shock.

‘’That’s not possible…’’ Ijekiel muttered in disbelief.

‘’Aunt Rosalia wouldn’t try to kill me…’’ Jennette looked horrified, her own aunt? Why?..

The screen then showed Rosalia. Again, her face was not visible at all but anyone who knew her can easily distinguish the difference between her and Penelope.

‘An elaborate scheme to make her niece the first heir to the throne.’


‘’Considering what the princess said about the novel, that was very much unnecessary… Why would she risk her own niece’s life…’’ Felix said quietly.

Claude stared at the screen with disgust. ‘Of course the two are the same. It runs in the blood.’

‘Which was unnecessary since Claude didn’t give Athanasia a single thought for the seat in the first place.’ The baby princess continued, ‘on the contrary, if she knew it was poisoned she would have gladly drunk that glass herself to save Jennette.’

‘’W-why would she…? All I’ve done in the novel was cause nothing but pain for her…’’ Jennette felt teary-eyed once again.

‘Because if something bad had happened to Jennette, it would have gravely saddened Claude.’

‘Assuming that bastard had any emotions in the first place.’ Lucas thought.

‘As you can see, Athanasia was a poor, foolish princess.’ The screen showed Athanasia’s shadowed figure once again.

‘’I hate to admit it, but she does have a point…’’ Diana said sadly, ‘my daughter, I wish you would’ve looked out for yourself more..’

‘Jennette’s aunt must have simply intended to remove her from inheriting the throne, or to have her confined…’ Athanasia trailed off.

‘’Hah. Him? Giving that much mercy? You wish.’’ Lucas gave a bitter chuckle, not really caring if he offended the emperor. Some were shocked at his cockiness, but some silently agreed.

‘This kid… No, man. He has been getting on my nerves since the start of this, I wonder why.’ Claude thought.

Claude’s piercing gaze is shown, even with just one eye visible, it was clear to everyone that mercy was lost on the poor princess.

‘He killed Athanasia even before she was found guilty.’ Athanasia continued.

The theater went dead silent.

‘So this is what she meant during the last episode… I’m surprised we glossed over that fact rather quickly if I’m being honest.’ Anastacius thought.

‘’He didn’t even wait for a trial— Why?!’’ Diana asked out loud.


‘’Your Majesty, how could you…?!’’ Felix asked Claude on-screen in frustration, he had spent a good amount of time with the young princess now, and he would be lying if he said he hadn’t grown attached to her..

Lily was on the verge of tears, ‘the princess was too young…’

Claude on the other hand, was shocked to say the least. While he kept saying to himself that this all happened in the novel he couldn’t help but feel guilty.

A noose is shown.

Diana looked at it in horror, ‘he couldn’t at the very least give her a painless death…’

‘It was her 18th birthday. Exactly nine years after the day she met him for the first time in the garden.’

It showed a faded and blurry vision of Athanasia meeting Claude in the palace garden.

‘Eventually the truth was revealed.’ Athanasia mentioned. ‘But Claude never felt an ounce of guilt or regret for killing his first daughter.’ 


Diana felt her emotions conflicting, she wanted to be mad at Claude, scream at him, berate him for doing that to their poor daughter who already suffered so much, and she was furious with him. But she also felt terrible sadness seeing her daughter getting treated… So unfairly in that novel. She could only hope that this doesn’t happen this time.

‘’Your Majesty…’’ Felix shared a look of both shock, and disappointment. ‘Would this have been what would happen if it weren’t for that fateful encounter?’ He wondered again.

This was the first time Lily felt utter contempt towards someone else. Of course she respected his Majesty a great deal as the leader of Obelia, but what about the novel version of him? She hated him with a passion. She’s fairly certain that she would’ve been already executed in the novel for defending the princess…

Ijekiel clenched his fists, slightly trembling from the shock of what was just revealed, ‘‘how could anyone do that to their daughter and not feel guilty?’’ He whispered, the boy tried his best to make his voice as quiet as possible as to not offend Claude. Not that he would care anyway since he knows he deserves it.

Jennette slightly agreed.

A loud snap of something caught the attention of the audience, who looked towards the person responsible for it.

Well… There goes one of Lucas’ armrests. Everyone could see it snapped in half.

‘’It appears that I have leaned too far and the fragile armest snapped in half accidentally.’’ The magician excused, although his face said otherwise.

‘’...I’ll just replace that for you later…’’ Momo said awkwardly.

The screen showed Claude with an unbothered look, he had just received news that she was innocent, though it was clear that he didn’t care.

‘Jennette suffers from guilt… Until she is comforted in her fiance’s arms and puts the ordeal behind her.’ Ijekiel is shown comforting the second princess. ‘And the story ends with a ‘’happily ever after.’’’

‘’That’s no happily ever after!’’ Jennette suddenly exclaimed, startling the two people next to her, ‘’why was this novel so popular in their world if that’s the plot line! Her Highness’ death was just… Unnecessary, the author already made her suffer enough, and to top it all off, her death was in vain!’’ The girl was genuinely upset over this which surprised Ijekiel as this was his first time seeing her like that,

‘Why did my sister have to suffer such a horrible ending while I got the so-called ‘happy ending’ solely because I was the protagonist? That seems like a terribly written novel…’ Jennette thought sadly, ‘’the princess is obviously some whom I cared for deeply, even in the novel… So I don’t understand how I can live happily and put the whole ordeal aside…’’

‘I just don’t get why Athanasia has to die such a meaningless death.’ The baby princess thought.

