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[bestswordmaster]

Sylvain said I needed to record something to tell you to leave a message, even though if you're bothering to message me in the first place you already know what you're supposed to do, so this is pointless. So...leave a message, I guess. Maybe I'll get back to you. Maybe I won't.

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text; after the kiri dad bomb

[lovelybottom]

Felix, I'm a father

[bestswordmaster]

[Felix stares at this message for a long moment. It's clearly addressed to him, so he didn't receive it by mistake...]

ok
I didn't know jaskier could bear children.

[lovelybottom]

What are you talking about? Jaskier isn't pregnant.

[Weirdest sentences he's ever had to write for 1000, Trebek.]

It's Kiri. She's started calling us dad.

[bestswordmaster]

[Okay, that makes a lot more sense.]

oh.
does she have an actual father?
did you adopt her?

[lovelybottom]

Of course she has an actual father, but I don't know if he's still alive.

How do you even adopt a child?

[They just sort of... found her. And now she's still with them, nearly a year later. That would be as good as an adoption for witchers, but also no one should ask witchers about child rearing.]

[bestswordmaster]

in faerghus a noble adoption requires church approval and paperwork
for proof of inheritance
but you're not nobles and this isn't faerghus so
idk.
she's from another world anyway.

[lovelybottom]

I shouldn't be given anyone's children. I don't know what to do with a child

[Other than what he's been doing for the past like eight months, which is... raise the child. Rip, Geralt.]

I'm a witcher, people try to keep their children away from me.

[bestswordmaster]

nobody gave you kiri afaik
didn't she just start following you around
she obviously thinks you make a fine father so
why does this change anything?

[lovelybottom]

I wasn't trying to be her father! This was supposed to be temporary, until she could go back to her usual companions.

[TOUGH SHIT, GERALT. DESTINY WANTS YOU TO BE A DAD AND YOU'RE GOING TO FUCKING BE A DAD.]

I don't know what I'm supposed to do.

You had a father [Excellent fucking observation, Geralt.] what did he do with you?

[bestswordmaster]

if you don't want to do it then don't.
if you do then I don't see why you have to do anything different.
as for my father

[That message is sent first; the next one takes longer to arrive.]

you met my brother.
during that weird weekend.
he died saving dimitri's life when we were 13.
my old man acted like it was some glorious death we should have been proud of.
obviously I was glad dimitri survived but
nobody MOURNED glenn.
they celebrated his dutiful death, not his life.
it made me sick
and my father never understood that.
his whole life revolved around chivalry and honor and duty
he was so blinded by it that he didn't see PEOPLE.
we didn't get along.

[But the "..." of typing continues, and after a little while, another message comes.]

but he showed up that weekend too.
we talked and
I guess I'm less angry than I was.
before glenn died things were
not so bad.
my old man taught me to fight
took us on trips
told us his war stories.
I suppose for a single father he spent more time with us than some would have.
even if his priorities were twisted after we lost glenn and he cared more about duty to a dead king than about his family.

[Felix presses 'send' before he can rethink this conversation and delete the entire last message.]