Lola’s Appointment as the Fort’s Wicce

Lola’s appointment as the Fort’s Wicce is the turning point at which her uncertain private life becomes inseparable from inheritance, responsibility, and self-definition. The Head of the Fort asks her to replace her grandmother when the older woman dies, making Lola the designated successor to the community’s spiritual office. Although the appointment arrives while Lola is estranged from Valnoir and unsure of her own future, she accepts it as an honor: the succession allows her to continue her grandmother’s legacy while choosing a different life from the one modeled by her mother, Mayumi May.

Appointment and Succession

The appointment is announced after Lola has been taken to the Wicce, who is revealed to be her grandmother. The revelation changes the meaning of Lola’s presence at the Fort. She is not merely a human outsider caught in the orbit of vampires; she is the granddaughter of the woman who holds the Fort’s magical authority and a possible heir to that authority. Valnoir’s father explains that Lola may become the Fort’s new Wicce, placing the decision within the institutional structure of the Fort rather than leaving it as a private family matter.

Lola does not initially welcome the role without reservation. She admits that she does not really want to become the Wicce, yet the chance to take her grandmother’s place feels like an honor. That tension defines the appointment: it is both an imposed obligation and a meaningful inheritance. Her eventual agreement is therefore not simple ambition. It is an act of acceptance, in which reluctance gives way to respect for her grandmother and for the significance of the office.

Training and New Responsibilities

Once Lola agrees, she begins learning from her grandmother. The training is compressed into an almost impossible schedule: she must learn in days what ordinarily takes years to master. The accelerated apprenticeship gives the succession a practical cost. Becoming the next Wicce is not merely a title or ceremonial recognition; it demands immediate discipline, study, and a reorganization of Lola’s daily life.

The training also separates Lola from Valnoir. She sees him only a handful of times after leaving his bedroom, and their encounters are reduced to polite greetings. While she moves through the Fort with a new air of purpose, Valnoir interprets her distance as deliberate disregard. Lola, meanwhile, is absorbed by lessons and by the emotional consequences of the appointment. The office thus intensifies the couple’s separation at the very moment when Lola needs clarity about their relationship.

Pregnancy and Emotional Stakes

The succession coincides with Lola’s missed period and her suspicion that she is pregnant. She wants a child and has wanted one for a long time, but the possible pregnancy becomes inseparable from her uncertainty about Valnoir’s feelings. She worries that she may have been only a passing fancy to him and hesitates to take a pregnancy test because a negative result would be painful, while a positive result would force her to confront his stated opposition to having children.

Lola’s conflict is not simply whether she is pregnant. She fears being forced to choose between Valnoir and the child, even though she does not yet know whether Valnoir loves her. The appointment magnifies that dilemma because it gives her a new identity and a new duty just as her intimate future becomes unstable. Her grandmother’s recognition of the pregnancy provides the first firm emotional confirmation. The older woman tells Lola to stop running from it, embrace it, and tell the prince, turning uncertainty into a command to act.

Family Legacy and Self-Definition

The appointment brings Lola directly into conflict with the legacy of Mayumi May, whom her grandmother describes as arrogant, conceited, vain, and a bad mother. Lola considers whether to speak to her mother after her father’s death, but her grandmother advises against seeking Mayumi May’s approval or love. Instead, she urges Lola to live a good life of her own and to make her own way.

That counsel becomes the moral center of the succession. Lola’s fear is not only that she will lose Valnoir or face pregnancy alone; she also fears repeating her mother’s failures. Her grandmother rejects that fatalistic comparison. When she tells Lola, “You are not your mother,” the statement gives Lola permission to inherit one lineage without reproducing another. Lola immediately accepts the distinction, concluding that she will not become like Mayumi May. The new Wicce identity therefore develops alongside a conscious refusal of maternal repetition.

Narrative Significance

Lola’s appointment combines succession, maturation, romance, and possible motherhood in a single reversal. A woman who had been uncertain about her place in the Fort is recognized as essential to its future, yet the recognition does not resolve her personal life. Instead, it places greater pressure on every unresolved question: whether Valnoir will accept her, whether the pregnancy is real, and whether Lola can build a family unlike the one she inherited.

The event also shifts authority from biological descent alone to chosen responsibility. Lola is connected to the Wicce through her grandmother, but she must still agree to learn, serve, and eventually replace her. Her acceptance is both a public commitment and a private declaration of independence. By the end of the episode, she has a role, a possible child, and a renewed belief that her mother’s history does not determine her own. The appointment consequently marks Lola’s emergence as an heir who can transform inheritance rather than merely repeat it.