During The Hero Project: Why is Black Magic willing to forgive you for stabbing your best friend in the back when no one else, not even Lucky, is? Because they themselves know what it's like to have to choose between your morals and your dreams—they have to do so every single day thanks to the nature of their Powers!
In Choice of Romance, the game is trying to be the Tudor court in a magical, gender-equal world, with a dash of Jane Austen tropes, so it has to completely ignore the fact that your character could quite easily be a formidable Magic Knight who, if they failed to make an appropriate marriage and the Sahran war broke out, could go south to win recognition and an estate for themself instead of being handed off to a random old person who smells like a goat.
Possibly because the family is destitute and needs funds now, not at the end of a war. While the protagonist could certainly be a skilled soldier and win fortune, it would probably take time their family doesn't have.
