Colter/Supports

## Thea

### C Support

> **Colter**Sis! Hold up.**Thea**What is it, Colt? You look annoyed.**Colter**What have I told you about jumping around like an idiot?**Thea**Jumping around?**Colter**I saw you perform a freaking backflip in battle earlier. Why the hell would you take such a stupid risk?**Thea**This is just how I fight.**Colter**I taught you to always go for the kill whenever possible. The longer a fight drags out the more dangerous it gets.**Thea**You have your style. I have mine.**Colter**Your style is going to get you killed. I won't allow it.**Thea**I don't need your permission to fight.**Colter**I did not babysit you on the streets for nearly two decades. Just so you could go and get your head split by some brigand.**Thea**Alright brother... I'll be more careful.**Colter**Thank you. Thea.

### B Support

> **Thea**This army got some handsome men in it.**Colter**... What?**Thea**Let's just say I'm glad you brought me along.**Colter**Will you shut up?**Thea**Afraid I'm going to steal one of your boyfriends?**Colter**Why do you always get like this?**Thea**It's okay, Colt. I am sure some of these soldiers swing both ways.**Colter**You are the last person I want to have this conversation with.**Thea**Alright fine. So, which one of the girls do you like, then? Linette is kind of cute.**Colter**I don't want to discuss this with you either.**Thea**Not into blondes? Could have fooled me.**Colter**Go bother someone else.**Thea**Alright, maybe I'll work my charms on Jakka.**Colter**I hope you fall into a ditch.**Thea**You are so easy to tease.

### A Support

> **Thea**Colter, do you remember our parents well?**Colter**Where did this come from?**Thea**You never talk much about mom and dad.**Colter**No. I don't.**Thea**I don't even remember what they looked like. I was so young when they passed away.**Colter**I have described them to you.**Thea**I know, but it's not quite the same. Do you think about them often?**Colter**Every day.**Thea**What was the last thing they said to you?**Colter**.....They told me to take care of you. No matter what happened.**Thea**Colt. You never told me.**Colter**I thought it was obvious.**Thea**Is that why you've been looking after me all this time? Did they make you promise?**Colter**Thea. You are my sister. I would have done it no matter what.**Thea**..... I tease you a lot, but that is only because I care about you. You know that right, Colt?**Colter**Yeah yeah.**Thea**Oh that reminds me, I got you something.**Colter**Thea this is...**Thea**Do you like it?**Colter**Where did you find this?**Thea**It's a secret.**Colter**This type of dagger, it's very rare. My boss in Holtmeier has one. You didn't get it from her, did you?**Thea**Does it matter? It's yours now.**Colter**I am grateful, Thea. I just hope you didn't do anything stupid to obtain it.

## Lilinette

### C Support

> **Lilinette**Hi there. You must be Colter.**Colter**What do you want?**Lilinette**I uhm, just wanted to talk. I am Lilinette of House Rose. It is a pleasure to meet you.**Colter**...**Lilinette**What is wrong? I am just trying to get to know you.**Colter**Take some advice Lilinette. Girls like you should stay away from guys like me.**Lilinette**And why is that?**Colter**Because I used to rob girls like you on the streets. You should be more careful with who you approach so casually.**Lilinette**Nonsense. You may look a little scary, but I can tell you have a good heart.**Colter**That so? Got me figured out, have you?[Colter moves closer to Lilinette.]**Lilinette**Uhm, what... Are you doing?**Colter**That is some fine jewelry. Meeting you alone here is like hitting the jackpot for a thief.**Lilinette**W-wait, why are you... Eeek! Someone, please help me!

