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The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass

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The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass	comment	Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })''The Villainess Reverses the Hourglass'', also known as The Villainess Turns the Hourglass and Agnyeoneun Molaesigyeleul Doedollinda (Korean: 악녀는 모래시계를 되돌린다), is a web novel by Sansobee. It is about the revenge of Aria Roscent, the daughter of a prostitute who married a wealthy count.With the marriage of her prostitute mother to Count Roscent, Aria’s status in society skyrocketed immediately. After leading a life of luxury, Aria unfairly meets death because of her sister Mielle’s schemes. And right before she dies, she sees an hourglass fall as if it were a fantasy. And just like that, she was miraculously brought back to the past.“I want to become a very elegant person, just like my sister, Mielle.”In order to face the villainess, she must become an even more wicked villainess. This was the new path Aria chose to take revenge on Mielle who murdered both her and her mother.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })The web novel ran from June 2017 to June 2018 (209 chapters total), and was published in four volumes with an additional fifth volume (which is eBook only). Sansobee added some extra web chapters in 2020 (32 of them). It has been adapted to a webtoon, illustrated by Ant Studio, which began in March 2020. The novel has been licensed in English by Qidian International and the webtoon by Tapytoon, however, volume five and the 2020 extras have not been translated.
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The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_112890b3	type	Secret Identity
The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_112890b3	comment	Secret Identity: Aria is the mysterious "Investor A", and doesn't let anyone who is not involved in her work under that identity know until the academy's grand opening.
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The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_15b09af9	type	Heelâ€“Face Door-Slam
The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_15b09af9	comment	Heel–Face Door-Slam: After being demoted from nobility, Cain seems to actually be trying to faithfully serve his sentence and do a good job as a servant. But Aria tricks Mielle into poisoning him and he dies a quick, nasty death.
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The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_17d6d7dc	type	Lord Country
The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_17d6d7dc	comment	Lord Country: The king of Croa is named Lohan Croa.
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The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_1994ba0b	type	Gone Horribly Right
The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_1994ba0b	comment	Gone Horribly Right: Emma, Mielle's servant, influenced her into becoming the person she is wanting to protect her from noble society. Mielle ends up becoming one of those very individuals Emma was trying to protect her from.
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The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_19d1c1ae	type	Always Someone Better
The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_19d1c1ae	comment	Always Someone Better: Played with. In her first timeline Aria could not match Mielle in manners, etiquette, elegance, or general education, although she recognizes in hindsight it was because she got frustrated and gave up too soon due to being compared to someone that had the advantage over her. In the second timeline, Aria quickly surpasses Mielle.
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The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_1c263b9f	type	The Purge
The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_1c263b9f	comment	The Purge: Asher carries out one on the conspiring aristocrats led by Isis.
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The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_1c571556	type	The Tease
The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_1c571556	comment	The Tease: Aria and Asher do this to each other about a third of the time they are together.
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The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_1d18887f	type	Pay Evil unto Evil
The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_1d18887f	comment	Pay Evil unto Evil: Aria's methods of getting revenge involve turning the tables against Mielle, Isis and all those who genuinely deserve it by being an even worse villain. However, Aria truly avoids become an outright monster because she never goes after innocent people (even if she uses them, Aria makes sure they're properly rewarded for wittingly/unwittingly aiding her).
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The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_1edfa2c7	type	Royals Who Actually Do Something
The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_1edfa2c7	comment	Royals Who Actually Do Something: Asterope "Asher" Franz, the Crown Prince, is very active politically and militarily. It turns out that he is also doing all of his father's work on top of that, making this doubly true. Frey, another member of the royal family, works as a judge despite not needing to work as a royal.
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The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_20989d05	type	Parents as People
The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_20989d05	comment	Parents as People: The Countess is self-centered and spends more attention to her relaxation than her daughter's circumstances, and even has directly told Aria that her birth was a burden. But, as Aria frequently admits to herself, the Countess could have very easily abandoned her (as most people in her situation would) but chose not to do so. Additionally, although she is generally quite laissez-faire, whenever Aria asks for help, the Countess does her best to back Aria up. Later on, the Countess shows that, for all her neglect, should Aria be in danger, she'd immediately pull up the stakes to save her. Her very reasonable fears for Aria's safety whenever something or someone threatens it (such as attempted murder by a servant) highlight this. After Aria gets puts on trial for attempted murder because of Mielle, she starts working with her daughter to drag the household down.
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The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_216dab44	type	Framing the Guilty Party
The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_216dab44	comment	Framing the Guilty Party: Simultaneously played straight and inverted when Mielle tries to frame Aria with the attempted murder of Count Roscent: Asher creates evidence that Aria could not possibly have been at the Roscent estate at the time, and onlookers realize Aria lacked a motivation or reason to murder the count regardless, resulting in the conclusion that the only person who could have pushed the Count down the stairs is Mielle.
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The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_21e5b9c7	type	Failed a Spot Check
The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_21e5b9c7	comment	Failed a Spot Check: Double subverted by Aria. She is amazingly perceptive but does not figure out Asher's identity as the Crown Prince despite all the clues. To be precise, she repeatedly comes to the correct conclusion only to reject it, since the Crown Prince doing all of that stuff personally would be absurd. Played straight by the Aristocratic Party, who never notice that there might be a spy in their ranks, Vika's behaviour, and any of the Crown Prince's actual plans. Mostly this is an example of them not noticing when things change.
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The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_2260cfe3	type	Like Father, Like Son
The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_2260cfe3	comment	Like Father, Like Son: Cain is more like his father than he would like to admit. It does not take him long to start lusting after Aria.
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The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_22a27b19	type	Alpha Bitch
The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_22a27b19	comment	Alpha Bitch: While not in an academic setting, Isis is this for aristocratic society full stop, with Mielle as her understudy.
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The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_23781532	type	Ironic Name
The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_23781532	comment	Ironic Name: "Mielle" means honey, but, rather than the sweet personality the name implies, she's incredibly vicious.
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The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_24321e44	type	Only Sane Man
The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_24321e44	comment	Only Sane Man: Oscar is the only member of his family sane enough to realize that the Crown Prince has caught on to their plot and that if they don't desist, they will be executed for treason. His repeated efforts to convince them of this are rewarded with the family confining and starving the guy while they proceed with their plans.
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The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_25bc8511	type	Generation Xerox
The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_25bc8511	comment	Aria's biological father was one of her mother's clients, her mother isn't sure which one, and is therefore not in the picture. Turns out to not actually be the case, Aria is the splitting image of a man who had promised to marry her but didn't return. It is later revealed that the man is Chloe, the bastard son of Marquis Piaast and Violet, who had been forced to marry to a minor prince of the empire during their engagement. Once that prince found out that his ill-gotten wife had cheated on him with her ex-fiancé, he had both mother and son exiled, separating his daughter (Frey) from her mother and brother and resulting in Chloe being stuck in Croa severely depressed. This obviously rendered Chloe unable to be with Carin, and consequently, Aria, whom he didn't even know existed, which he regretted. He is eventually able to return to the picture.