‘’Basically, what I just said a few moments ago.’’ Jennette added.

‘’They could’ve just left out the part where Lady Rosalia framed her and nothing would change. The little lady would still remain as crown princess because of Claude.’’ Diana mentioned, the audience agreed.

A vision of a girl wearing academy clothes can be slightly heard, ‘‘it’s all to exaggerate the tyrant dad’s one and only love, Jennette!’’

‘’Before you all say anything, this girl is just a fan of the novel. She’s no one important.’’ Momo explained.

‘’There’s countless other ways to exaggerate a fathers love, killing off an innocent person is not one of them…’’ Diana trailed off

‘I assume she’s a teenager judging from her clothing, as it looks like clothes from an academy— Are children in your world really alright with these types of stories?’’ Lily asked Momo who shrugged.


‘’You’d be surprised at how many people liked Claude for killing her off.’’ Momo replied, the rest of the audience just felt disgusted.

‘’Ridiculous.’’ Claude muttered.

‘’Awoo.’’ Baby Athanasia is then holding her golden ball with a displeased expression written all over her face. ‘Pisses me off again just thinking about it.’ She thought angrily.

‘’I’m sure a lot of us agree…’’ Jennette said quietly.

‘Well it’s not like I really liked Athanasia, but she’s better than Claude and Jennette, though.’ Athanasia thought.

‘Oh.’ Jennette and Claude thought simultaneously, slightly hurt.

‘I could care less about what happens to the other people in this world as long as I’m happy… But I just can’t stand by and watch.’

‘Why, you ask?’ Athanasia’s back is shown.

Then all of sudden, her teary-eyed face appeared on the screen.

‘Because it seems I’ve become the very Athanasia, that’s why!’ She screams internally while trying to get a hold of the golden ball that was slowly rolling away.

‘’I’m surprised it took her this long to notice.’’ Claude commented.

‘’She probably noticed long ago and just took note of it now…’’ Diana added.

‘’WAAAAAAAAAA!’’ Athanasia suddenly started to cry.

‘’P..rincess, what’s wrong?!’’ A maid asked out in surprise and worry.


[ Who Made Me A Princess
Episode 3/125 ]

The theater lights turned on again, and the audience finally got a chance to breathe after that trainwreck of an episode.

‘’Well, how are we all feeling?’’ Momo asked everyone who just looked at her weakly.

‘’It was quite a revelation… I never expected Claude in the novel to be this bad…’’ Diana said, her tone was uncharacteristically quiet.

‘’That novel bastard of me is a fool.’’ Claude said firmly.

‘’I’m glad that his Majesty and her Highness’ relationship seem to be better this time than in the novel….’’ Felix pointed out, Lily nodded in agreement.

‘’To think that the in the novel suffered that much in the novel only to die a meaningless death…’’ Lily added.

‘’Oh yeah, Lucas, can you move seats for a bit, I’ll fix your armrest real quick.’’ Momo said, Lucas stood up and moved to the seat next to him.

‘’I wonder how you managed to break this, it’s quite sturdy…’’ Ijekiel commented.

‘’You don’t need to know that whitey boy.’’ Lucas dismissed. Ijekiel raised an eyebrow, whitey boy? Really?

The armrest has been fixed, no one could explain how, but it’s fixed now and Lucas went back to his original seat.

‘’I hope you don’t break that in the future episodes.’’ Momo chuckled, ‘’now, anymore questions before we proceed with the next episode?’’ She asked.

‘’We can continue now with no worries.’’ Diana said, the others just nodded or didn’t do anything.

‘’Very well then. Light’s off!’’ With a snap of a finger, the room fell dark once again. And the projector opened,

‘I must say, I never expected them to react that strongly to my death.’


‘Well they do care about you, a lot.’


‘So when will I be finally able to meet them?’


‘In a few more episodes.’


‘Wow! Such a specific answer.’


[ Who Made Me A Princess:

Episode 3/125 ]











Notes:

This has to be the longest chapter I've written yet lol, but after this update I'll have to take 2 weeks off because EXAMS!! uggggh I dread the exam day more and more as it grows closer. But rest assured I'll be trying to get more than one update a month after it!!

Chapter explanation corner~

For Lily, I can defs imagine her hating Claude, LP univ. specifically. So I wanted to go over that a bit.

Writing Jennette and Ijekiel is HARD, I'm not sure why, actually, especially for Ijekiel, that's why he has so little dialogue here sorryyy

And yes this is the start of Anas protective father arc (even tho he doesnt know it)

I really don't know much about Penelope Judith and Diana, so i'm pulling out Diana's opinion of her out of my ass. Same with Rosalia like wtf did she even do in wmmap (as you can see im in a dire need of a reread)

And yes that person talking in italics every chapter is Athy(same timeline as Lucas) and Momo conversing, she'll meet everyone soon. Still thinking if I should make her react with them or not.

Also wtf this is 17 pages long, i'm on a roll

really sorry for the computer and internet ted talk, i got carried away while writing that part, like, seriously, i dont know where that came from (trust)

Apologies if the end is a bit rushed, (cus it is) i wanted to post this before october 2 so i can focus on school and nothing else.

