The Lovely Princess:
(From "Who Made Me a Princess," or "Suddenly Became a Princess One Day" on Tappytoon.)
ORIGINAL BOOK + After the ending, which The Lovely Princess doesn't cover.
THE LOVELY PRINCESS, AFTER THE ENDING:
Jennette wishes Athanasia was loved by Claude, so that she's never killed.
Jennette's husband helped her get over it, but in reality, she never got over it. She only pretended to get over it to stop him from worrying. But the guilt still gnaws at her.
You can't ever get over the death of your sister. You can't ever get over the death of your only female best friend.
Sure, it's been a few years since Athanasia died, but Jennette can't ever forget.
She regrets not doing more to prevent it. She didn't realize the importance of something to her, until after she lost it. She regrets it every single day, how she could have stopped Claude if she simply tried harder. If she had blackmailed Claude, saying "I'll stop talking to you permanently if you kill Athanasia!"
...
If she had stopped being so scared of upsetting Claude, and took bigger, bolder, risks, then maybe her sister could have lived…
But she didn't and Athanasia was dead. She kept blaming herself.
Ultimately, Jennette wishes that Athanasia had been loved by Claude, so that she was never executed…..
Thus, eventually...
She began to dabble in dark magic power. She accepts a dark magic deal that risks Claude never loving Jennette (it's dark magic so there's always a catch.)
The goal of the spell, will grant 2 rewards: 1) Athanasia surviving, (a.k.a not being executed,) and 2) being loved by Claude—which Jennette always knew Athanasia wanted, and always felt guilty for taking that from her, (despite not being Claude's real daughter.)
In return for these 2 positive things, Jennette will become 1) cursed with a brand new curse, and 2) become hated by Claude. (She accepts the deal.)
The new curse that Jennette gets, comprises of a few conditions: every time she encounters Athanasia, Athanasia will become more cursed and get more bad luck. Jennette's new curse is contagious.
(The curse Jennette was born with, was contagious to the Obelia bloodline, but it was very mild and gradually eroded Claude's magic and health away.) Jennette's new curse is high-damage to Athanasia specifically, and to a slightly lesser extent, the Obelia bloodline as well. This is the price, because Jennette's dark magic wish and sacrifice, involves Athanasia.
Jennette resolved in her commitment, and promised to herself, "I will stay away from Athanasia at all costs!" Crying, knowing it means losing both her father, Claude, and her sister, Athanasia, but resolving herself. It's all for them.
She doesn't realize she would have all her memories taken away. That was another price of dark magic, and a normal side-effect of time travel itself. Everyone loses their memories, except "Athanasia."
So Jennette accepts the deal; and loses all her memories when she reverses time.
(In the world, ONLY Jennette could pull off this time-reversal spell. This is because, it's a VERY powerful spell- making time go backwards to start over. The thing is, Jennette was born as a creation of dark magic with the intention of her parents to make the most powerful child that surpasses Claude, but turned out to be a completely ordinary girl with no special powers- that's how it appeared. But in reality, she was a cursed child, but all that power had to go somewhere. And that power, was inside her core, that she never was able to manifest any of it, until now- specifically for this extremely powerful spell. As it turns out, her power was so vast but also restricted to only very special spells such as this one, that it could not be used for any ordinary spells, which was why she was always believed to be an ordinary girl; but for this powerful spell that would make time go backwards 25 years, Jennette had the power to do so; she was the only person in the world, artificially created with the intent to become Claude, who could do this. At the price of putting new curses on herself and changing her own fate.)
Ijekiel would be sad… Jennette thought at first, before she shook her head. No, this is going backwards in time, so he won't even know, and things will be the same! It's just Athanasia gets to live, and gets her Papa's love… And I still get to be with Ijekiel! So everything else stays the same! ..Except I might not be loved by Claude anymore…but that's okay! Because Athy will…live. I will stay away.
And no, this spell ensures that Claude WILL love Athy; because there's no guarantee that just because I stay away, Claude won't kill Athy anyway. He might kill Athy even if he never met me… So the spell, will make Claude love Athy… At the price of hating me, and a brand new curse applied to me that would give me bad luck, that's contagious, so I will stay away from them no matter what… I lose both of them, but they get to live and be happy.
Jennette activates the powerful dark magic time reversal spell, and feels a sharp pain of her life fading away into death, and sees the universe vanish before her eyes all into whiteness, and blacks out.
Jennette is sent back in time, and loses all her memories.
To satisfy the condition of getting Claude to love Athanasia, the Magic Being (from the Dark Magic Spell) knows that Claude would grow to love a daughter who KNOWS for a fact that, not being loved by Claude will lead to her own death. That daughter would do ANYTHING to ensure she'd be loved by Claude, and have a headstart. It'd be impossible for Claude not to love a daughter who begins her goal to win over Claude early on, from the day she is born. The original Athanasia did not know she's supposed to do that, but this time, the NEW Athanasia will know she's supposed to do that.
How will Athanasia get the information that she's supposed to do that, before she's even born? Simple: grab a soul from a different dimension, but before taking that soul, make sure that soul knows what will happen to her if she fails to win over Claude's love. Then take that soul.