### B Support

> **Lilinette**H-hello there, Colter.**Colter**You again? Did you not learn your lesson last time?**Lilinette**That is why I wanted to talk to you. I think I may require another lesson!**Colter**... What?**Lilinette**Well, I was thinking. What if I actually got robbed for real? By someone who actually wanted to hurt me?**Colter**Then you'd be screwed. Most likely.**Lilinette**So ehm... I was thinking... That maybe... M-maybe you could try robbing me again?**Colter**... Are you serious?**Lilinette**I don't know why, but no one has ever made me feel that way before!**Colter**Here I go out of my way to try and teach a stupid girl a lesson. And then she wants me to do it to her more? Can't make this up.**Lilinette**..... I think I'm in love with you!**Colter**..... Come again?**Lilinette**I am in love with you Colter! I want us to be together!!**Colter**No you're not. You have no idea what you are even saying right now.**Lilinette**I... oh... goodness me. What AM I saying? Oh heavens... I need to get some air... I think**Colter**..... What have I gotten myself into...

### A Support

> **Lilinette**Colter, please don't go. I need to talk to you.**Colter**I suppose we should get this over with.**Lilinette**You probably think that I'm just a silly little girl, with silly little feelings.**Colter**Yeah, that sounds about right.**Lilinette**But I have been thinking about you a lot. And I have come to the realization that... I DO love you, and I know it is true love!**Colter**..... Lilinette...**Lilinette**I want us to get married. I want you to be my husband!**Colter**That would never work out. Not in a million years.**Lilinette**You do not love me back?**Colter**That's not the problem. Do you not understand?**Lilinette**Oh, you mean because you are a commoner? And I am a noble? I have thought about that too! I have a perfect solution!**Colter**A solution?**Lilinette**If we cut your hair, and dress you up in very nice clothes. If you let me change your style, I could make you handsome. You would be my sweet little lord, and my family would see how much we loved each other, and they would be happy! And they would allow us to marry!**Colter**You really are naive, aren't you?**Lilinette**I know my family, I know they only want what is best for me. I know that I could make them understand if I really tried.**Colter**Lilinette, let me tell you what would happen if you took me home to your noble family.**Lilinette**Yes?**Colter**The first thing they would do is ask me who I am. If I tried to lie and say I was a noble, they would find out.**Lilinette**.....**Colter**I'd tell them I'm a commoner. They would not approve of course, and you would get mad at them. You would tell them everything you told me, and they would be stuck in a very awkward position.**Lilinette**.....**Colter**You would cry of course, and you would be sad... for some time at least. However, eventually you would get over it, and marry someone else. But me? That would be the end for me. I would probably never leave whatever cell they threw me into alive.**Lilinette**My family would never do something like that!**Colter**Lilinette, you have spent your entire life among nobles, but you have never seen what happens when someone threatens the future of their house. I have. House Rose would do anything to ensure you did not marry a cutthroat. Trust me.**Lilinette**Colter...**Colter**Our story would never have a happy ending. It does not matter if I like you, marrying you would be the death of me.**Lilinette**So... you do like me?**Colter**Goodbye, Lilinette.[Colter leaves.]**Lilinette**.....

## Harriet

### C Support

> **Colter**Harriet, I brought you a little something.**Harriet**Oh Colter. I have been looking all over for these. How did you know?**Colter**You always used to have them at your infirmary.**Harriet**They have healing properties. Very useful for bringing down someone's fever.**Colter**I am well aware. I probably owe my life to these herbs.**Harriet**Wait a minute, Colter. How did you obtain them?**Colter**I procured them.**Harriet**From who?**Colter**From someone who did not need them as much.**Harriet**Hrmpf. Still thieving about, are you?**Colter**It's what I do, Harriet.**Harriet**How many times did I have to patch you up after some street brawl. Just because you put your fingers where they did not belong?**Colter**It was the only way to survive in the slums. You either became a thief or a murderer.**Harriet**Sad as I am to admit it, you do have a point.**Colter**Do you need anything else?**Harriet**Only if you can obtain it legally.**Colter**Then I'm out.**Harriet**Hrmpf. You little rogue.