Any grammar mistakes would be fixed once I get my lazy self to reread this every few days so feel free to point some out.

That's about it for episode 3, thanku for 1k+ hits and 100+ kudos i love you all so much <3

Chapter 6: Episode 4: Time Flew Forward

Summary:

The beginning of Athanasia's chaos and shenanigans.

Notes:

A/N: Hello everyone, author speaking. It’s been a while, huh? First, I’d like to start this off by saying, HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!!! WOOO!!! Goodbye 2023, you will not be missed. And if you’re on the other side of the planet, well, happy new year's eve to you guys!

I am terribly sorry for ghosting y’all for like 3 months :( Writer's block and school kinda happened. And they hit me harder than they should. Also there WAS supposed to be a halloween special(and a christmas one) that I never got around to finishing because I was so unmotivated to write lol. Maybe I’ll publish them this year, who knows.

This chapter has been like, ready for 2 months now without the reactions since I finished writing it around early november. Never wrote the reactions till December because oh boy did I have the WORST 4 months of school I’ve ever had in my life. So yeah anyways don’t trust fake ahh ppl who only want to look good by putting down others btw learnt the hard way oops.

Anyways, I want to thank all of you guys who read, comment and kudos to this story! You all really made me not abandon this fic entirely like, I love reading them sm!! U guys r so sweet askdjakfj thank u for thattt <333

Now let the episode begin!

(See the end of the chapter for more notes.)

Chapter Text

Episode 4; Time Flew Forward: now playing….


The episode continued where the last episode left off, and that is with Athanasia crying.

Lily quickly ran to the crying baby, ‘’princess!’’ The nanny called out worriedly. She picked up Athanasia and started cradling her slowly, the princess’ sniffles can still be heard.  ‘’Why is my princess so upset?’’ Lily asked sweetly. ‘’Maybe you feel hungry?’’

[Lilian York]

Lily looked at the screen, slightly surprised, ‘I never expected to get an introduction from the princess herself, though I wonder what her highness's thoughts about me would be.’

[The only person from the book ‘’Lovely Princess’’ who claimed Athanasia was innocent.]

‘’And I’ll still defend her highness regardless if this is a novel or not, even if everyone else turns against her’’ And it was true, the thought of betraying the princess was not even a possibility for the nanny.

Diana turned to the nanny on her side. ‘’Although ‘Lovely Princess’ technically never happened, I still thank you for staying by my daughters side no matter what.’’ She thanked her. While she has been doing this for most of the episodes, the dancer feels like she hasn’t thanked her enough for the things she had done for Athanasia.

‘’I’m just doing my duty as her highness’ caretaker.’’ Lily smiled softly.

‘’E-eh? The only one who claimed she was innocent…’’ Jennette processed the words of the princess on screen. ‘I don’t think I’ll have it in me to blame her for that…’

‘’Don’t worry about it too much, maybe you were unconscious from the poison?’’ Ijekiel tried to reassure her.

[And for that, she also gets killed by the hands of Claude.]

‘’It appears that my assumption from the last episode was true…’’ Lily sighed quietly at the revelation.

‘’Executed just for defending one of your daughters…’’ Felix muttered in slight disbelief.

Diana glared at Claude. The man goosebumps all over his body.

‘’Despite being aware of the Ruby Palace incident,’’ the screen showed Lily in formal clothing walking past some maids who look at her with concern, ‘’she still volunteers to become Athanasia’s nanny.’’

[The reason was Athanasia’s mother.]

‘Ah… Even the princess knew…’ Lily thought, a bit embarrassed.

Diana looked surprised, ‘I wonder what I did for her to volunteer as my daughter’s nanny just because of me.’

Diana’s magenta eyes are shown briefly. Then it changes to a scene of her performing at what seems to be the new year’s banquet area. Lily is seen in the audience, wide-eyed while staring at the dancer in awe.

‘’She always admired how Diana’s spirit was as free as a bird.’’ Athanasia pointed out.

‘And that is true.’ Claude agreed internally.

‘’I also admire that about Lady Diana although I’ve only seen her through this device and meeting her today…’’ Jennette said shyly.

‘’I’m glad I was able to make that kind of impression through one dance, it still feels quite new to hear from Obelia’s people..’’ Diana admitted.

[But Diana died right after giving birth, and Claude shockingly massacres everyone in the Ruby Palace.]

Lucas raised an eyebrow after hearing her say ‘shockingly’. ‘Really?’






‘’WAHHHHHHHHHHHH!’’ Athanasia wailed, loudly, surprising a lot of people in the audience. ‘Claude you dirtbag!!’ She cursed her father once again.

‘That he is.’ The others besides the man himself agreed simultaneously. Claude felt his ear itch once again.

‘Does she still think of me that way even now…?’ Claude pondered.

Lucas just chuckled loud enough for Claude to hear and it definitely irritated the man, not that he really had the right to be mad at him.

Meanwhile, Anastacius was very amused by how feisty the princess was to her father.

Lily tried to calm her down again by cradling her, a worried expression was visible all over the nanny’s face. ‘’Don’t cry princess..’’