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The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_275d19ee	type	Birds of a Feather
The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_275d19ee	comment	Birds of a Feather: Aria and Asher are wickedly clever schemers with a taste for revenge and a strong hatred for the Aristocratic Party.
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The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_2764d432	type	Bitch in Sheep's Clothing
The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_2764d432	comment	Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Mielle full stop. Had she not gloated to Aria just prior to execution Aria would have had no idea that Mielle set her up from the very beginning. In the new timeline though, she's not quite as good at hiding this trait as she thinks. Sarah picks up on the fact that Mielle constantly speaks in ways that undermine Aria, and the baronesses Mielle invites for a meeting are ultimately put off when she seems offended at them being working women. Aria takes note of this quality of Mielle's and one ups her on this front. She often deliberately sets Mielle up or uses a Wounded Gazelle Gambit to undermine her reputation while appearing perfect and kind on the surface.
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The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_297ab1b9	type	Parental Abandonment
The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_297ab1b9	comment	Parental Abandonment: More than a few characters have a case of this. Aria's biological father was one of her mother's clients, her mother isn't sure which one, and is therefore not in the picture. Turns out to not actually be the case, Aria is the splitting image of a man who had promised to marry her but didn't return. It is later revealed that the man is Chloe, the bastard son of Marquis Piaast and Violet, who had been forced to marry to a minor prince of the empire during their engagement. Once that prince found out that his ill-gotten wife had cheated on him with her ex-fiancé, he had both mother and son exiled, separating his daughter (Frey) from her mother and brother and resulting in Chloe being stuck in Croa severely depressed. This obviously rendered Chloe unable to be with Carin, and consequently, Aria, whom he didn't even know existed, which he regretted. He is eventually able to return to the picture. Count Roscent's first wife died after giving birth to Mielle, giving both Cain and Mielle a case of Missing Mom. Asher's mother was assassinated, while his father might as well not be there for all the things he actually does (nothing, by the way). Aria's mother, Carin, was a foundling who had been abandoned on the streets as an infant.
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The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_2a015a74	type	Beauty Equals Goodness
The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_2a015a74	comment	Beauty Equals Goodness: Spectacularly averted, but Aria does take extensive advantage of belief in this trope.
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The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_2b3e7d3e	type	Sketchy Successor
The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_2b3e7d3e	comment	Sketchy Successor: Lohan has elements of this trope, despite otherwise being an effective, reasonable, and capable monarch. In particular, he ignores etiquette and manners, enjoys being The Gadfly, and declines giving up his bachelorhood in favour of being a flirt.
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The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_2bf993ad	type	Secret Relationship
The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_2bf993ad	comment	Secret Relationship: Aria and Asher, prior to the academy's opening ceremony.
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The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_2d363f63	type	Frame-Up
The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_2d363f63	comment	Frame-Up: Mielle tries to frame Aria in both timelines, often using circumstantial evidence. In the second timeline, she pushes her own father down the stairs, having set up the situation so that Aria appears to be the culprit (Mielle herself lacks an actual motive). Asher uses his powers to teleport Aria away and create evidence that he and Aria were away on a trip and could not have been on the scene at the time of the crime, thus Framing the Guilty Party.
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The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_322426f8	type	Not Good with Rejection
The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_322426f8	comment	Not Good with Rejection: Isis Frederick does not take it well when anything doesn't go her way. This is first seen clearly with her treatment of Oscar. The Crown Prince's rejection of her assumed power in his affairs takes this even further, being her motive for planning and enacting a treasonous plot to have him deposed.
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The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_33c2b1e2	type	Best Served Cold
The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_33c2b1e2	comment	Best Served Cold: Every wrong Mielle did to Aria in the first timeline is returned to her in the second, occasionally with interest. This even includes convincing Mielle that Aria never wanted to hurt her at all and causing Mielle to (briefly) adore her, then tricking her into destroying herself and laughing at Mielle before she dies. And unlike Aria, Mielle has no magic powers to turn things around again.
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The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_355c52da	type	Privilege Makes You Evil
The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_355c52da	comment	Privilege Makes You Evil: Very much the case for Mielle, Isis, and almost all the rest of the Aristocratic Party.
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The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_38072b53	type	Wrong Assumption
The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_38072b53	comment	Wrong Assumption: Aria assumes because the Crown Prince married Isis and mishandled the casino in the first timeline that he was an idiot and pathetic puppet for the Aristocratic party. In truth, Asher is just as brilliant a schemer as her; he only failed to bring down the Aristocratic party because of bad advice. With Aria there to tell him things such as the casino being a live grenade, he's able to successfully take back power from the party in the 2nd timeline.
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The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_390ad811	type	Royalty Super Power
The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_390ad811	comment	Royalty Superpower: Some members of the imperial family can develop superpowers when they are in danger. Asher is capable of teleporting. Aria's biological father is the illegitimate son of a minor prince's wife who was baptized with special holy water, which is why Aria also has a power. It is noted that individuals who get the power but are not from the imperial family proper have a more limited version.
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The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_3b113b7	type	Character Development
The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_3b113b7	comment	Character Development: Aria starts as a villain protagonist and while she maintains a certain cruel edge right until the end, she also mellows and matures. Her grudge against Mielle never fades, but she also gains interests outside of it and realizes she's more than just a pretty face. Mielle, in contrast, goes through the opposite: She never grows as a person, instead having the supports in her life whittled away as a consequence of her own actions. Her obsession with Aria grows until there isn't much else to her, even coming to adore Aria after Aria "saves" her, only to have even this last crutch yanked out from under her.
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The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_3dcc914f	type	Took a Level in Kindness
The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_3dcc914f	comment	Took a Level in Kindness: From nearly everyone’s perspective, this is what happened with Aria. Of course, the truth was for the most part she was pretending in order to better manipulate everyone.
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The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_3edeeff4	type	Son of a Whore
The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_3edeeff4	comment	Son of a Whore: Prostitution is highly stigmatic and Aria is largely despised by both nobles and commoners for being the daughter of a prostitute.
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The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_3f11ef74	type	Parental Substitute
The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_3f11ef74	comment	Parental Substitute: Emma is a beloved mother figure for Mielle, and was the one to encourage and teach Mielle her wicked ways. Part of Aria's Revenge is ensuring that Emma gets framed trying to poison her and gets the death penalty.
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The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_3fe2b13f	type	Ungrateful Bastard
The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_3fe2b13f	comment	Ungrateful Bastard: Mielle makes no effort to come to Emma's defense when Aria arranges for Veri to confess to Emma forcing her to poison Aria, with Aria noting how Mielle does little for the woman who raised her from infancy. Not to mention she doesn't hesitate to attempt murder on her own father to frame Aria.
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The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_40c57041	type	Manipulative Bastard
The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_40c57041	comment	Manipulative Bastard: Mielle is this all the way, especially in the original timeline. However, Aria suspects Mielle was only successful in the original timeline because of Emma, supported by Mielle's lack of success in the second timeline after Emma is executed. Throughout the second timeline, Aria is this and far better at it compared to Mielle, though she's a comparatively benign example, only going after those who've wronged her and primarily using temptation rather than other means (such as Gaslighting).
