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The Monstrous Duke's Adopted Daughter (Manhwa)
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The first twelve years of Leslie Sperà do's life were wrought with misery. Expected to do nothing but support her elder sister Ellie, starved when she didn't perform up to standards, faced in front of a mirror to tell herself how useless she is...It all culminates when her father has her thrown into a fire. Leslie survives, but the experience awakens something in her, the dark magic that the Sperà do family has, but to a much greater degree than either her father or sister. Fearing her life is in danger if she stays in the Sperà do home, but needing a guardian to protect her until she reaches adulthood, Leslie approaches Duke Salvator, matriarch of a family alleged to have monster blood in their veins, and asks to be adopted.Intrigued by Leslie's request, the Duke agrees to protect her and thus begins the saga of The Monstrous Duke's Adopted Daughter. As the Duke and her family help Leslie learn to protect herself, Leslie may experience true affection and joy for the first time in all her life.The novel and webtoon have both reached their conclusions. The webtoon can be found in the original Korean here. The website Tapas has licensed it as well, and the official English translation can be read here. | |
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"It" Is Dehumanizing | |
The Monstrous Duke's Adopted Daughter (Manhwa) / int_16ad6f7f | comment |
"It" Is Dehumanizing: So they don't see themselves as murderers, the Sperà do family calls all their silvered haired children "it" or "that" to each other, and to outsiders, while calling said child "useless" to their face. Leslie finds out, to her horror, by checking the census at the library, that even children of the poorest commoners get a three day mourning period, minimum, for a funeral. The Sperà do children who fell to "mysterious illness or accident" would be lucky to get a full day. | |
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Poor Communication Kills | |
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Poor Communication Kills: Compleely subverted, anytime Leslie has some kind of problem, she goes and asks her parents (and they likewise tell her important information) rather than agonize over it. | |
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Aborted Arc | |
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Aborted Arc: In the beginning and middle of the story, Leslie angsts a little about the contract making her a part of the Salvator family until she's 18, hoping she can extend it once the moment comes. It disappears as the story goes on due to how evident it is that they wouldn't dream of kicking her out, and doesn't get a single mention once she's 15 and onwards, likely because Leslie is already Happily Adopted by then. | |
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Only Sane Man | |
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Only Sane Man: The Duke and Leslie gradually become the only sane members of the Salvator household. This is illustrated best when the men, including the generally sensible Ruenti start gushing about Leslie's birthday and proposing all sorts of extravagant gifts, including festivals and streets named after her. Acela laughs while Leslie can only facepalm as the conversation carries on. | |
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Made Out to Be a Jerkass | |
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Made Out to Be a Jerkass: After the Sperà do family has thrown Leslie into a fire, in addition to a lifetime of abuse and neglect, they call her insane, evil, and a liar for having the cheek to survive, and pointing out the scars, when another member of said family rips her clothes in public. | |
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Mistaken Age | |
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Mistaken Age: Characters frequently mistake twelve year-old Leslie for being about nine or ten, as she is smaller and skinnier than she should be for her age due to her abusive upbringing including not feeding her properly. This is exaggerated when she meets Bethrion. Between his only frame of reference being Ruenti and the fact that his family are all naturally large people, he initially assumes Leslie is five. | |
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Hero with Bad Publicity | |
