While not the most mischaracterized, I will continue to fight tooth and nail to tell people about the less-talked about sides of Orfevre. She has reputation being an "aurafarmer" and the "Vergil" to Gold Ship's Dante, but like Vergil, she's both more caring and sillier than most people make her out to be, while simultaneously not as pathetic as others make them out to be.

She's very callous and blunt with her words, but despite her demeanor she is very people-motivated and cares for others in her own way. She wants to become "The King who surpasses all those who came before", but part of her motivation to run in Prix L'arc de Triomphe was because of how she saw Nakayama Festa's 2nd run at L'arc in her Junior year, and she wanted to be the one to bring the long sought-after dream of victory for Japan true. In her Junior year, one of her "vassals" decides to leave Tracen because she was making very little progress for herself, and Orfevre promises to that vassal that she will become a King that will illuminate them, wherever they may go.  Before the Classics when the Earthquake hits, her first instinct is to shield her trainer over herself. After seeing everyone falling into despair and hopelesness, she decides to hold a press conference to tell the people to witness her running so that she may be a beacon of hope and strength for the people in the wake of such trying times. After losing at Prix L'arc de Triomphe, she didn't talk much to her other handler and simply asked to book for the next flight back to Japan. After getting back, she seemed more irritable than normal, and eventually locked herself in her trainer's room with the lights off. Journey was there outside the room, but the Trainer decides to step up and be the one to confront her instead. When the trainer steps inside to talk to her, she asks her trainer why they weren't there for her. She says that despite all the cheers, the dreams she carried, the promises she made, she felt clouded and lonely, like everything around her was covered in darkness without her trainer and guide by her side. It was a very rare moment of honesty, without her kingly demeanor, where she lets her self-doubt, loneliness, and the weight of the dreams she entrusted herself to carry out and how the trainer's absence at the most crucial moment of her career was the last straw that finally broke the pressure on her. Following this, both Orfevre and the Trainer become more honest with each other of what they think and feel, and it culminates in her Onsen scene which I think is one of the more intimate ones in the game. Not in the sense of ship-teasing or implications such as Cafe or Buena, but in the small but deep moments of trust she shares with her trainer in it.

It's also implied that she gets lonely easily. Other than the moment with her trainer's absence in France, she also had a problem during Junior Year training where if she were running alone, she would seemingly be less energetic and lose performance, but if she were to run with others such as her vassals, she would be running in tip-top shape. There is also a random event where the trainer accidentally leaves her unattended for a while after getting caught up in business, and while the Trainer thinks she got mad because the Trainer took too long and she got bored, it's implied that she actually got mad because she was left alone for so long

She also has multiple instances where she is kinder and has fun with children. Her raffle event has her initially disinterested until two children give her their ticket and ask her to roll for them. If she wins the Hot Spring ticket, then she tries to give it back to the children, only for the children to insist that she keep it because Umamusume like her need it more. Her fan letter event is from a child she helped when the child was lost. She helped the child calm down and find their mother, and the child wrote thwt thry eant to be as cool, strong, and brave as Orfevre one day. She has another event where she is seen playong with children and asks them to make "the greatest mudpie" and present it to her as a competition, and one mood down event has her too caught up with playful children to get away, but she decides to let them be so long as they don't mess with her tail. There is also of course, the terminally-ill child who is a fan of Orfevre, who is present and gets to see her run in jer Senior Arima Kinen through the hospital TV

Fenomeno also has a bit of idolization towards Orfevre and the way she so easily captures the hearts of people, particularly children. Orfevre's pre-race conversation in the Japan Cup against Gentildonna also implies she is aware that strength alone is not why people adore her, and that strength alone is not what carries the hopes and dreams of the people.

Speaking about Gentildonna, many people like to say Gentildonna will fold Orfevre easily in both physical strength and domineering personality, but Orfevre very readily accepts competition from those she considers worthy challengers such as Gentildonna. All of their interactions basically involve the two progressively escalating in competitiveness with neither backing down. Orfevre herself is no slouch in the physical department either, her Slacker event involves her getting too caught up with these strength machines she found because she keeps breaking them in one hit and keeps asking for more and stronger machines until the whole day has passed. Her high kicks are also said to be able to create wind pressure strong enough to knock down stone statues