‘I’m pretty sure I ended up in that wreck of a world inside the book. That means I’ll die!!!’ Athanasia screamed. ‘And she’s going to die defending Athanasia!’ The princess was referring to Lily, who now placed her down, checking her diaper. ‘’WAAAAAHHHHH!!’’ Athanasia continued to cry.

‘’That won’t happen.’’ Claude said firmly.

‘’I hope it won’t.’’ Diana looked at Claude with a serious expression.

‘’I wouldn’t be that stupid to follow what this ‘novel me’ did.’’ Claude retorted.

‘It’s quite surprising to see how worried she is, though I can’t blame her… I do appreciate the fact she cares so much about my safety as well..’ Lily thought.

Lucas eyed Claude briefly.

‘’She’s not hungry and it’s not the diapers…’’ Lily said confused, ‘’she’s been very needy
nowadays.’’

‘I didn’t pee!’ Athanasia thought.

Lily picked the baby princess up, now resorting to patting her back to comfort Athanasia. ‘‘It’s okay princess, I’m right here..’’

‘Oh Lilian, why for art thou Lillian.’ Athanasia thought dramatically. ‘And why am I Athanasia? Call me Jennette. I don’t want to be Athanasia!’

Lily laughed softly at her dramatic thoughts, same goes for Diana. ‘’Our princess surely has a way of words..’’



[I was right! I should leave this damn palace! Time to make haste!!]

‘I admire her energy and ambition just to leave this palace, it’s quite amazing actually.’ Anastacius thought.

‘’It’s funny that she thinks she can leave the palace at her age.’’ Felix thought out loud. The others agreed.


— Who Made Me A Princess —


The screen showed the Ruby Palace garden that has multiple flowers blooming everywhere, it was spring at last. Princess Athanasia is now 5 years old. She’s seen covering her mouth with both hands, it’s evident that she’s eating something.

Diana gushed over how adorable her daughter is and how she wishes she can hold her until the end of time. While Lily looked at the screen with a fond smile, thankful that she was able to see the princess grow up like this.

In short, everyone fell in love with the scene with the exception of Anastacius who really doesn’t feel anything towards anyone....

‘’Nanny, nanny.’’ The princess calls the woman, ‘’Athy wants chocolate.’’

The screen then showed a caretaker of Athanasia fawning over the princess’ absolute cuteness, ‘’my sweet princess, you’d like some chocolate?’’ She asked with a smile.

Lily stopped gushing over Athanasia’s cuteness for a moment, ‘’did they give her chocolate when I specifically told them not to?’’ The nanny frowned.

‘’There’s nothing wrong with having extra chocolates every once in a while though.’’ Felix told Lily. Lucas agreed silently with the knight, also sharing Athanasia’s love for sweets.

‘’This probably happened on more than one occasion… Considering how a lot of the palace’s maids will practically do anything for her highness if she asks…’’ Lily sighed. Felix laughed awkwardly.

‘’Yeah! Athy loves chocolate. Athy wants a lot!’’ Athanasia said while extending her hands, expecting the maid to give her some.

‘’You like chocolate that much, your highness?’’ The nanny cooed.

‘’Athy loves chocolate!’’ She then proceeded to widen the gap between her arms, ‘’I love it thi-s much! Athy loves Hannah too!’’

‘’How clever my daughter is, using that adorable face of hers to good use.’’ Diana chuckled. ‘‘If I were still alive during that time I wouldn’t have been able to stop myself from giving her everything she asks for either.’’ She joked, although most of the audience felt a bit down about her saying it lightly, the dancer didn’t seem to mind.

‘’Oh my,’’ Hannah was about to say something else but someone interrupted them.

‘’Hannah, what are you doing?’’ Another maid asked, the two flinched.

‘’Ces!’’ Hannah said, clearly surprised. The other woman gave them both a stern look.

‘’Head maid Lilian told you.’’ She then turned to Hannah, ‘’you can’t give the princess snacks as you please.’’ Ces reminded her coworker.

Lily nodded, ‘’I’m fairly certain that I told that to every maid in the palace. Though it seems that they couldn't resist her highness..’’

‘’It’s just one piece.’’ Hannah insisted.

‘’But you won’t be the only one giving her snacks.’’ Ces argued. A tug on her skirt startled her, she looked down and saw the ever so adorable princess, now finding a new person to bribe.

‘’Oh dear…’’ Lily just realized what Athanasia was going to do. Diana chuckled at the nanny’s reaction.

‘’But Athy wants chocolate.’’ Athanasia looked up at the maid with pleading eyes, one could say that those jeweled eyes could be seen sparkling as well.

‘’No your highness.’’ Ces said firmly. Though it seems that Athanasia’s influence is starting to affect her, ever so slowly.

‘’I really can’t…’’ Athanasia’s pleading look is focused, the maid sighed and it cut to Ces handing the princess a small bunch of chocolates. ‘’You can’t tell Lilian, okay?’’ She warned.

‘Well, someone gave in.’ Everyone thought.

Lily sighed. ‘How many maids have been giving her chocolates everyday since she was young?’ She asked herself.

‘’No sweets! She’ll rot her teeth!’’ Lily’s warning could be heard echoing inside the maid’s mind, but continued to get ignored..

‘’Thank you nanny!’’ Athanasia kissed Ces’ cheek as a thanks.

