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Nyx’s Mom was very, very wild. And she and Ramuh might have been very, very drunk. They made a solumn vow to NEVER speak of it again.
Nyx DOESN’T want to know.
Also, he might also be in the same boat as Ardynson!Nyx re: hiding out from the Astrals, because noone’s quite certain as to whether or not he’d be taken for an ‘abomination’ by the rest.
(I have the headcanon that this is how the Lucis Caelum and Nox Fleuret bloodlines started - Bahamut got very, VERY drunk with his favorite priestess and one thing led to another; Shiva was lonely after Ifrit Fell and - well.)
@hamelin-born
Nyx just, does not want to know how he came to be – his mother is his mother and his father is his father and as far as he’s concerned he sprang from the earth as a fully formed baby and will never believe otherwise.
Anyone who tries to talk to him about it or who mentions his mother being pregnant with him is quickly drowned out by Nyx’s “Nonononononononononononononono…” and silenced by a stare that is both panicked and dead – people are in awe of this stare.
(Alya and Ramuh very much get that. They were way to drunk and remember nothing of that evening and they do not want to. They would never have even thought of it again if not for Nyx, and then they make a mutual agreement to just, pretend that it didn’t happen and not talk about it.
Nyx just appeared one day. Maybe he sprung forth like Athena or was left on the doorstep or something, the story changes a lot over the years. But Nyx just appeared one day. There was no pregnancy and no birth and certainly no… sex.
That is their story and they’re sticking too it)
But yeah, Nyx hides who he is as best as he can – all of Galahd knows because one, he feels like Ramuh, two, children don’t have the best control over their powers and it was pretty obvious tbh, and three, well they’re his people – from Lucis and the Astrals because there are stories about his kind.
Half-breeds, they call them. Godtouched, Astral-Childe, Abomination.
Humans aren’t fond of his kind – too much power contained in fragile mortal flesh, people who are just a bit off, who need years of experience just to be able to pass for human (and Nyx is so lucky in that. He grew up in Galahd, surrounded by his father’s people, and they taught him to be human. Any lingering oddities, when Nyx just can’t keep the mask all the way up anymore and gets tired of pretending – because he isn’t human, doesn’t want to be human, and it is so tiring to pretend all the time – get written off as him being Galahdian), weapons of mass destruction. His kind are weapons and monsters and outcasts, never trusted or loved except by a few.
And most Astrals are worse. Because these children, these God-Blessed, have the powers of their parents – even if to a lesser extent – and a connection to the world, but they are mortal. And mortals can change things.
They aren’t bound by prophecy or by the world, and they are free to make their own choices and fates. They’re Wild Cards, and the Astrals – especially Bahamut – don’t like that.
Nyx wasn’t meant to be born and he knows that, just as surely as he knows that his parents love him.
(Which, honestly, does nothing for his recklessness and suicidal tendencies)
(Also, I love that idea, that the Lucis Caelum and Nox Fleuret lines were spawned in a similar way and that most people have forgotten that. But that is why the Astrals are so cautious of them, because even generations later – when the blood is so diluted it may as well not be there – these lines still carry traces of that power, far more than any ordinary human. Bahamut and Shiva wouldn’t kill their children, but their lines stand as a warning to the other Astrals – ‘we made this mistake’ they say ‘and this is how we’ve limited it’ points at the general tragedy and prophecy that follows and binds both of those lines.
Ramuh is just like, fuck that. My kid is going to live his own life and be Happy and fuck all of you if you try to interfere)
@charlottedabookworm
This is really just - lovely. Lyrical and poetic, and I think I’m just going to type up my accumulated thoughts about this most recent verse here instead of spreading them out of the rest of the posts you’ve put up so far.
