Title: Devotion
Author: Trialia
Fandom: Final Fantasy IX
Character(s): Garnet/Dagger
Word Count: 279
Prompt: 053 Daughter
Rating: T
Genre: Angst
Summary: No matter what happens, she must play her part.
For as long as I can remember, I have played the role of Crown Princess Garnet, dutiful daughter to King Firhan and Queen Brahne, though I have no right to that name other than what they gave me by their concealment. I have often found myself wondering, since I learned my true identity, what the original Garnet was like. Would we have been friends? I cannot know; all I know of her is that she and I bore a resemblance which has shaped my life.
I am isolated from all my family members now, biological and adopted, and known as the only surviving heir to the throne of Alexandria; left alone with nothing to dampen this cold feeling in my heart, though people stand beside me. All I have is my duty of leading this country, and whether it makes me happy or it makes me sad, I must take up my mother's mantle- because birth mother or not, she was still my mother- her crown and her sceptre; I must follow the path laid out before me.
I have no right to be here... I am not truly their child... Yet knowing this only makes me feel that if the people perceive me this way, I need to do what is right, to help them all as much as I can. There's only one other person left in Madain Sari, while there are thousands here in the city and its environs needing royal aid.
Who would take over this country if I left it with no leader?
I will do my duty to Alexandria, under the name they gave me, in honour of my mother's memory. Both mothers.
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