‘’My! Ces you came here on purpose to steal my thunder!’’ Hannah accused the other.

‘’W-what are you talking about? Do you think I’m the kind of person who acts with ulterior motives like you?’’ Ces fought back. Athanasia could then be seen quickly fleeing from the two maids arguing.

‘’Then why are you the ones giving her chocolate? Her kiss was supposed to be mine!’’

‘It’s quite funny to see them fighting for her highness’ affections.’ Ijekiel thought..



‘’Time flows like water,’’ the screen showed Athanasia running as she faded off in to the distance, ‘’and now I’m 5 years old.’’

‘After years of effort, I’ve turned the maids to my side.’ 

‘I admit I gave them a hard time fairly often because I used to think they were kinda sassy…’ Athanasia thought. A flashback appeared on the screen showing her as a baby knocking over a glass of water. ‘But I saw that there was no real reason to act like a rascal and bring ill-treatment upon myself’

‘I think I’ve heard some of the maids complain to the former head maid about that during her younger years..’ Lily remembered. 
‘‘I’m glad she grew out of that before she went to the Emerald palace… Who knows what she would’ve done to his majesty if she hadn’t…’’ Felix said jokingly.

‘Oh and I realized that I was right about the gold decor slowly disappearing from my room.’

‘’I guess this will be the explanation of what you said last episode then.’’ Diana said to Lily who nodded.

The screen showed the palace servants working in the kitchen briefly.

[Everyone in the palace is an aristocrat, but the Ruby Palace hail from humbler noble families.]

[They were ever wary of Claude in the beginning… But they recognized after some time that he had no interest in me and the Ruby Palace.]

Gold coins were shown falling while the princess continued her monologue.

[Once they realized that I basically became a nobody overnight and they slowly began siphoning money off the Ruby Palace’s household budget.]

‘’That’s horrible…’’ Jennette said quietly.

‘’How bold of them to steal from one of my palaces.’’ Claude glared daggers at the screen. Gaining some interesting looks from Lucas and Anastacius to which he paid no mind to.

‘Just now you start to care?’ Anastacius quirked a brow.

[The budget was pretty much just for me, so they knew the money had nowhere else to go. They eventually started taking furniture… And even the gems set into the walls.]

‘’Even the gems in the walls? I’m surprised they were willing to go that far…’’ Ijekiel asked, bewildered.

‘’I’m more surprised at how they were able to steal furniture..’’ Anastacius added, ‘’just how bad is the security in the Ruby Palace?’’ He asked quietly, but it was enough for his little brother to hear. The former emperor just wanted to taunt Claude a little bit.

Claude looked at the viscount briefly, ‘this man… I’ve been having a weird feeling towards him since the start of this.. Just who is he?’ Claude had noticed that nearly every person in this room has some connection to Athanasia to some extent, that is besides Diana and Viscount Patterson. For Diana he could understand why she was here… But that Viscount, what significance does he have in Athanasia’s life? He hasn’t been mentioned by his daughter at all during this is something Claude noticed.
‘Believe me, I was furious when I finally grasped that they were stealing my stuff, one precious ornament at a time!’ Another flashback showed a maid getting startled by Athanasia’s crying, it was very obvious to the audience that she was stealing a trinket of some sort.

‘’Can’t blame her at all.’’ Ijekiel agreed. Everyone shared the same thought.

‘’By the looks of it, they weren’t even trying to hide the fact that they were stealing.’’ Diana pointed out.

Lily sighed for what feels like the tenth time.‘’You would be correct with that, Lady Diana. Those who were stealing were able to get away with it easily because they had high positions. Even the Head Maid turned a blind eye to it until I confronted her about it…’’ The nanny continued, making a lot of people even more surprised at how Claude never heard about it.

‘’How haven’t you’ve caught wind of that situation during that time?’’ Diana turned to her lover who merely shrugged.

‘’I never received a report about it until just recently. But the issue had been resolved by that time already.’’ Claude replied.

‘’That would be because of the former Head Maid not bothering to mention it as she also was part of the group of staff that were stealing, Your Majesty.’’ Lily explained.

‘I was so angry that I even thought about telling the emperor… But then again, he’ll probably slit my throat first…’ Another image appeared of Claude questioning the fact that she is still even alive while unsheathing his sword in the process.

‘’Sometimes I feel as if her highness’ thoughts are a bit too violent….’’ Jennette trailed off.

‘Why is her image of me in her mind always having something to do with me being bloodthirsty?’ Claude wondered.

‘’You wouldn’t actually do that if she did tell you before, wouldn’t you?’’ Diana gave a worried smile.

‘’I don’t kill off children randomly, Diana.’’ Claude denied. Most of the audience were unconvinced…
‘I think his Majesty would just ignore her… Maybe lessen the Ruby Palace’s budget even more..’ Felix thought, remembering how he acted during their first meeting in the Emerald Palace.

‘Yet your past self had no problem killing her off when she had been framed.’ Lucas thought bitterly.

The screen then showed the former head maid and Lily arguing.

[Anyway, that matter was finally resolved in a showdown between Lily and Madam Headmaid.]

[The maids returned the items they took and were kicked out of the palace… But those things never made it back to me.]

