Princess Lariessa De Balloa is a minor antagonist in "Sister In This Life I Have Become the Queen". A distant cousin of Queen Margaret and a princess of the Gallico kingdom, she is infatuated with Alfonso and determined to marry him.
Appearance[]
Princess Lariessa is described as a woman far from beautiful, with pale skin, dark brown eyes, and long hair, with shades of blonde, red and brown mixed in.
Personality[]
Lariessa is shown to be unhealthily obsessed with Alfonso. She makes various moves on him despite his obvious disinterest. When Alfonso calls off their engagement, Lariessa reacts badly, throwing a fit and demanding to see him, needing to be drugged to leave the palace. She is also manipulative, as shown when she tries to convince Alfonso that Ariadne betrayed him to get him to sign an engagement contract with her.
History[]
Early Life[]
Lariessa De Balloa was born as the second daughter of Duke De Balloa, a distant cousin of King Phillipe IV of the Gallico Kingdom and Queen Margaret De Carlo, who was born a princess of the Gallico Kingdom and married King Leo of the Etruscan Kingdom and borne his heir, Crown Prince Alfonso.
Growing up, Lariessa was overshadowed by her older sister, Susanna, who was accomplished and beautiful, so much so in fact, that it was Susanna who was initially selected to marry Prince Alfonso in the future. In comparison, no one paid much attention to Lariessa. She found the only way to get people’s attention was to talk about her sister, whom everyone found more interesting. Unfortunately, Susanna died of an illness before any marriage arrangements could begin, and Lariessa took her place as Alfonso’s top marriage candidate.
First Timeline[]
The De Balloa family sent a marriage proposal to the royal family of San Carlo, offering Lariessa’s hand in marriage to Alfonso. Lariessa traveled to San Carlo to meet her prospective husband, and fell hopelessly in love with him, only for Queen Margaret’s assisination by King Leo’s mistress Countess Rubina to disrupt the arrangement. The Gallican party saw Margaret’s murder as a personal attack on their kingdom, and the marriage was cancelled, sending Lariessa and her party back to Gallico, and Alfonso married Isabella De Mare, the firstborn daughter of the Cardinal of San Carlo.
Second Timeline[]
Just like before, Lariessa’s hand in marriage was offered formally to Alfonso. However, in this timeline, he had fallen in love with Ariadne De Mare, the bastard daughter of Cardinal De Mare, and was only convinced to go forward with the engagement to Lariessa on his mother’s urging.
Upon meeting Alfonso, Lariessa did her usual routine of singing Susanna’s praises, even after death. But to her surprise, Alfonso expressed interest in Lariessa herself, asking questions about her life and hobbies. This was the first time in her life that anyone had expressed interest in Lariessa over her older sister, and it was at that point that Lariessa fell hopelessly in love with Alfonso, even silently thanking her sister for dying so that she could have him. She tried to impress him with a lie that she won a contest, but panicked when he saw the holes in her story.
Lariessa was entertained by Alfonso at the masquerade ball, for a little while, until he excused himself and left her side. She saw him again later outside when everyone was accusing Ariadne De Mare, the Cardinal’s illegitimate daughter, of being the secret mistress of Marquess De Campa. Alfonso was claiming thar he had been with Ariadne all along, meaning she could have not been with Marquess De Campa when he was spotted with his masked mistress. However, Lariessa, in an impulse of jealousy, claimed that Alfonso was lying and that he had been with her all evening. Cesare De Como then stepped forward and explained that it had been him who had been with Ariadne, and that the bracelet that belonged to Ariadne, which was found where the mistress was, had been returned to him before lost in a gambling game to Marquess De Campa, who was assumed to have gifted it to his mistress after. This made Lariessa relieved and happy that everything had been a misunderstanding, not noticing the dismal, disappointed look on Alfonso’s face afterwards.
After being advised by his mother to try to make his engagement to Lariessa work for the sake of their kingdom, Alfonso took her on outings around the kingdom. Lariessa, already certain that she and Alfonso will marry, asks him to write her love letters to grow their affection.