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seems an awfully wretched curse, to give a child a name like that.
( lbr. He's not wrong. )
( lbr. He's not wrong. )
Not when the kid has parents who would threaten anyone who teased them.
considering I'd guess it'd be other children, we might have to think of another solution.
I wouldn't mind having a little Swan, you know.
I wouldn't mind having a little Swan, you know.
If you say so.
I know that now. Your last name's not so bad, we could always go for the hyphenate.
I know that now. Your last name's not so bad, we could always go for the hyphenate.
There's worse names than Humbert, but it isn't really mine.
( Graham technically isn't, either, but at least he associates himself with that one. Humbert is... well it's sort of just there. )
( Graham technically isn't, either, but at least he associates himself with that one. Humbert is... well it's sort of just there. )
Edited 2017-02-06 06:51 (UTC)
Could be worse, you could be Prince Graham.
[Don't think that also hasn't entered her parents' minds.]
[Don't think that also hasn't entered her parents' minds.]
( sorry but wut. Somehow this is barely comprehensible to him. )
I'm not sure why anyone would call me that.
I'm not sure why anyone would call me that.
[ it is a legitimate slightly insane concept, alright?]
Because you married up.
Because you married up.
why would marrying a princess make me a prince? marriage doesn't change the means of my birth, that doesn't make very much sense.
( friendly reminder your hubs was raised by wolves. not even a curse gave him a lot of insight on the finer points of royal titles. )
( friendly reminder your hubs was raised by wolves. not even a curse gave him a lot of insight on the finer points of royal titles. )
David wasn't born a prince, either. He was a farmer.
[Friendly reminder that the means of his birth doesn't count for a lot when he's married to the daughter of Snow White and Prince Charming.]
It's not like we're going to go back and rule the Enchanted Forest, I'm not expecting you to be king someday, Graham. But you're my husband, my family. You'd technically have a title.
[Friendly reminder that the means of his birth doesn't count for a lot when he's married to the daughter of Snow White and Prince Charming.]
It's not like we're going to go back and rule the Enchanted Forest, I'm not expecting you to be king someday, Graham. But you're my husband, my family. You'd technically have a title.
your father also took on the title of a prince before he married.
( that makes it easier for him to run around as king. for his part, graham is never going to feel like a prince. )
I like the title I earned. I don't have any interest in one granted by technicalities, being your husband is more than enough for me.
( that makes it easier for him to run around as king. for his part, graham is never going to feel like a prince. )
I like the title I earned. I don't have any interest in one granted by technicalities, being your husband is more than enough for me.
That's a romantic way of saying the only one of us who's ever getting dragged down by a stupid title is me, Graham Humbert.
by your own account the titles mean little, and let you're being dragged down by it? which is it?
( sorry, Emma, but it either means something or it doesn't... and you're not likely to get the contradiction past the man that married you. )
I've never known you to be dragged down by anything, Emma Swan. any title you take on you learn to master. being a daughter and princess are like to be much the same.
( sorry, Emma, but it either means something or it doesn't... and you're not likely to get the contradiction past the man that married you. )
I've never known you to be dragged down by anything, Emma Swan. any title you take on you learn to master. being a daughter and princess are like to be much the same.
Depends on which one lets me call you the brave and bold Prince Graham.
[ it means she gets to tease him about being a prince, basically.]
I'm still learning how to take on most of them. Mother and daughter and wife are the ones that mean the most.
[ it means she gets to tease him about being a prince, basically.]
I'm still learning how to take on most of them. Mother and daughter and wife are the ones that mean the most.
I don't suspect either will manage that without a few faces.
( you can marry him to a princess but you can't make him willingly take the title of prince!! )
I think you're quite grand at all of those, though arguably I could be biased, since I'm so intensely involved in the last.
( you can marry him to a princess but you can't make him willingly take the title of prince!! )
I think you're quite grand at all of those, though arguably I could be biased, since I'm so intensely involved in the last.
Try scolding me with that accent and see how far it gets you.
[Probably straight into the bedroom.]
I think we're allowed to be biased about each other.
[Probably straight into the bedroom.]
I think we're allowed to be biased about each other.
that's what you're into now, Mrs. Swan? a firm tone?
( no learn to read graham a firm IRISH tone, there's a difference )
are we? what a relief.
( no learn to read graham a firm IRISH tone, there's a difference )
are we? what a relief.
I'm into you calling me Mrs. Swan, too. Maybe you should try that in a firm tone.
[ firm IRISH tone.]
I plan to be biased about you for a very long time.
[ firm IRISH tone.]
I plan to be biased about you for a very long time.
you're hopeless.
( she can't hear it, but she got him to laugh. even with a heart he doesn't do that often so bravo, Mrs. Swan. )
a very long time sounds like an achievable goal.
( she can't hear it, but she got him to laugh. even with a heart he doesn't do that often so bravo, Mrs. Swan. )
a very long time sounds like an achievable goal.
Edited 2017-02-12 03:27 (UTC)
is something the matter?
( something more than the obvious of everything, anyway... )
( something more than the obvious of everything, anyway... )
( he's learned to expect the worst of..... everything so honestly this isn't even so bad. ).
a married man seems a bit of an odd choice, but it isn't as if you can't cancel.
a married man seems a bit of an odd choice, but it isn't as if you can't cancel.
I know.
[ it's pretty great - and would only be made better if she knew she got a laugh out of him.]
I like those.
[ it's pretty great - and would only be made better if she knew she got a laugh out of him.]
I like those.
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