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The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_41d50d81	type	Big Brother Bully
The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_41d50d81	comment	Big Brother Bully: Zigzagged. Aria is abused by her stepsiblings, one of whom is plotting to kill both her and her mother. Aria counters this, actively seeking the siblings' downfall and ultimately manipulates Mielle to accidentally poison her own brother and getting her executed. Meanwhile, Isis will do anything to keep her younger brother in line, including threatening him with his crush's life and encouraging their parents to abuse him — it's implied that this is typical of her and probably also includes physical abuse.
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The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_43ae1aba	type	World's Most Beautiful Woman
The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_43ae1aba	comment	World's Most Beautiful Woman: Aria is the most beautiful woman in the empire. No one else is considered to be even in the same ballpark.
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The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_44606d14	type	Becoming the Mask
The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_44606d14	comment	Becoming the Mask: Aria does not like to admit it but she does become much kinder the longer she pretends to be. One instance is originally making Sarah her tutor to use her connections later, but finds herself won over by Sarah's kindness to truly love her like a sister.
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The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_44a1dd10	type	King Incognito
The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_44a1dd10	comment	King Incognito: Asher turns out to be the Crown Prince, Asterope Franz. He reveals this to Aria after some time, but maintains this for the most part until the opening ceremony of the academy, which gives him enough power to jilt the Aristocratic Party.
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The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_4781adbb	type	Jerk with a Heart of Gold
The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_4781adbb	comment	Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Aria's admittedly sly, manipulative, and enjoys making her enemies squirm as befitting her self-image as a "villainess." However, for as self-serving as she is, Aria genuinely desires to reward those who serve her and only really seeks to hurt those who deserve it like Mielle. She even averts being a Bad Boss to most of her maids with the exception of Veri, and even that came from knowing Veri was spying on Aria for Mielle, and in the previous timeline was most likely the one who poisoned Aria's mother. In short, Aria desires only to be a villain towards other villains.
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The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_47fea76b	type	Butt-Monkey
The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_47fea76b	comment	Butt-Monkey: In the last arcs Isis becomes this. She is publicly humiliated when Asher starts to officially court Aria. Her protégée and future sister-in-law, Mielle, ends up branded as an insane drug addict who tried to murder her own father. Lohan, the King of Croa double crosses her by betraying her intentions to Asher. Just to salt the wound Lohan blatantly hits on Aria in front of Isis. In the end Isis is condemned to death for high treason and her noble title is taken away.
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The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_487b1e5b	type	Marry for Love
The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_487b1e5b	comment	Marry for Love: Sarah and Marquis Vincent get married because they very deeply and purely love each other. Their love even brings a cynic like Aria to tears, and they are subsequently shown to be Happily Married. In the beginning of the epilogue, Aria's mother, Carin, marries Chloe due to their mutual attraction. Likewise, Aria and Asher also get married in the epilogue, because they are in love with each other. Eventually, Jessie marries Hans, not because of his super-excellent prospects, but because they are in love and have been dating since both of their situations and prospects were much bleaker.
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The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_48ca7c29	type	Broken Ace
The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_48ca7c29	comment	Broken Ace: Mielle in the original timeline was regarded as a well-mannered All-Loving Heroine and the pinnacle of noble breeding, when she was in fact a conniving, classist sociopath who planned the deaths of her stepmother and stepsister before she ever actually met them. Once Aria turns back time, she gradually destroys Mielle's reputation and essentially exposes her true nature, until Mielle ends her life as a convicted murderess and is executed exactly as Aria was before.
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The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_4f84cdef	type	Smug Snake
The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_4f84cdef	comment	Smug Snake: Mielle appears to think herself as clever and above Aria. In reality, Aria realizes Mielle's schemes in the original timeline only succeeded because of the help of other people, whether it be Isis or Emma, and she's far less effective on her own power.
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The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_5028baf2	type	What Is This Thing You Call "Love"?
The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_5028baf2	comment	What Is This Thing You Call "Love"?: Aria understands and exploits romantic love, but platonic love tends to elude her. She is very confused when she properly meets her paternal grandparents and they treat her with love and kindness without expecting anything in return. She's equally bewildered when she comes to realize she really, truly loves Sarah like a sister and genuinely wishes for her happiness.
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The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_50b05d30	type	Disproportionate Retribution
The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_50b05d30	comment	Disproportionate Retribution: Mielle plots to kill her stepmother and stepsister for having married into the family. Isis and Emma are in complete agreement, actively assisting and encouraging Mielle. And then there's Isis' reaction to getting dumped.
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The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_50b9b3d0	type	Crazy Jealous Guy
The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_50b9b3d0	comment	Crazy Jealous Guy: Cain's lust for Aria is rather twisted and controlling. He's eventually convinced by Mielle to passively aid in her murder attempt of their father by the thought of being able to keep her "under permanent house arrest" (read: keep her as a sex slave) if they could successfully frame her.
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The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_567e7c4d	type	Wounded Gazelle Gambit
The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_567e7c4d	comment	Wounded Gazelle Gambit: Mielle's main specialty was to bait Aria into attacking her and then showing it off in public to make herself look good and Aria look terrible. Aria didn't realize what she was doing until the moment of her execution. When she goes back in time, now she's the one with more information and ability to frame Mielle back.
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The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_57dda60c	type	The Emperor
The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_57dda60c	comment	It is revealed in the epilogue that Asher's father, The Emperor, is a complete do-nothing, even when his son is avoiding getting assassinated, nearly getting forcibly married off to one of the conspirators, or handling a massive attempted coup d'état, the guy does absolutely nothing. Purportedly, this is due to the assassination of his wife, not that anyone approves of this behaviour. This complete neglect turns out to even extend to his job, effectively forcing his son and heir to do it in his stead,note (with the potential consequence of the country either colapsing or falling into the hands of the Aristocratic Party, which is almost the same thing) which is the reason Asher is always so busy, despite not having inherited his father's position yet.
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The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_582564f5	type	The Gadfly
The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_582564f5	comment	The Gadfly: Lohan delights in being this. He deliberately irritates Isis by showing interest in women other than her (especially those "inferior" to her) and infuriates Asher by flirting with Aria.
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The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_590eb583	type	Domestic Abuse
The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_590eb583	comment	Domestic Abuse: Count Roscent treats his wife as though she were a beautiful object and is implied to actively prevent her from disciplining his children (who are abusing her) or doing more for Aria.
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The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_60194b82	type	Spanner in the Works
The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_60194b82	comment	Spanner in the Works: Asher teleporting Aria away after Mielle frames her for attempted murder on Count Roscent not only prevents her from framing Aria but implicates herself instead, leading to her reputation taking a nosedive. Aria is this to Isis’s plans to marry Asher. By having a chance encounter that led to him being intrigued caused a domino effect that allows Asher to cause trouble for the Aristocratic party and firmly refuse to marry Isis, something he was never able to do in the first timeline.
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The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_60547993	type	I Want My Beloved to Be Happy
The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_60547993	comment	I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: After Isis forces him to leave Aria for Mielle, Oscar has this attitude toward his first love and is happy for her when she gets together with the Crown Prince. Later on, when he betrays his family, Asher states this to be one of the guy's motives.
