Katarina Claes

Catarina Claes (カタリナ・クラエス, Katarina Claes) is the quintessential villainess of the game Fortune Lover, and protagonist of the series. After hitting her head as a child, she suddenly remembers her previous life as a high school student, and tries desperately not wind up with bad endings like her game counterpart.

Game Description
Catarina was a selfish, spoiled princess type. Because Prince Gerald injured her during childhood, they had gotten engaged. Because of this scar, she considered the prince to be hers, and bound him to her. In addition, she didn’t think highly of suddenly getting a stepbrother, and often bullied him.

Prince Gerald
If the heroine captures Prince Gerald successfully and gets the happy end, Catarina's extreme harassment of the heroine causes her to be declared a criminal and striped of her social status, ending with Catarina being exiled.

In the bad end, Catarina attacks the heroine with a knife in a fit of jealousy, and instead gets killed by Prince Gerald. He then breaks up with the heroine and embarks on a journey to another country.

Keith Claes
Whether happy end or bad end, Catarina gets exiled or dies. In the happy end, Catarina's horrible harassment of the heroine causes her to be become a criminal, then is deprived of her noble status and exiled.

In the bad end, Keith is unable to protect the heroine and Catarina manages to inflict a deep wound on her. Keith is heartbroken and kills Catarina with magic then disappears.

Prince Alan
In this route, Catarina is not the main rival to the heroine and is instead replaced by Prince Alan's fiance, Mary Hunt.

Nicole Ascart
The rival in this route is Sophia Ascart, Nicole's younger sister. Catarina is not featured in this route and does not interact with any of the two.

Before Reincarnation
Before reincarnating as Catarina, she was a 17-year-old high school student. Her family consisted of a mother who was a part-time housewife, a typical salary man father, and two older brothers. She was commonly called a monkey by her classmates, due to her quirk of randomly climbing trees. She was usually scolded by her teachers because she would regularly forget her homework. Because of this, she would always ask for help from A-chan, her best friend.

After Reincarnation
Catarina Claes, before remembering her past as a high school student, was very arrogant and quick to anger, such as when she became bored of a ribbon she herself had only just picked out, and threatened to fire the maids who helped her put it on. Upon meeting Gerald, she became possessive of him almost immediately, and was shown to have had a crush on him before hitting her head.

In the Series
After remembering her past life, Catarina becomes anxious towards the amount of ways she could end up ruining her life, such as death or exile. She then resolves not to end up like the game's Catarina, and decides to focus on trying to stay alive.

After unknowingly accepting Gerald's marriage proposal, she decides to train her swordsmanship and magic to protect herself, the latter leading her to start a farm to hone her earth magic.

While unintentional, she begins to form positive relationships with the love interests and other 'villains' of the game, unknowingly averting her bad endings.

Prince Gerald
In the game Fortune Lovers, Prince Gerald has no love for Catarina and mainly uses her as a shield so that other women would avoid making any attempts to grab his attention.

Gerald has genuine romantic feelings for the Catarina we see in the series, who is oblivious of Gerald's love towards her, and only believes that Gerald is simply using her to lower any unnecessary attention from other noble women. Furthermore, Gerald refuses to annul their marriage despite how certain people, like her brother, Keith, and Catarina's mother, are now opposed to the marriage as they feel Catarina is not suited to be a princess.

Keith Claes
In the game, Fortune Lovers, Catarina and Keith had a cold relationship. Due to her sometimes physical abuse towards him and general neglect from the mansion staff and his family, he became a playboy who vied for attention.

Because the current Catarina was able to prevent Keith from being lonely, their relationship instead became very positive. Unbeknownst to Catarina, instead of being a playboy like his game version, Keith had become a sis-con who is completely infatuated with Catarina and sees other people, like Gerald, as rivals. Keith is constantly worried about his sister, who is oblivious of how many people she unintentionally seduces.

Duchess Claes
Catarina's mother. While initially happy about her daughter's engagement to the prince, after Catarina's behavior becomes more eccentric due to remembering her past life, she wishes to annul her daughter's engagement, believing that not only was she no longer suitable to be a princess, but that she would also bring shame upon the family. Catarina's overall relationship with her mother may be considered somewhat negative, as Catarina would very much wish to avoid meeting her mother, it wasn't considered abusive.