‘’Why? Though I’d understand for bigger pieces like furniture they wouldn’t return it to my daughters room for safety, but it was obvious that there were trinkets that have been stolen from her room…’’ Diana trailed off.

‘’They went to the Head Maid and was never returned…’’ Lily said with a straight face.

‘’Did she leave the palace unpunished?’’ Felix asked Lily out of curiosity. She nodded, ‘’ah..’’

‘’Unfortunately, a lot of the maids that were kicked out never faced any real punishment for theft. The former Head Maid was one of the few that left unscathed.’’ Lily pinched the bridge of her nose in frustration from just recalling the events.

Claude was quiet, trying to think of a suitable punishment for those servants. He might have to ask Lily for a detailed list if she has one later.

Another image of the head maid appeared in the princess’ mind. ‘I bet she took ‘em all…’ The screen showed Athanasia laying down in frustration, ‘I knew she was up to no good ever since she refused to buy me a new toy due to ‘’budget issues’’!’

Well, that was the final straw for the emperor, as he turned to look at Felix.

‘’Find that lowly maid once this is over.’’ Claude ordered. Surprising some of the audience who didn’t expect he’d do something for an issue that happened long ago.

‘’Understood, Your Majesty.’’

Diana frowned at the treatment her daughter got as a baby… ‘If she were just like any other baby and wasn’t a reincarnated woman, that would’ve taken a far more worse toll on her growing up… ‘ Just thinking about it made Diana’s heart ache. ‘I’m more than relieved that she has managed to turn the palace maids to her side.’

‘But thanks to that, none can tell that I also did some looting and stockpiling of treasures myself!’

Everyone was caught off-guard from what the princess just said.

‘’Pff.’’ Lucas tried his hardest to stifle a laugh.

‘’Haah… You are one sly fox, Your Highness..’’ Lily just realized that she had noticed some small gems, toys, and occasionally some decorations around Athanasia’s room go missing even after the stealing incident has been resolved… It all made sense now..

‘I hope Lily doesn’t get too angry…’

The screen showed Lily analyzing the baby princess’ room suspiciously, looking around for any more missing trinkets. Athanasia stared at the nanny nervously, ‘did I pinch too many things?’ She asked herself.

‘’Have you ever noticed the missing items after the maids were kicked out?’’ Felix asked Lily.

‘’I have but I just assumed that the maids were able to get some items before leaving…’’ 

_______

The screen goes back to the present.

‘’Where are you going, your highness?’’ A maid asks Athanasia.

‘’I’m going to pick flowers!’’ Athanasia says cheerfully, ‘’I’m going to give them to Lily!’’ She added.

‘’Let’s clean up your face before you go. It looks like you really enjoyed that chocolate.’’ The maid kneeled down to Athanasia’s level and wiped the chocolate stains around her mouth.

‘Oh man… I’m such a child…’ Athanasia thought. ‘How embarrassing!’

‘’You are a child…’’ Anastacius pointed out, ‘’well, physically, that is.’’

‘’Don’t tell anyone that Athy ate the choco, ‘kay?’’ Athanasia reminded.

Lily gave a look of disapproval at the scene playing before her, Felix chuckled at her reaction. Earning a weird look from the nanny.

‘’Sir Felix, may I ask what is it that you find so funny?’’ Lily raised a brow.

The knight gave an awkward laugh, ‘’my apologies, my Lady, your reaction was quite entertaining to witness, and I mean it in a good way.’’ Felix said with a smile, Lily was quite surprised to hear that.

Diana suddenly looked like she had the biggest realization of the century after hearing their conversation. She grinned widely, her lover looked at her, confused.

The maid looked at her and chuckled, ‘’I won’t, your highness.’’ She promised.

-

Athanasia looked down and saw her hands full of chocolate stains. ‘Ugh, the chocolate got all over my hands too!’

‘I’ll just wipe it off on my dress…’ But then she realized that she was wearing a light colored outfit. ‘...Maybe I’ll go wash at the fountain instead.’

-

[There’s an abundance of picturesque of locations at the Ruby Palace]

The screen showed multiple shots of the palace's breathtaking scenery.

It also showed multiple statues of naked women that were thankfully hard to see because of just how bright the sun is.

Before Jennette could fully process what the screen was showing, both of her eyes had been covered by Ijekiel and Anastacius.

‘’H-huh?’’ The young lady squeaked in surprise. ‘’Why are you guys covering my eyes?’’ She asked innocently.

‘’Jennette, I’m afraid you can’t look at this.’’ Anastacius quickly responded.

‘’What Mister Patterson said.’’ Ijekiel agreed.

‘What is it that they don’t want me to see so badly? Also, why is Mister Patterson covering my eyes too?’ Jennette wondered.

‘’Is it really appropriate to put statues like those in a palace where children wander around?’’ Diana asked Claude.

‘’Ask my ancestors that requested them to be placed there…’’ Claude answered.

‘’Why are there so many of them?’’ Ijekiel asked particularly no one.

Another set of statues sitting down were shown, this time, it’s the statues in the middle of the fountain.

‘’Wonder which emperor had commissioned them to be made honestly. It’s quite ironic that they are placed in a palace meant for concubines.’’ Lucas pointed out. He’s thinking of some past emperors of Obelia that he met who would be most likely to do this.

‘Aren’t you old enough to probably remember that information?’ Claude thought.