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Hero with Bad Publicity: The Salvator house. Every single one of them is a One-Man Army or One-Woman Army, in the case of the titular Duke, and they are war heroes the Recardius Empire relies on for survival, to defend them against their enemies, yet the local talk about them is anything but kind, and mostly untrue. Said rumors are a direct result of all the other noble houses and the crown being afraid and jealous of their Super-Strength. Ironically, this is what causes Leslie to seek them out for aid in the first place. | |
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Batman Gambit | |
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Batman Gambit: The Salvator Knights discuss a plan in chapter 45 to find an excuse to fight and hurt the Sperà do Knights by dressing in worn-out clothing when they celebrate the birth of one of the Salvator Knights having a second child at a pub the Sperà do Knights frequent, they hope to provoke the Sperà do Knights into a conflict and beat the crap out of them. | |
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Surprisingly Realistic Outcome | |
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Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: If you can get past the Sperà do family's false exteriors, almost everyone instantly knows they're pure scum that fly straight into Stupid Evil. The Salvators on the other hand are feared and hated publicly for their power, but as direct enforcers to the emperor they refuse to carry the Idiot Ball for even a second while the Sperà dos keep screwing up in their attempts to take Leslie before finally initiating the Noble's Trial. The result is nigh-unanimously in Salvator's favor and, short of the Child Protection Act problem, no one really expected otherwise. Before said trial, Marquis Sperà do's numerous plans failed but he still had the reputation and political power to even get the trial in the first place, not to mention manipulating word of mouth through backhanded means. When finally put in the public of court, his lack of thorough planning and Hair-Trigger Temper destroys his reputation in short time as he repeatedly demonstrates how unstable and downright psychotically angry he can be when things don't go his way, on top of throwing other groups like the entire magician's guild under the bus as in the palms of the Salvators even as they're attending. | |
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Make It Look Like an Accident | |
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Make It Look Like an Accident: The Sperà do have been hiding their Human Sacrifice by recording in the official royal ledgers that their children died of "illness" or "unfortunate accident" for a good 1000 years. | |
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Family Relationship Switcheroo | |
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Family Relationship Switcheroo: Prince Arlendo is actually Medea's son. | |
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And Now You Must Marry Me | |
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And Now You Must Marry Me: Duke Salvator warns Leslie that when denying marriage proposals, she must be careful to keep stoic about it. Some nobles will take blushing as a sign of consent and agreement to the terms presented. | |
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Big Fancy House | |
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Big Fancy House: Two of them! Both the Sperà do and the Salvators live in big, lavish mansions on large estates on their properties. | |
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Break the Cutie | |
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Break the Cutie: Leslie is cute as a button, even comes pre-broken for your convenience. The Sperà do family still insists on breaking her more, however. | |
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Huge Guy, Tiny Girl | |
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Huge Guy, Tiny Girl: Leslie was brought up with the bare minimum of food required to survive and looks about half her age as a result, while the Salvators are a family of giants who tower even over normal adults, let alone a malnourished child. This makes her look even younger and smaller than she already did. While she eventually grows in height by the Time Skip in the novel, she is still relatively tiny compared to the rest of the Salvators. | |
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Adopting the Abused | |
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Adopting the Abused: The series starts with Leslie reaching out to the Salvators and asking them to adopt her so she can escape her biological family's abuse and the fate of being sacrificed. The Duke agrees to adopt her, and from then on, Leslie's life vastly improves. | |
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Dark Is Not Evil | |
