If he has a strong navy then my man is becoming a Admiral
If not then off to the O U B L I E T T E
To be fair, getting mad because your sibling of all people is stealing your crush is a pretty normal reaction, lol.
Richard doesn’t get mad unless you’re attracted to her. I know this because my MC, who is not romancing Clara (but who is very good friends with her) and who never expressed attraction towards her, and who also became Queen, has a wonderful relationship with all of her siblings. Richard was very supportive of her taking the throne, in fact.
So the only reason to romance Clara out of “spite” would be because you ruined your relationship with Richard some other way. I guess I just don’t see where all the Richard hate is coming from. He seems like a perfectly normal brother to me who could also be a very strong ally and friend.
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Same I kinda like Richard. It’s not his fault the king plays favorites and in my play through he was really supportive of my MC saying they wished their father would train with them.
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I think it’s probably for role-playing perceptive. I’m not sure if some of the posters here though hate a fictional character. Sometimes it’s hard to say. 
Same, I thought he was a bit bratty but nothing outrageous. Just figured I must’ve had an ideal ally!Richard playthrough with no plans to romance Clara, no real interest in the throne, and generally wanting to get along with the siblings🤷♀️
I remember being a bit sad when he just wanted my MC to leave him and Clara alone but only because I wanted my MC to hang out with her brother LOL, cue flashbacks to being the younger child irl and my sister and her friends constantly trying to ditch me😔
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He hate me even when im not even trying to romance clara, its so easy to get rival points to him that i have to try hard just avoid upset him
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I even manage to stay in a good relationship with him in the demo while romancing clara
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Shame Richards mum isn’t romanceable 
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Firstly, Richard can support you even if you are with Clara. The way to make him an enemy is not to take your loved one away, but to not praise him. I mean, that Richard is angry not because we took Clara away, but because we didn’t praise him.
And I think that shows us that Richard is not a normal brother. I can understand if he hates us because of his love, but he has a grudge against us because we don’t praise him.
Richard is not a normal sibling for sure, and he is probably a narcissistic character that we will see more in the next books.
Secondly, why should we treat him well?
It’s understandable if you’re playing good mc but otherwise Richard is an imbecile that needs to be punished.
He constantly reminds you of your status, it reminds you of your mother’s status.
He’s always bragging about training with your dad when you haven’t seen your dad in his life.
He always wants to be praised. And the worst part is, when you do anything other than congratulate or praise him, your relationship falls apart.
So when he comes to you praising himself about your father, even if you give him a neutral response, Richard reacts negatively.
As a result, you don’t have to be a bad MC to be mean to this idiot. You have to hate Richard even if you’re just a fair character. And lastly, Richard is far away from to be a normal brother.
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I mean… there’s no right opinion here lol. I still just see him as a bratty kid (even with all you listed, bc wanting to be dad’s favourite and for everyone to acknowledge how awesome you are is not that unusual to me) which makes for a pretty normal sibling in my experience. I’m sure his demeanour does worsen if you antagonize him or don’t react the way he wants, but that has no bearing on how other people will see him if that’s not how he was on their playthrough or if they just… aren’t as upset about the things that made other people hate him so much.
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I’m not sure what normal older brother wants to make his younger brother feel inferior to them constantly but I suppose that each one reacts differently to the treatment they receive, at least I have a younger brother and sister and I have never done such a thing
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Depending on the age, normally when an older brother doesn’t get praised by their younger sibling for something they think is praiseworthy they’ll think “I messed up somehow” or “we don’t have the same interests”.
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Yes i can understand that but he was reacting negatively even when i was trying to joke with him when he said even us can beat mateo and so on so i cant just get along with him naturally, i dont hate richard but we just dont get along nothing i can do there if he dont want to try and if he hate us just because we dont get along i dont consiser him a “normal” brother just toxic
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I don’t think that’s what Richard did. And I think there are more situations where the opposite is true. You can find too many siblings, where the younger sibling often needs the approval of the elder. But it has no scientific validity. Just observation.
Personally I think how we interpret Richard really depends on the reader. For me, he’s just an older brother who was favored by the dad and can be boastful about it but I don’t feel any malicious intent with him to be honest (especially coming from a child, if it’s an adult then I have questions) so I don’t feel any malice towards him.
Others might interpret it differently. There’s really no wrong or right answer here imo.
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Personality wise i think him keeps boasting about being trained by dear old dad and pointing out the queen’s throne finding him downright grating and annoying, while some might see it him being a narcisst, his attitude wise make the others very hard to like him. that and him being literal minded about clara.
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I read my post an It is not that asserative I think because I indicated that “if you playing with good mc that ok” but I am still absolute about Richard is not normal, we litteraly stole his girl and he is okey with that if we praise him always and if we didn’t praise him, he is got mad. That’ is not normal in my book and probably not normal in psychology books.
PS: I’m not native so I don’t think it is but if my posts is too rude then dm me, i will delete it. This is my last hate message about Richard :d.
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Me (played an easygoing character who strongly believes that family ties are KEY to not ending up like poor old Francis and ended up having a good relationship with all the siblings) reading this thread:
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On the public or Patreon demo? Cause if it’s on Patreon he dislikes me by the end of it even if I’m nice to him on a Clara playthrough
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All of book one.
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