User blog:GreekTelepath/Why Margarita's Sixteen

For a while I’ve been wondering why mothy decided to make Margarita 16 instead of say, 20. but then i realized - it fits with her character more. Margarita is childish. I mean, she compares love to trauben jam and wants to marry a prince! That’s all stuff a typical teenage girl (or even little kid) would do. Margarita carries the same childishness as Mikulia to an extent, but it’s not her defining character trait unlike Mikulia. Margarita’s childishness is however a way of bringing forth her other defining character traits - disconnection from reality, inaction, and brokenness.

First off is disconnection from reality. Margarita isn’t the first person we’ve seen in the Evillious Chronicles who’s got a few loose screws - there’s Eve Moonlit (hehe), Kayo Sudou and Gallerian Marlon, to name a few. However, Margarita doesn’t mistake babies for apples or think a doll is a real person. Instead, she lives in a constant state of denial, thinking she is happy even when the situation she is in is total crap. It’s even seen in the song lyrics of the Gift PV - she’s stating other people are unhappy, thus denying her own unhappiness.

This disconnection from reality is what partially causes her inaction. Since she doesn’t want to come to terms with her unfortunate circumstances, it follows that she also doesn’t feel the need to act on them. The inaction is also caused by her societal context - she’s a young noble woman in an arranged marriage. Think about it, she’s only 16, and everyone else would be against her if she decided to divorce Caspar. Women weren’t very empowered until quite recently, so this may have been what mothy was going for. Aside from this, she still clings to the childish delusion that Caspar is her prince, thus bringing up another parallel with both Mikulia and Platonic, Eve’s other transmigrations.

This inaction eventually leads Margarita to snap. Sloth has an inaction theme in Evillious Chronicles, so it only makes sense that Margarita’s Sloth would lead her to enacting destruction upon other people. And to be honest, i think this is really what makes Margarita so pitiful as a character. I mean, a girl a young as her has to deal with her husband, whom she thought was her Prince Charming, sell most of the things she owns, openly cheat on her, and treat her like a servant. That’s just heartbreaking. If Margarita were say, 20, she probably would have snapped out of her delusion and gotten a divorce. But no, margarita’s still a child. The reason she so strongly clings to her childish delusions is because she’s got nothing else to hold on to.

Look how easily Margarita confides in Mayrana after befriending her. They haven’t even gotten that close, but Margarita almost immediately starts unloading onto Mayrana all of her troubles and worries. That must mean she’s desperate for someone to listen to her, for someone to know the pain she’s going through, whether she acknowledges it herself or not.

Would a grown woman act the same way as Margarita did? Possibly. we can’t be sure. But one thing is certain - Margarita, just like any of the other sinners, had her own reasons for what she did, and part of those reasons was her age.