Stephanie Fou Offrey

Stephanie Fou Offrey (ステファニー・フォウ・オフリー) is minor antagonist who appears during the event where the academy having a festival celebration. She's part of the Offrey Household.

Appearance
*Information will be added soon later.*

Personality
Despite being the earl's daughter, Stephanie utterly lacks qualities found in other high-ranking noblewomen. Her personality, in truth, is close to that of daughters from viscount and baron households. Being haughty, overbearing, selfish, and rude, She is virtually an embodiment of all undesirable traits of a noble lady.

Unlike other countess-rank ladies like Deirdre and Clarice, Stephanie is incredibly vulgar. Her speeches and conducts are remarkably unrefined, which one may not expect from the earl's daughter. Her lack of etiquette is caused by inadequate inculcation since Stephanie never went through a training period as a maid.

Her arrogance is particularly awful, even by the standard of noble. Not only does Stephanie loves to intimidate everyone below her station, but she also constantly antagonizes people with equal or higher status. It seems that she's so used to getting her way by making the threat to the point that she's never cared about her target. Stephanie, in fact, even dares to threaten Angelica, whose family has much more political power than her household.

Stephanie habitually flaunts her wealth by having several Exclusive Servants. She seems to be overcompensating for her family's lack of noble blood and status among high-ranking nobles. Such attitude turns out to be something she developped in her childhood, on account of being ridiculed by her peers for being the daughter of a merchant who forced his way into nobility. Developping a strong desire to be acknowledged, she brings down to her knees one of the girls who ridiculed her, through the power of her family. Seeing said girl apologize and miserably try to flatter her, Stephanie convinced herself that if she were to rule by force, everyone would follow her.

Story Overview
Original Game: Otome Game She appeared as a minor antagonist in the game. Her role was consistent even with the alterations caused by Marie and Leon with the exception being that her appearance and event were supposed to happen a year later.

Volume 2
She bullied Olivia during the festival, showing doubts about her relationships with Leon and Angelica. In addition, she was a ringleader among the girls who made a scene at Leon's café, leading to trouble with her family after she insulted the Mylene Rapha Holfort.

She and Angelica fought during the airbike race on the last day of the festival and then after she bullied Olivia into accompanying Leon against the sky pirates. She planned so that the sky pirates would attack Leon and the others and would spare only Carla. But her plan seemed to have backfired as Leon and his ship Partner were more formidable than she thought and they were easily able to subdue the sky pirates. After Leon fully subdued the sky pirates, Luxion found several documents with interactions between them and the Offrey Household.

When the documents came into light, she & her whole household lost their rank as a noble and their assets, territory and everything else were seized and their Nobel titles and rank removed.

Spin-off: Part 2
In the spin-off story, she sought out Marie during the festival and informed her that their households had arranged a marriage between her brother and Marie.

Family
Her half-brother and the heir of the family. Their relationship is not the best. Even though them having different mothers is also a reason for their sibling rivalry, Stephanie especially despises his personality of taking pleasure in bullying the weak, but staying quiet in front of the strong.
 * Ricky Fou Offrey (Older Brother)

Classmates
As Brad's family was in charge of the border and the Offrey Household held diplomatic relationships with the principality, so they were engaged. As stated, The Offrey household was still a relatively new noble house, having initially started out as a wealthy merchant family before acquiring their lands and noble rank using their wealth. As such, the Offrey house did not have the noble pedigree of well known adventurer ancestors as the other older noble houses did. Because of that, her engagement to Brad was meant to address this issue and ensure that the future descendants would be recognized as proper nobility. She and Brad had spoken only a few times prior before and after the engagement. After the duel between Leon and The Prince's Entourage, their engagement was broken off.
 * Brad Fou Field (Former Fiancé)

In the storyline of AnoSeka, their engagement is broken off following the events of Leon and his allies crushing down the Offrey and Lafan households. In consequence, Brad comes to visit her after she was judged. He mentions that he doesn't blame her for the fact that her family was affiliated with the Sky Pirates, but he can't forgive her for using them to make students of the Academy suffer. Listening to Stephanie as she vents out her pent up frustrations, he says that he wishes she had turned to him much sooner, cause he knew that no matter how hard he would try, he won't be able to help her anymore. Stephanie is annoyed by his kind words at only this point in time, as he never wanted to see her in the Academy and the only thing he ended up doing was chasing Olivia around. While she believed that he would eventually just toss Olivia aside, Brad refutes it by showing that the latter has already won his heart, which is something Stephanie couldn't do throughout the years.

Stephanie has always had a one-sided admiration for Angelica. She perceived her as the ideal she wanted to become: the princess of nobility, a lady among ladies who is recognized by everyone.
 * Angelica Rapha Redgrave

Others
As disclosed in AnoSeka, Stephanie didn't like the difference between her own temperament and Carla's, but disregarded it due to considering Carla to be the most useful person at her side, keeping her as her closest follower. According to Marie, who based herself on Stephanie's demeanour being similar to a few people she saw in her past life when she worked as a cabaret hostess, Stephanie was possibly trying to find someone she could see as a friend, as she never was able to befriend anyone in the past because of her family background and her own social clumsiness. That statement is directly proven true as Stephanie not only didn't hesitate to carelessly confide in Carla about personal issues within her family, but also was devastated when Carla rejected her during Leon's intervention at the church. In the course of her hearing, where she was sentenced to be exiled from the kingdom (meaning she would be turned into an easy target of revenge from people she tormented, due to having lost her rights as a noble and a citizen), she refuses to sell out her cronies when questioned about Carla's involvement, insisting on the fact that none of them, especially Carla, were connected to the Sky Pirates. Despite being told by the chairman of the court that she was betrayed and that all of the cronies spoke against her in unison when they were interrogated, she continues denying Carla's direct involvement to the end, while displaying a sad look on her face.
 * Carla Fou Wayne (Former Follower)

Trivia

 * She was left unnamed in both the light novel and the manga.
 * Her name was finally revealed as Stephanie in the credits of the Anime adaptation, while her full name was later revealed by the Author via Twitter. Meanwhile, she remained an unnamed character in both the Light Novel and Manga adaptation until the end of her plot.
 * Stephanie didn't know Mylene's face because she never went through training at the royal court due to her family's outcast status among the nobles.
 * She was initially occasionally confused with Clarice Fia Atlee due to her remaining unnamed in the Light Novel, and both of them appearing and working as minor antagonists around the same time.
 * After Leon defeated her demi-human servants in his café, she apparently sold them all off and replaced them.
 * According to Leon, Stephanie is initially seen to be similar as Angelica which is proven true on how Stephanie mocked Angelica for her change in behavior. However, Leon also describes her to be worse than Angelica as Angelica would have turned over a new leaf even if Leon or Marie had not interfered while Stephanie would never change.
 * Stephanie has two slightly different fates in manga and anime adaptions.
 * In the manga adaption, Stephanie is shown to become insane after losing everything that she has.
 * In the anime adaption, Stephanie is caught red-handed by Queen Mylene and the Holfort army after Carla confesses how she was ordered to set up Leon, Brad, and Greg to be murdered.