Board Thread:Roleplaying/@comment-3293219-20160605202324/@comment-5543592-20160609002831

"You're right, except I am broke and dickless."

Crimson scratched his head. "Oh yeah..."

"When you are born into House Tharn, they find one talent you have immediately and groom you for a specific task to gain them more power. Well, immediately after Uriel Septim's first son, Geldall, was born..."

"My grandfather found out that I was intelligent and could grasp the political game easily. Since the age of three, I've been groomed to marry the Crown Prince and become the Empress when Uriel dies."

"I'm not a person, Crimson, I'm a tool. A bargaining chip."

"I think ya may gone missed the moral of my story." He said. "So ya uncle is going to make you marry this prince-- so?  Maybe he's a nice guy.  Ya might even get ta like him.  I wish someone assigned me to marry a prince, that's a right proper fairy-tale right there.  The point is," he said, leaning forwards, elbows resting on his knees, "is that despite all that, despite your lineage and that stuff, that doesn't have to be you.  I was born to be rule a little kingdom in the ass-crack of a desert.  Now I've got an army full of people in spunky red suits and a friendly unicorn for a horse-- I'm bonified living proofs that what I say is true." He took the apple juice from her and took a deep drink of it, before putting it back in her hand and looking at her again.

"Now, if ya think its yer duty to go and be Miss Empress, fine, but ya don't have ta get upset about becoming one of the most powerful people in the world, now do ya?  But just 'cause you'd been groomed to be something doesn't mean it's yoru destiny.  Take Whistles for instance-- I groom him every day in hope he won't poop on my shoes as some kind of sick horse joke, but it never works."

He wiped his boots on the grass at the thought it, probably going to have to wash them again.

"That's the moral of it all, Jewels.  Ya may be Tharn's niece, and he may have something to hang over your head ta keep ya in line, but you're still you."