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The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_62434fe2	type	Sanity Slippage
The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_62434fe2	comment	In the first timeline, Cain unlawfully executed Aria. In the second, he clearly begins to desire Aria sexually, neglects Mielle when she is beginning to have a break down, and eventually is part of a treasonous plot.
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The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_63d861f8	type	Even Evil Has Loved Ones
The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_63d861f8	comment	Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Subverted, at first while it’s no secret that Mielle is truly evil, she seems to have people she genuinely loves like her father, brother Cain, substitute mother figure Emma, fiancé Oscar and dear friend Isis. In the latter half of the novel, these relationships are carefully shown to be shallow and easily dismantled at her own hands. She’s unwilling to do more than give token protests for Emma when she’s accused of forcing Veri to poison Aria in fear that a full throated defense will put suspicion on Mielle. Afterwards, she tries to murder her father to frame Aria because he was happy with Aria being engaged to the prince, leaving him crippled. She blackmails Isis with all of their correspondence to escape house arrest for the above. While posing as Isis' maid, she is willing to turn her back on Oscar for a potential fling with Isis’s prospective fiancé. Finally, Mielle even shows consternation at her brother’s willingness to embrace a second chance when they are forced into servitude and stripped of their titles for plotting treason, even though the alternate option would have been execution.
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The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_66dfe36a	type	Missing Mom
The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_66dfe36a	comment	Count Roscent's first wife died after giving birth to Mielle, giving both Cain and Mielle a case of Missing Mom.
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The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_69681e01	type	Big Brother Instinct
The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_69681e01	comment	Big Brother Instinct: Cain is very protective of Mielle. Oscar has it toward anyone that seems to be pathetic and fragile (his familial situation is implied to be a contributing factor).
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The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: Aria was named for the solo songs of opera since her mother wished for her to be self-sufficient.
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The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_6ca72c26	type	All Take and No Give
The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_6ca72c26	comment	Mielle is a massive bitch behind her saintly façade. She plotted to murder Aria and her mother from the moment her father brought them home. In the first timeline, she was successful (via systematic manipulation and poisoning), so her evil only went that far. In the second timeline, her lack of success leads her to push her father down the stairs to frame Aria for murder/attempted murder, be fully on board with the Aristocratic Party's treason, abandon all "affection" for Oscar in favor of a possible fling with Isis' prospective fiancé, and try to murder her bail guaranteer. To top it off, she is completely unrepentant and believes that she should be forgiven by her victims.
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The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_6dac7d2e	type	Lust Object
The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_6dac7d2e	comment	Lust Object: The Countess for the Count. Aria for Cain. The apple really did not fall far from the tree.
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The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_6de5b327	type	VitriolicBestFriends
The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_6de5b327	comment	Vitriolic Best Friends: Lohan and Asher are this, constantly throwing barbs at each other, threatening violence, desertion by teleportation, or war, which often send their retainers into a panic. On the other hand, they are obviously very familiar with each other and take the insults in strides; not to mention the political deals they make. At one point, they meet in public when trying to bluff a traitor, so the fact that they are so familiar and relaxed with each other makes said traitor briefly suspect that they're pulling the wool over her eyes (they manage to deceive her into thinking otherwise).
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The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_6ea4cf8c	type	Jailbait Taboo
The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_6ea4cf8c	comment	Jailbait Taboo: Several adults find themselves quite enamored with Aria. The classier ones kick themselves and do their best to remember that she's not an adult and their attraction is really not appropriate.
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The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_727a65e0	type	Gaslighting
The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_727a65e0	comment	Gaslighting: Mielle did it to Aria from day one, assigning maids who were ordered to reinforce her worst qualities and make her feel awful.
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The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_771f6307	type	Brother–Sister Incest
The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_771f6307	comment	Brother–Sister Incest: Cain is highly attracted to Aria, which both she and her mother consider disgusting. Even if they weren't raised together and don't share blood ties, they are legally siblings, so such blatant lust and possessiveness doesn't reflect that well on him.
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The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_780a078e	type	Self-Made Orphan
The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_780a078e	comment	Self-Made Orphan: Mielle attempts this on her father, solely in order to frame Aria for the deed. She is completely unrepentant and, upon finding out that her father doesn't forgive her after he recovers, wishes she had pushed him from higher up.
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The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_792bb47a	comment	Heroic Bastard: Although she is manipulative and not very choosey about her means, Aria is this.
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The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_79a60aec	type	For Want of a Nail
The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_79a60aec	comment	For Want of a Nail: Aria going back in time to take revenge indirectly helps Asher in regaining the royal family's power that he was unable to accomplish in the original timeline.
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The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_7cf2f728	type	Boomerang Bigot
The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_7cf2f728	comment	Boomerang Bigot: Mielle is so completely sure that women shouldn't be anywhere near business that she repeatedly tells a bunch of successful businesswomen - women whose support she needs - that they should be leaving everything to their husbands. Naturally, said businesswomen are taken aback by her words and Mielle ruins her chances of getting their support. Aria, who is not stupid (and also richer than everyone at the table combined, most likely) almost immediately subverts the meeting to her own ends after Mielle bungles everything.
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The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_80621707	type	Arranged Marriage
The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_80621707	comment	Arranged Marriage: As is to be expected of noble society, this is something very common. The Roscents and Fredericks arrange one between Oscar Frederick and a daughter of the Roscents, Isis threatening harm on Aria if Oscar continues to favor Aria over Mielle. Isis and the Aristocratic Party try to impose this on Prince Asterope, which he tries his damnedest to stop even before meeting the love of his life.
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The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_80f4e386	type	Ignorant of Their Own Ignorance
The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_80f4e386	comment	Ignorant of Their Own Ignorance: Once she comes back, Aria can’t believe she was ever outwitted by Mielle, who is all in all a fairly average girl but with a puffed-up sense of her own ability, a rash streak just as deep as Aria's and is seemingly incapable of reflecting on herself or improving at all, with Aria theorizing her plans only succeeded because of her maid Emma. Once Aria puts in the effort to be above her, she quickly proves to be far more cunning on her own.
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The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_83570f65	type	The Jailbait Wait
The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_83570f65	comment	The Jailbait Wait: Legally speaking, Asher is not actually allowed to do more than hold Aria's hand since she's a minor; much teasing ensues. He eventually starts kissing her a year before he is technically allowed, only Cain takes it poorly.
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The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_83cef301	type	Right for the Wrong Reasons
The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_83cef301	comment	Right for the Wrong Reasons: Mielle really is the culprit of her father's attempted murder, but not because of where Aria was at the time.
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The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_87bb6874	type	Villain with Good Publicity
The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_87bb6874	comment	Villain with Good Publicity: In the first timeline, Mielle and Isis were this.
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The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_88933ad4	type	Parental Favoritism
The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_88933ad4	comment	On the other hand, Count Roscent definitely plays this straight. Not only does he turn a blind eye to his children's abuse of their stepmother and sister, he also clearly favours his children over both his wife and stepdaughter. Moreover, he does only the absolute bare minimum for Aria while treating her like a disposable pawn the moment she appears to have any worth. It's why Carin has no issues with divorcing him when it comes down to it because Count Roscent doesn't treat her or Aria with any respect to do anything about how his children treat them.
