I am still finding the whole thing a bit difficult to wrap my head around, admittedly.
[...But something about Hendrik’s words make him feel a bit warm inside. That’s right... even if it’s just one other person, he has a family again. One that’s undeniably his, where he doesn’t have to find himself questioning his place in it at even the best of times. Then, he was never made to feel unwelcome, but he knew he was still always destined to be the king’s knight rather than his son.
There was no actual ambiguity here. This is his daughter, and he is her father. What the hell, it’s...
...Goddess, he needs to good-naturedly rib Hendrik about whether or not he’s figured out how to talk to pretty girls yet before he starts getting choked up. He almost gets there, but... the mention of the idea of talking to the king feels like having a bucket of ice water dumped right over him.]
I... cannot do that.
[Shit. He’s so thrown off that even Hendrik might notice something’s up. He didn’t even give himself room to say something like “yeah, I’ll think about it, not like you’ll notice if I do or not anyway,” which is bad.]
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[...But something about Hendrik’s words make him feel a bit warm inside. That’s right... even if it’s just one other person, he has a family again. One that’s undeniably his, where he doesn’t have to find himself questioning his place in it at even the best of times. Then, he was never made to feel unwelcome, but he knew he was still always destined to be the king’s knight rather than his son.
There was no actual ambiguity here. This is his daughter, and he is her father. What the hell, it’s...
...Goddess, he needs to good-naturedly rib Hendrik about whether or not he’s figured out how to talk to pretty girls yet before he starts getting choked up. He almost gets there, but... the mention of the idea of talking to the king feels like having a bucket of ice water dumped right over him.]
I... cannot do that.
[Shit. He’s so thrown off that even Hendrik might notice something’s up. He didn’t even give himself room to say something like “yeah, I’ll think about it, not like you’ll notice if I do or not anyway,” which is bad.]