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Dark Is Not Evil: Zigzagged. Dark magic is neither good nor evil, it just is, like shadows. Its current user is Leslie and is called the "Dark Saint" by Duke Salvator. However, the bloodline from which it hails, the Sperà do, have been engaged in Human Sacrifice to bestow it upon their favored offspring, killing all the "useless" silver-haired siblings, for at least 1000 years. | |
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Fantastic Racism | |
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Fantastic Racism: The Sperà do family teaches its blonde, green-eyed children that they are the best at everything and deserve the best the world has to offer, just for the asking. They treat all of their other children with disdain and abuse. Children with silver hair are offered up as a Human Sacrifice to empower their blonde children with the black magic they steal from said silver-haired children. Also most of the empire is stated to be extremely xenophobic towards outsiders which is one of the reasons Medea was so embittered and driven to villainy. | |
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Third-Act Misunderstanding | |
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Third-Act Misunderstanding: Conrad and Leslie get into one in the final chapters, each thinking the other is seeing someone else: Conrad with a Not What It Looks Like (Leslie acting out a love scene from a play, leaving just before he sees the two collapse with laughter about how melodramatic it is) and Leslie seeing Conrad talking to a Dude Looks Like a Lady. | |
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BlackAndGreyMorality | |
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Black-and-Grey Morality: The Salvator family does have a history of morally dubious behavior, but still treat their friends, allies, servants, and each other with genuine kindness and affection, especially the sweet little Leslie. Their enemies, especially the Sperà do, are morally pitch-black, doing things that are evil, purely because it is evil, but have the gall to openly call themselves "righteous" and only pretend to have redeeming features, for the sake of appearances and to prevent punishment from coming their way. | |
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Time Skip | |
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Time Skip: One occurs in the novel which takes place 4 years after the start of the story, with Leslie being 16 years old. The readers do not get a look at the older Leslie in the end of season 1 of the Manhwa adaptation as her back was turned before any readers could see her matured face. | |
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Hair-Trigger Temper | |
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Before said trial, Marquis Sperà do's numerous plans failed but he still had the reputation and political power to even get the trial in the first place, not to mention manipulating word of mouth through backhanded means. When finally put in the public of court, his lack of thorough planning and Hair-Trigger Temper destroys his reputation in short time as he repeatedly demonstrates how unstable and downright psychotically angry he can be when things don't go his way, on top of throwing other groups like the entire magician's guild under the bus as in the palms of the Salvators even as they're attending. | |
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Collective Death Glare | |
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Collective Death Glare: Poor Conrad gets hit by one anytime the Salvator men are in the room and he's anywhere near Leslie. | |
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Hourglass Plot | |
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Hourglass Plot: The light novel "The Monster Duchess and Contract Princess" starts with Leslie being in the lowest position among the Sperà do family. However, as the story continues with Leslie deciding that she had enough and fought back, Leslie eventually gets the happy family life she wanted with the Salvator family as she trains to be a future duchess and part of the Salvator family, while the Sperà do eventually spiral downwards to a point of losing their reputation and position as a noble family. | |
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Meaningful Name | |
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Meaningful Name: "Salvatore" is an Italian name that means "Savior". The Salvator family save Leslie. | |
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Viewers Are Goldfish | |
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Viewers Are Goldfish: Each chapter of the story starts with the final panel of the last. Justified for English speaking markets as the minimum time between translations is approximately 2 weeks. | |
