Board Thread:Role Plays/@comment-25169271-20160320185624/@comment-24828824-20160605232911

"Actually" Merel said with still a surprised look on her face from Alice's surmation "Alice was almost spot on there, almost. Yes usually I have dinner with my dad on fridays, but usually not something this special. Yes he's a good swordsman, but that's also beside the point now and he's also not my dad." Merel threw that last bit in just to see the look on the couple's faces before explaining. "What I mean is he's not my biological dad. He was on the same Huntsman team as my parents and father's closest friend. They had agreed when I was born that should anytthing happen to my parents he'd look after me" Merel went from the cheerful expression to a subtlely more melancholic expression, not unlike the way Alice ahd looked when thinking back to her own painful memories.

Merel decided to share the story of how she lost her parents to Darian and Alice (but more to Alice), and of how their team had taken up the task to clear an old abandoned fortress from Grimm. They were to clear a way for the authorities to aprehend a cell of Faunus terrorists that had dug themselves into the fortress and lured the Beasts inside as an additional layer of defence. The fighting had been fierce and between the Grimm and the well entrenched Faunus the Hunters and police had to cope with numerous boobytraps and fortified bottlenecks. suffering heavy losses the operation failed to capture the Faunus terrorists and neither of Merel's parents survived the battle. This had all happened fifteen years ago, and Merel hadn't even been old enough to have any memory of her biological parents. so the she told the story with less emotion than one would expect of the story of one's orphaning.

It was still a sad story, but Merel asured Alice and Darian that despite it she had grown up with a loving father and never really knew any different. By the time Merel had finished her brief version of the story they had arrived in downtown Vale and were heading on foot toward the resteaurant Merel had agreed to meet her father at. "Really, it's always been harder for my dad than for me. He's the one who lost everything that day. Not just his two closest friends, but also his carreer as a Huntsman to look after a child not his own." she explained to the two with a wry smile that told them this was not always her sentiment on the matter "Still we've always managed with just the two of us." and her smile turned more genuine. "Ah, there it is! he's likely already inside to get the table" and as they stepped into the small quaint eatery Merel immediately saw her father Egil Crucible already at a table of four at the window, who on sight of the couple in Merel's wake got up with such speed that he nearly toppled his chair over as in a quiet voice said to himself "Fire and Dust! It's her!"