‘However, I don’t think it’s a particularly appropriate place for a child in their formative years to grow up in..’ Athanasia thought.

‘’Exactly my point a few moments ago.’’ Diana leaned back on her chair. ‘’Even if it’s a palace specifically where concubines live there’s still a high chance that a child from one of them could wander around in a place like this.. But I suppose the person who commissioned these didn’t really think it was important.’’ She sighed in exasperation.

‘Just what was it?’ Jennette continued to ask herself.

The screen showed Athanasia looking up at the statues while washing her hands, ‘killer bods as always, ladies!’ The princess complimented.

‘’...Killer?.. Bods?’’ Felix repeated what Athanasia just said, confused. The last word leaving his mouth was unfamiliar.

‘’I think her highness is complimenting the statues…’’ Lily explained, ‘’I would sometimes hear her saying things that sound negative at first but she actually means it as a compliment.. If that makes sense.’’

‘’How would killer be a good word to use for a compliment?’’ Claude asked.

‘’Unfortunately I’m not so sure either… Your Majesty.’’

‘’Maybe we can just sum it up to her being someone from another world?’’ Diana thought out loud.

‘’You would be correct, Lady Diana. It is indeed something from our world.’’ Momo answered, surprising some who thought she’d left them or something.

‘’I see, your world is rather unique in terms of humor..’’ Diana trailed off, didn’t she mention in an earlier episode that a lot of people liked Claude in the novel for killing off their daughter?..

The two people covering Jennette’s eyes finally let go. Though the screen continued to play, the brunette did not know what they were really talking about. She can sort of follow along because she still heard the princess speaking, Jennette was just not entirely sure what she could be referring to.

Though Athanasia leaned a bit too far in and lost her balance.

‘’Ack!’’ She squeaked in shock.

Fortunately, she managed to grip on the edge of the fountain. She looked at the water, seeing her own reflection. Athanasia stared at the reflection, mesmerized.

‘Sister is so beautiful…’ Jennette thought in awe. The others shared similar thoughts.

‘’...Sho pretty…’’ She blurted out.

‘’Heh, even my daughter herself is mesmerized by how gorgeous she is.’’ Diana looked at the screen with a soft smile.

‘So this is what I look like.’ Athanasia thought, her face still showing a dazed expression. ‘She’s adorable…’

[I’m a spitting image of my mother, but these unique eyes are from my father.]

‘’I couldn’t agree more…’’ Lily said fondly until she realized she said her thoughts out loud.

‘Indeed she is.’ Claude agreed as well.

The screen focused on her jeweled eyes.

[Only the direct descendants of the imperial family inherit these jewel-like eyes.]

[Inhabitants of this world can possess a certain magic of their own, but the magic within the imperial family reverberates in a special way which engenders eyes like these.]

‘Everyone says I’m the only one who inherited Claude’s jewel-like eyes, but so did Jennette.’

Anastacius just looked at the screen with an unreadable expression.

‘I’m quite curious as to why that is as well.. Though I wouldn’t want to pressure the little lady with these questions as she doesn’t seem to know why from the looks of it.’ Diana thought.

Jennette felt like all eyes were on her for a moment. Making the girl squirm in her seat uncomfortably.

Jennette appeared briefly.

_______

The screen showed a field full of various types of flowers. Athanasia can be seen picking some of them up while humming a tune.

‘Adorable.’ Diana thought with a huge smile on her face.

She looked up suddenly, as if she just noticed something. ‘’Hmm? What the…? Where am I?’’  Athanasia asked out loud.

The screen showed her alone in the field with no type of structure nearby.

‘’How far was the flower garden from the palace?’’ Ijekiel asked. As he himself has only visited the palace a number of times, he never really got any time to explore it.

‘’It’s not that far, though the garden does lead to the Emer—’’ Lily suddenly stopped, the others looking at her confused. Until, Felix realized the same thing as Lily. They shared a look and nodded. The nanny cleared her throat, ‘’apologies for that but as I said before it leads to the–’’ She continued until Momo interrupted her.

‘’You’ll find out shortly, just watch. It’ll ruin the fun.’’

—-NEXT EPISODE PREVIEW—-

‘’Oh my, this is new..’’ Diana looked at the words on the screen in surprise.

‘’Yup, we’ll be getting episode previews starting now just to give you a small teaser of what’s to come.’’ Momo said while reaching down her popcorn bowl to get some more.

The screen continued to play.

‘’What the… Where am I…?’’ Athanasia asked while looking around.

‘I’m lost.’ She realized.

The princess continued to look around and she finally saw a palace. She quickly ran to its entrance only to stop.

Claude’s eyes widened, realizing that this was his palace. And of course, recalling their first meeting. Diana looked at Claude curiously.

Felix could recognize any part of the Emerald Palace from just one glance. So this scene confirmed his suspicions of what will happen in the next episode.

‘’What’s dis?’’ Athanasia asked herself while looking at the unfamiliar palace, wide eyed.

Anyone who has visited this particular palace knows exactly who resides in it.

Anastacius looked somewhat surprised, ‘well I expected that they’ll be meeting eventually.’ He thought.

‘I didn’t know their first meeting took place this early.’ Lucas looked at the screen with a blank expression.

