#i love expanding characterization through random convos like this it's so good

[incandescentia]

❝So, Sir Killian, where you are from, you are a knight?❞ Percival was naturally intrigued by this information, if only because he had never met a knight from another plane of existence before. Everyone he knew in this building, well, the majority were those whose stories he knew. ❝What made you desire to be one? All knights have their reason for picking up a weapon and fighting for the sake of their kingdom, so I cannot help but be intrigued to know what your reason was.❞

‘Sir’, huh?

That was a title that he had not been using for such a long time — one that he’d nearly forgotten if there were no other knights or other people associated with similar titles present around him.

Once he knew of who he was currently speaking to, he would return the same courtesy with a proper conduct. “That’s right, Sir Percival. I am a knight just like you, or… was.” Unlike him, he wasn’t clad in a proper armor, but he figured that other parties might simply recognize his origins through the all-encompassing knowledge given by the grail. “Why do I want to be a knight, you ask? …Well. I could say that it might be simply in the bloodline.” His father was one, his grandfather was one, his great-grandfather was one, && his ancestors were also one. Even his mother was once a part of an elite fighting force of a rare pedigree in her homeland — maybe being a natural born fighter was really in their blood, after all. “I thought that being a knight was one way of life, with my fate already woven to become one for the sake of justice like my predecessors… though sometimes, the reality proved otherwise as an obstacle. Sir Percival, you probably understand what I mean, right?”

That was what he initially thought of by taking the oath of knighthood, swearing an eternal fealty towards the rulers of his country && to the Holy See… but even those oaths can easily be betrayed by the same people who took the oath && those he swore fealty to. In the end, those life changing ceremonies could mean nothing to those who ultimately did not share the same view as he did. “…but even so, I wanted to be a knight because I truly want to believe in justice and it has always been our duty to protect the weak, even if we have to test our loyalties for it. Though I may not wield the title anymore, I still abide to the oath that we take as a knight.”

@guhamun ( percival )