"Wait a minute, Claude is supposed to love Athanasia. Will it count, if Claude loves Athanasia's body but the SOUL is someone else?" The Dark Magic Being thinks, and decides to target an orphan in the Real World, who has the NAME Athanasia. "Then, Soul named Athanasia, and Body named Athanasia, despite not being the same entity, will both be loved by Claude. That will satisfy Jennette's condition. And it's the same thing anyway due to the merger."
The Magic Being, dresses in a veil, and steps into the Real Life dimension to a city where an Athanasia works at. Looking around, the Magic Being goes to a coffee shop in RL- where RL Athanasia works, and leaves a book with the full plot of what happened to Jennette's life (of course it ends shortly after Athanasia's death, and Jennette's marriage to Ijekiel, and doesn't show what happens after that.) Since Jennette cast the spell, Jennette's life was known by the Spell, and placed into a book.
That book was called "The Lovely Princess." The Magic Being leaves the book on the table of the coffee shop, and left the store.
A waitress named Athanasia sees that a customer left behind a book titled The Lovely Princess, and picks it up to read. She reads the full story from start to finish about Jennette's life, and finds the book very cheesy. Athanasia then packs her stuff, and walks home, because her waitress shift has just ended.
Once she makes it home, Athanasia eats some sleeping pills, drinks some water, and gets into her sleeping bag, and goes to sleep. She's so tired...
Athanasia did not realize that she'd overdosed in sleeping pills. The Magic Being cast a spell on Athanasia forcing her to overdose in sleeping pills, unintentionally. Athanasia dies in the Real World.
...
Immediately, Waitress Athanasia reincarnates as Princess Athanasia of the Obelian Empire, loved by Claude.
And, as price for fulfilling Jennette's deal, Jennette will be placed under a worse "curse" of dark magic, deeper than the curse she was originally made of.
She will lose all her memories. Time travel means everyone loses their memories. (Athanasia is the exception to this, because she's a waitress who READ a book about the future, then died and entered Princess Athanasia's body.)
Jennette will lose her opportunity to be loved by Claude, because 1) she loses all her memories, thus won't think of the idea of seeking out Claude initially, which means Athanasia will get to him first. 2) Athanasia will meet Claude first, win over Claude's heart first, take Jennette's intended place, and thus "be loved by Claude and not executed by Claude."
Jennte only wished for the latter "be loved by Claude and not executed by Claude" bit to happen to Athanasia. But all Divine Dark Magic deals come with a price. As a result, Jennette won't be loved by Claude at all. Jennette will be seen as her mother, Penelope Judith, the cheater; while Claude gets dreams about Diana instead of Penelope.
[MANGA QUOTE: "Claude loved Penelope more than his own life. In the original book, he kept Penelope's portraits." -Anathasia]
Originally, Claude loved Penelope, (despite her betrayal,) and that's why he always kept her portrait out of an obsessive love— and the love passed down to Jennette. But now, he constantly gets dreams about Diana, and falls into the impression that he's always loved Diana, and completely forgets that Diana hated Claude and named Athanasia after an Emperor's name to challenge, provoke, and spite Claude, who did not receive an Emperor's name (his brother, Anastacius, did.)
He completely forgets that he would have chopped off Diana's arms, if she hadn't died from childbirth labor. He completely forgets all that, as he gets bombarded with dreams about Diana, and falls in love with his dream version of Diana, and his initial hate towards Athanasia dissolves, as he thinks, "Maybe the only reason I hated Athanasia is because she took Diana from me. But it's not her fault, this was Diana's choice." As his dream remembers, "Athanasia is Diana's legacy, and they're two different people." Claude decides to stop blaming Athanasia, and finally loves Athanasia.
(Claude loses his love for Penelope, and loves Diana instead.)
That's part 1 of Jennette's deal fulfilled, the part for Claude to love Athanasia.
As price, Claude is now no longer obsessed with Penelope; instead, he gets over the fact that he's been cheated on, and simply hates Penelope now, and hates all things associated with Penelope, including Jennette.
Part 2 of Jennette's deal is for Athanasia to NOT get executed, which is obviously fulfilled.
(As price, Jennette is no longer the main character.)
As price, Jennete gets cursed, and each meeting she has with Athanasia, will pass parts of her curse to Athanasia. She doesn't know she's contaminating Athanasia, because she's lost all her memories.
And really, no one knows. Lucas notices Athanasia picks up curses randomly, and sighs, cleaning out her curses and muttering, "you have a tendency for bad curses to stick onto you; you are such high maintenance."
Lucas doesn't know either where the curses come from, and just assumes someone hidden is intentionally cursing Athanasia, but he cleans Athanasia's magic often so it's fine. (He does notice that Jennette seems like a Chimera, but that's it; he doesn't realize Jennette is contaminating Athanasia each time they meet.)
Every time Athanasia is cursed, is because she recently encountered Jennette.
Jennette forgot that she's supposed to stay away from Athanasia, because of this. She'd lost all her memories about her "future" deal and actions.
