The Last Child In The Village

Sometime during the renovation of the Smurf Village after Gargamel's attack upon it with the Gauntlets of Gantharros, when Tapper's Tavern was back in business once again, Brainy met with Empath inside the tavern and ordered a smurfberry seltzer.

"Salutations, fellow Brainy," Empath greeted. "What seems to be on your mind at this moment?"

"I was just thinking back to the revelation that you and I were brothers...and I was wondering why I had to be the one who smurfed glasses while you weren't," Brainy answered.

Empath laughed. "We're only brothers by having the same Mama Smurf, Brainy. You are still hoping that Papa Smurf was your father as well as mine?"

"As a matter of fact, I am," Brainy said. "It's no big secret around the village that I'm a very big admirer of Papa Smurf, and I hope to be just as wise and as intelligent as Papa Smurf, if not even more so. I was just hoping that I have inherited my desire for knowledge and wisdom straight from him, but now it seems I have not only inherited them from another Smurf, but also my terrible eyesight."

"This smurf senses you're starting to remember a childhood that existed before you lost your Papa and Mama Smurf, Brainy, as are all this smurf's fellow Smurfs," Empath said.

"I'm starting to remember a lot of things from my childhood that I must have completely forgotten about since Papa Smurf became the only Papa Smurf we have, Empath," Brainy said. "I remember how differently I was treated by my fellow Smurfs, that I was the last child in the village and I had to smurf glasses and how my Mama Smurf was a bad Smurfette because she cheated on Uncle Cully...I mean, Papa Smurf...well, you know what I mean."

"This smurf seems to understand how you must have felt during those days, Brainy," Empath said. "It must not be easy to know that your origin as a Smurf was from a failure in the relationship your Mama Smurf had with my Papa Smurf."

"Well, the whole village didn't have to treat me like I should never have been smurfed into this world, Empath," Brainy said. "Okay, there were maybe a few Smurfs that treated me better than the others like Clumsy, but that was just no excuse for the rest to smurf me the 'he's the illegitimate Smurfling' treatment."

"The origin of your birth was not your fault, Brainy," Empath said. "Neither is the fact that you were the last Smurf born in your generation. This smurf only wishes that your fellow Smurfs were much more understanding in this regard."

"Those things just don't matter anymore, now that we all have one Papa Smurf who is smurfing out for us," Brainy said. "Now I just get smurfed out of the village or smurfed in the head with a hammer when I'm trying to share my knowledge and wisdom with my fellow Smurfs."

"That part is something you'll have to work on, Brainy, but it doesn't mean that this smurf will ever stop caring for you, and neither will your fellow Smurfs," Empath said. "You may be the last Smurf in our generation, but that doesn't mean that you're in any way the least."

"That's what Papa Smurf always said to me, Empath," Brainy said. "And that's something that I always smurf to heart, even if the other Smurfs still want to treat me like I should never have been born."

Empath smiled. "So if you can remember anything, tell this smurf about what Mama Smurf was like when you were a Smurfling."