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A Stepmother's Märchen — Chapter 2

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Dialogue Transcript A Stepmother's Märchen — Chapter 2 84

JEREMY SAYS THERE'S NO NEED FOR YOU TO ATTEND THE WEDDING, LADY NEUSCHWANSTEIN.

[Shuri von Neuschwanstein]: COME AGAIN...?

IT'S EXACTLY AS I'VE TOLD YOU.

I TRIED TO CONVINCE HIM OTHERWISE, BUT YOU KNOW HOW BUSY HE IS RIGHT NOW...

I BARELY HAD TIME MYSELF.

[Shuri von Neuschwanstein]: WAIT, JUST WAIT A MINUTE.

[Shuri von Neuschwanstein]: NO MATTER WHAT HE SAID, I HAVE A DUTY TO ATTEND THE WEDDING

[Shuri von Neuschwanstein]: SINCE I AM HIS MOTHER.

...IF YOU MUST KNOW,

THIS IS WHAT HE WANTED ME TO SAY TO YOU.

THIS 'MOTHERLY DUTY' THAT YOU BRING UP AT EVERY OPPORTUNITY...

IT ENDS AFTER THE WEDDING TOMORROW.

...AND IF YOU HAD A CHANCE TO BE RID OF THAT DUTY

EVEN JUST A DAY EARLIER, WOULDN'T YOU TAKE IT?

[Shuri von Neuschwanstein]: JEREMY SAID THAT...?

OF COURSE, I WANT TO BE ON GOOD TERMS WITH YOU,

BUT I DON'T WANT ANY SCENES AT MY WEDDING.

YOU UNDERSTAND, DON'T YOU?

[Shuri von Neuschwanstein]: JEREMY... SAID THAT...

[Jeremy von Neuschwanstein]: IT'S ONLY BEEN A MONTH SINCE FATHER PASSED AWAY!

[Jeremy von Neuschwanstein]: ...AND YOU'VE TAKEN A LOVER?! HAVE YOU LOST YOUR MIND?!

[Shuri von Neuschwanstein]: DON'T FRET IF YOU'RE WORRIED ABOUT YOUR INHERITANCE.

[Shuri von Neuschwanstein]: I HAVE NO INTERESTING IN REMARRYING.

[Jeremy von Neuschwanstein]: THAT'S NOT WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT!

[Jeremy von Neuschwanstein]: YOU'VE CHASED AWAY ALL OF OUR RELATIVES, AND FOR WHAT?

[Jeremy von Neuschwanstein]: JUST SO YOU CAN FOOL AROUND WITH SCOUNDRELS?!

[Jeremy von Neuschwanstein]: DO YOU THINK I'LL JUST STAND BY AND LET YOU DO THAT?

[Shuri von Neuschwanstein]: WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT?!

[Shuri von Neuschwanstein]: ...DO YOU THINK

[Shuri von Neuschwanstein]: THAT I WANT TO BE STUCK IN THIS HOUSE ACTING LIKE YOUR MOTHER?

[Shuri von Neuschwanstein]: I'M UNDER NO OBLIGATION TO LISTEN TO WHAT YOU HAVE TO SAY

[Shuri von Neuschwanstein]: UNTIL YOU MARRY AND BECOME LORD OF THIS HOUSEHOLD!

[Shuri von Neuschwanstein]: JUST LEAVE ME ALONE!

[Shuri von Neuschwanstein]: JUST GO AND SWING THAT FANCY SWORD, GO HUNT, OR CURSE AT ME TOGETHER WITH YOUR SIBLINGS...

[Shuri von Neuschwanstein]: DO WHATEVER YOU WANT!

[Jeremy von Neuschwanstein]: ...AS YOU WISH,

[Jeremy von Neuschwanstein]: LADY NEUSCHWANSTEIN.

SILENCE

[Shuri von Neuschwanstein]: HOW COULD THEY DO THIS TO ME?!

[Elias von Neuschwanstein]: JEREMY TOLD YOU NOT TO SHOW UP~ IF YOU TRIED TO GO ANYWAY,

[Elias von Neuschwanstein]: YOU'D BE HUMILIATED!

[Shuri von Neuschwanstein]: HOW COULD THEY ALL BE SO CRUEL? NOT A SINGLE ONE OF THEM WAS WILLING TO TRY AND CONVINCE JEREMY TO CHANGE HIS MIND!

[Gwen]: MY LADY...

[Shuri von Neuschwanstein]: THAT BASTARD! THAT SURLY AND RUDE BASTARD!

[Shuri von Neuschwanstein]: AFTER ALL THAT I'VE DONE TO RAISE THEM! HOW COULD THEY DO THIS TO ME?!

[Shuri von Neuschwanstein]: IT'S NOT THAT I'M UPSET OVER NOT GOING TO THE WEDDING!

[Shuri von Neuschwanstein]: I'M MORE UPSET BECAUSE THIS SHOWS ME WHAT THEY THINK OF ME!

[Shuri von Neuschwanstein]: ISN'T THAT RIGHT, GWEN?!

[Gwen]: YES, MY LADY.

[Shuri von Neuschwanstein]: RIGHT?! I'M RIGHT?!

[Shuri von Neuschwanstein]: IT FEELS LIKE MY TEARS HAVE FROZEN...

[Shuri von Neuschwanstein]: HAS IT ALREADY BEEN NINE YEARS?

[Shuri von Neuschwanstein]: THE ELDEST SON, JEREMY, ALWAYS LOOKED THROUGH ME LIKE A SHADOW, LIKE I DIDN'T EXIST.