One day, Jennette encounters a black haired man at an outdoor shop, as she's picking out a gift for Athanasia. The black-haired man, who eerily resembles Claude, is actually Claude's brother, Anastacius. The only (visible) difference is that his hair is black instead of blonde. He's also Jennette's biological father.
(He's also dead, probably a ghost, killed by Claude.)
That's why Jennette instinctively trusts the black-haired man, because he looks so much like Claude, and he was her father. (Also, she's probably the only one who can see him.)
She trusts him when he points out a cursed bowtie, for Jennette to buy for Athanasia.
To explain, this black-haired man was actually Jennette's father. Right before Jennette was born, Anastacius dabbled in dark magic; his intention wasn't exactly to make Jennette magically powerful in order to get a strong daughter- that was a lie to Penelope. His intention was to ensure that if he ever dies or gets killed, that's not the end of it. (And yes, he most likely will get killed; as a king, many people constantly try to assassinate him, and he suspects his brother might kill him since he's been fuming ever since he stole his wife. Either way, even if Claude doesn't, a conflict will still happen; Anastacius plans to kill his brother, and this is his contingency plan if he fails to. He had planned to attack Claude soon, and ultimately did.)
His intent with infusing dark magic into Jennette at her birth, was to ensure, that if he gets killed, his body may physically die, but he will be back:
Perhaps either with a new, physical body, or perhaps as just a ghost, or something else.
He will infuse Jennette with dark magic, and his own magic (Anastacius's revival spell is made entirely of dark magic.)
He does not know whether he will be able to appear a lot or only a little bit, or whether he'll get a real body, or just be a ghost. All he knows, at least, is that he will be able to influence Jennette even after he dies, because she's born with HIS dark magic infusions.
So 14 years later, he, in his new body, sees his daughter Jennette, and smirks evilly.
Jennette is cursed by Anastacius's dark magic infusion curse from the moment she was born, and cursed by her own dark magic self-sacrifice curse (the curse that was meant to save Athanasia.)
Anastacius wants revenge on Claude, and Jennette would contaminate Claude the closer she sticks to Claude. Anastacius remembers, that during Jennette's birth, when he infused Jennette with Dark Magic, he also infused a spell that would give Claude tons of headaches and brain damage and even amnesia, if she sticks close to Claude.
(This was not covered in the book The Lovely Princess, because The Lovely Princess ended before that scene.) But IF Jennette never made the black magic deal to bring Athanasia back, and continued sticking to Claude, Claude would have suffered brain damage.
However, since fate has changed, Jennette does not spend much time in Claude's proximity, Athanasia does. (So Claude is safe, for now.)
Jennette's dad does not like the fact that Jennette is not close to Claude, (because now she's not cursing Claude.)
Anastacius realizes Athanasia is in the way; without Athanasia (such as if Athanasia were to die,) perhaps Claude would seek Jennette out to replace Athanasia, for the void in his heart.
In other words, Athanasia has to die first; that is the only way to kill Claude. Anastacius thought, so after purposesly waiting for Lucas to embark on a journey far away to the World Tree, Anastacius took his chance.
He appears before Jennette and points at a cursed bow that he infused extra large amounts of dark curses within, implying, "Give this to Athanasia."
Jennette accepts his gesture, falling for his trick. She gives the bow to Athanasia.
Athanasia takes and wears the bow, not knowing that this bow is infused with Anastacius's dark magic, a giant, massive amount of it, enough to kill Athanasia.
And it happens, she feels a sharp pain inside of her and chokes out blood, and faints.
As Athanasia passes out, witnessed by Jennette's eyes alone… As Athanasia "dies" right in front of her, something inside of her heart clenches like a lightning bolt in fear and shame. Although Jennette can't remember any of the specifics, something inside her soul gives her the shameful feeling that ALL her life's efforts, and all her efforts up to this point, has been wasted, has been pointless….
Anyway, the guards take Athanasia to the palace room, where she's sick and unconscious and going to die. None of the healers can heal Athanasia, and Lucas is gone for the year.
Claude sees, and resolves, he has no choice, but in order to save Athanasia, he has to absorb all of Athanasia's curse out of her body. Even if it means taking its harmful efforts for himself.
So he does that.
He sucks in all of the black magic, brain damage, memory loss magic that's inside of Athanasia; and absords all of it for himself. . But because Claude is the strongest magician, (besides Lucas,) he does not get brain damage, or death; only complete amnesia.
He passes out, and wakes up ten days later, and sees a crying blonde girl he does not recognize, but somehow FEELS is very important to him, like he should remember, but he can't. He's lost all his memories.
THE END.
Author Note: And there we have it, we are Up To Date with Season 1! And we know what exactly happens after the HAPPY ENDING of The Lovely Princess. If you hated Jennette before, do you like Jennette now?
P.S. this is just fanfiction. Season 2 hasn't' come out yet, so we don't know whether this story is true or not, I just wrote what I *think* The Lovely Princess would say, if we all had a chance to read the physical copy that Athanasia read.) Please leave a review if you read this! And feel free to comment your thoughts in the review, or on discord, what do you think of Fanfic Jennette? And do you think this is what the actual author (of Who Made Me a Princess) plans to do?
Thank you for reading.