I like - I like the idea of Nyx being just. Half-human. It’s reminiscent of something I read once a Dragonlance book, where one character, who was a half-breed, was seriously questioned as to why his nickname was ‘half-elven’ and not ‘half-man’. (Paraphrased: the answer was, to humans, being half-man was to be seen as less then whole, whereas half-elven was seen as - something added extra on.) Nyx is half-human, half-Astral, and the combination is volatile and - very, very much Other occasionally. (Sometimes, Libertus looks into Nyx’s eyes and swears that his friend is literally a walking, talking thunderstorm.)
And yes. Yes, Nyx was so, so incredibly lucky. Lucky to be born, lucky to be born in the heart of his father’s power, where Ramuh could shield him from detection by the rest of the Six, lucky to be raised among people who knew what he was and didn’t care. Lucky that his father is Ramuh, who does not see his son, his son as an abomination, who loves him with the same fierce fervor that he loves all of his children - and who does not think to shackle him to a fate, a destiny.
Nyx is the Unbinder of Fate, the Breaker of Prophecies - or at least, that’s what he could grow to become. And because of that, Shiva and Bahamut would stop at nothing to destroy him, should his presence ever become known. Because Nyx - Nyx can change things. (And oh, but there are some people who are so very, very frightened of change.)
Sometimes, Nyx has to sit down for a moment when the realizations that 1) He has an aunt who is a fish 2) He has an Uncle who is a dragon 3) He has an aunt who is a walking snowman dressed like a fetish dream (put some clothes on, aunt Shiva!) crash down on him. (Uncle Titan is cool. Nyx doesn’t have anything to say about him, and he’d rather pretend that Uncle Ifrit (the petulant brat!) doesn’t exist)
And - ‘the weather of the islands depended on his moods’? …okay, now I have the mental image of Libertus just. Looking at a foggy sky and sighing, because Nyx is in a mood again, and Libertus and Pelna had better go and drag him out of his teenage angst before it starts raining. (Libertus has always cherished the times when rainbows fill the sky, because that’s when his friend is happiest.)
Also, drunk!glaives totally make fun of Nyx’s ears. They’re so pointy! (Nyx pouts).
And yes, I love Ramuh saying ‘FUCK THAT’ to the thought of trying to bind his son, trying to limit him, trying to chain him to a role and a responsibility. All Ramuh wants is for his people, for his son, to be happy - he’s a good dad. He’s enjoying being a dad.
…and just. Well. If the word got out somehow that there was an Unbinder of Fate running around Eos (I’m seeing Carbunkle doing it, for some reason, because the fuzzball means well but I don’t think he can keep his mouth shut, and perhaps he notices the influence of a Godborn on the dreamscape) - well. They don’t know who it is, and Ramuh has the best poker face of his entire existence when word begins to spread.
Very few people know what it means when Bahamut and Shiva throw temper tantrums (because Nyx may be half-Astral, but he is of age and he is mortal; by their own oaths and actions they cannot blatantly interfere with humans!). And fewer still understand their rants about Unbinders and Fatebreakers, understand what they mean. (There is a Godborn. A godborn, walking on the skin of Eos. A Third Bloodline, the Founding of something new.)
Can you imagine how desperate Regis et al would be to find a Fatebreaker? Because this - this is a way to negate the prophecy, this could be a way for Noctis to live.
And Ardyn. Ardyn knows exactly what a Fatebreaker is. And he is - curiously neutral on the subject. Ardyn has - somewhat accepted his role in the prophecy, mainly because it caries the certainty of his death. He’s not sure whether he dares hope that a godborn might shatter this destiny or curse that his death is now uncertain. He’s mainly - curious. Because, in an odd fashion, Ardyn is the closest thing to an equal, a peer, a counterpart that Nyx has - they’re both human-shaped but unmistakably Other, they’re both close descendants of an Astral bloodline (no, Ardyn isn’t Bahamut’s son, but unlike the Ruling Line of Lucis, he remembers where his bloodline came from and grew up venerating his Divine Ancestor - he’s also considerably closer to Bahamut in terms of descent then the Ruling Line is), they both know what it’s like to live in the middle of the humans and just. Not quite fit.