The only ones clueless to what was actually happening are Ijekiel and Jennette who’ve no idea where the princess went.

‘This isn’t the Ruby Palace. I was just picking flowers! How the heck did I get all the way here?!’





[ Who Made Me A Princess:

Episode 4/125 ; Time Flew Forward ]


-

The lights of the theater turned on and Momo stood up.‘’Annnnnd it’s done!!’’ She cheerfully announced.

‘’Well that was quite a fun episode wasn’t it?’’ Diana asked the others.

‘’Indeed it was, my Lady.’’ Lily agreed, ‘’ I’m afraid this chaotic energy from her highness will only increase as the episodes progress.’’ She sighed. Diana laughed, excited to watch what kind of chaos her dear daughter will cause in the future.

‘’I agree with Lady Diana as well, on another note, her highness was so adorable in this episode as well…’’ Jennette admitted shyly. ‘’Though I’d like to ask what palace did the princess stumble to in the preview?’’

‘’It’s actually the emperor’s palace!’’ Momo answered, surprising the girl.

‘’Does that mean her Highness will meet his Majesty in the next episode?’’ Ijekiel asked.

‘’You’ll see.’’

‘’Oh..’’

‘’Now, now. Toilet break,anyone? Or snacks refill before we continue the next episode?’’ Momo asked everyone.

‘’A refill would be nice.’’ Lucas said, everyone noticed his empty tea tray that was once filled with various desserts.

‘’Alright, alright. I’ll be refilling all of the other trays as well.’’





After a few minutes, everyone was comfortable and ready to move on to the next episode. The lights of the theater turned off and the screen lit up.




[ Who Made Me A Princess:

Episode 4/125 ; Time Flew Forward; END]



Notes:

Ayeee, you made it to the end! This chapter is probably my longest one yet and I’m v proud of it lol.

For the part where Lily says about hearing Athy saying modern slang, it’s not canon, it’s just a personal hc of mine that Lily sometimes hears Athy saying stuff like that mostly when she reads novels. Who knows she might’ve picked up some words from our chaotic princess as well >:)

And Diana sensed sparks fly with Felix and Lily! :O What would our beautiful dancer do with this information in the future?! Only time will tell (valentines bonus chapter maybe :eyes:)

Alsooo, I'm using the tapas translation + fan translation for all of the episodes because I feel like there's some parts in the official translation that didn't really fit the vibe as much as the fan translation did.

On another note, I MIGHT start another fic this year so I can somewhat battle burnout (that I already feel like is gonna happen soon.) I’m planning on making a fic about this REALLY GOOD manhwa/novel called ‘’Villains are Destined to Die/Death is the Only Ending for the Villainess’’ it’s fucken great. Sooo if I ever manage to finish the basic plot, I might start writing it already.

That’s about the end of this author's note. I am also writing and editing this at 1:30am so sorry for the grammar mistakes I’ll fix it later!

Wattpad release will be tomorrow because I have no more energy, goodnight.

Stay safe and healthy folks! Have a good rest of your day!

Chapter 7: Announcement

Summary:

not the update yall were expecting, huh?

Chapter Text

Hello everyone! I’m back… Hopefully for long this time.
I am TERRIBLY TERRIBLY SORRY for leaving you all hanging for a year, 2024 hasn’t been the best year for me and so many things were going on that I just kinda.. Forgot about WMMAPR. But fear not! I am back and happy to announce that I will be rewriting my WMMAP reaction fic!

I was supposed to publish the next chapter around late March of last year, but we had exams so I was unable to finish the final draft and when I started rereading the whole fic, I wasn’t quite satisfied with it— so here we are now. An empty google doc file and hopes and dreams.

The original version will still be up, I just won’t be updating it anymore.
I plan to hopefully finish the first two chapters by next month, I’m not quite set on a deadline yet because school is really kicking my ass rn. We have a lot of events up and coming and they are all very time consuming, we also have exams by mid-February, so bear with me!

I do sincerely apologize for keeping you all waiting for so long, there were times where I tried to continue writing again and start a few drafts here and there, but I just couldn’t find the motivation to. I felt like my writing was too mediocre and no words were coming to my brain, like at all.

I’m trying to fix that this year, so yeah, I’ll be trying to update as frequently as I can but I can’t really promise much since I’ll be graduating high school next year so you can imagine how stressful things are right now. (I literally go to school at 6am and go home at 8pm ajauaidhowkx)

Thank you for everyone who still stuck around, I’m so sorry I wasn’t able to reply to your kind messages! I deleted wattpad and only downloaded it again to read a fic from a show and was overwhelmed with the amount of comments I got here, seriously, thank you all so so much.

This was pretty much the same for my AO3 account too! I kinda forgot I had this account and only came back for Arcane content (seriously the final episode fucked me over so bad😭) And the support you guys have been giving even though I wasn’t updating for a whole year is just… Surreal to me. I cannot express my gratitude to you all enough.

This pretty much wraps up my entire message to everyone here, I’ll see you all in the next one.

Notes:

This is crossposted on wattpad under the account: _peachyLi

I forgot to add this in the older chapters but-- Big credits to ao3 user: mxrasmith !!! They were the ones who inspired this work, and if I recall correctly, one of the first people on ao3 who made a wmmap reaction sooo check out their wmmap reaction fic too <3

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