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[dishearten]

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. )

[sheriffing]

Could be worse, you could be Prince Graham.

[Don't think that also hasn't entered her parents' minds.]

[dishearten]

( sorry but wut. Somehow this is barely comprehensible to him. )

I'm not sure why anyone would call me that.

[sheriffing]

[ it is a legitimate slightly insane concept, alright?]

Because you married up.

[dishearten]

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. )

[sheriffing]

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.

[dishearten]

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.

[sheriffing]

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.

[dishearten]

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.

[sheriffing]

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.

[dishearten]

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.

[sheriffing]

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.

[dishearten]

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.

[sheriffing]

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.

[dishearten]

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.

[sheriffing]

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.