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charlottedabookworm:
hamelin-born replied to your text post:
Nyx’s Mom was very, very wild. And she and Ramuh might have been very, very drunk. They made a solumn vow to NEVER speak of it again.
Nyx DOESN’T want to know.
Also, he might also be in the same boat as Ardynson!Nyx re: hiding out from the Astrals, because noone’s quite certain as to whether or not he’d be taken for an ‘abomination’ by the rest.
(I have the headcanon that this is how the Lucis Caelum and Nox Fleuret bloodlines started - Bahamut got very, VERY drunk with his favorite priestess and one thing led to another; Shiva was lonely after Ifrit Fell and - well.)
@hamelin-born
Nyx just, does not want to know how he came to be – his mother is his mother and his father is his father and as far as he’s concerned he sprang from the earth as a fully formed baby and will never believe otherwise.
Anyone who tries to talk to him about it or who mentions his mother being pregnant with him is quickly drowned out by Nyx’s “Nonononononononononononononono…” and silenced by a stare that is both panicked and dead – people are in awe of this stare.
(Alya and Ramuh very much get that. They were way to drunk and remember nothing of that evening and they do not want to. They would never have even thought of it again if not for Nyx, and then they make a mutual agreement to just, pretend that it didn’t happen and not talk about it.
Nyx just appeared one day. Maybe he sprung forth like Athena or was left on the doorstep or something, the story changes a lot over the years. But Nyx just appeared one day. There was no pregnancy and no birth and certainly no… sex.
That is their story and they’re sticking too it)
But yeah, Nyx hides who he is as best as he can – all of Galahd knows because one, he feels like Ramuh, two, children don’t have the best control over their powers and it was pretty obvious tbh, and three, well they’re his people – from Lucis and the Astrals because there are stories about his kind.
Half-breeds, they call them. Godtouched, Astral-Childe, Abomination.
Humans aren’t fond of his kind – too much power contained in fragile mortal flesh, people who are just a bit off, who need years of experience just to be able to pass for human (and Nyx is so lucky in that. He grew up in Galahd, surrounded by his father’s people, and they taught him to be human. Any lingering oddities, when Nyx just can’t keep the mask all the way up anymore and gets tired of pretending – because he isn’t human, doesn’t want to be human, and it is so tiring to pretend all the time – get written off as him being Galahdian), weapons of mass destruction. His kind are weapons and monsters and outcasts, never trusted or loved except by a few.
And most Astrals are worse. Because these children, these God-Blessed, have the powers of their parents – even if to a lesser extent – and a connection to the world, but they are mortal. And mortals can change things.
They aren’t bound by prophecy or by the world, and they are free to make their own choices and fates. They’re Wild Cards, and the Astrals – especially Bahamut – don’t like that.
Nyx wasn’t meant to be born and he knows that, just as surely as he knows that his parents love him.
(Which, honestly, does nothing for his recklessness and suicidal tendencies)
(Also, I love that idea, that the Lucis Caelum and Nox Fleuret lines were spawned in a similar way and that most people have forgotten that. But that is why the Astrals are so cautious of them, because even generations later – when the blood is so diluted it may as well not be there – these lines still carry traces of that power, far more than any ordinary human. Bahamut and Shiva wouldn’t kill their children, but their lines stand as a warning to the other Astrals – ‘we made this mistake’ they say ‘and this is how we’ve limited it’ points at the general tragedy and prophecy that follows and binds both of those lines.
Ramuh is just like, fuck that. My kid is going to live his own life and be Happy and fuck all of you if you try to interfere)
@charlottedabookworm
This is really just - lovely. Lyrical and poetic, and I think I’m just going to type up my accumulated thoughts about this most recent verse here instead of spreading them out of the rest of the posts you’ve put up so far.
