It's why princeling rankled me so much back when it had the air of insult, you know. Because I knew about that initial terror.
[Now it's affectionate, bordering on a promise of things to come. He's glad for it. Never would want it to stop. But it is worth noting all the same.
He moves on.]
I'm not going to belabor the parts that you both know from passing mentions. I was a terror if only because I was unknown. In the unknown, there was only affection and delight, because when that terror turned out to be better than expected, what else could there be but love?
[This is not an easy discussion. Not this part, at least.]
There were times that my father sat back and only watched. You'd not trust it, but we did, because he smiled to see all of it. Even alone in the study, if one of us went past the open door, it was there. And it was...easier, when I was smaller, in many ways. My personality was developing, and all the brightness and inquiry in the world was enough to lash us together beyond just being bound by love and by blood.
[Sometimes though, the details are important.][Never any Belmonts though. No nightmares about things hunting Dracula's only son.]
Belaboring the point, I think. Being older was harder in many ways, because you relate to your parents in new and stranger ways. I understood what I learned from them both, but I was at the age I wanted to apply it more, and...
[No. This isn't the right order of explanation.]
Being older made them more worried, I think. My mother wanted us to both go out into the world, but again, there was that fear of the unknown. So protectiveness manifested itself in new ways. Gresit was such a thing, for I understood much of the castle and wanted to apply it. That's how we began to relate to each other again, after all that temporary teenage awkwardness. There were days one was away or the other, but to be truly alone was rare.
[On that note, he smiles very softly.]
That is my understanding of how things were elsewhere too.
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[Now it's affectionate, bordering on a promise of things to come. He's glad for it. Never would want it to stop. But it is worth noting all the same.
He moves on.]
I'm not going to belabor the parts that you both know from passing mentions. I was a terror if only because I was unknown. In the unknown, there was only affection and delight, because when that terror turned out to be better than expected, what else could there be but love?
[This is not an easy discussion. Not this part, at least.]
There were times that my father sat back and only watched. You'd not trust it, but we did, because he smiled to see all of it. Even alone in the study, if one of us went past the open door, it was there. And it was...easier, when I was smaller, in many ways. My personality was developing, and all the brightness and inquiry in the world was enough to lash us together beyond just being bound by love and by blood.
[Sometimes though, the details are important.][Never any Belmonts though. No nightmares about things hunting Dracula's only son.]
Belaboring the point, I think. Being older was harder in many ways, because you relate to your parents in new and stranger ways. I understood what I learned from them both, but I was at the age I wanted to apply it more, and...
[No. This isn't the right order of explanation.]
Being older made them more worried, I think. My mother wanted us to both go out into the world, but again, there was that fear of the unknown. So protectiveness manifested itself in new ways. Gresit was such a thing, for I understood much of the castle and wanted to apply it. That's how we began to relate to each other again, after all that temporary teenage awkwardness. There were days one was away or the other, but to be truly alone was rare.
[On that note, he smiles very softly.]
That is my understanding of how things were elsewhere too.