[Shuri von Neuschwanstein]: THE SECOND SON, ELIAS, WAS A MISCREANT WHO OFTEN LIKED TO PLAY CRUEL JOKES.

[Shuri von Neuschwanstein]: THE YOUNGEST OF THE CHILDREN, THE TWINS, THREW WICKED TANTRUMS WHILE SCREAMING FOR THEIR REAL MOTHER.

[Shuri von Neuschwanstein]: THE NEUSCHWANSTEIN FAMILY HAS A LONGSTANDING HISTORY OF PROTECTING THE IMPERIAL FAMILY

[Shuri von Neuschwanstein]: EVER SINCE THE COUNTRY WAS FIRST ESTABLISHED,

[Shuri von Neuschwanstein]: WITH ITS NAME REVERED EVEN AMONGST THE PEERAGE,

[Shuri von Neuschwanstein]: ASTRONOMICAL WEALTH,

[Shuri von Neuschwanstein]: AND EVEN ITS OWN ORDER OF KNIGHTS.

[Shuri von Neuschwanstein]: THEN AN UNPRECEDENTED TRAGEDY BEFELL THIS GREAT FAMILY. I BECAME THE WIDOWED LADY OF THE ESTATE,

[Shuri von Neuschwanstein]: WHEN I WAS BARELY SIXTEEN.

[Shuri von Neuschwanstein]: ACCORDING TO THE WISHES OF MY LATE HUSBAND'S WILL, I WAS PUT IN CHARGE.

[Shuri von Neuschwanstein]: AND THE RELATIVES TRIED TO DO EVERYTHING IN THEIR POWER TO SEIZE CONTROL FROM ME.

[Shuri von Neuschwanstein]: HOW COULD THEY HAVE KNOWN THAT I WOULD ACT LIKE I COULD DO ANYTHING WITHOUT HESITATION,

[Shuri von Neuschwanstein]: THAT I WOULD BE A WICKED LADY OF THE ESTATE,

[Shuri von Neuschwanstein]: THAT I WOULD STAY AT THE BEDSIDE OF THE CHILDREN WHEN THEY WOULD TAKE ILL,

[Shuri von Neuschwanstein]: THAT I WOULD BECOME THE WITCH OF NEUSCHWANSTEIN CASTLE...

[Shuri von Neuschwanstein]: IN THIS ARISTOCRACY, FULL OF LIES AND DECEIT,

[Shuri von Neuschwanstein]: NO ONE COULD HAVE BELIEVED WHAT I WOULD BECOME.

[Shuri von Neuschwanstein]: JOHAN...

[Shuri von Neuschwanstein]: ...I DID ALL OF THAT, SO I COULD KEEP MY PROMISE TO YOU.

IF I MAY SAY ONE MORE THING...

I BELIEVE THAT YOU ARE PARTLY TO BLAME

FOR THIS SITUATION, LADY NEUSCHWANSTEIN.

YOUR IMAGE IN HIGH SOCIETY...

YOU MUST BE AWARE OF IT.

IT'S ONLY RIGHT THAT HE...

RESENTS YOU.

[Shuri von Neuschwanstein]: ...I CLAWED AND FOUGHT FOR THIS LIFE...

[Shuri von Neuschwanstein]: AND WHAT DID THAT LEAVE ME?

[Shuri von Neuschwanstein]: JOHAN...

[Shuri von Neuschwanstein]: WHEN...

[Shuri von Neuschwanstein]: DID IT ALL GO WRONG?

Chapter Summary

A Stepmother's Märchen Chapter 2 centers on Lady Neuschwanstein as she is told by Jeremy not to attend his wedding. She insists it is her motherly duty to go, only to learn Jeremy says that duty ends after tomorrow's wedding. In tears she recalls a past fight over a lover accusation and inheritance, and laments nine years of sacrifice raising Jeremy, Elias and the twins while protecting the estate, only to feel shut out and resented.

Chapter Analysis: A Stepmother's Märchen — Chapter 2

Chapter Analysis A Stepmother's Märchen — Chapter 2
A Stepmother's Märchen Chapter 2 opens with Lady Neuschwanstein being told there is no need for her to attend the wedding, a message relayed on Jeremy's behalf with the pointed addition that her motherly duty ends after the wedding tomorrow. She initially protests that she has a duty to attend since she is his mother, only to be stunned by the cold suggestion that she would gladly be rid of that duty even a day earlier. The request to avoid scenes at the wedding leaves her repeating Jeremy's words in disbelief, establishing rejection rather than celebration as the emotional core of the chapter. Her grief quickly turns backward to a bitter confrontation only a month after her husband's death, when she was accused of taking a lover and chasing away relatives to fool around with scoundrels. In that memory she defends herself by saying she has no interest in remarrying and no obligation to listen until Jeremy marries and becomes lord, while he answers with formal, distant obedience. In the present, she vents her pain to Gwen, insisting she is not simply upset about missing the wedding but devastated by what the exclusion reveals about how the children view her after all she has done to raise them. A Stepmother's Märchen Chapter 2 deepens this sense of failure as she reflects that nine years have passed, recalling Jeremy looking through her like a shadow, Elias playing cruel jokes, and the twins screaming for their real mother. That history is framed by her struggle as a widow who took charge at barely sixteen under her late husband's will while relatives tried to seize control. She describes becoming the wicked lady of the estate and the witch of Neuschwanstein Castle in an aristocracy full of lies and deceit, staying at the children's bedsides when ill and clawing for survival to keep her promise to Johan. The chapter closes on her questioning when it all went wrong, and A Stepmother's Märchen Chapter 2 leaves her caught between sacrifice and resentment with no reassurance that her devotion was ever understood.
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