### B Support

> **Harriet**Colter, come here.**Colter**What?**Harriet**You got a small cut on your hand. Let me take a look at it.**Colter**It's nothing.**Harriet**You know as well as I do that any wound no matter how small...**Colter**... can still get infected. I know.**Harriet**Don't you finish my sentences young man!**Colter**.....Fine. Take a look.**Harriet**How did this happen, Colter? Surely you didn't cut yourself?**Colter**]I was picking someone's pocket and he turned around last second.**Harriet**This all sounds very familiar.**Colter**I know you don't approve of my thieving, Harriet. However, we need all the help we can get.**Harriet**I still hold out hope that maybe one day you will amount to something more. You are not just some hooded cutpurse.**Colter**I wouldn't get my hopes up.**Harriet**I've known you since you were a boy, Colter. You are so much more.**Colter**Aaand that's my cue to leave. Bye.[Colter leaves.]**Harriet**Come back here young man! I am not done talking to you!

### A Support

> **Colter**Harriet.**Harriet**By the divines, Colter! Don't sneak up on me like that. You could have given this old woman a heart attack.**Colter**My apologies.**Harriet**Was there something you wanted?**Colter**After this war is over I plan to settle down.**Harriet**Really now?**Colter**You were right about me, I want to be more than just a thief.**Harriet**By the light, I think my hearing is failing me in my old age. Are you truly saying what I think you are saying?**Colter**I would like to get a family, I think. Do some honest work, for a change.**Harriet**Colter, I am proud of you.**Colter**Maybe I could help out at the infirmary? The capital really needs that place.**Harriet**Alicia could surely use all the help she can get, that is for sure. I won't be around for much longer.**Colter**Nonsense. You have many years left in you!**Harriet**Hah. I'm not so sure about that, but I thank you all the same.**Colter**You've inspired me to become a better person, Harriet. Thank you.**Harriet**That better person you speak of... He was always inside you. I always knew he was there from the very start.**Colter**.....**Harriet**We will both survive this war, Colter. And afterwards we will work to make Andaron a better place for everyone.**Colter**That's a deal.

## Baudimon

### C Support

> **Colter**Boss, I got something to report.**Baudimon**Alright, let's hear it.**Colter**I've mapped out the enemy positions. You can see their formations here. I've written it all down on this note. What I do next is up to you, Baud. Would you like me to infiltrate solo? I can also play the role of support. I can harass the enemy forces or try to steal some supplies for our troops.**Baudimon**Hmm, you do whatever you feel is most beneficial to our team. I trust your judgment, Colt.**Colter**Got it. I will return to you when I have more to report.**Baudimon**Reliable as always.**Colter**It's what I'm here for.

### B Support

> **Baudimon**Hey Colter.**Colter**What's up boss?**Baudimon**Hang back a little in today's battle, ok? No need to constantly risk your life.**Colter**You pay me to do the dangerous jobs. It's what I'm here for, boss.**Baudimon**I know, but sometimes I worry you go above your paygrade.**Colter**I don't understand.**Baudimon**You may be a thief and one of my most reliable men. However, you're also a friend. I don't want you to die.**Colter**I'm not a great warrior, Baud. I can't fight like you or Jakka.**Baudimon**I know, that's why I want you to be more careful.**Colter**So that's why you have to let me do what I'm good at out there. Sneaking around, avoiding the enemies, attacking from behind. These are things I am good at. It makes me a valuable asset. If you take that away from me, I'm just dead weight out here.**Baudimon**I get what you mean, I just don't want to use you like a tool.**Colter**I know you don't, which is exactly why I choose to follow you into battle. You're a good man, so let me serve you.**Baudimon**Alright Colter, just promise me you'll be careful out there.**Colter**I won't do anything stupid.