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The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_890d4ef2	type	Humiliation Conga
The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_890d4ef2	comment	Humiliation Conga: This is a large part of Aria's revenge, not to mention Asher's. Mielle gets the worst case of this, once she attempted to murder her father and frame Aria for it. She is considered to be an insane drug-addict who harms her family members, then her attempt to escape the situation leads to her becoming Isis' maid. Then she's sent to jail for participating in the coup, so she's stripped of her rank and only spared due to Aria's Cruel Mercy. Aria then has Mielle work as a maid under Annie, who used to be Mielle's servant. Since Mielle refuses to accept her new circumstances (as Aria predicted), Aria suggests that Mielle drug Annie's tea, giving a warning about the dosage. Of course, Mielle instead goes overboard, so when Aria switches the cups as she planned, Cain is murdered. As such, Mielle is returned to jail, humiliated further, is told the truth of the entire thing, including Aria's powers and the first timeline, and is executed.
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The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_898ff050	type	Villain Protagonist
The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_898ff050	comment	Villain Protagonist: Aria can be very cruel and doesn't deny, at least to herself, that she and Mielle are pretty similar. Aria is just smarter. However, with time, Aria actually grows and develops past her petty grudges, while Mielle remains a foolish, vicious child.
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The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_8a6d2168	type	Beat Them at Their Own Game
The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_8a6d2168	comment	Beat Them at Their Own Game: Aria's modus operandi for getting Revenge on Mielle. That said, she doesn't do things the same way Mielle does, opting for temptation and wit in favour of Mielle's Gaslighting and slander.
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The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_8cb1a369	type	Took a Level in Jerkass
The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_8cb1a369	comment	Took a Level in Jerkass: Played with. To most people, they assume Mielle does this as more stuff backfires on her while completely unaware Mielle was always this awful and her mask's starting to slip with each of Aria's victories.
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The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_8d0785d5	type	Didn't Think This Through
The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_8d0785d5	comment	Didn't Think This Through: Mielle clearly didn't consider potential setbacks with her plan to frame Aria for attempted murder on Count Roscent when in court such as what would happen to her if her father didn't survive, Asher taking Aria away from the scene, Asher being able to accuse her of being a drug addict because of mentioning his teleportation ability in court, or her accomplishes betraying her out of fear of also being labeled drug addicts.
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The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_8f612013	type	Token Good Teammate
The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_8f612013	comment	Oscar is the Token Good Teammate of the Frederick Family which is why he’s the only one of the aristocrats to survive.
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The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_92f674e5	type	Revenge
The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_92f674e5	comment	Revenge: The entire story revolves around this. Aria has ample reason to want to exact this on the Roscents and a few others, and she is determined to do so to the end. Additionally, Asher has many good reasons for wanting revenge on the Aristocratic Party and is likewise determined to see it through, come Hell or high water. There's also the villainous example of Isis: hers is less successful.
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The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_945b15da	type	PassiveAggressiveCombat
The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_945b15da	comment	Passive Aggressive Combat: Aria and Mielle engage in this all the damn time when they're in public.
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The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_96144372	type	Aristocrats Are Evil
The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_96144372	comment	Aristocrats Are Evil: Zigzagged. While the Aristocratic Party is this, other aristocrats vary. Particularly evil aristocrats of note: Mielle is a massive bitch behind her saintly façade. She plotted to murder Aria and her mother from the moment her father brought them home. In the first timeline, she was successful (via systematic manipulation and poisoning), so her evil only went that far. In the second timeline, her lack of success leads her to push her father down the stairs to frame Aria for murder/attempted murder, be fully on board with the Aristocratic Party's treason, abandon all "affection" for Oscar in favor of a possible fling with Isis' prospective fiancé, and try to murder her bail guaranteer. To top it off, she is completely unrepentant and believes that she should be forgiven by her victims. In the first timeline, Cain unlawfully executed Aria. In the second, he clearly begins to desire Aria sexually, neglects Mielle when she is beginning to have a break down, and eventually is part of a treasonous plot. Isis Frederick, even when leaving aside her terrible treatment of certain individuals personally (including servants and her own brother), is very much an evil bitch of nobility. She commands the corrupt Aristocratic Party and plots to seize complete control of the imperial family by eliminating the political power of the Crown Prince and his allies and forcing him to marry her. When that fails, she is willing to marry a foreign king, sell out her own country, and stage a coup d'état. On the other hand, characters such as Sarah, Marquis Vincent, Rain Pino, and the Piaast family are all aversions of this trope.
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The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_961c30e5	type	Teleportation
The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_961c30e5	comment	Teleportation: Asher has this ability.
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The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_9cbf01d6	type	Stay in the Kitchen
The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_9cbf01d6	comment	Stay in the Kitchen: Mielle tries to espouse this to a group of baronesses and commoners who help manage the businesses of their husbands, and it only makes her look closeminded and ruins her chances of networking with them. Aria speaking in favor of the women taking an active hand in their livelihoods only endears her to them.
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The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_9d6427ec	type	Time Travel
The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_9d6427ec	comment	Time Travel: Aria turns time by over a decade, back to the age of fourteen. Subsequently, she can turn time back five minutes once a day.
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The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_a036d3df	type	Sarcastic Confession
The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_a036d3df	comment	Sarcastic Confession: Mielle tries to bring up Aria’s broken bracelet during Aria’s trial for pushing her father down the stairs which Mielle attempted to frame her for. Aria shows an identical bracelet on her wrist and when Mielle protests, Asher sneeringly asks if she’s accusing him of forging evidence to save his lover. Which probably was exactly what he did but because he’s the Crown Prince and there’s no way to prove it, it just comes off like Mielle forged the bracelet to try to frame Aria.
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The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_a0774be0	type	Forgotten First Meeting
The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_a0774be0	comment	Forgotten First Meeting: Aria and Asher actually first met as children back when Aria was still a commoner. Aria can only vaguely remember the encounter, but Asher still remembers it despite not being able to recognize Aria now.
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The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_a536f3a3	type	Gender-Blender Name
The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_a536f3a3	comment	Gender-Blender Name: Aria's father, Chloe Piaast, who is obviously male, although he does have beautiful looks that Aria inherited.
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The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_a5398aba	type	Authority in Name Only
The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_a5398aba	comment	Authority in Name Only: The Aristocratic Party has managed to make the imperial family this and does their best to keep it that way. While the Crown Prince actively averts this, his father doesn't even bother trying, and the Prince himself was rendered powerless in the first timeline due to the political machinations of the Aristocratic Party.
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The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_a6c677c4	type	Not Hyperbole
The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_a6c677c4	comment	Not Hyperbole: In the beginning of the story Aria makes a lot of comments about having had to eat grass. The ones listening and the readers thought that she was just being a bit of a brat about having to eat vegetables. Asher's childhood memory of meeting little Aria actually shows her eating grass out of hunger.
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The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_a8dcb1d7	type	Love at First Sight
The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_a8dcb1d7	comment	Love at First Sight: Rain Pino, Asher's right-hand man privately believes that Asher fell in love with Aria at first sight. The people themselves aren't so certain. Chloe also fell in love with Carin shortly after they met, to where he fell into depression when he was unable to fulfill his promise to her after being deported to Croa.
