You know, back when Lieselotte mentioned how her mother never seemed to enjoy human contact and stuff, and how she ended up being the one to raise her sisters more because of it, I’d originally thought it had meant that she was going to be more of a cold, distant type of character, maybe bitter or resentful of her marriage for some reason.
I cannot even begin to describe how relieved I am to see this now, and realise it’s more that she’s just sort of an weirdo who just gets so absorbed in her passion that she zones everything else out unless it’s being viewed through the lense of said passion, and not actually a mean or unpleasant person.
Also, on an unrelated note, I don’t know anything about the web/light novel, so this is still sort of just a theory, but when someone mentioned in the Kuon/Eve chapters that Kobayashi looked like Finne, I realised Endo sorta looks a bit like he could be the Japanese version of Bard as well. Now after seeing that image of him and the little sister trio, and remembering Endo also had three little sisters if I’m remembering right, and I’m almost certain of it.
Also watch the Eve Kuon was talking about be the ancient witch, and it’s some sorta tragic Satella-like situation.