[He listens quietly, his eyes prickling. He remembered his own father, before he was.... well. Before he was the Dread King Garon, when he was his father first. Flawed. Maybe even evil. But his father who he loved and who he knew loved him in return.

He had been dead for a long time. Long before Corrin went to confront him. He understands.]

It's not ridiculous at all. I... made many mistakes, with my family. I kept them at length, hoping it would keep them safe from the dangers my future kingship would put on them. I know now that... that was foolish. And it cost Elise her life, since I was unwilling to let her into my heart.

[He hasn't said her name since his trial, unable to bring himself to do so. And while the prickling in his eyes is spilling over, it's... lacking the crushing manic agony it had back then. Grief, of course, but acceptance. Healing]

You are... of similar age to her.

[He had been Elise's father in many ways. Garon had already been long gone in everything but body by then. Her mother dead, raised by wetnurses and her two eldest siblings trying to be parents before they were even teenagers. In a way their family had been just as patched together and ramshackle as theirs' were now.]

I would... never think to replace her, or my other siblings. But I can learn from the mistakes I made with them. If you would have me... I would very much like to be your family.