#Ferdinand aob

[nefertittythegreat]

What I love about this fandom is how we are all in love with Ferdinand despite him being the most unlikeable person ever. Like he is an anti-social, rude, cold-hearted, know it all snob and we love him all the more for it.

When he enters the story this is what we immediately learn about him, but he was kind to Myne. So we know there is more to him, but we have to wait till to get it. Until that moment in the Trombe subjugation we weren’t sure how to fell about Ferdinand nor how’d he react because he is always the first person to remind Myne of her place. She’s a commoner and despite guiding her he also doesn’t let her forget that. So when he backs Myne we finally know we can trust him like really trust him. And that he is someone to lean on.

And even before we learn his sad backstory(which again takes VOLUMES hell PARTS). We already love and trust him. His backstory doesn’t endear us to him, because we have long since had love for him. He doesn’t need a sad woobie backstory for us to feel for him and feel positively about him because like Myne he has long since proven himself to us. And while many people in story would liken spending time with him to torture, we know that despite all of that he is a good person, and loyal to a fault.

And honestly, he doesn’t really grow in that aspect, I mean he learns a little but the things I listed earlier are still very much his character flaws. He doesn’t grow past them, learn to be kinder, socialize more, or anything like that.

They’re still apart of his personality, they’re flaws but they are his.

And in keeping these flaws we retain the part of him the is undeniably Ferdinand.

We love Ferdinand despite the fact that if we met him in person many of us wouldn’t like him, and I think that’s one of the most fantastic things about AoaB

#ascendance of a bookworm #honzuki no gekokujou #ferdinand aob #but daddy I love him #he’s so funny #and so terrible #like undeniably the most annoying man #like Magdalena I get it #but also HOW CAN YOU NOT LOVE HIM #HES LITERALLY PERFECT?????? #*Ferdinand comes out of his hidden room reeking of potions having not slept in a week nor has he eaten real food in 2* #This is your man? #yes that is my man 🥰 #sadly he's too conventionally attractive to be a tumblr sexy man

[princecassius]

Want to be the next Gutenburg?

#love love love aob season 3 #so much fun #art #comissions open #this is a new tag for artists #this is a tag for new artists #comissions #digital art #artwork #fanart #commissions #ascendance of a bookworm #aob #myne aob #rozemyne #maine aob #honzuki no gekokujou #ferdinand #ferdinand aob

[satire-please]

Things I liked about AOB Part 5 Volume 3:

How Rozemyne's and Ferninand's love languages are acts of service and NAGGING each other with things like:

Rozemyne creates a whole grand setup so Ferdinand can relax for one night at the academy.

Rozemyne and Ferdinand's little exchange of "Welcome Home" "It is...good to be back" in the Ehrenfest dormitory

She makes a soft comfy bench for Ferdinand to sleep on and in a previous extra she compared HIM to a BENCH because of how much he SUPPORTS her.

A delicious dinner with all of his favorites (with enough leftover meals to last Ferdinand for MONTHS)

What do they do for fun? They end up doing a science/alchemy project to make multiple recording devices/gem to be put into stuffed animals. Because you know, they're overpowered nerds.

Said recording devices are used to scold each other. Like the messages are reminders to eat, be mindful of your health and even *gasp* a bit of praise

Rozemyne shoves research documents at Ferdinand as 'reading' material to distract him from reprimanding her. It does not work, but Ferdinand still stays up all that night binge reading them anyway.

Ferdinand does two medical checkups, one when they first meet that night and first thing in the morning. He remains hyper observant about her health...to the point where Wilfried and Oswarld are even surprised by his thoroughness.

Ferdinand's sincere "Thank you, Rozemyne, Rihyarda." WITH THIS SOFT FACE!

THESE TWO JUST CARE ABOUT EACH OTHER SO MUCH and I am going to scream about it until my head falls off.

