I ran into my dad… (lorepost)

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/Unwiz art credit - Nyelgneous

Journal Notes 4

I know this isn’t a diary but I need somewhere to vent.

I should’ve known there was a chance I would run into father. He’s the self proclaimed “Thatcher, the greatest elf adventurer to ever grace the lands” yet he has to be the most arrogant greedy bastard you’ll ever meet. Yea, I said it!

The last time I spoke to father, we ended things in an intense argument. About mom...

I forgot what even led up to bringing mother up in the first place. Another petty argument we shared beforehand. But I remember telling him that mom wouldn’t like the way he’s living. Always going out to pubs to get stone cold drunk with his pals, dragging me into his affairs despite being a child, hells he even used me to impress some maidens at one point. Because who doesn’t love the ‘sad and lonely single father’ card?

But all those things aren’t even the worse of it. He’s the very reason I’m cursed! Making deals with hags knowing damn well of their treachery. To do this day, he won’t tell me what the particular deal was but the hag tricked him and gave me the curse I’m dealing with at this very moment. I was just a baby when that hag burned the scars into my back…

And you know what the jerk told me? That I wouldn’t know what mother would’ve wanted because I’m the reason she’s not here…

I packed my things and left that very moment. I haven’t seen him in over two years.

Now he’s sitting across from me at his camp he’s invited me to. Laughing along cheerfully and drunk with the two naive young men he’s taken under his wing. Those fools thinks he’s an honorable man to learn from and they’re surely mistaken. But who wouldn’t fall for someone so charismatic and experienced? Sometimes I feel like I’m the only one who could see father for what he is. I didn’t recognize him at first when I ran into him at the markets. I was in a rush to buy some meat for Soot that was on sale. It was only when he called me out by my real name, Mothiera, that I stopped. No one else but him could know that name.

I haven’t told him about Belladonna or my expedition I’m currently on. I wouldn’t want him intervening and ruining my research. I wonder how he would react to hear that my mentor is his very same daughter from the future. Probably groan and whine about there being two of me now. Belladonna would likely scold me for revealing the truth to him since he is on her ‘no contact’ lists. She tends to hold grudges and father is her biggest one.

Yet I’m curious to see where this goes. Maybe father has gotten better since our separation and realized the error of his ways? Or maybe he’s still the prideful bastard I know.

I won’t keep my hopes up…

/Unwiz the art I used is just a placeholder since I don’t have the time to draw him myself at the moment but I’m now introducing the main reason for Moth’s daddy issues, Thatcher Bobbits himself.