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in season 1 blog posts you can actually see that SIU planned for the story to be darker (even had a freaking battle royal in the first 5 chapters) but then he had concerns and made it more pg-13ish (i think the beginning of season 2 with the controller-room game he said something like he was concerned if he would reach younger readers with what he wrote)

when it comes to the princesses I'm not even sure Zahard himself necessarily gets to choose

if you assume that he's actually hibernating and you can assume that Maria Koon Zahard was probably made a princess at most 2-3 years prior to the plot of the first chapter then maybe he doesn't need to pick them himself or maybe someone was assigned to do it for him (maybe one of the 3 rulers)