Funny / Tearmoon Empire

• Mia tries to get Abel to speak to her by "acidentally" dropping her handkerchief in circumstances that should make it easy for him to notice it, pick it up, and return it. It fails because he starts talking to another girl before the handkerchief can catch his attention. Instead, Sion, of all people, picks it up. Mia hides in an attempt to abort the plan, but Sion promptly runs into Tiona, who notices that he's holding a handkerchief identical to the one Mia gave her earlier and tells him who it belongs to. As she's trying to avoid both Sion and Tiona, Mia's reaction reads like she'd rather be literally anywhere else than her current — very poor — hiding place. In the Anime, she literally turns to stone from the shock of being found by the duo.
• Much of the Anime's humor derives from Mia outwardly performing kind deeds and offering kind words that warm the hearts of thse she helps, only for her internal character to indulge in an Evil Laugh like a Saturday Morning Cartoon Villainess who has just gotten an advantage over the hero. Examples include:
  • After helping Abel stand up after he is bullied yet again by his spoiled rotten Big Brother Bully, Mia plants the first seeds of his love for her as his face flushes red with infatuation... While she skips away deviously chuckling like Megatron from The Transformers while imagining a map of the Remno army marching in to defend Tearmoon, thanks to his love for her, if things get ugly and the Kingdom of Sunkland invades her in 5 years.
  • She visits the Equestrian Club to learn horsemanship from Lin Malong, who wonders why a refined princess like Mia would learn a coarse and smelly hobby like horseriding, and the princess warmly replies "Horses are creatures that swiftly carry you away to freedom." While Malong is deeply moved that he's finally met a foreigner who can understand and love horses as a native Equestrian would, Mia internally snickers to herself with a Cheshire Cat Grin "That's right, swiftly carry me away to freedom from that confounded guillotine!! Hahahahahaha!!" Chuckling like Starscream internally while poor Malong is awed to admiration by her very much external "kindness."
• A few days after Mia starts her friendship with Malong, Abel learns of her apparent love for equestrian sports, and sends her a flask of fragrant shampoo, exquisitely decorated with heraldries of porcelain horses. Taking this gift as a sign of Abel's growing affection for her, Mia begins to wash her hair exclusively with said exquisite shampoo. Little did she know that the decorations were not the brand, but the *literal* target customers, and that she has been happily washing her hair with shampoo for horses. Adding insult to (unknown) injury, the little princess begins to recieve compliments from courtiers and visitors that her hair now "has the luxurious golden glow of a stallion's mane billowing in the wind" a week after washing it with Abel's gift.
• Mia faints with a hysterical scream of shock upon "reuniting" with General Dion, who in the original timeline personally flips the switch on the guillotine that took her head as revenge for her stupidity & incompetence costing the life of his entire battalion. When she awakes, she awkwardly stutters that the colonel behind him at the time resembled a bear and gave her a fright, which the hairy Gentle Giant takes in stride with a rolling, jolly belly-laugh.
  • Later, when Mia embarks on a diplomatic excursion into the sacred Lulu Forest, Dion repeatedly reminds her that every tree in it is sacred to the barbarian tribes therein. Then the princess trips and falls like a klutz on a protruding root... and just had to give said sacred tree a contemptuous kick in a fit of childish stupidity. Almost as if on cue, the band is immediately pelted with a rain of Lulu barbarian arrows, prompting Dion to lift her like a sack of potatoes and bolt for the Tearmoon encampment. The exasperated general snaps on the way "With all due respects, Your Highness, I should have killed you for that!", causing Mia to reflexively screech in terror while clutching her head because the man holding onto and scolding her actually did kill her in the last lifetime.
• How the first member of the Chaos Serpents, Jem, is brought down. As Jem is threatening to cut off Mia's head, almost everyone else assumes from the yellow puddles on the floor that Mia is so scared of having her head cut off that she has wet herself in fear. Anne, however, immediately recognizes the puddles actually consist of horse shampoo that spilled out after Mia tumbled down the stairway to where Jem is hiding, and she tells Mia to make a run for it, with Jem chasing after her. However, both of them end up slipping on the shampoo, resulting in Jem's sword to miss, but also for his groin to collide with the back of Mia's heel.

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