Man... our dramatis personæ is fucked up like some Greek/Shakespearean Tragedy!
Let's do the numbers...
Prince Evan:
Looks upon idiot sister (Rosemary) with such pity, because he can already see the obvious conclusion, and he knows he can't stop the signal. He's sad that such a flower must be pruned, but it's obvious that she'll never save herself, nor act in self preservation despite being warned hundreds of times.
Actually really likes MC (Serena), and thinks she's hilarious (and who wouldn't love Dat ass, an dem tiddies! Dayum! VA VA voom!)
Erich:
a drunken, shady piece of shit.
'Nuff sed.
Rosemary:
a mental child, with no self awareness; just like her affianced POS, Erich.
Again, 'nuff sed.
Moms:
head full of flowers, but actually loves her daughters; gotta be a fuckin train-wreck inside her head, by now!
One might almost wish she would go take a Tylenol, 600mg ibuprofen, and drink about 2½ cups of ClueJuice™ and just.... wake up with some small insight as to the lessons she literally would've had to learn in life to get married to a Duke; did she just giggle through school, or what?
MC Serena:
Perfect in every way.
Smart, funny, and stacked AS FUUUUUUUUUUUU .. Holy gods of the North, she is beautiful!
I mean... Black widow spiders, coral snakes, Okinawan green snakes, and girls with bipolar disorder? These are also beautiful, so I get that maybe it's a trap... but... damn.
Day
Yum
Dayum.
Really, though... I wish her moms, or maybe one single decent maid with a speck of humanity, could hear the conversation Serena's having with Tigur about her relationship with her mom; she deserves to at least have that conversation topic, and her thoughts on the matter, be known to her moms.
I think that might alleviate a ton of stupid and unnecessary interplay and confusion.
And it'd be funny for her mom to try and navigate her two "daughter's" radically different points of view. Would make for good "Character Development" in the story.
Hell, the author could make at least two black-border "flashback" chapters out of it, and eke out even more pages!
Great TL, guys and dolls; thanks for the work.