Events and flashbacks.

[aero_dienamic]

**Finally, a day without monsters.

But, it's not like all the problems are over with. Val moves out of bed and... just about falls out of it. There's a nice thud in the house, and a very young yelp. The journal flips to the floor just the same.**

Oh my... this again? Can't have a day's peace, can we? Well, I always thought I was a cute child.

Mmm, I'm Kirimi's size again. I'll have to see about borrowing some of her clothes for now. I just might go see everyone anyway.

**And so, after getting dressed properly, a girl of short stature and floor-trailing hair is wandering about, floating on a nice breeze. (Looks surprisingly like this girl though.) Anyone is encouraged to interrupt her adventure to see anyone she knows (Golbez, Nel, Ceodore, Charlotte)

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[cladinthedark.livejournal.com]

[Here's your father figure, Val! He's walking along with a smile on his face (smiling icons of Golbez don't exist, so... just pretend), which one can actually see because...

He's not wearing a helmet! Gasp! Shock! Disbelief!]

[aero-dienamic.livejournal.com]

**The rest of the armor is there but... ZOMG A FACE. Val MUST investigate.**

Ahh... G-Golbez?

[cladinthedark.livejournal.com]

[He turns his head to see her... and sighs.]

Even you know me by that name, my daughter?

[aero-dienamic.livejournal.com]

**A truly amazed stare. Her father... WITHOUT HIS HELMET ON!

Pardon her while she stands there, mouth agape...

Feel free to snap her out of that.**

[cladinthedark.livejournal.com]

[Handsome, isn't he?

Theodore stands there for a moment, letting her just stare at him, before clearing his throat a bit.]

I see you're used to me in different garb as well, Valvalis.

[aero-dienamic.livejournal.com]

A-ah... Well, yes. Even I've never seen you outside your armor, much less your face.

I'm... I'm shocked really. **Were she not a child, or into women... well... Let's save that for the fanfics**

Should I not call you Golbez then? Surely, father is the other option but, you don't seem too caring for the name.

[cladinthedark.livejournal.com]

[He sighs at that.] So I keep hearing. It seems my viewpoint of things is a truly unique one right now.

On the contrary, as I remember it you've always called me Father. You are my blood daughter, after all.

[aero-dienamic.livejournal.com]

Blo- **Another shocking stare.**

I... well... This is just far too convenient. Me like this and you... thinking such thing.

I... not that I'm opposed! It's just... W-well...

**Val floats up and props her legs around his shoulders. Hopefully you don't mind the curtain of blonde hair in your face as she looks down.** This is more appropriate, isn't it?

[cladinthedark.livejournal.com]

I understand. No doubt from your point of view this is all very surprising.

[Nonetheless, he smiles warmly as she settles onto his shoulders and lifts his hands to her legs to hold her in place as he starts to walk again.]

Perhaps we should share a little. Would you like me to tell you a little about my version of events? My "world" as it were?

[aero-dienamic.livejournal.com]

Certainly. That would be some ideal father-daughter time that, as far as I've known, we've never had before. And you've certainly saved me the trouble of finding you. I don't think I would have like, with you like this.

[cladinthedark.livejournal.com]

[He grins at the mention of "father-daughter time".] Indeed. Well then we'd best make up for lost time.

Well let me see. I grew up with my parents in a small hamlet not too fair from Mysidia. Father was always teaching the people nearby, usually in magic or the like. It was a peaceful life. But one day, the villagers tired of Father's rules about magic, and one of them struck him. Had it not been for me finally mastering the Cure spell, he would have died that day.

We moved after that, Father not willing to risk my life, Mother's, and my unborn brothers over the villagers. We retreated into the forest to live our life alone, and that's where Cecil and I grew up.

[He tilts his head back to look better at her face.] Have I deviated from the story as you know it yet, Valvalis?

[aero-dienamic.livejournal.com]

**She shakes her head.** I hadn't heard any of it before. Honestly, I hadn't heard anything of your past before. So, this is all quite new to me.

Please, do go on~, Father~

[cladinthedark.livejournal.com]

I see. Moving on then...

We stayed out in the forest for years, the four of us. I trained in black magic, while Cecil favored white. But we both wielded swords. One day, we were approached by an elderly gentleman with a great beard and the robes of a sorcerer. We found out soon enough that he was Tellah, the great Sage.

