[Maybe this isn't a super weird story, compared to others she's heard, but she hates that look she gets whenever she mentions her dad wasn't around or, god forbid, when she tells someone he's dead. It's a precaution.]
My dad was really obsessed with magic. He was always looking for new spells or magical items or whatever, right? That's all he cared about. He pretty much disappeared when I was like, ten, so it didn't matter, but then we were given this job to find a bunch of magical weapons in this mountain and bring them back to our guild, and he showed up.
[This is going to be a lot, but now that she's started talking she's not sure she'll be able to keep going if she stops.]
I mean, of course he was after the same shit we were, right? But at some point he managed to find some fucking cursed book, and he got possessed by a demon, and... I don't know. It was really fucked up, like the magic was rotting him from the inside or something. Harlan helped me destroy the book and we got rid of the demon, but... [She shrugs.] All of his magic was gone, and he couldn't fucking handle it, I guess, so when I got him home he killed himself.
[Yeah, okay, that was definitely a lot, all said in a near rambling rush, and she looks embarrassed when she stops.]
cw suicide???
[Maybe this isn't a super weird story, compared to others she's heard, but she hates that look she gets whenever she mentions her dad wasn't around or, god forbid, when she tells someone he's dead. It's a precaution.]
My dad was really obsessed with magic. He was always looking for new spells or magical items or whatever, right? That's all he cared about. He pretty much disappeared when I was like, ten, so it didn't matter, but then we were given this job to find a bunch of magical weapons in this mountain and bring them back to our guild, and he showed up.
[This is going to be a lot, but now that she's started talking she's not sure she'll be able to keep going if she stops.]
I mean, of course he was after the same shit we were, right? But at some point he managed to find some fucking cursed book, and he got possessed by a demon, and... I don't know. It was really fucked up, like the magic was rotting him from the inside or something. Harlan helped me destroy the book and we got rid of the demon, but... [She shrugs.] All of his magic was gone, and he couldn't fucking handle it, I guess, so when I got him home he killed himself.
[Yeah, okay, that was definitely a lot, all said in a near rambling rush, and she looks embarrassed when she stops.]
So I'm seeing myself like that.