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I think they did a good job coming up with a horror-story worst-case-scenario foil to Noctis when they crafted Ardyn.
As in, Noctis spent his whole life aware that he was going to die, thanks to the Ring of the Lucii and the price it takes from the Martyr Kings. Also Noctis was aware that his eventual kids would also be doomed to die for it. So Noctis basically grew up Out Of Fucks To Give, and then there was the Prophecy King Destiny that got dumped on his head and everything was horrible.
Now on the part of Ardyn, he’s basically what Noctis might become after the Gods fuck up and the Prophecy doesn’t work in the beta version. Then Add Extra Spite because if Ardyn doesn’t even get to die after he fails then everyone else has to suffer along with him. And so after a few centuries we have the Ardyn from canon, who has outlived all his Morality Chains and Sanity Anchors and is now trying to wring whatever paltry enjoyment he can get out of the Hellworld he’s trapped in. Because the Gods Are All Liars and Destiny Is Fake.
Which is why killing Ardyn in the end is actually an act of mercy, because that man has been dead inside in a way that there’s no coming back from. And it’s something you can weep in pity of, because Ardyn probably started out his Quest as someone similar to Regis and Noctis in personality. And that changed, little by little, as Ardyn’s emotional exhaustion crept up on him and he finally gave up and stopped caring. At all. About anything. Except ending it. And if that means the entire world needs to die too? Then Ardyn would destroy the world so he can finally rest.
Which is why I think any Ardyn fix-its would need to involve time travel and a Nail to happen sometime pre-curse. (A time-travelling Gilgamesh from post-Dawn would be amazing, possibly with added chocobros for Antics. Or a Cor with additional mixed Crownsguard and Kingsglaive entourage gets up to Shenanigans involving the sword he nicked off Gil and the Crystal. I dunno, there are so many things I can do with recursive time loops and dialogue reinterpretation.)
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I think they did a good job coming up with a horror-story worst-case-scenario foil to Noctis when they crafted Ardyn.
As in, Noctis spent his whole life aware that he was going to die, thanks to the Ring of the Lucii and the price it takes from the Martyr Kings. Also Noctis was aware that his eventual kids would also be doomed to die for it. So Noctis basically grew up Out Of Fucks To Give, and then there was the Prophecy King Destiny that got dumped on his head and everything was horrible.
Now on the part of Ardyn, he’s basically what Noctis might become after the Gods fuck up and the Prophecy doesn’t work in the beta version. Then Add Extra Spite because if Ardyn doesn’t even get to die after he fails then everyone else has to suffer along with him. And so after a few centuries we have the Ardyn from canon, who has outlived all his Morality Chains and Sanity Anchors and is now trying to wring whatever paltry enjoyment he can get out of the Hellworld he’s trapped in. Because the Gods Are All Liars and Destiny Is Fake.
Which is why killing Ardyn in the end is actually an act of mercy, because that man has been dead inside in a way that there’s no coming back from. And it’s something you can weep in pity of, because Ardyn probably started out his Quest as someone similar to Regis and Noctis in personality. And that changed, little by little, as Ardyn’s emotional exhaustion crept up on him and he finally gave up and stopped caring. At all. About anything. Except ending it. And if that means the entire world needs to die too? Then Ardyn would destroy the world so he can finally rest.
Which is why I think any Ardyn fix-its would need to involve time travel and a Nail to happen sometime pre-curse. (A time-travelling Gilgamesh from post-Dawn would be amazing, possibly with added chocobros for Antics. Or a Cor with additional mixed Crownsguard and Kingsglaive entourage gets up to Shenanigans involving the sword he nicked off Gil and the Crystal. I dunno, there are so many things I can do with recursive time loops and dialogue reinterpretation.)
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