Skyrim anniversary edition will be released for Nintendo Switch and fans are pretty excited. The game includes expansions such as Dawnguard, Hearthfire, and Dragonborn, and other new weapons, armors, and quests. Because of that, for the first time in forever, Switch players will be able to adopt children and become a Dragonborn parent.
There are many kids in the game who have lost their families and wish to be adopted by the player, but given that unfortunately, the Dragonborn can only adopt two children, it is one of the most important choices in Skyrim. It is very difficult to decide who to take home, but here are the children who need to be adopted the most.
Alesan
Alesan is a very hardworking and sweet boy who can be found in Dawnstar. As he explains, his father was a sailor who, after getting sick, got Alesan off the boat and abandoned him in the town. After telling his story he adds “I’ve tried to make it since then but it’s been hard. Real hard.”
As if the story wasn’t heartbreaking enough, the player can see Alesan running around the mines where he works delivering food to earn very little money. The worst part of it is that he can also be seen sleeping on the floor of the Windpeak Inn by the fire. Child labor is terrible, and it takes away the childhood of many children. Alesan should be playing with other kids and sleeping in a nice bed, and it’s up to the Dragonborn for him to be loved and taken care of.
Sofie
Sofie is yet another child who lives in poverty and has to work for a living selling flowers. But of course, she doesn’t make much money and has to sleep in the extreme cold weather and dangerous streets of Windhelm, a city where there is a serial killer on the run and that is structured to follow segregation laws.
Evidently, that is no place for a child to be homeless and unprotected. The tender girl has a rough past and has only tried to survive the cruelties of a world affected by war, but her suffering and struggles can end immediately if the Dragonborn decides to adopt her and give her Skyrim‘s best home ever.
Francois Beaufort
Francois Beaufort has a rooftop, meals, and can interact with other kids in HonorHall Orphanage in Riften. Nevertheless, what is devastating about him is that he believed his parents when they said they would come for him, and hopes they will return one day although he’s been in the orphanage for over a year.
It is not clear why the parents told him such a lie. Maybe it was to keep his hopes up, to soften reality, or maybe they didn’t want to look like bad guys, but it is definitely cruel to leave a kid with the promise of returning and never do so. With a family like that, Francois has probably never known true love from a parent, but his luck may change if he is adopted.
Runa Fair-Shield
She may be dark, tough, and outspoken, but that’s what makes Runa Fair-Shield one of a kind. She is the only girl up for adoption in HonorHall Orphanage and has the worst time. On multiple occasions, she admits she hates being there and that she is sick of the place. Nobody can blame her after the endless nightmares that she must have lived with Grelod the Kind.
If the player speaks to her when Grelod is alive, she trusts the Dragonborn and says “I’m really afraid of Grelod. When Aventus escaped, she was so mad. I got double the beatings that day”. Although later on Constance takes care of the children, Runa deserves to live somewhere far away from all the bad memories of her childhood abuse.
Blaise
Blaise can be seen sleeping outside on top of a pile of straw in the stables next to the horses, which is a big enough reason to adopt him. Every child deserves a safe place to sleep and be protected from the dangers of the night. It’s not only the cold weather and the hard floor. How could a child be outside in a world with dragons, bandits, trolls, and other threats in every corner?
Although Skyrim‘s civil war is one of the best side quests, Blaise is another victim of it. As he explains, his parents were soldiers of the legion and got killed in an ambush. No child should pay for the devastating consequences of politics, but the sad truth is that many do, and in Skyrim, it is no different. If the Dragonborn doesn’t adopt him after many adults failed him, how is he supposed to trust anybody else ever again?
Hroar
Hroar never explains how he ended up in HonorJall Orphanage in Riften. However, he has the sweetest and most heart-melting dialogue when he approaches the Dragonborn to explain the reason behind his unusual name: “I was named after the sound a lion makes. You know roar! Really.”
A boy this tender should never have to face the cruelties of growing up without parents. Hroar deserves genuine love from someone who actually looks after him. After all, it takes the most kind-hearted of kids to face abuse such as Grelod’s and still be as delightful and charming as he is.
Lucia
Lucia can be found roaming around in Whiterun expressing how hungry she is or begging for money. She tells her crushing story to the Dragonborn and explains how after her mother died, her aunt and uncle took over the farm she was living on and kicked her out. They even told her she wasn’t good for anything and lowered her self-esteem.
The girl is ignored by almost everyone in Whiterun except for Brenuin and the Dragonborn. Not even the best members of The Companions helped her out. It’s common for homeless people to be treated as if they didn’t exist, and that can have severe consequences for a child who is learning about life. The only way Lucia can feel like she is not worthless is by getting adopted and returning to real love like her deceased mom once gave her.
Samuel
Samuel is another of the children up for adoption in HonorHall Orphanage in Riften, but he is the only one that was raised there since he was a baby. Therefore he became some sort of leader for the other kids, and he shows great maturity in most of his dialogues. He sounds almost like an adult with the heart of a young boy.
The kid has never even been close to knowing what a family is like and was raised by Grelod the Kind. Unlike the others, he didn’t get to know any of his relatives and has always lived the isolated life of an institutionalized orphan who suffered from child abuse. He might be used to it by now, but that doesn’t make it any better, and he deserves a chance just as anybody else to finally have a family.