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Yin-Yang Clash | |
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Yin-Yang Clash: Divine magic and and Arcane magic oppose each other so to say the temple and the magician's mansion don't get along is an understatement. The two types of magic can not interact with one another. This is precisely why, at one point, Duke Salvator mixes a bit of magic in when she breaks Marquis Sperà do's arm; by doing so she ensures the arm can't be healed using divine magic and the Marquis has to recover the old-fashioned way. Debaine is actually from a bloodline that is this personified and most of her relatives died extremely young. The only reason she lasted before meeting Medea, who helped stabilize her, was because both magics were extremely powerful. | |
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Why Did You Make Me Hit You? | |
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Why Did You Make Me Hit You?: The entire Sperà do family does this to Leslie, from the moment she was old enough to walk and talk, until they "have no other choice" but to throw her in a fire, with her father yelling at her "Don't you know dying in your sister's place is your destiny?! Naive brat! Don't you know you are useless?!" | |
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The Monstrous Duke's Adopted Daughter (Manhwa) / int_7b6e47a5 | type |
Armor-Piercing Question | |
The Monstrous Duke's Adopted Daughter (Manhwa) / int_7b6e47a5 | comment |
Armor-Piercing Question: When the Duke shows Leslie her facial scar in order to understand the woman she wants to be her mother, the Duke anticipates Leslie will recoil in shock or fear. Instead, she asks softly, "Doesn't it hurt?" and stuns the Duke for a moment at this empathic response. | |
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The Monstrous Duke's Adopted Daughter (Manhwa) / int_80621707 | type |
Arranged Marriage | |
The Monstrous Duke's Adopted Daughter (Manhwa) / int_80621707 | comment |
Arranged Marriage: These are a common thing among the noble houses to gain or regain power and influence. Marquis Sperà do had been able to use his waning influence to secure Ellie as the Crown Prince Alendro's fiance. Their losing the Noble Trial and things said there have jeopardized this and the Emperor is considering revoking this arrangement. Duke Salvator has endured many proposals from noble families to marry into hers. After Leslie becomes a Salvators, she too receives a proposal from the eldest son of a prominent merchant noble, who is also about 13 years Leslie's senior. | |
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The Monstrous Duke's Adopted Daughter (Manhwa) / int_80a247a9 | type |
Breather Episode | |
The Monstrous Duke's Adopted Daughter (Manhwa) / int_80a247a9 | comment |
Breather Episode: Chapter 42 starts immediately after the trial ends, and it's basically one big, heartwarming chapter consisting of nothing but Leslie spending time with the Salvators and being happy. | |
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The Monstrous Duke's Adopted Daughter (Manhwa) / int_88933ad4 | type |
Parental Favoritism | |
The Monstrous Duke's Adopted Daughter (Manhwa) / int_88933ad4 | comment |
Parental Favoritism: The Sperà do family, for at least 1000 years, favors the first born, without exception, and raises any siblings with silver hair to be a Human Sacrifice so that the heir will "awaken" Dark Magic. The Duchess' husband goes gaga over his adopted daughter, but it's downplayed by the fact that both his sons, a) are adults, and b), join in. | |
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The Monstrous Duke's Adopted Daughter (Manhwa) / int_88933ad4 | |
The Monstrous Duke's Adopted Daughter (Manhwa) / int_89a17726 | type |
Spell My Name with an S | |
The Monstrous Duke's Adopted Daughter (Manhwa) / int_89a17726 | comment |
Spell My Name With An S: The scanlations don't always spell the character's names the same way from time to time. Marquis Sperà do's real name is Travis, but recent chapters called him Tra Vesh, likely a translation error. At one point, Duke Salvator's first name, Aleca, was spelled as Acela. | |
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The Monstrous Duke's Adopted Daughter (Manhwa) / int_96144372 | type |
Aristocrats Are Evil | |
The Monstrous Duke's Adopted Daughter (Manhwa) / int_96144372 | comment |
Aristocrats Are Evil: With the exception of the Salvator house, which is headed by the titular "Monster Duke," all the aristocrats and nobles are entirely self-serving, at best, but the crown of cruelty has to go to the Sperà do house, where Leslie hails from. | |