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The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_ac09dc0f	type	Alas, Poor Villain
The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_ac09dc0f	comment	Alas, Poor Villain: Isis goes to the guillotine not seething with resentment, but simply relieved that her brother will be spared. She doesn't care that he testified against her because she knows he was only following his morals, not trying to save his own skin by throwing her under the bus. Several artists also seem to have felt sorry for her and included small pieces of art for how things might have turned out better for her. Surprisingly enough, Mielle can also be seen as this. Her last moments before her execution are spent in her own head, hallucinating a world where she and Aria get along, and she dies smiling. While her actions in both timelines are inexcusable, there is a possibility that if Emma and her family hadn't thought her to value blood purity above all else, then Mielle would've grown up happily with Aria as sisters. Aria Lampshades this, however, believing that they would never get along, no matter how Mielle turned out as a person.
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The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_acf33d00	type	Nice Job Fixing It, Villain
The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_acf33d00	comment	Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: Had Mielle not decided to gloat about her victory over Aria just as she was about to be executed, Aria would not have discovered her ability to turn back time or take revenge on both her and the Aristocratic Party. Aria turns out to be a far more effective villainess than Mielle could be on her own. Later, Mielle attempting to murder her own father to frame Aria backfires on her when Asher comes to Aria's rescue, so all she ends up accomplishing is making herself look like an insane addict, ruining her own reputation. Not to mention this causes Cain to take over, allowing Aria the chance to milk as much money from the count's fortune for herself due to Cain's inexperience.
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The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_b06bbf4b	type	Be Careful What You Wish For
The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_b06bbf4b	comment	Be Careful What You Wish For: Congratulations, Emma. You wanted Mielle to grow up to be a conniving, self-serving monster who hides under the guise of a prim and proper lady, you got it. Unfortunately, this does mean she would rather save her own skin, then risk it by standing up for the person who raised her, this being you.
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The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_b070362d	type	Wicked Stepmother
The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_b070362d	comment	Wicked Stepmother: Inverted in the prominent example of Countess Roscent. She has never done anything bad to Cain and Mielle, who insult and belittle her for being a former common prostitute, with Mielle actively trying to kill her. It's only after Mielle tries to frame Aria for attempted murder on Count Roscent, on top of a previous incident where Aria got poisoned by a servant instructed by Emma, that Carin finally has enough and works with her daughter to drag the household down. Averted in the more subtle example of Chloe's father, Marquis Piaast, despite the lack of interaction between him and his stepdaughter, it is made very clear that he cares for her about as much as he does his own son. However, the man himself seems to believe himself to play this straight, only downplayed, due to his actions having "stolen" Frey's mother and brother from her. On the other hand, Count Roscent definitely plays this straight. Not only does he turn a blind eye to his children's abuse of their stepmother and sister, he also clearly favours his children over both his wife and stepdaughter. Moreover, he does only the absolute bare minimum for Aria while treating her like a disposable pawn the moment she appears to have any worth. It's why Carin has no issues with divorcing him when it comes down to it because Count Roscent doesn't treat her or Aria with any respect to do anything about how his children treat them.
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The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_b0bce7aa	type	Selective Obliviousness
The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_b0bce7aa	comment	Selective Obliviousness: One reason Aria does not figure out Asher's identity is because she thinks of the Crown Prince as the politically incompetent fool who was usurped and forcibly married to Isis. The Aristocratic Party often has shades of this, especially where Vika Layers is concerned.
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The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_b11ac9f5	type	Abusive Parents
The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_b11ac9f5	comment	Abusive Parents: The story has a few of these, mostly being extensions of Parental Neglect. Stepparents aside: The Countess can come off as negligent, since she only makes sure that Aria is safe and provided for, typically not going any further, and outright states that Aria's birth was a burden (albeit in a matter-of-fact rather than resentful manner). Ultimately, the Countess turns out to be a subversion, since not only did make sure to raise her daughter to maturity when most people in her situation would have abandoned her, she is more than willing to give up everything she has gained from her marriage to ensure that both she and her daughter are safe. It is all but stated that Aria's physical resemblance to her father (who her mother believed to have betrayed her), conditions as a prostitute single-mother, and husband's neglect of both herself and her daughter were the primary causes of this attitude. As Aria improves their circumstances, the Countess improves, exponentially. The Fredericks to their son and heir, Oscar. The parents only care about their daughter, Isis, and are behind Isis all the way, regardless of her actions. While the exact extent is unclear, they all completely ignore and disregard his opinions and feelings, treating him more like a puppet than a human being. As a result, Oscar is forced to ignore the woman he loves in favour of an engagement with her abusive stepsister, kept out of the loop regarding the family's various plans, and his objections to said plans are not only ignored, he is eventually confined and starved for daring to object to the treason. It is revealed in the epilogue that Asher's father, The Emperor, is a complete do-nothing, even when his son is avoiding getting assassinated, nearly getting forcibly married off to one of the conspirators, or handling a massive attempted coup d'état, the guy does absolutely nothing. Purportedly, this is due to the assassination of his wife, not that anyone approves of this behaviour. This complete neglect turns out to even extend to his job, effectively forcing his son and heir to do it in his stead,note (with the potential consequence of the country either colapsing or falling into the hands of the Aristocratic Party, which is almost the same thing) which is the reason Asher is always so busy, despite not having inherited his father's position yet.
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The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_b26cc887	type	Just Between You and Me
The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_b26cc887	comment	Just Between You and Me: What kicks off the plot, if Mielle hadn’t bragged to Aria how Mielle set Aria up in the first timeline, she would never have gotten the drive for vengeance to go back and destroy Mielle in the second timeline.
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The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_b4a6ae4c	type	Everyone Has Standards
The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_b4a6ae4c	comment	Everyone Has Standards: Ruthless as Aria can be when extracting revenge on those who wronged her, she's shocked when Mielle resorts to pushing her own father down the stairs to frame Aria for attempted murder. Viscount Vika (Asher's mole in the Aristocratic Party) helps Marquis Piast to reunite Carin and Chloe in order to give Aria the status of a Lady of a Marquis house. He finds the romance between her parents to be silly and boring but always thought that people looking down on Aria for being the daughter of a prostitute despite her proven abilities was incredibly stupid.
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The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_b4de0dc	type	Lost Orphaned Royalty
The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_b4de0dc	comment	Lost Orphaned Royalty: Aria's biological father is a nobleman and (abandoned) stepson of a prince, making her the granddaughter of Marquis Piaast.
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The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_b4fb830c	type	Smarter Than You Look
The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_b4fb830c	comment	Smarter Than You Look: Aria, to the surprise of everyone who meets her, even herself. She proves to be a fast learner under proper tutoring to where she quickly surpasses Mielle. This also applies to her mother Carin, who also appears to be a Brainless Beauty, but proves sharper than she lets on.
