Mylene Rapha Holfort

Mylene Rapha Holfort (ミレーヌ・ラファ・ホルファート) is a side character of The World of Otome Games is Tough for Mobs series. She is the Queen of Holfort Kingdom, wife of Roland and the mother of Julius and Erica Rapha Holfort.

Appearance
Mylene is a beautiful woman whose look belies her age. She has light blue eyes and platinum-blonde waist-length hair. She possesses a womanly, glamorous figure but still gives a gentle and tender impression.

Her casual dress consists of a long white short-sleeve dress with blue accents, brown boots with a blue ribbon headband, and a golden blue jewel pendant.

In anime, she wears a blue high-neck sleeveless evening dress embroidered with a white pattern, a transparent shawl, a jewel necklace, and a tiara during official ceremonies.

Personality
Mylene is a benevolent queen who treats her subjects with compassion and fairness. While many spoiled, arrogant noblewomen love to throw their weight around, Mylene usually interacts with people politely yet maintains her regal bearing. Moreover, She is humble enough to acknowledge and apologize for her wrongdoing despite her high status. Her humility is in contrast with the overbearing personality of many Holfort noblewomen.

When Mylene means business, however, she will lose her usual loveliness and adopt a calm, no-nonsense attitude. Even Julius will lose his usual cockiness when he's in the same room with his mother in her queen mode.

Underneath her lovely and graceful appearance, however, Mylene has another colder and more ruthless side. Known for her dreadful moniker, Black-heart Princess, Mylene is a realist politician willing to employ any means necessary to achieve her goals. In her eyes, individuals matter little in national and international politics; Personal feelings are meaningless compared to a nation's interests. Therefore, royalties and nobles must dutifully forsake their desires and happiness for the good of the country.

As she holds such a pragmatic view, unsurprisingly, Mylene has made multiple rational but morally questionable decisions over the years.


 * Even though Mylene understood that the pro-female policies were unjust to feudal lords, she did not intervene as the royal family benefited from those policies.
 * She forced her daughter, Erica, into a political marriage to support her homeland.
 * As the royal family's standing deteriorated, Mylene again tried to arrange the marriage between Erica and Leon, even though Leon was already engaged to Angelica, whom Mylene was close to.
 * When the neighbors besieged the kingdom, Mylene intended to abandon the feudal lords to be destroyed since she deemed them as potential enemies.

Story Overview
Original Game Story: Otome Game In the original game, she appeared as a minor antagonist, being against Julius and Olivia's relationship. She would eventually accept it after Olivia was declared a saint.

Volume 1
Mylene was present during Leon's promotion.

Volume 2
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Volume 3
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Volume 4
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Volume 5
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Volume 6
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Volume 7
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Volume 9
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Volume 10
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Volume 11
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Family
Roland is Mylene's husband. Their marriage was a political union to secure the alliance between the Holfort Kingdom and Mylene's homeland, the United Kingdom Repard. Unfortunately, there is little warmth between the royal couple. While Mylene and Roland care for each other to an extent, their current feeling for each other is only at the level of acquaintance.
 * Roland Rapha Holfort (Husband)

The cause of their cold relationship is mainly their incompatible personalities. While Mylene is a hard-working, selfless person who takes her royal duty seriously, Roland is a selfish slacker who privately hates being a king. Mylene particularly detests how Roland pushes all his work to her and lazes around with several young women. The personality mismatch unavoidably results in frequent quarrels and bickering between them. Mylene cares for her son, but after the events of the duel between him and his friends, she is somewhat disappointed by her son's actions. She's worried that Julius is becoming an idiot after he fell for Marie's bewitched.
 * Julius Rapha Holfort (Son)

Mylene loves Erica but is also strict with her for being the princess. Recognizing Erica's kindhearted nature, Mylene primarily raised her to be married off to another household rather than succeeding her as the queen. While Mylene is willing to put her daughter in a political marriage, she still wants Erica to have a decent relationship with her partner instead of being trapped in a loveless marriage like herself.
 * Erica Rapha Holfort (Daughter)

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 * Jake Rapha Holfort (Stepson)

Others
Mylene met Leon for the first time during the knighting ceremony. Although she had publicly forgiven Leon for beating her son in a duel, Mylene still held a little grudge toward the young noble. Thus, she decided to visit him privately during the school festival to cause him some trouble as a punishment. But Mylene soon abandoned her little payback plot after witnessing the female students' mistreatment of the male students firsthand.
 * Leon Fou Bartfort (Love Interest)

However, her relationship with Leon took an unexpected turn when the young man, out of nowhere, jokingly proposed to the queen. This incident sparked a mutual attraction between Mylene and Leon. For the queen of Holfort, Leon is the first man who openly displays his affection for her without other ulterior motives. He constantly shows concern for Mylene's well-being, while her legal husband mostly neglects her. Additionally, he proves himself to be a capable and reliable man Mylene can rely on during a crisis.

Although she insists on maintaining distance between them, Mylene earnestly enjoys Leon courting her. She usually blushes whenever Leon flirts with her and when she's musing about him. Over time, Leon gradually becomes crucial emotional support for Mylene as she has to run the country and regularly tackle her husband and son's shenanigans.

Nonetheless, their relationship became somewhat cold for a while. As Mylene tried to betroth her daughter, Erica, to Leon and overcome the dire situation of the royal family, she consciously distanced herself from Leon, referring to him as Duke Bartfort instead of his name. Despite her bitter and jealous feelings, she believed it was the best course of action. Ultimately, Mylene's plan fell through, and Leon's persistence again opened her heart.

Interestingly, the close connection between Mylene and Leon is common knowledge among the Holfort nobility and the upper class of neighboring countries. Usually, their relationship would be a serious crime of adultery, resulting in severe punishment for both persons. Nonetheless, due to the unique circumstance, only a small group of people are bothered by this issue.

Angelica is the daughter of the Redgrave family and the former fiancée of Mylene's son. The two share a relatively close relationship, as Mylene was Angelica's mentor during the latter's training in the royal palace. As Julius's mother, Mylene felt responsible for her son's actions toward Angelica and was relieved that her former apprentice managed to move on.
 * Angelica Rapha Redgrave

Nonetheless, there is some awkwardness between Mylene and Angelica because the latter's fiancé openly displays a romantic attraction toward the former. Angelica is clearly not amused by this fact and often feels jealous of Mylene for being Leon's ideal marriage partner. It is stated multiple times in the story that Mylene hates Marie for her actions, due to her trying to achieve a reverse harem and causing many problems that happen afterward.
 * Marie Fou Lafan

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Abilities & Equipment
Mylene is an astute, capable ruler who is well-versed in internal affairs, diplomacy, and many other fields. Angelica once noted that Mylene is wise and insightful to an incredible degree; She can easily see through another person's thoughts and feelings.

Trivia

 * She is the only adult who Leon wants to marry, because of her caring nature. She admits later to Angelica that Leon’s constant flirting and praise makes her regress into her younger, more naive girl who is flustered to be getting this kind of attention from someone two decades younger, but promises her never to pursue him but insists that Angelica doesn’t reprimand Leon for this behaviour. A shocking statement for Angelica.
 * She was originally a princess from the country named United Kingdom Repard before becoming the Queen of Holfort Kingdom.
 * The​ picture​ with​ two​ kids draw from​ manga​ka​ isn't canon​ as​ you​ can​ see​ it description in​ the​ picture​ [※イマジナリーイラストです = *This is an imaginary illustration.]​