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The Monstrous Duke's Adopted Daughter (Manhwa) / int_96144372 | |
The Monstrous Duke's Adopted Daughter (Manhwa) / int_9d61fd2c | type |
Traumatic Superpower Awakening | |
The Monstrous Duke's Adopted Daughter (Manhwa) / int_9d61fd2c | comment |
Traumatic Superpower Awakening: Leslie's ability to control Dark Magic is triggered when she's thrown into a fire, by her own father, and a bunch of spirits, presumably the many, many others sacrificed over the years, pushing her out a window, falling into a river far below. | |
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The Monstrous Duke's Adopted Daughter (Manhwa) / int_a6cda066 | type |
Rule of Three | |
The Monstrous Duke's Adopted Daughter (Manhwa) / int_a6cda066 | comment |
Rule of Three: The Sperà dos attempted to burn Leslie at least three times, including at the very beginning of the story as a sacrifice, and in a carriage after she rebels against them and makes her first visit to the Duke to test if she has magic. The third attempt being the last time the Sperà dos attempted to burn Leslie, after they lose the Noble Trial. | |
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The Monstrous Duke's Adopted Daughter (Manhwa) / int_ab5eea65 | type |
Dramatic Irony | |
The Monstrous Duke's Adopted Daughter (Manhwa) / int_ab5eea65 | comment |
Dramatic Irony: When Leslie and Duke Salvator meet for the first time and Leslie requests being adopted, the Duke notes that as the child of a Marquis she won't know dire hardships or starvation, unaware of the completely abusive life the girl has lived. | |
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The Monstrous Duke's Adopted Daughter (Manhwa) / int_ad94c7a0 | type |
Scars Are Forever | |
The Monstrous Duke's Adopted Daughter (Manhwa) / int_ad94c7a0 | comment |
Scars Are Forever: Played With. Leslie's burn scars are cured by a cleric, at the request of Duke Salvator. For the Duke herself, she has a scar that's too deep and too deforming to cure, so she wears a mask. Her husband has a scar on his face it’s implied he kept because his wife gave it to him when they first met. | |
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The Monstrous Duke's Adopted Daughter (Manhwa) / int_affd30b0 | type |
Stupid Evil | |
The Monstrous Duke's Adopted Daughter (Manhwa) / int_affd30b0 | comment |
If you can get past the Sperà do family's false exteriors, almost everyone instantly knows they're pure scum that fly straight into Stupid Evil. The Salvators on the other hand are feared and hated publicly for their power, but as direct enforcers to the emperor they refuse to carry the Idiot Ball for even a second while the Sperà dos keep screwing up in their attempts to take Leslie before finally initiating the Noble's Trial. The result is nigh-unanimously in Salvator's favor and, short of the Child Protection Act problem, no one really expected otherwise. | |
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The Monstrous Duke's Adopted Daughter (Manhwa) / int_b11ac9f5 | type |
Abusive Parents | |
The Monstrous Duke's Adopted Daughter (Manhwa) / int_b11ac9f5 | comment |
Abusive Parents: The most benevolent memory Leslie has of her life in the Sperà do house? Having her mother march her up to a mirror, and then being forced to tell her own reflection "you're useless." Sir Konrad's father won't win any prizes either, after he abused him for siding with Leslie and the Salvators against the Sperà dos during the trial for custody. | |
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The Monstrous Duke's Adopted Daughter (Manhwa) / int_b25eb401 | type |
Exposition Cut | |
The Monstrous Duke's Adopted Daughter (Manhwa) / int_b25eb401 | comment |
Exposition Cut: Many a chapter ends by skipping over one character recapping to another what the audience already knows. | |
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The Monstrous Duke's Adopted Daughter (Manhwa) / int_b25eb401 | |
The Monstrous Duke's Adopted Daughter (Manhwa) / int_b6b1d9fe | type |
Hero Ball | |
The Monstrous Duke's Adopted Daughter (Manhwa) / int_b6b1d9fe | comment |
Hero Ball: Usually the cast are incredibly efficient about trying to keep Leslie out of danger once the Sperà dos make their intentions known. But then Leslie herself grasps onto this firmly for the meeting with Amroa, not wanting her several knight bodyguards or taking off the strangely heavy bracelet she was given to at all disrespect the only woman that's ever respected her before the Salvators. Leslie nearly burns alive for this unusually reckless behavior, though as an upside, this sinks any mercy the Emperor had left for the Sperà dos as well and leads Ellie and the Marquess to getting their just desserts, and Leslie is incredibly self-conscious about the reckless decisions made here. | |