I like - I like the idea of Nyx being just. Half-human. It’s reminiscent of something I read once a Dragonlance book, where one character, who was a half-breed, was seriously questioned as to why his nickname was ‘half-elven’ and not ‘half-man’. (Paraphrased: the answer was, to humans, being half-man was to be seen as less then whole, whereas half-elven was seen as - something added extra on.) Nyx is half-human, half-Astral, and the combination is volatile and - very, very much Other occasionally. (Sometimes, Libertus looks into Nyx’s eyes and swears that his friend is literally a walking, talking thunderstorm.)
And yes. Yes, Nyx was so, so incredibly lucky. Lucky to be born, lucky to be born in the heart of his father’s power, where Ramuh could shield him from detection by the rest of the Six, lucky to be raised among people who knew what he was and didn’t care. Lucky that his father is Ramuh, who does not see his son, his son as an abomination, who loves him with the same fierce fervor that he loves all of his children - and who does not think to shackle him to a fate, a destiny.
Nyx is the Unbinder of Fate, the Breaker of Prophecies - or at least, that’s what he could grow to become. And because of that, Shiva and Bahamut would stop at nothing to destroy him, should his presence ever become known. Because Nyx - Nyx can change things. (And oh, but there are some people who are so very, very frightened of change.)
Sometimes, Nyx has to sit down for a moment when the realizations that 1) He has an aunt who is a fish 2) He has an Uncle who is a dragon 3) He has an aunt who is a walking snowman dressed like a fetish dream (put some clothes on, aunt Shiva!) crash down on him. (Uncle Titan is cool. Nyx doesn’t have anything to say about him, and he’d rather pretend that Uncle Ifrit (the petulant brat!) doesn’t exist)
And - ‘the weather of the islands depended on his moods’? …okay, now I have the mental image of Libertus just. Looking at a foggy sky and sighing, because Nyx is in a mood again, and Libertus and Pelna had better go and drag him out of his teenage angst before it starts raining. (Libertus has always cherished the times when rainbows fill the sky, because that’s when his friend is happiest.)
Also, drunk!glaives totally make fun of Nyx’s ears. They’re so pointy! (Nyx pouts).
And yes, I love Ramuh saying ‘FUCK THAT’ to the thought of trying to bind his son, trying to limit him, trying to chain him to a role and a responsibility. All Ramuh wants is for his people, for his son, to be happy - he’s a good dad. He’s enjoying being a dad.
…and just. Well. If the word got out somehow that there was an Unbinder of Fate running around Eos (I’m seeing Carbunkle doing it, for some reason, because the fuzzball means well but I don’t think he can keep his mouth shut, and perhaps he notices the influence of a Godborn on the dreamscape) - well. They don’t know who it is, and Ramuh has the best poker face of his entire existence when word begins to spread.
Very few people know what it means when Bahamut and Shiva throw temper tantrums (because Nyx may be half-Astral, but he is of age and he is mortal; by their own oaths and actions they cannot blatantly interfere with humans!). And fewer still understand their rants about Unbinders and Fatebreakers, understand what they mean. (There is a Godborn. A godborn, walking on the skin of Eos. A Third Bloodline, the Founding of something new.)
Can you imagine how desperate Regis et al would be to find a Fatebreaker? Because this - this is a way to negate the prophecy, this could be a way for Noctis to live.
And Ardyn. Ardyn knows exactly what a Fatebreaker is. And he is - curiously neutral on the subject. Ardyn has - somewhat accepted his role in the prophecy, mainly because it caries the certainty of his death. He’s not sure whether he dares hope that a godborn might shatter this destiny or curse that his death is now uncertain. He’s mainly - curious. Because, in an odd fashion, Ardyn is the closest thing to an equal, a peer, a counterpart that Nyx has - they’re both human-shaped but unmistakably Other, they’re both close descendants of an Astral bloodline (no, Ardyn isn’t Bahamut’s son, but unlike the Ruling Line of Lucis, he remembers where his bloodline came from and grew up venerating his Divine Ancestor - he’s also considerably closer to Bahamut in terms of descent then the Ruling Line is), they both know what it’s like to live in the middle of the humans and just. Not quite fit.
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