#tfw he calls her arrow as a nickname -- but also because -- his ass sometimes forgets his own daughters fucking name

[luckydxy]

would ara have anything to say to garet if they met?

questions about the past – etc. ;; always accepting

@inerevarine

first of all – brownie points to you for knowing who her father is.  i honestly don’t talk about him nearly as much as i ought to.  lijsbeth takes the lime light because well — garet’s off doing his own thing in skyrim ; which is a constant in every verse & au.  what hurts though is that she has met him.  but so briefly & so few times that it’s never been a proper meeting.  ara doesn’t really know her father.  she’s met him, more or less always headed on his way out, less than a handful of times.  leaving for a very flawed & singular view of the man that isn’t a true vision of his character as a whole.  because in those incidents he’s generally been nothing but pleasant to her.  garet’s a ripe piece of shit but his spectrum of ‘what am i willing to do’ tapers off around the vague ‘unnecessary cruelty or harm to animals or children’ but it’s wonky because at the same time he’ll turn a blind eye.  prorities.  no one in ara’s genealogy has them. 

lijsbeth claims it was her second husband who fathered ara – when in reality she’d been bedding this nord sellsword she’d hired in the plot against her first husband & straggling irksome family.  ara has always known the truth & has dutifully enabled the public ignorance of her true blood father.  of course ; if she trusts you enough it’s an easy slip of the tongue seeing as she significantly favors her father over her mother.  she would be ecstatic to see him, circumstances willing, it’s a rarity & one she’s often desperate for.  she justifies his absence because … lijsbeth.  it’s safer for him to be away & unwed to the woman.  he can’t rightfully take her w/ him either.  or so she tells herself.  but the reality is that he’s had every opportunity over eighteen years, knowing his daughter was being abused & manipulated, knowing the sort of woman lijsbeth is.  the sort of man hershire is. 

& despite it all … ?  she’d ask him for a story.   

bonus round ;; skyrim verses leave for more opportunities w/ garet seeing as he’s meandering around the province & ara could plausibly find him or encounter him on a whim.  she’s asked delvin if he’s ever met or heard of him.  delvin hadn’t – but agreed to keep an ear out for his name.  delvin did in fact find him & wasn’t impressed.  ara is blissfully unaware & delvin plans to continue withholding this information from her because he really honestly just doesn’t want to subject her to yet another unnecessary emotional scar.  she’s young.  she’ll grow.  & he hopes she’ll either forget the man or come to terms w/ ‘yeah maybe my dad isn’t actually that gr8′.