- Regressed and, in canon, immediately had all her memories right away. Her consciousness just gets sent into her younger self, regression.
- Accidentally ran into Wilhelm at a younger age when a man tried to rape her and he "just happened" to be there. She recognized him from her last life as her shitty husband's mad dog that listened to any order that was given to him and carried it out without a single bit of hesitation.
- Took young Wilhelm in to use him for her plans, because if he grew up and followed his original timeline he'd be a force to be reckoned with on her ex husband's side. The one she plans to get revenge on.
- With the mindset of using him, still genuinely cared for him since he's a child and treated him as a mother would a son. Not seeing him as a romantic interest in the slightest, actually being in love with Dietrich, a main point of contention for Wilhelm in his new role at her side. At this point it looks like he's *fallen* in love with her, but this is before the reveal that he's actually a regressor that was already obsessed with her (literally worships her as his master and goddess. Literally).
- Has Dietrich teach him to be a knight (a noble profession in a medieval setting) so he can fight battles for her as he did for her husband in his past life. He seems to have no issue with this until he notices that she is not looking at him as a possible romantic partner, since she raised him. Then suddenly he wants to bring it up to her, only after being caught manipulating (he killed Dietrich intentionally) to be like "well you used me" so she feels bad for him.
- Gives both Wilhelm and Dietrich a cloth, Wilhelm hates this and kills him to take it and because he needed him out of the picture so he could be her lover.
- Asks Wilhelm about Dietrich's belongings and is lied to that there were none found.
- Continues on with her plan to have him wage war while grieving Dietrich, but unable to stop her plan now to grieve as it was a crucial time. During this time, Wilhelm works on changing her image of him from "boy I raised" to a possible romance option by flirting, playing the part of a cute puppy lover to her and "being there for her" in her grief over Dietrich even though he caused it and knew that while doing this the whole time.
- Thinking Dietrich is dead, after much deliberation on how she feels for Wilhelm since up till now and his flirting she has never looked at him as a romantic option, gives in to his wants and demands to change the nature of their relationship. She determines it's weird and she's not into it, but will literally throw that to the curb for the sake of her goal of revenge. Now their relationship is more romantic as he wanted.
- Is hinted to by Wilhelm that he's a regressor too, she's just confused about this till after the crown prince dies.
- Basically waits around until he kills her ex for her. She doesnt like that he took it into his own hands, but deals with it and finally truly feels love for Wilhelm in her heart (not just putting up with the discomfort as she had chosen to do earlier) and they have sex, getting her pregnant. Has the talk about regression with him, he lies saying that he had no memories until after the battle Dietrich died in.
- Truly enjoys life with Wilhelm for a bit there, but then we're foreshadowed that someone knows something Wilhelm was lying about. He looks at her with his trademark "my true nature" crazy eyes to keep her fucking mouth shut or he'll kill her. Rein gets suspicious anyways because of what she heard, but puts it to the side for a bit.
- More enjoying life until she sees the cloth on his sword that he himself had told her to her face wasn't there. Finally she has no choice but to acknowledge literal reality as it is in her face. She confronts him with that he intentionally tried to kill Dietrich and he lies to get out of this by trying to reframe things. He said that he didn't remember his past life until it was too late and Dietrich had already died. He also lies saying that he hid the cloth because he didn't want to make her sad and claims that he cared about Dietrich too, with crocodile tears in his eyes.
- Meets with one of the people who were there with Dietrich and Wilhelm at the battle who tells Rein how "impressive" Wilhelm was in the battle, taking charge and leading the men with such precision that it was to the point that it was like he knew what was going to happen. This reveals the first part of his lie: he remembered at the time of death. She leaves him, deciding to break up, but still believing the second part of his lie that he at least cared for Dietrich at one point.
- Reunites with Dietrich, who meets with Wilhelm for her. She decides to watch the encounter because of what he'd said about caring about Dietrich. Upon seeing him, she noticed that his *very* first reaction on seeing him, no provocation yet, is to exclaim and put his hand on his sword. He doesn't know Dietrich is alive and if what he said to her is true, the context here is supposedly that his loved friend has come back from the grave. Hence it all being a lie, the suspicions she had earlier that he knowingly did it being confirmed.
- Decides to have his baby, despite how completely and utterly disgusted she is with what he did to her, because she doesn't feel it would be fair to the baby. So it's basically a rape child at this point. Tries to take care of it at first, but gradually falls more and more into post partum as it starts to look more and more like the guy she despises (and still loves, which makes it worse because it's just constant feeling of betrayal. His plan worked, she really did fall in love with him).
- She eventually leaves him to Dietrich to raise as she can't handle it anymore to take care of him.
- Flash forward some years and now she's dropping the child off with his father as she birthed him and did all she could for as long as she could under the circumstances and now his toxic psychopath father is using him to try and get in contact again. Ever the manipulator. He heard the child looks like him and jumped right on that when using her *father's sword* (huge detail, the sword has always been important to her) failed. At this point he hits her with the "I didn't kill him! He's alive! He came here with you!", which much to my disappointment was actually taken as a valid argument in the comments section... Of course that's a completely stupid argument, since he didn't intend for Dietrich to live. The issue being the psychotic manipulation, which persists whether Dietrich lived or not. Rein still grieved for him for years. She had to live in a world without him, that was her reality and Wilhelm benefited from that all according to his plan. Unfortunately he was discovered after obtaining everything he wanted, her heart.