#honzuki no gekokujou #ascendance of a bookworm #rozemyne #Ferdinand #AoB Ferdinand

[ming-sik]

i completely forgot about You Throw Myne Like The Football as part of sylvester's character introduction

#ascendance of a bookworm #ironically this actually does characterize him well bc this would be such an insanely out of pocket thing to do for anyone who wasnt an arc #foreshadowing that he does in fact supersede ferdinand in status #aob spoilers

[aubdrewanchel]

#These two are so precious to me #ascendance of a bookworm #honzuki no gekokujou #ascendance of bookworm #honzuki no gekokujō #AoaB #AoB #ascendance of a bookworm meme #Rozemyne #Ferdinand

[midground]

Kind of wild how many people call Ferdinand "Quinta" in Bookworm fandom spaces. Like... It's not deadnaming because he's not trans, but it certainly feels like adjacent behavior. Using Quinta on a namestone has the same vibes to me as using the name on your birth certificate to file your taxes - legally necessary and neutral to unpleasant depending on your associations with your legal name. It has absolutely nothing to do with how Ferdinand thinks of himself or the name he would want people to use for him.

Unless Ferdinand himself asks Rozemyne to call him Quinta, I'm going to continue operating under the assumption that he'd prefer to use the name his father gave him rather than the number he was given when he was being raised to be a feystone.

And until then anyone who calls him Quinta as a matter of course is going to get some major side-eye from me.

#Ascendance of a Bookworm #AoB #Ferdinand #spoilers #light novel spoilers #aob spoilers #light novel #P5V7 spoilers

[yuiamaya]

Part 5 Volume 12 spoilers

I love them so fucking much

#ascendance of a bookworm #honzuki no gekokujou #honzuki no gekokujō #aob #aoab #myne #rozemyne #ferdinand #ferdinand x rozemyne #fermai #fermyne #Rozemyne x Ferdinand #coloring #Part 5 volume 12 #p5v12 #light novel #They are perfect for eachoter #Fermai my beloved

[tired-reader-writer]

Progress on the WIP of my Ascendance of a Bookworm OC. Actually, the drawing had been sitting for a while because I... kinda forgot to upload it. I was distracted with other fandom stuff. I haven't done the inserted gemstones on the cloak yet, who knows when I'll get to that, but for the moment have this. I'm pretty proud of it.

#ascendance of a bookworm #honzuki no gekokujou #horaia (aob oc) #horaia (oc) #liminal au #liminal: the unstraying #rotten egg's shitty art #I want to talk about her more but I'm not so sure of this fandom's perception of OCs #esp as horaia is “shipped” (not really it's queerplatonic and it doesn't get romantic or sexual) with Ferdinand #which is like Blasphemy Supreme™ against the Golden Ship #but at least the drawing I will share. I'm allowed to be proud of that much surely

[kumashhii]

basically finished, just need to thicken outlines

#art #digital art #digital drawing #fanart #ascendance of a bookworm #aob ferdinand #aob #aoab #sticker design

[reachforthestars-101]

I just thought this was funny

#ascendance of a bookworm #Ferdinand #aoab #aob #ascendance of a bookworm Ferdinand #my post #rfts art

[stardustizuku]

Something I find extremely refreshing in AoB is how the narrative lets Rozemyne be a warrior, and the one with the most political influence on her own.

Ive read too many Isekai and almost all the time the power a Female Lead wields is entirely on who she marries or who is interested in her. She may be just the daughter of a marquis, but the crown prince is so infatuated with her, he’ll do anything! So that means he’ll solve all her problems for her!

Which is, fine in some cases. But I noticed this means that if she gets wronged, she’s the never the one to get revenge (even in so called “villainess” stories).

This ties into the idea of women having to remain “good”, so while they are allowed to want revenge, they can never enact it. Or at least not be the one to, through violence, deal the final blow. This would make them directly responsible for their actions. So while the villain/villainess can die, it can never be the FL who uses the sword to kill them. It always has to be through the Male Lead, another Villain, or even the Court System.

So by having the Male Lead be the one to physically enact the revenge or wielding the power - the Female Lead gets to come out as the “good” one in the READER’s eyes. Because her actions can never be morally grey (in fear of alienating readers)

HOWEVER by doing this you also make her power subservient to the man’s affection towards her. And makes her overall power to come off as…useless in some cases.