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The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_b6cebad3	type	Double Standard
The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_b6cebad3	comment	Double Standard: The Aristocratic Party believes that while commoners should get judged according to their crimes, if a noble does the same thing, they should only get a slap on the wrist. At one point, Cain thinks that a noble should be able to get away with murder — he thinks it a privilege of nobility. Additionally, the Roscents treat the Countess and Aria this way. So, if Aria does something wrong, the Count allows Cain to loudly scold her; if Mielle does the same exact thing?— a quiet word of warning.
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The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_ba5bbda5	type	Mirror Character
The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_ba5bbda5	comment	Mirror Character: Aria eventually realizes that she and Asher were very similar in the first timeline being brilliant people who were misled by bad advice and ending up in tragic circumstances. She feels incredibly embarrassed for her previous low opinion of the crown prince.
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The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_ba907fe2	type	Entitled to Have You
The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_ba907fe2	comment	Entitled to Have You: A rare female example. Isis feels this way about the Crown Prince, both because only his status, lineage, and appearance match hers, and because there are rumours that the two are in the process of getting engaged (never mind the fact that it was Isis and the rest of the Aristocratic Party who spread the rumours in the first place and were trying to politically force the prince to agree).
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The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_beb9a361	type	Anti-Hero
The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_beb9a361	comment	Anti-Hero: Despite the title, Aria is no Villain Protagonist, although she does see herself as one. In fact, both Aria and Asher qualify.
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The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_bf110089	type	Break Them by Talking
The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_bf110089	comment	Break Them by Talking: This occurs a few times during the story. First being Mielle's Evil Gloating before Aria's execution in the first timeline. It occurs again when the Crown Prince calls Isis out on her arrogant assumptions. At the traitors' execution, Lohan gives her another good one. Finally, Aria gives Mielle an excellent one the night before the latter's execution.
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The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_c0068b0f	type	FlowerMotif
The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_c0068b0f	comment	Flower Motif: The noble families are represented by flowers. Franz, the imperial family is represented by a tulip. Asher often gives tulips to Aria as a result. The Roscents have the lily. While pristine and pure looking, most lilies are poisonous: perfect to represent Mielle. The Fredericks have a golden rose as their symbol. In the webtoon, Isis is often drawn with very thorny red roses.
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The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_c0d598fe	type	Evil Gloating
The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_c0d598fe	comment	Evil Gloating: Mielle could not resist gloating to Aria just prior to the execution. It becomes her undoing.
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The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_c335b9ec	type	Irony
The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_c335b9ec	comment	Irony: Emma's whole reason for being The Corruptor to Mielle was wanting to protect her from the evils of aristocratic society. This ends up leading to both her own death and Mielle's in the second timeline. Mielle despises Aria for being a commoner and thus below her. Aria turns out to be the granddaughter of Marquis Piaast, meaning that, had Chloe been able to marry Carin as he originally promised, Aria would actually outrank her in terms of status. She's technically illegitimate, but only due to a technically and when her parents marry even this ends. Relating to the above, Mielle attempting to frame Aria to get her out of the picture leads to Aria coming to Croa with Asher to establish an alibi. This and her identical appearance to Chloe catches the attention of her paternal grandfather, who'd been trying to track down Carin for his depressed son. In other words, Mielle's own actions trying to eliminate Aria leads to her finding her real family.
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The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_c3b51bb3	type	You Are Better Than You Think You Are
The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_c3b51bb3	comment	You Are Better Than You Think You Are: Aria doesn't give herself much credit for her business success because she has knowledge of the future to guide her actions. However, Asher points out that true intelligence is not really the facts you know but how you apply that information, which is something that never occurred to her.
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The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_c5249b29	type	Nice Guy
The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_c5249b29	comment	Nice Guy: Despite her horrible life in the first timeline, in the second timeline Aria does encounter genuinely kind and good people. Jessie, her first maid, was the only one in the first timeline to give her genuinely good advice and try to help steer Aria on the right path. Out of gratitude and guilt for the way she treated her, Aria does her best in the second timeline to be kind to Jessie. She even has trouble when encouraged to be cruel to Veri and Mielle after she becomes a maid. Sarah is nothing but polite and courteous and has a gentle heart which helps her to win over the equally kind hearted Marquis Vincent. Oscar is the Token Good Teammate of the Frederick Family which is why he’s the only one of the aristocrats to survive. Chloe, Aria’s biological father and his parents are kind and loving and are absolutely delighted to find out about Aria which befuddles her due to never having family that was warm and affectionate.
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The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_c5fe6c81	type	Strong Family Resemblance
The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_c5fe6c81	comment	Strong Family Resemblance: Though she takes a lot from her mother, especially in terms of personality, Aria is the spitting image of her biological father Chloe. His older sister Frey remarks on it and even states how much Aria looks like him when dressed in one of his old outfits. Likewise, her paternal grandfather Marquis Piaast is able to immediately confirm Aria is his granddaughter after seeing her in person.
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The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_ca6a3a47	type	KickThemWhileTheyreDown
The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_ca6a3a47	comment	Kick Them While They're Down: After being sentenced to death but before the actual execution, Aria honestly believed that Mielle was a truly good person and regretted everything she had done to her. Then Mielle showed her true colors while laughing that Aria had been manipulated by Mielle the entire time.
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The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_cf92fea8	type	Cassandra Truth
The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_cf92fea8	comment	Cassandra Truth: Nobody believes Mielle when she repeatedly claims that Asher suddenly appeared out of nowhere and left with Aria in the same way. Since the existence of special powers is basically only known by their possessors and their relatives, it is concluded that she is either taking hallucinogens or is insane. Asher uses this in order to convict Mielle for the crime.
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The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_d1522cf	type	Tongue Trauma
The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_d1522cf	comment	Tongue Trauma: Aria's tongue was cut off and salted prior to her execution. She also mentions she did this to Jessie in the previous timeline, which she regrets doing in hindsight knowing Jessie was the only servant that tried to advise her.
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The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_d29a6629	type	Death by Childbirth
The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_d29a6629	comment	Death by Childbirth: The first Countess Roscent died from complications right after giving birth to Mielle.
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The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_d397657d	type	Hoist by His Own Petard
The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_d397657d	comment	Hoist by His Own Petard: Mielle. Had she not gloated about her evil schemes to Aria, Aria might have never activated her powers. And, in the second timeline, Mielle just had to push her father down the stairs in order to frame Aria for the crime, which leads to her Humiliation Conga.
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The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_d62dd556	type	The Chessmaster
The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_d62dd556	comment	The Chessmaster: Asher, i.e. the Crown Prince is this, and while poor advising led him to lose his power in the first timeline, in the second, he has Aria. To wit, he takes the Aristocratic Party for a ride by manipulating specific exports and imports, then foists the hot potato that is the casino on to a greedy member of the Aristocratic Party (without Isis being able to intervene), uses the resulting corruption to his advantage, and when the Aristocratic Party tries to stage a coup, he manipulates the events in order to completely decimate them.
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The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_d9c4365c	type	Reset Button
The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_d9c4365c	comment	Reset Button: Aria's hourglass allows her to reverse time for five minutes once a day. It is very, very useful as long as she keeps track of time.
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The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_de80e030	type	Social Climber
The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_de80e030	comment	Social Climber: Annie, a maid sent by Mielle to spy on Aria is this. Aria manages to sway Annie to switch sides by offering her the opportunity of an advantageous marriage.