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The Monstrous Duke's Adopted Daughter (Manhwa) / int_b9d334b2 | type |
Aerith and Bob | |
The Monstrous Duke's Adopted Daughter (Manhwa) / int_b9d334b2 | comment |
Aerith and Bob: The series uses both normal names, such as Leslie, Ellie, Travis, and Konrad, and names that are clearly made up, such as Aleca, Sairane, Bethrion, Ruenti, Fieste, Arlendo, and Derrial. | |
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The Monstrous Duke's Adopted Daughter (Manhwa) / int_bac9f95d | type |
Sweet Tooth | |
The Monstrous Duke's Adopted Daughter (Manhwa) / int_bac9f95d | comment |
Sweet Tooth: It's a marvel Leslie still has teeth with all the desserts her adoring family keep feeding her. | |
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The Monstrous Duke's Adopted Daughter (Manhwa) / int_bcb4f1f1 | type |
You Just Told Me | |
The Monstrous Duke's Adopted Daughter (Manhwa) / int_bcb4f1f1 | comment |
You Just Told Me: Before Aleca got the whole story of her abuse out of Leslie, she visited the Marquis Sperado and only knowing for sure from her grandfather that second and third born Sperado children tended to die young threw out the comment all of them had white or gray hair which the marquis confirmed with his reaction. | |
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The Monstrous Duke's Adopted Daughter (Manhwa) / int_bce16d24 | type |
Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? | |
The Monstrous Duke's Adopted Daughter (Manhwa) / int_bce16d24 | comment |
Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?: Averted in the end. Medea expects to be arrested for her crimes where she'd get ample opportunities to escape and plot, so Aleca just stabs her and finishes it. | |
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The Monstrous Duke's Adopted Daughter (Manhwa) / int_c2d04a04 | type |
Names to Trust Immediately | |
The Monstrous Duke's Adopted Daughter (Manhwa) / int_c2d04a04 | comment |
Names to Trust Immediately: Doesn't get much more trustworthy than being called 'Salvator,' a name meaning savior. | |
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The Monstrous Duke's Adopted Daughter (Manhwa) / int_c335b9ec | type |
Irony | |
The Monstrous Duke's Adopted Daughter (Manhwa) / int_c335b9ec | comment |
Irony: The Sperà do's entire lineage have coasted on their powerful dark magic as a bargaining tool they exploited, sacrificing their own children to attain it and abusing them to the point that they won't ever fight back. When it came Leslie's turn, the past sacrifices helped save her via that magic - that she was actually the rightful owner of, as were all the sacrifices. This bites the family in the ass when she finally pushes back, and their attempts to control or even kill Leslie to keep their status quo ends up ruining them because they have no idea how to react when things don't go their way for once while proclaiming they're the victims for being denied what is theirs. | |
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The Monstrous Duke's Adopted Daughter (Manhwa) / int_c66cb5a9 | type |
Human Sacrifice | |
The Monstrous Duke's Adopted Daughter (Manhwa) / int_c66cb5a9 | comment |
The Sperà do family, for at least 1000 years, favors the first born, without exception, and raises any siblings with silver hair to be a Human Sacrifice so that the heir will "awaken" Dark Magic. | |
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The Monstrous Duke's Adopted Daughter (Manhwa) / int_cadbe2b3 | type |
She Is the King | |
The Monstrous Duke's Adopted Daughter (Manhwa) / int_cadbe2b3 | comment |
She Is the King: The official English translation gives Aleca the title of Duke rather Duchess. The Korean title uses a phrase which literally means 'Duke' and technically the term 'Duchess' is usually reserved for those who marry a Duke. Aleca didn't marry a Duke, she inherited the title, so it is actually more appropriate that she holds the title 'Duke' rather than 'Duchess.' | |
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The Monstrous Duke's Adopted Daughter (Manhwa) / int_cf7ccd79 | type |
Orphanage of Fear | |
The Monstrous Duke's Adopted Daughter (Manhwa) / int_cf7ccd79 | comment |
Orphanage of Fear: Sairaine tells Leslie that he grew up in one as a result of being a war orphan. The director stole money, fed the children very little and often beat them. Sairaine grew quicker than the other children and eventually big enough to deal with the director on his own. | |
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The Monstrous Duke's Adopted Daughter (Manhwa) / int_e0140e6c | type |