## Rodd

### C Support

> **Colter**I don't know how you managed to worm yourself into our company, but I got my eyes on you, Rodd.**Rodd**Oh, dear Colter. I'm shaking in my boots.**Colter**We're not in the slums, Rodd. You are not surrounded by your goons around here.**Rodd**How nice of you to remind me.**Colter**I mean it. You hurt my friends, you gonna pay.**Rodd**Relax, Colter. You have nothing to fear from me. I am a rehabilitated man fighting for justice!**Colter**I'll believe that when it starts snowing in Styxia.**Rodd**Since when did you become an arbiter of truth and virtue? You've done some pretty heinous things in your past.**Colter**I only did what I had to.**Rodd**Oh? Like that one time you beat poor Humpfrey half to death?**Colter**I don't need to explain myself to you, Rodd.**Rodd**It was a simple extortion mission, yet you broke almost every bone in his body.**Colter**It was necessary.**Rodd**Is that so?**Colter**He tried to force himself on Thea while I was gone.**Rodd**Ahh. Now I see. It's always about Thea.**Colter**He never tried to touch her again. I got my coin. Two birds with one stone.**Rodd**You try to act pragmatic, but you're really just a big softie when it comes to Thea.**Colter**Shut up. I am done talking to you.

### B Support

> **Rodd**I am curious, Colter. How did a low-life such as yourself end up fighting in a rebellion?**Colter**Why do you care?**Rodd**I know you. You're pragmatic. You don't fight unless there's something to be gained from it. You are not the type to go die for King and country.**Colter**Maybe I had an altruistic phase.**Rodd**Hah. Not likely.**Colter**If you must know, I was hired by Baud to do a simple reconnaissance job. All I did was scout enemy camps.**Rodd**Sounds like dangerous work.**Colter**He paid me well. Enough so that I kept tagging along with him and his men. Before I knew it, I was an integral part of their operation.**Rodd**I've heard the stories of Baudimon's rebels. Sounds like you narrowly escaped death daily. I can't believe you stuck with them.**Colter**Believe it or not, Rodd, but I don't abandon my friends.**Rodd**Hah. You act all tough, but at the first sign of trouble, you are the first to bolt. You are a survivor, Colter. You would never sacrifice yourself for someone.**Colter**You know nothing about me, Rodd.**Rodd**I know a pragmatist when I see one. If we ever find ourselves in an unwinnable battle, you would flee.**Colter**And you would not?**Rodd**Oh totally. First sign of trouble, I am out of here.**Colter**Why do I even talk to you?

### A Support

> **Colter**Why are you still here, Rodd?**Rodd**Come again?**Colter**We've gotten ourselves into more shit than I thought ever possible. Why haven't you bolted yet?**Rodd**Hmm. Good question. I could ask you the same.**Colter**These people are my friends. I told you, I don't abandon my friends.**Rodd**And what if I say the same?**Colter**I'd call you a liar. You don't have friends.**Rodd**Hah. Not willing to believe that Rodd has finally turned over a new leaf? Maybe I've become a brand new man. Ready to fight for truth and justice!**Colter**Save the stupid bullshit for someone who wants to buy it. You're a thug and a thief Rodd.**Rodd**Just you wait, Colt. In a few years they will be singing songs about me in taverns. Rodd the Hero, champion of Andaron. Defender of the poor and downtrodden!**Colter**Pah.**Rodd**It bothers you, does it not?**Colter**What are you talking about?**Rodd**You can't stand that someone like me is getting a second chance.**Colter**People like you don't deserve second chances.**Rodd**People like us, you mean?**Colter**I'm nothing like you, but I don't deserve a second chance either.**Rodd**So that's where this is coming from. This isn't about me at all, it's about you.**Colter**What are you babbling about?**Rodd**If scum like me can be redeemed, then that means there is hope for you as well.**Colter**You are talking nonsense, Rodd.**Rodd**Am I really? Rodd, the crime lord, fighting for a better tomorrow! Where does that leave Colter? Surely, if someone as horrible as me can be given a second chance, then there's hope for you as well?**Colter**Throw yourself off a cliff, please.[Colter leaves.]**Rodd**Hoho. I hit a nerve there. I haven't lost my touch. Ahhh, it hurts to be this magnificent, truly.

