@amaranthia - I think you're the only other one in the comment section. Why would all those people ruin perfectly good pineapple by putting it on the horror that is American Pizza? If you want hot pineapple, grilled pineapple is fantastic. If you want spicy pineapple, the pineapple slices I get from the Mexican grocery down the street have chili salt on them and they're to die for. But nasty fennel-infused tomato sauce and burned mozzarella cheese...?
Anyway, I was skeptical at first but I'm coming to appreciate the subtleties of this story as we go.
@pip25 - I like that comparison of the fact that Tia seems colder now too, by not jumping in to protect the servant by taking all of the beating herself. It gives more evidence to that fantastic analysis several chapters ago about how she was more kind than she realized in the original timeline and her perception of that timeline is skewed. But I also have some additional possibilities for this new coldness:
1. Tia's prioritizing anything that will promote Cedric instead of Lawrence this time and it's actually better that her horrible mother alienate as many people as possible
2. Tia realized in the old timeline that her mother doesn't learn and/or is going to be murdered by Lawrence soon and/or is going to be dumped by the emperor soon, so Tia personally restraining her mother when Tia happens to be there isn't particularly useful over training the servants to gang up on her mother to protect themselves at all times
3. Tia's going to bring back the old servants anyway when she takes over, so she doesn't care what these servants think when they aren't loyal to her even when she DID protect them
4. Tia's taking her condition from Cedric literally that she can't recklessly throw herself in harm's way
Edit: ugh. 5. Tia's taking her instruction from Lawrence literally that she shouldn't show up damaged in front of Cedric.