From the Mouths of Babes | |
The Monstrous Duke's Adopted Daughter (Manhwa) / int_e0140e6c | comment |
From the Mouths of Babes: When Leslie meets Duke Salvator's husband, Sairaine, he tells her about how the Duke repelled an attempt by Leslie's father to take her back. Not really getting how to talk to children, however, Sairaine describes the incident as a "fucking massacre", prompting Leslie to ask what a "fucking massacre" is and getting Sairaine thrown out of the room. It's later revealed this isn't the first time this sort of thing has happened, as Bethrion asked the same thing as a child... in front of royalty. | |
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The Monstrous Duke's Adopted Daughter (Manhwa) / int_e5448c9 | type |
Pimped-Out Dress | |
The Monstrous Duke's Adopted Daughter (Manhwa) / int_e5448c9 | comment |
Pimped-Out Dress: The Sperà do ladies sans Leslie are always wearing these. One chapter shows the Salvators going to a dressmaker so they can get her some nice dresses, seeing as she was never able to wear anything nice before. | |
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The Monstrous Duke's Adopted Daughter (Manhwa) / int_e5fd8bc2 | type |
Hate Sink | |
The Monstrous Duke's Adopted Daughter (Manhwa) / int_e5fd8bc2 | comment |
Hate Sink: The Sperà do family does its best to live out the biblical scripture "the heart of man is truly wicked and desperate in its wickedness." To try and maintain their standing in the empire, they have been murdering their own children for Human Sacrifice, and do their damnedest to be utterly despicable to Leslie, while daring to call themselves "noble and righteous," and the current Marquis, Leslie's father, is absolutely desperate to hold on the family title of "the masters of Dark Magic," no matter how vile the actions he has to take are. | |
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The Monstrous Duke's Adopted Daughter (Manhwa) / int_eba6a077 | type |
Cain and Abel | |
The Monstrous Duke's Adopted Daughter (Manhwa) / int_eba6a077 | comment |
Cain and Abel: Ellie covets the power Leslie is born with and wants her dead to not just obtain the power, but return things to how they were before. Marquis Sperà do is the eldest of three siblings. His younger brothers were treated like slaves to the elder brother, being beaten and injured regularly. When they were sold to slavery, one died in the carriage crash and the other escaped and survived in secret. In the history of the Empire there has been at least one case of this for the Emperor himself. Emperor Rowtten killed not just his brother Amgrample but every other living member of their family to secure his ascension to the throne. | |
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The Monstrous Duke's Adopted Daughter (Manhwa) / int_ee7a60e9 | type |
One-Steve Limit | |
The Monstrous Duke's Adopted Daughter (Manhwa) / int_ee7a60e9 | comment |
One-Steve Limit: Averted; the titular Duke's full name is Acela Benkan Salvator (or Aleca in the scanlations). According to Leslie's Salvator-appointed etiquette teacher, there is an Acela Di Altera, another Duchess (or female Duke in the manhwa) and the fourth highest ranking woman in the Empire (directly behind Salvator). | |
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The Monstrous Duke's Adopted Daughter (Manhwa) / int_f3e87937 | type |
Tears of Blood | |
The Monstrous Duke's Adopted Daughter (Manhwa) / int_f3e87937 | comment |
Tears of Blood: Both Conrad and Leslie suffer this affliction while trying to keep Ephailtes from breaking free. | |
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The Monstrous Duke's Adopted Daughter (Manhwa) / int_f88f2449 | type |
Downer Beginning | |
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Downer Beginning: The story begins with a little girl about to be thrown into a fire pit, desperately calling for her family for help, but her father pushes her in when she refuses to go into the pit. This causes her to snap and accept that her treatment from the Sperà do family will never improve, causing her to flee to the Salvators for asylum. From there, the story spends a lot of time showing how much her new family cherishes her. | |
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The Dog Bites Back | |
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The Dog Bites Back: As early as chapter 3, Leslie, rightly, gets fed up with all the abuse she's suffered at the hands of the Sperà do family, and starts pushing back, at which point, her father, mother, elder sister, and all the household servants start treating her like she's evil, insane, and insanely evil. | |
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