As The Firelight Dies

Mother used to tell me tales of a dark haired prince who took her on adventures. She was a fun woman, telling me stories of her teenage days, of parties and drinks and magic in the air. All with an embarrassed twitter of a laugh, though her eyes shone with a brightness I only see rarely. Those days were behind her, she'd tell me, a sadder cast to her. She was different person then, she'd say. But just the right person to attract my father.

Mother never told me his name. She told me other things. She told me he was prince. He liked to party, though. Liked to indulge and play around. She'd been a spitfire then, just the sort to catch his eyes. They'd gotten together, shared a bed more times than she could count and more commonly than he'd ever done with any other woman.

That was how I was born. It was on Heart's Day, she told me with a soft smile as she smiled at something I couldn't see. The day for Lovers. That day, my father had been more romantic than she'd ever seen him; taken her on a date with flowers and music and fireflies once it was dark enough. Their night had been filled with something that was more like love making than the plain sex they'd had any time before.

It was the best day of her life. It was also the last time she saw him. And the night she found out his true name.

Mother told me, once I'd come of age, eighteen and more than ready to leave and join a guild, that the name he'd first given her was Sam Guevenne. On the night I was conceived, he finally admitted to being Sanguine.

I hadn't known what to say, then. Admittedly, I still don't. How's someone supposed to act when they find out their father is a Daedric Prince? The one of revelry, debauchery, and indulgence, no less?

At least I know to avoid Stendarr's followers now.

A/N: I was just thinking one day: what if the main character of Skyrim was half-Daedra? Like, you can pretty much make the character whatever you want, can imagine whatever life you want for them, so why not this? So I tried to write something based on that.
This is so short it hurts but I want to post it -frustrated noises-