Chapter 12 : "There is nothing new under the sun." Your schemes included.
-Leticia
Of course, in every third rate novel out there that's somehow based on some random part in Europe or some old aesthetically pleasing looking country- we have the male lead, the heroine, the love interests, the villainess, and always the cold Duke of the north.
If this irresistible person wasn't the male lead, or a love interests in the first place, then there's no doubt he would turn it to be the villain in the story. A very versatile character, and very popular trope in many cases.
However, in [Doki Doki I'm starting a mischief deal prince!] This character was neither of those, his whole existence was blank and his role on the first parts of the story was that of an NPC. A person who's only described in a paragraph or two.
Though, it was only the first parts though.
Example one.
[The son of the empire, bearer of the name Baltamore, glared at the offending individual dressed in pure, pristine, white suit. Annoyed that this man captured the attention of everyone in the room the moment he walked in, along with the attention of our dear heroine.]
And another.
[The duke swept his hair up, a small smirk playing on the corner of lips as he watched the scene unfold before he, just like others around him, ignored how the daughter of the southern duke embarrassed herself-]
And though despite his unpopularity with the readers on the early days of publications. The viewers quickly changed their tune when they soon realized who the backer of the heroine was in the later parts of the story.
Who orchestrated the plan to rule out the barbarians, and made a peace treaty- all the while having the first prince receive all the glory.
Who made the first prince of the kingdom become the crown prince despite having no legitimate rights of the crown for being an illegitimate child of the king. Because of the glory that Dominique handed to him.
Who is also the youngest to inherit the title of a Duke with both of his parents alive and well. As well as one of the riches person around, owner of several businesses, both legal, and illegal.
Who- aside from Leticia, was the fan favorite male of the whole novel that gained much popularity much later inside the fandom.
"Of course later, very much later, the first prince unfortunately died in some freak accident, and the male of the story gets the crown- but that's beside the point." I muttered to myself musing my hair as I wrote everything down. "I bet Dominique found a new toy in a form of the second prince that's why the first prince died in a freak accident- could be plausible , after the first prince died the second prince did lean towards Dominique well"
I remembered that in the novel he was heavily described as an enigmatic, ambiguous, baffling young man who has a snake living inside his stomach.
The fandom took it as such that he must have been hot to have that shitty personality. Because who doesn't love toxic men, Am I right?
Despite being such a high ranking aristocrat, the information that was given about him on his appearance was that he was young, and because of his family lineage, he had white hair that's always braided neatly.
Not a mention on his eye color, nor a clear tell tale sign on his gait.
Just that his hair is white, and that in every entrance of his character there's always white and pristine written on his image.
If I could strangle inkjabber at that moment for writing such a shitty novel with numerous plot holes I would've done it long ago. Too bad I was dead, and had no way of contacting that bastard.
"I have a vague feeling that Dominique also had a hand with the academy mayhaps- heck he's not even enrolled, but who cares let's just write this down."
I laned back to my chair, breathing out I recalled back to the scenes of Leticia's death. "When Leticia died by beheading at the town square, the noble party that pushed for her death the most was from Dominique's side. And surprisingly, not the royal family's side."
The back of my head tingled at the small revelation that I recalled, slowly, I reached out for my fountain pen that I discarded near the ink. I started writing again. Mumbling as I did so.
"Now that I think about it. Which political party did the heroine belong to again?" I opened a new page on my notebook, listing all the political parties that I could remember in the novel. "The main ones are always the royal party, the resistance, the church, the neutral, and the mage tower- am I forgetting something? How did the heroine climbed up in the circle of aristocrats that easily?"
It wasn't as serious when you're reading about it as a novel, you wouldn't go and start brain storming like this and creating theories out of the blue, because you would know as a reader that the story isn't real. Some parts are not suppose to make sense, because it's fictional, it's fantasy, it's third rate.
Those are what we would call as plot holes.
But since this is my life now, these plot holes are like graves already dug for me to get into.
The heroine initially was just the daughter of a knight that protected a baron on the countryside. It was a wonder how she even got in the school that was made for the elite in the first place.
Its a wonder, but it would be a different story all together if she has a backer.
"Ugh! plot holes I tell you, plot holes." I scratched the back of my head frustrated that the dots weren't readily connecting like I wanted it to.
In the first place, there's only so much you can do with such limited information.
I could only base my information and theories around the book that I read in the point of view of the heroine and the second prince's love story. Things like politics doesn't exactly fit right with romance now does it?