Well, here's some small tales, all told from the perfective (kind of) of Rubilax. Why the ever snarky demon sword? Because he's an outside observer.

Disclaimer: I do not own Wakfu or anything related to it.

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Sir Tristepin Percedal is a lousy liar. Whenever he tries to (which isn't often. He's a knight, after all) he stammers, blushes, looks away and basically destroys his deception before it even leaves his lips. It's somewhat surprising, Rubilax thinks, that being such a horrible fibber he's so good at hiding things. It probably has to do with the fact that Tristepin himself doesn't give it much mind.

When they sit around the fire and exchange stories, the guardian always mentions lessons he learned from Goultard, his days spent with his master or the times he trained with him, but nobody has yet asked the real question, which Rubilax knows it to be "Who are you, Pinpin, and where do you come from?"

That's the real issue here. Goultard is not his father, nor was Tristepin born from a cabbage, either. Nobody in their small group knows and Rubilax learned a long time ago his guardian is not hiding it out of malice. He just doesn't see the importance of those years. Rubilax knows, of course. Being a guardian is more than just holding the cursed object the shushu is in. He knows Tristepin as well as the knight knows himself, maybe even more.

And, somehow, Rubilax can understand the iop's train of thought. What would he tell them if they asked? The days of his infancy weren't filled with the nauseating happiness Yugo's were. He isn't the son of a king or a noble. He never was arranged to protect a princess. His life didn't even have the life lessons that old skinflint's did.

What would Tristepin talk about? How he was the youngest of eight siblings and he resembled none of them? How his home was small and smelly and always cold, the meager lands his father owned almost unable to provide for the whole family? Would the knight, maybe, talk about the gossips of his birth and conception, the only iop in his family? Talk about being ignored by his siblings and his parents, forever cold and hungry and so very alone?

Maybe tell them Tristepin Percedal isn't even his real name, but one he choose to adopt when he casted aside everything he had been to that point, when Goultard took him under his wing?

Of course Sir Tristepin Percedal would never talk about that. The simple notion is silly. But Rubilax knows he doesn't hide it out of shame or fear of ridicule. He just doesn't talk about it because it does not make for a good story. It's so mundane, so obvious, so boring; Tristepin himself deems it not worthy of being told, not even to that little girlfriend of his.

Everybody has fun stories to tell of the years before they formed the (ugh!) Brotherhood of the Tofu. The guardian's began when he ran away from his house to never return, tired of being ignored, cold and lonely. He wandered for almost a month, surviving as he could, before Goultard found him and saw his potential, entrusting him the sword Rubilx was trapped in. That's the moment Tristepin Percedal was born. Goultard gave him a new name, a mission and a goal. He became the father he had never actually had. Rubilax has seen into his heart, learned his past and motivations. He has seen the young iop grow in body and strength. Maybe even a bit in mind. And he has grudgingly come to respect him. He's different from most guardians: he's not a noble, he's not elegant or well read or even that smart, but he has become who he is by his own strength alone. Rubilax can respect that, even if it pains him to admit it. He wonders when he became so attached to the little dumbass.

Still, Rubilax can see that his past still nags at Tristepin's mind, but not as a sad thought but as a feeling of unfinished business. It takes the demon a few days to piece together what the iop actually wants: he wants to go back.

He wants to travel to that small, cold, smelly town and walk down the street with his head up, tall and proud of himself. He wants to visit his old home, knock at the door and face his family. He wants to show them Rubilax and tell them: 'See this sword? It's a shushu and he could destroy everything in this town in the blink of an eye. And I tamed his with my fists.' He wants to show them his friends and tell them: 'See the boy? I helped him find a lost race. The sadida is a princess. The enutrof is rich enough to buy this entire town. We once won a boufball tournament without any formal training.' He then will point at Evangelyne and say: 'See that cra? See how pretty and strong and smart she is? I love her. And she loves me.' And then he will smile and pat his father's shoulder: 'I am being noticed. I've done great things. I am someone. You were wrong.'

And it would be fair, because he rose from being nobody to get everything he desired since he was a kid. Using only his own strength and determination, he struggled out of mediocrity and became a real hero.

And, even if he doesn't want to admit it, Rubilax can respect that.

AN: I plan on doing one for every main character of the show but I'm having trouble with some of them, so yeah.

Also, I hope this encourages people to write more about this nice show. It's a sin it has such a small fanbase XD