[It's fine, Pyra, he knows he is. And those words make him scoff quietly, a tiny, bittersweet smile crossing his lips.]

I didn't need to make up that part... the way some people talked, you'd think she'd been single-handedly destroying royal society from the inside. Dad waited until his father died just to marry her. She made trouble everywhere she went. Very, um. Formative, for me.

[He actually sounds pretty proud of this- like, heck yeah! He's a troublemaker like Mom. Even if she's teasing, he carries no embarrassment for it.]