I just read one where the, supposedly, genius swordswoman is almost r*ped. She does try to attack the man, but gets overwhelmed. The prince is the one who jumps into the action to not only save her, but kill the man. Which was infuriating cause: Why did the author chose to rob her main character of being the one to hurt the men who hurt her? Minutes later she does kill a man, so it was entirely so she could be saved by a man from an even worse man.

But AoB doesn’t do that.

Rozemyne is powerful, because she wields insane amounts of power as Rozemyne. She’s the one who creates trends, she’s the one who knows the Bible, she’s the one who created paper books, she’s the one forming alliances and creating her own “faction” of sorts that is 120% loyal to her.

Never does her power become related to who she’s engaged with. Her power is inherent to her, and people try to tie her down or control her via marriage. She gets engaged to Wilfred because she’s becoming too influential and they hope that that can be transferred to Wilfred and cement HIS position as the next in line. She gets engaged to Sisgwald because she’s the one who is closest to getting the Book of Mestionora and they NEED her be part of the royal family.

The only instance in which she wields the power of who she’s engaged to get away with anything - is during the Ahrensbach attack and it’s simply a

Which facilitated everything but given the circumstances, she was gonna do it even if he didn’t give her his blessing.

Even with her endgame partner, Ferdinand, the dynamic is so different.

In most stories the FL attracts the attention of progressively more powerful and higher-ranking-than-her men, and most always ends up with the one with the highest political power.

In more than one occasion I’ve seen a FL ditch the knight who’s been with her since day 1, to be with the crown prince cause he’s the one who will make her the most powerful woman in the room. It’s always framed as “true love” but sometimes it’s done so poorly you can see that’s just the author wanting her to end up as a princess.

Ferdinand is never the most powerful man in the room. At least politically speaking. Yes, he’s the smartest, most capable and the one pulling the strings, but that doesn’t translate to political power. In part 2, in the temple, the one with the most power is Bezewanst. And part 3 an onwards, you could argue Rozemyne is always the one with the higher rank.

In the temple, she’s the High Bishop, and in the castle she’s an archduke candidate with Leisgang blood. Ferdinand is the High Priest and the half brother of the archduke with no real faction behind him. Rozemyne is aware that titles aren’t the only thing that matters and Ferdinand is obviously the best because he’s capable - but that’s not the norm in most Isekai stories.

It’s even used at times as a way to alíviate Ferdinand’s burden. She’s the High Bishop - she’s capable of denying extra work and even ordering him to take care of himself.

Even as Ferdinand is married off, the one creating connections to the royal family to alíviate his pain is Rozemyne, not the other way around. The one wielding her power to force others to protect her loved ones is HER. Ferdinand is, up to that point, only trying to save himself and Ehrenfest. Rozemyne fits the archetype of a Male Lead far better than Ferdinand in some cases.

And while she never gets to give out the order or kill someone whos wronged her directly, it doesn’t feel bad because one, Rozemyne rarely holds a grudge and sees them getting disposed outside of her eyes as the best way to handle it. Because two, she hates blood and unnecessary violence. And that, in the narrative, is genuinely presented as a flaw. It’s not a “she’s so pure she can’t be mean”, it’s a “she would do it but she genuinely can’t stomach it”. She could do it, she would rather not.

There’s also the fact that she’s genuinely good at combat - at least as a strategist, healer and commander. Her inability to wield a sword to directly attack others (but she did use the spear once) and frail nature, is not doesn’t feel like an excuse to not have her kill, but a limit. She can’t do everything. She’s filling a lot of positions, having her grab a sword is not only out of character but unnecessary.

The only people who she seems to hold a very real grudge against are Georgine and Detline, and that’s entirely for what they’ve done to others, not her. And while I’m still in part 8, her not being the one to directly kill then of get rid of them in the future, does not seem bad. Because Ferdinand and Sylvester have waaaay more reasons to hate them and get their revenge.

#ascendance of a bookworm #honzuki no gekokujou #this got longer than intended #oh well #manhua #mini essay

[readsquirrel]

Still rolling the AoB revelations from Part5Vol8 around in my mind like a piece of hard candy…

So, Ferdinand has continually lectured Rozemyne about being out of sync with culture, and acting without thinking carefully… and yet…

He literally pissed off a god so much with his own rudeness that said god is telling other people they should go murder him…

Ferdinand, mr opinionated, mr I know the correct behavior, mr just follow my lead, went to ask for the other half of the book and got the answer -from a god- of “lol no, kill yourself”.

