

When she claims he knows nothing about loss and is only afraid of it, David recalls how his father's death due to alcoholism shaped his beliefs. Joan insists that surviving is not living, and she elaborates by telling him about how her sister tried to solve problems by running away like him.

He argues that some battles can't be won, and the most important thing for himself and his mother is survival. While she thinks he is making progress, David gives up after being unable to beat her during training.
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Joan, believing David must defend himself against this tyrant, teaches him how to sword fight. Additionally, she brands them, using her shepherd's crook, and promises that they will become her slaves if the deal is not met. She warns that if they cannot pool the money by tomorrow, the farm is hers. Since farm business is poor, their earnings are not enough, so Bo Peep sets a deadline. As they talk, Bo Peep arrives to collect payment. Noticing the ring on her finger, David recognizes that she must be Kristoff's fiancé. Revealing little, except that she is on a "secret mission", Joan asks permission to stay on his farm for the night. Seeing as Kristoff is the only person he knows from that place, David guesses she knows him, too. One day, a woman, Joan, arrives stating she knows his name from someone from Arendelle. He acquainted with a man from Arendelle named Kristoff. Years later, David becomes a shepherd, but he and his mother face troubles on the farm when a warlord, Bo Peep, badgers them for money. The death has a significant influence on David, who understands how much his father wanted to change but ultimately could not, as he begins to believe some battles simply cannot be beaten. Tragically, he and his mother are notified that his father, although sober for thirteen days, became drunk at a tavern on the fourteenth day and died after falling into a ravine. Pleased, David looks forward to the fourteenth day when his father will finally return home.

This time, his father expresses a sincere desire to change for his son's sake, promising that by the time he returns from a two week run to haul farm supplies, that his alcohol dependency would be gone. (" The Shepherd")Īs a young boy, David overhears his parents quarreling, for the umpteenth time, about his father's drinking problems. The parents choose to give away Prince Charming's twin, James, who becomes a prince, while they keep David. Rumplestiltskin comes to their farm when he is an infant and tells his parents that the barren king and queen of their country need a child, and they will be paid handsomely if they give one of the twins to them. Prince Charming is born with the name David, to a poor peasant family, with a twin brother.
