@Almond-Magnum said in How much of the year 1 mess is actually Rozemyne's fault:
While I can't deny the favoritism for Wilfried... There wasn't really another way to both have one of Florencia's children inherit and keep Rozemyne in Ehrenfest. Melchior is too young and Charlotte is a girl. Even "Rozemyne marries Wilfried who will not be Aub" just wouldn't fly.
It will fly just fine. Not that it would work of course (well, not according to the new update) but there would be no difference between an Ehrefest where Wilfried was expected to be aub and has married Roz and one where Syl has decided Melchior will be aub, but Wilfried has already married Roz so she can hardly be taken to another duchy.
We are really looking at this from a Y3+ perspective though; Wilfried has demonstrated he has no desire to learn how to be aub, and in his defense, his example is Syl (who had to be forced to learn, and only does aub work now because he is unable to shift the burden onto someone else. He probably resents Bonni for having successfully dodged the job once before)
In our Y3+ perspective, Melchior is a better candidate, once Roz has been "locked down" by marrying Wilfried. She is still stuck married to an idiot, but it's still better than her being forced to marry (say) Lesti.
But there is a limit to how relevant all that is to a discussion of Y1 Roz's mistakes.