Rein:
- Regressed and, in canon, immediately had all her memories right away. Her consciousness just gets sent into her younger self, regression.
- Accidentally ran into Wilhelm at a younger age when a man tried to rape her and he "just happened" to be there. She recognized him from her last life as her shitty husband's mad dog that listened to any order that was given to him and carried it out without a single bit of hesitation.
- Took young Wilhelm in to use him for her plans, because if he grew up and followed his original timeline he'd be a force to be reckoned with on her ex husband's side. The one she plans to get revenge on.
- With the mindset of using him, still genuinely cared for him since he's a child and treated him as a mother would a son. Not seeing him as a romantic interest in the slightest, actually being in love with Dietrich, a main point of contention for Wilhelm in his new role at her side. At this point it looks like he's *fallen* in love with her, but this is before the reveal that he's actually a regressor that was already obsessed with her (literally worships her as his master and goddess. Literally).
- Has Dietrich teach him to be a knight (a noble profession in a medieval setting) so he can fight battles for her as he did for her husband in his past life. He seems to have no issue with this until he notices that she is not looking at him as a possible romantic partner, since she raised him. Then suddenly he wants to bring it up to her, only after being caught manipulating (he killed Dietrich intentionally) to be like "well you used me" so she feels bad for him.
- Gives both Wilhelm and Dietrich a cloth, Wilhelm hates this and kills him to take it and because he needed him out of the picture so he could be her lover.
- Asks Wilhelm about Dietrich's belongings and is lied to that there were none found.
- Continues on with her plan to have him wage war while grieving Dietrich, but unable to stop her plan now to grieve as it was a crucial time. During this time, Wilhelm works on changing her image of him from "boy I raised" to a possible romance option by flirting, playing the part of a cute puppy lover to her and "being there for her" in her grief over Dietrich even though he caused it and knew that while doing this the whole time.
- Thinking Dietrich is dead, after much deliberation on how she feels for Wilhelm since up till now and his flirting she has never looked at him as a romantic option, gives in to his wants and demands to change the nature of their relationship. She determines it's weird and she's not into it, but will literally throw that to the curb for the sake of her goal of revenge. Now their relationship is more romantic as he wanted.
- Is hinted to by Wilhelm that he's a regressor too, she's just confused about this till after the crown prince dies.
- Basically waits around until he kills her ex for her. She doesnt like that he took it into his own hands, but deals with it and finally truly feels love for Wilhelm in her heart (not just putting up with the discomfort as she had chosen to do earlier) and they have sex, getting her pregnant. Has the talk about regression with him, he lies saying that he had no memories until after the battle Dietrich died in.
- Truly enjoys life with Wilhelm for a bit there, but then we're foreshadowed that someone knows something Wilhelm was lying about. He looks at her with his trademark "my true nature" crazy eyes to keep her fucking mouth shut or he'll kill her. Rein gets suspicious anyways because of what she heard, but puts it to the side for a bit.
- More enjoying life until she sees the cloth on his sword that he himself had told her to her face wasn't there. Finally she has no choice but to acknowledge literal reality as it is in her face. She confronts him with that he intentionally tried to kill Dietrich and he lies to get out of this by trying to reframe things. He said that he didn't remember his past life until it was too late and Dietrich had already died. He also lies saying that he hid the cloth because he didn't want to make her sad and claims that he cared about Dietrich too, with crocodile tears in his eyes.
- Meets with one of the people who were there with Dietrich and Wilhelm at the battle who tells Rein how "impressive" Wilhelm was in the battle, taking charge and leading the men with such precision that it was to the point that it was like he knew what was going to happen. This reveals the first part of his lie: he remembered at the time of death. She leaves him, deciding to break up, but still believing the second part of his lie that he at least cared for Dietrich at one point.
- Reunites with Dietrich, who meets with Wilhelm for her. She decides to watch the encounter because of what he'd said about caring about Dietrich. Upon seeing him, she noticed that his *very* first reaction on seeing him, no provocation yet, is to exclaim and put his hand on his sword. He doesn't know Dietrich is alive and if what he said to her is true, the context here is supposedly that his loved friend has come back from the grave. Hence it all being a lie, the suspicions she had earlier that he knowingly did it being confirmed.
- Decides to have his baby, despite how completely and utterly disgusted she is with what he did to her, because she doesn't feel it would be fair to the baby. So it's basically a rape child at this point. Tries to take care of it at first, but gradually falls more and more into post partum as it starts to look more and more like the guy she despises (and still loves, which makes it worse because it's just constant feeling of betrayal. His plan worked, she really did fall in love with him).
- She eventually leaves him to Dietrich to raise as she can't handle it anymore to take care of him.
- Flash forward some years and now she's dropping the child off with his father as she birthed him and did all she could for as long as she could under the circumstances and now his toxic psychopath father is using him to try and get in contact again. Ever the manipulator. He heard the child looks like him and jumped right on that when using her *father's sword* (huge detail, the sword has always been important to her) failed. At this point he hits her with the "I didn't kill him! He's alive! He came here with you!", which much to my disappointment was actually taken as a valid argument in the comments section... Of course that's a completely stupid argument, since he didn't intend for Dietrich to live. The issue being the psychotic manipulation, which persists whether Dietrich lived or not. Rein still grieved for him for years. She had to live in a world without him, that was her reality and Wilhelm benefited from that all according to his plan. Unfortunately he was discovered after obtaining everything he wanted, her heart.