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The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_e13156e1	type	Mama Bear
The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_e13156e1	comment	Mama Bear: The Countess may seem inattentive to Aria, but whenever she gets the sense Aria's in danger, she immediately focuses all her energy on making sure Aria's safe. She's enraged when she just finds out about the carriage incident and rushes to Aria's side after she's almost poisoned. The Countess is also visibly disgusted when her husband tries to set Aria up with Rain. Finally, after Aria gets put on trial when Mielle frames her for pushing Count Roscent down the stairs, she joins forces with her daughter to drain the count's assets dry.
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The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_e5066b68	type	11th-Hour Superpower
The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_e5066b68	comment	11th-Hour Superpower: Aria's powers were first activated when she was unlawfully executed by Cain.
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The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_e68d9ddd	type	Not Blood Siblings
The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_e68d9ddd	comment	Not Blood Siblings: How Cain justifies to himself his lust for Aria. However, he is the only one to thinks so, everyone who notices his sexual interest in Aria is disgusted. This includes Aria, her mother, all of the servants, and even Mielle. Although Mielle seems to be disgusted because of her abhorrence of Aria, rather than any moral factor.
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The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_e70127	type	The Mole
The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_e70127	comment	The Mole: Vika Layers is Asher's in the Aristocratic Party.
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The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_e9db9908	type	Younger Than They Look
The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_e9db9908	comment	Younger Than They Look: Aria starts a year older than Mielle but looking approximately the same age due to childhood malnutrition. However, she seems to grow up quite a bit faster. Later in the story adults getting all hot and bothered over and have to stop and remind themselves that she is not an adult and they need to behave more maturely. It's implied the quick aging is because her hourglass ability is causing her to age faster.
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The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_e9e35e8f	type	Exact Words
The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_e9e35e8f	comment	Exact Words: All the Aristocratic Party members are told individually that the punishment for their crimes will be reduced if they tell the authorities what the others have done. When the time for the execution comes up, it turns out everyone sold out the others, so any leniency for fessing up is countered by the other crimes that are revealed.
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The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_eb81c601	type	Big Damn Heroes
The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_eb81c601	comment	Big Damn Heroes: Aria does this for Asher, in the form of timely advice and insight, which saves him politically, allowing him to slowly retake royal power back from the Aristocratic Party. When it appears that Mielle has successfully cornered Aria, Asher teleports there, quickly learns about the situation, and teleports with Aria to an entirely different location.
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The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_ed874c14	type	Self-Made Man
The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_ed874c14	comment	Self-Made Man: Woman, in this case. Aria speculates and invests heavily, earning herself a vast fortune and the praise and awe of thousands.
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The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_efbc288f	type	Heroic Self-Deprecation
The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_efbc288f	comment	Heroic Self-Deprecation: Heroic might be a bit of a stretch, but Aria is completely convinced that she's succeeding entirely based on knowing some of the future. It's eventually pointed out to her that true intelligence is not just knowing facts but knowing when to apply what you know to maximum effect.
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The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_f06b07ff	type	Locked Out of the Loop
The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_f06b07ff	comment	Locked Out of the Loop: Aria is the only member of Crown Prince Asterope's think-tank who is unaware of Asher's identity, at first, that is. Additionally, the Fredericks use the fact that Oscar is at school to keep the guy uninformed about their plans. Aria and her mother are routinely kept ignorant of things Roscent. Aria is also the only member for the Roscent family not to be aware that Mielle's sixteenth birthday ball is where her betrothal to Oscar will be officially announced.
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The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_f16da697	type	Undying Loyalty
The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_f16da697	comment	Undying Loyalty: Emma towards Mielle. She has raised the girl herself and even gets executed while covering for Mielle.
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The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_f26d5e66	type	Brainless Beauty
The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_f26d5e66	comment	Aria's mother has shades of this and is often seen as a combination of this and a Brainless Beauty. Her actions however show that Aria has come by her personality, intellect, and other traits honestly and then taken it Up to Eleven. When she decides to work with her daughter to dismantle the count household after Mielle tries to frame Aria for attempted murder, she's able to read and play people like a fiddle.
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The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_f27ec906	type	Identical Stranger
The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_f27ec906	comment	Identical Stranger: Downplayed. Even though they were born to different parents, Aria and Mielle are similar enough that they could be confused for each other at a distance. Asher the Crown Prince did not know Aria was the girl he met until he personally meets Mielle. This gets played later when Mielle pushes her father down the stairs and frames Aria - the only girls she convinced to falsely claim they saw Aria commit the crime retract themselves and state they only saw someone "similar", which casts the blame back on Mielle.
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The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_f8c8175a	type	Malicious Slander
The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_f8c8175a	comment	Malicious Slander: Aria is able to reframe her initial poor reputation as being nothing but slander by her sister. At the point the story gets going, she has been rude and bratty, but her perfect manners in public and good business sense lead people to believe it must have been deliberate attempts to ruin her reputation.
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The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_f933e594	type	How the Mighty Have Fallen
The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_f933e594	comment	How the Mighty Have Fallen: Cain and Mielle go from Count Roscente's heir and beloved daughter to an errand boy and maid.
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The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_faa71569	type	Romantic False Lead
The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_faa71569	comment	Romantic False Lead: Oscar Frederick.
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The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_fb3576b2	type	The Dog Bites Back
The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_fb3576b2	comment	The Dog Bites Back: Oscar Frederick does this to his family, when they top off their typical abuse with confining and starving him for objecting to treason and trying to dissuade them. He offers to inform Asher about everything he knows, leading to him being considered a Category Traitor and the only one of the Frederick family to survive, albeit as a commoner.
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The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_fdf7d23d	type	Lady in Red
The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_fdf7d23d	comment	Lady in Red: Aria is this during the first timeline; in the second, while she sometimes uses her ability to wrap men around her finger, it only goes as far as tempting them, and, once she gets into a serious relationship with Asher, she stops using this ability to manipulate, although using it to tease her lover is something she continues to enjoy. Aria's mother has shades of this and is often seen as a combination of this and a Brainless Beauty. Her actions however show that Aria has come by her personality, intellect, and other traits honestly and then taken it Up to Eleven. When she decides to work with her daughter to dismantle the count household after Mielle tries to frame Aria for attempted murder, she's able to read and play people like a fiddle.
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The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_fe6c146e	type	The Corrupter
The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_fe6c146e	comment	The Corrupter: In the original timeline, Mielle purposefully ensured Aria would turn into a horrible person by surrounding Aria with people who gave her the wrong advice. In the new timeline, Aria manages to deduce that it was actually all thanks to Mielle's personal maid, Emma, that Mielle's schemes ever succeeded. Emma for her part, raised Mielle to become the monster that she is, not out of malicious intent, but because she believed it was the only way for Mielle to survive the cutthroat world of the aristocracy and out of a sense of gratitude for Mielle's biological mother, the late first Countess Roscent. Of course, the problem here is that not only did Mielle grew dependent on Emma's assistance, Emma herself actively fed malicious schemes and advice to Mielle as they plotted to rid themselves of Aria and her mother.
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