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She is sitting in the library, studying. It's her most common pastime, by hours; spending time with her sister is more enjoyable but Jaromira prefers to socialize more broadly and Katarzyna would only get in the way. This is better on net; the two of them share a room, so it isn't as though her sister's time is entirely hogged by the other girls who call this boarding school "home." Or at least "prison." Katarzyna doesn't mind it, though; the school library is excellent, and basic manners and care for the books has endeared her to the librarian to a sufficient degree to lubricate the interlibrary loans process when there's something she wants to read that they don't have.
Kanimir and Jaromira in Fabulous
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fabulous_ones
You did not. Before you even went to your style appointment? What if he changes your color scheme?
It was somewhat rash. If he changes my color scheme I'll probably donate them to the school or something.
fabulous_ones
Cool, then we can let new girls use them before they get their own or if they don't want their own.
Yes. And, to be fair, I do endorse spending my father's money to piss off my stepmother.
fabulous_ones
Wow. And then she, what, whines to your dad that you're making purchases with your allowance?
No, she doesn't whine about our allowance, and she doesn't actively complain to Father about it anymore, but things like academic materials and, now, magical girl things, don't count against our allowance, and when we lived with her she used to corner us and try to convince us we were being selfish for it.
Well, she says it's not about the money having a specific better use, it's about habits of frugality vs. frivolousness, but actually it's that she spent the first three years of her marriage to Father trying to get him to revoke our trust funds so there would be more money for her children to inherit.
fabulous_ones
Why did he marry this person?
Are her kids actually going to be in a financial pinch if they don't get his money?
She's better at pretending to be a decent human being to Father--she never outright said those words to his face, it's just not hard to read between the lines if you're more socially aware than Father, which even I am.
Her children are currently in exactly the same boat Jaromira and I are, financially speaking, she just wants each of them to inherit one-third of Father's wealth instead of one-fifth. She's pretty much the closest thing you're going to get to a real-life fairytale Wicked Stepmother.
I really hope she's a better person to her own kids than she is to...most people...but it's hard to tell, she doesn't let Jaromira and I interact with them unsupervised if she can help it.
fabulous_ones
That's really weird. Is she worried you'll think less of them and be less likely to want them to inherit lots of money? Is she worried they'll like you and want her to stop doing her thing?
I think it's more of a "I don't like this kid, so I don't want my kid playing with them" thing but I'm not sure.
Charging her obscene amounts of money and watching her look like she'd just swallowed a lemon would be fun. Maybe. I probably shouldn't literally sentence her to death by old age for being terrible.
True. Maybe I will start a charity for something she doesn't like and name it after her, that would be both prosocial *and* satisfyingly petty.