Oh, Ferdinand, you really put on a good front for Rozemyne.

#ascendance of a bookworm spoilers #ascendance of a bookworm #honzuki no gekokujou #spoilers

[satire-please]

My live reaction in AoB Part 5: Volume 7

Rozemyne finds out she has a new name stone by accident. A name stone. The magical stone that nobles give to others to prove their loyalty. A name stone that gives complete control to its new owner. A name stone where if the owner dies with it, the stone's person also dies.

OH MY GOSH FERDINAND, WHY ARE YOU LIKE THIS?

#ascendance of a bookworm #honzuki no gekokujou #AoB Ferdinand #And we find out it was a good idea too #Very useful and helpful in the future #But why so sneaky ferdinand?

[ming-sik]

this may be a controversial opinion but i think taking the time to establish water guns as a rozemyne invention perhaps entirely for this moment several volumes later where ferdinand pulls out a fully realistic handgun is in the top 10 aob worldbuilding moments of all time

#ascendance of a bookworm #aob spoilers #my only complaint is that i wish it was a still shaped like a water gun because can you imagine #the fact that its still Definitely A Watergun is the best part

[aubdrewanchel]

#ascendance of a bookworm #honzuki no gekokujou #AoaB #Aob #ascendance of bookworm #Ferdinand #Sylvester

[the-alexel-lucas]

Looks like it’s AoB essay time, might as well join in. I want to focus on the conflict of the story as well as Myne’s noble persona. This will be getting into end of series stuff so if you don’t like that…don’t look.

So, what is the conflict? Well the easy answer is that it varies, P1 is Myne’s devouring and her struggle to survive, P2 is her struggles in the temple and the inevitability of being adopted, P3 is her adjusting to being a noble and trying to gather the ingredients for her jureve, P4 is struggles of Ahrensbach affecting Ehrenfest, and P5 is the Lanzenave invasion and potential collapse of the country. But that’s looking at the story in it’s individual parts, not as a whole. What I believe to be the true conflict of the story is Myne trying to make her way back to her family.

It is often said that P1 and 2 are the prologue (sometimes this is extended to P3 and occasionally even P4) and this is what I am basing my argument off of. In P1 we are introduced to Myne’s family, Gunther a hard working well meaning father, Effa a caring but stern mother, and Tuuli a supportive and gentle older sister. Initially Myne has little to no interest in them outside of survival but over time she grows more and more close to them, to the point that she would choose death over leaving them even if it could mean having books. This is reiterated and doubled down on in P2 where we and Myne see how poorly she treated her mother as Urano and while she understands that she has to leave them for everyone’s safety she wants to drag that out as long as physically possible, and then that time is cut short. Now bound by magic contract they cannot interact as a family and as time goes on more and more connections to that life are taken from her and it hurts Myne deeply. She is forced to wear a mask at all times, she must be the noble Rozemyne for everyone everywhere, that image cannot slip. However when she is in absolute private with those in the know who are not her family she can drop the act, but her engagement means she cannot use the hidden room where she could be Myne with Lutz, Benno, and Mark, Ferdinand’s engagement takes from Ehrenfest entirely and takes not only her mentor but the only noble who truly knows her. And then once again she must prepare to leave everyone she knows and loves, even if it is just momentarily, to protect them.

Her love for her family runs so deep that when Mestionora takes over her body she must block those memories to keep her occupied. At this point she is no longer Myne, she has become the mask and is fully Rozemyne. When Ferdinand restores her memories he offers to fake her death so she can return to her family and live her happy life but at this point she is much more aware of who she is and what options are available to her, but a concession can be made. And that is where the story ends, with the resolution of the conflict, with Myne returning to her commoner family and putting her hair up like she did in P1V1, because while Rozemyne is 14 Myne has come of age. And is home.

#ascendance of a bookworm #honzuki no gekokujou #I came up with this in the shower