[Here's your father figure, Val! He's walking along with a smile on his face (smiling icons of Golbez don't exist, so... just pretend), which one can actually see because...
He's not wearing a helmet! Gasp! Shock! Disbelief!]
I... well... This is just far too convenient. Me like this and you... thinking such thing.
I... not that I'm opposed! It's just... W-well...
**Val floats up and props her legs around his shoulders. Hopefully you don't mind the curtain of blonde hair in your face as she looks down.** This is more appropriate, isn't it?
Certainly. That would be some ideal father-daughter time that, as far as I've known, we've never had before. And you've certainly saved me the trouble of finding you. I don't think I would have like, with you like this.
[He grins at the mention of "father-daughter time".] Indeed. Well then we'd best make up for lost time.
Well let me see. I grew up with my parents in a small hamlet not too fair from Mysidia. Father was always teaching the people nearby, usually in magic or the like. It was a peaceful life. But one day, the villagers tired of Father's rules about magic, and one of them struck him. Had it not been for me finally mastering the Cure spell, he would have died that day.
We moved after that, Father not willing to risk my life, Mother's, and my unborn brothers over the villagers. We retreated into the forest to live our life alone, and that's where Cecil and I grew up.
[He tilts his head back to look better at her face.] Have I deviated from the story as you know it yet, Valvalis?
We stayed out in the forest for years, the four of us. I trained in black magic, while Cecil favored white. But we both wielded swords. One day, we were approached by an elderly gentleman with a great beard and the robes of a sorcerer. We found out soon enough that he was Tellah, the great Sage.
Tellah saw potential in Cecil and me, and asked Father to allow us to enter schooling in Mysidia. We stayed there for twelve years, honing our skills under the instructors and becoming more and more proficient at what we did. I became a Mystic Knight. Cecil became a Paladin.
Then, shortly after Cecil's seventeenth birthday, we were chosen to visit Baron on a peace delegation. It was there that we met Rosa and Highwind.
Not exactly, dear. You enter the picture much later.
Rosa and Cecil hit it off quite well, much to Highwind's annoyance. He quickly started to nurse a grudge against Cecil, and me by proxy. We found out just how much two years later, when Kain led an attack on Mysidia.
Hmm... now that I remember. And differently for that matter. You were already... well, plotting the world's demise via another's control. Where Kain and Cecil were rightly tricked into assailing Mysidia.
Matter of fact, it was one of the other fie- elementals that had put them up to it. But, do go on. I'm curious to hear the rest.
He's not wearing a helmet! Gasp! Shock! Disbelief!]
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Ahh... G-Golbez?
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Even you know me by that name, my daughter?
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Pardon her while she stands there, mouth agape...
Feel free to snap her out of that.**
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Theodore stands there for a moment, letting her just stare at him, before clearing his throat a bit.]
I see you're used to me in different garb as well, Valvalis.
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I'm... I'm shocked really. **Were she not a child, or into women... well... Let's save that for the fanfics**
Should I not call you Golbez then? Surely, father is the other option but, you don't seem too caring for the name.
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On the contrary, as I remember it you've always called me Father. You are my blood daughter, after all.
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I... well... This is just far too convenient. Me like this and you... thinking such thing.
I... not that I'm opposed! It's just... W-well...
**Val floats up and props her legs around his shoulders. Hopefully you don't mind the curtain of blonde hair in your face as she looks down.** This is more appropriate, isn't it?
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[Nonetheless, he smiles warmly as she settles onto his shoulders and lifts his hands to her legs to hold her in place as he starts to walk again.]
Perhaps we should share a little. Would you like me to tell you a little about my version of events? My "world" as it were?
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Well let me see. I grew up with my parents in a small hamlet not too fair from Mysidia. Father was always teaching the people nearby, usually in magic or the like. It was a peaceful life. But one day, the villagers tired of Father's rules about magic, and one of them struck him. Had it not been for me finally mastering the Cure spell, he would have died that day.
We moved after that, Father not willing to risk my life, Mother's, and my unborn brothers over the villagers. We retreated into the forest to live our life alone, and that's where Cecil and I grew up.
[He tilts his head back to look better at her face.] Have I deviated from the story as you know it yet, Valvalis?
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Please, do go on~, Father~
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We stayed out in the forest for years, the four of us. I trained in black magic, while Cecil favored white. But we both wielded swords. One day, we were approached by an elderly gentleman with a great beard and the robes of a sorcerer. We found out soon enough that he was Tellah, the great Sage.
Tellah saw potential in Cecil and me, and asked Father to allow us to enter schooling in Mysidia. We stayed there for twelve years, honing our skills under the instructors and becoming more and more proficient at what we did. I became a Mystic Knight. Cecil became a Paladin.
Then, shortly after Cecil's seventeenth birthday, we were chosen to visit Baron on a peace delegation. It was there that we met Rosa and Highwind.
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Oh? Is this where I start to come into things? If things are so different... don't tell me that Rosa...
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Rosa and Cecil hit it off quite well, much to Highwind's annoyance. He quickly started to nurse a grudge against Cecil, and me by proxy. We found out just how much two years later, when Kain led an attack on Mysidia.
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Matter of fact, it was one of the other fie- elementals that had put them up to it. But, do go on. I'm curious to hear the rest.
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