## Fred

### C Support

> **Fred**You there!**Colter**What do you want?**Fred**I see you sneaking around here like a thief.**Colter**That would be a pretty astute observation. Seeing as I am one.**Fred**You willingly admit to being a lawbreaker??**Colter**No sense in being dishonest about what I really am. You got a problem with that?**Fred**It so happens I do, young man. As a knight of a noble house, I cannot just stand by and watch you steal.**Colter**Who said anything about watching me? You think I would willingly let you see me?**Fred**I have the eyes of a hawk. If you commit so much as a whiff of crime. I will know. Do not even try it, lout.**Colter**I suppose my hands are tied then. Guess I can't steal anymore.**Fred**I do apologize for being so harsh, but you will thank me for it later.**Colter**I suppose so, Fred. Be seeing you.[Colter moves past Fred and leaves.]**Fred**Ahh. It feels good to uphold law and order.**Fred**.....**Fred**Wait a minute, where did my coin purse go?

### B Support

> **Fred**Stop this very instant!**Colter**You again? What is it?**Fred**Someone cut my purse earlier.**Colter**Not me.**Fred**Who else could it have been?**Colter**Maybe you just lost it somewhere?**Fred**Nonsense! I do not lose things.**Colter**Everyone loses things. Don't be embarrassed. Happens to all of us.**Fred**I am NOT embarrassed! You will hand me the stolen purse this very instant.**Colter**Hah. You? Arrest me? I'd like to see you try.**Fred**That is it! You are coming with me![Fred tries to catch Colter.]**Fred**You slippery little thief. Stand still!**Colter**Hey Fred, what is that thing hanging from your belt?**Fred**Wait. My coin purse?? How did that get there?**Colter**Maybe it was there all along?**Fred**Nonsense! You planted it on me!**Colter**What kind of thief would plant his own stolen goods on the person he just robbed?**Fred**You dishonest rogue! You think you can trick me?**Colter**Maybe you should take better care of your things?[Colter "leaves".]**Fred**.....**Fred**Hmm, maybe he is telling the truth? There is no way he would be able to attach that purse onto my belt. I am far too perceptive for that.[Colter appears behind Fred.]**Fred**I am an extremely observant and brilliant knight, after all.[Colter pickpockets Fred and leaves quietly.]**Fred**.....**Fred**Was my coin purse not here a moment ago?

### A Support

> **Fred**Alright Colter, well played.**Colter**What do you want this time?**Fred**Every day I keep losing my coin purse. And every morning I find it again. I think you have made your point.**Colter**Don't know what you're talking about. Maybe you are just going crazy.**Fred**Colter, you are a thief and an irredeemable cutthroat.**Colter**.....**Fred**But your skill is undeniable. No one has been able to steal from me like that before.**Colter**What are you getting at?**Fred**Imagine if you used your skills to help people instead of hurting them.**Colter**Oh, so I hurt people?**Fred**You may not be evil at your core, but you are performing acts of evil.**Colter**What the hell do you know about anything?**Fred**.....**Colter**When my parents died I was left taking care of little baby Thea. I was left with a choice, steal or starve to death in a gutter. Tell me Fred, is it evil to let a child starve to death?**Fred**.....**Colter**You probably never even felt real hunger as a kid. And yet you see fit to judge someone like me?**Fred**.....**Colter**What? You gonna say something sophisticated?**Fred**I apologize, Colter.**Colter**.....**Fred**It was wrong of me to call you evil. I see now that you did the things you did out of necessity.**Colter**I don't need your pity.**Fred**Still, I can tell that you are ashamed of the things you have done.**Colter**.....**Fred**You act like a hardened criminal, yet you have a gentle heart.**Colter**Stop analyzing me.**Fred**You are right Colter, I have no idea what it is to be like you. However, I see someone with the potential for redemption.**Colter**Nah. It's too late for me, Fred. I'll be a thief until the day I die.**Fred**Is that what your sister would want?[Fred leaves.]**Colter**.....