Discussion History VideoGame / SecretOfMana

\\\"Princess\\\": What? You and dad MADE Dyluck go to the witch\\\'s castle?! How DARE
you try to drive Dyluck and me apart!
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It would seem that the girl\\\'s father (as opposed to her mother) is very much alive, and probably a tactician or general in the King\\\'s employ (definitely part of the military, or at least high-ranking enough as a noble to order a Major - Dyluck - to go on a suicide mission, at any rate). Anyway, note the \\\"you and dad\\\" line - she\\\'s speaking directly to the King, therefore the King can\\\'t be her father, which in turn makes her not a princess.

I\\\'m always astounded by the fact that nobody seems to catch any of these facts; even the game script on GameFAQs I pulled that information from just now calls her a princess!

EDIT: in fact, later, if you take her into the King\\\'s throne room to talk to Jema, you hear the following in-dialogue acknowledgement that the King is NOT her father.
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King: What a nightmare! The people in my country are acting like zombies! The
troops I sent to fight the witch were captured...

\\\"Princess\\\": What? You and dad MADE Dyluck go to the witch\\\'s castle?! How DARE
you try to drive Dyluck and me apart!
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It would seem that the girl\\\'s father (as opposed to her mother) is very much alive, and probably a tactician or general in the King\\\'s employ (definitely part of the military, or at least high-ranking enough as a noble to order a Major - Dyluck - to go on a suicide mission, at any rate). Anyway, note the \\\"you and dad\\\" line - she\\\'s speaking directly to the King, therefore the King can\\\'t be her father.

It\\\'s made pretty unambiguously clear in-game that the girl in your party is NOT actually a princess, but rather a young noblewoman - her grandparents (her mother is dead and/or gone) live next door to Phanna in an ordinary house among the general population, pretty far from Pandora castle; it\\\'s stated by Elman (in one recruitment route) that her mother is dead and/or gone and she had to grow up without one (and the King clearly has a perfectly-alive Queen, so even if the King remarried... yeah, that\\\'s not her mom, nor her stepmom). The simple fact that the King and Queen of Pandora never address her as their daughter (or criticize her for going on a daring rescue mission with the hero to rescue her boyfriend) should be a dead giveaway of this fact as well. Also, I\\\'m pretty sure that if she WERE a princess, at some point the game would have flatly called her out on it. She\\\'s definitely a stuck-up noblewoman (even has a fancy hair ornament), but she\\\'s no princess.