Tellah saw potential in Cecil and me, and asked Father to allow us to enter schooling in Mysidia. We stayed there for twelve years, honing our skills under the instructors and becoming more and more proficient at what we did. I became a Mystic Knight. Cecil became a Paladin.

Then, shortly after Cecil's seventeenth birthday, we were chosen to visit Baron on a peace delegation. It was there that we met Rosa and Highwind.

[aero-dienamic.livejournal.com]

**She nods along, learning daddy's history. Quite a bit more than she expected to hear, but, nonetheless, interesting.**

Oh? Is this where I start to come into things? If things are so different... don't tell me that Rosa...

[cladinthedark.livejournal.com]

Not exactly, dear. You enter the picture much later.

Rosa and Cecil hit it off quite well, much to Highwind's annoyance. He quickly started to nurse a grudge against Cecil, and me by proxy. We found out just how much two years later, when Kain led an attack on Mysidia.

[aero-dienamic.livejournal.com]

Hmm... now that I remember. And differently for that matter. You were already... well, plotting the world's demise via another's control. Where Kain and Cecil were rightly tricked into assailing Mysidia.

Matter of fact, it was one of the other fie- elementals that had put them up to it. But, do go on. I'm curious to hear the rest.

[cladinthedark.livejournal.com]

[He pauses at that.] So things had already deviated that far from what I remember by that point. I see.

Well, in my world, the attack was rebuffed. Kain was no match for Cecil and I working together. But we couldn't stop him from getting the other crystals. We traveled the world to try and get them back, but leaving Mysidia unguarded proved to be the worst thing we could have done. Kain's superior, Baigan, stole the crystal while we were gone.

In our travels we met many people who aided us in trying to track down the stolen crystals. Yang. Edward. Palom and Porom, though they came from Mysidia with us. We met Rosa again as well, and... in the village of Mist, your mother.

[aero-dienamic.livejournal.com]

**Val makes note of some of those he mentioned. Some she heard of, some she got to meet. At the least, she definitely knows Edward and Yang.**

I see. Well, by the sound of that, it seems you and Kain simply switched roles. Not that I mind at all.

Yet, no mention of the ninja boy Edge, or Rydia. Anything of them?

[cladinthedark.livejournal.com]

Possibly. Though if that's the case, I'm most displeased with the way things turned out in the other worlds. [He frowns.

But he chuckles at Val's question.] I don't know any Edge, but as for Rydia... when I said I met your mother in the village of Mist, who did you think I was talking about?

[If ever a revelation could equal or beat out the sight of him without his helmet...]

[aero-dienamic.livejournal.com]

**No, this reaction far rivals that. The poor girl's so shocked she falls backwards, slipping from Papa Golby's shoulders!**

[cladinthedark.livejournal.com]

[Fortunately, this Golbez has trained Daddy reflexes and catches her easily and with a rumbling laugh.]

That's more or less exactly why I didn't tell her about it. The her who is here, anyway.

[aero-dienamic.livejournal.com]

**She helps right herself, sitting properly again.**

That is something else. She quite hates me now. I could never picture her as my mother.

I don't suppose I've got three brothers as well, do I?

[cladinthedark.livejournal.com]

Well, circumstances between you and her were quite different in your world. Trying to compare the two is like night and day.

[He shakes his head.] Only one, a refugee from Damcyan who we adopted. We named him Rubicante.

[aero-dienamic.livejournal.com]

**Val doesn't seem too pleased.** Only one then... and him... I suppose it's better than dealing with all three of them. Although you probably haven't seen me grow up, there's me, Rubicante and two others you created, each of us based on the four primary elements.

**Val plops her little hands on daddy's head** Me being a child is... entirely coincidental, but, from what you recall, was I this cute. **She smiles down at him, giving him a face full of her hair.**

[cladinthedark.livejournal.com]

Mmmm... So you and your brothers are the elemental lords in your world. I suppose if I was involved in your creation that stands to reason. There were beings like that in my world as well but... they were vastly different, and far less appealing.

[He smirks, and flicks her nose.] I can tell when you're fishing for compliments, you little imp. But yes, you're every bit as charming back home as you are here.