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In a series full of villains who are madmen or suave sinister agents or looming faceless figures in armor, what I love most about this guy is he is just one seedy motherfucker.
Look me in the eye and tell me that wing doesn’t have a pocket for a flask of Night Train. I mean, this is absolutely a man who owes a significant amount of money to a guy named Switchblade. This is an evil wizard who has sold stolen stereo equipment out of a truck in a Denny’s parking lot. A man who has, at least once, mailed somebody a dead gopher. You can track down Kefka in his tower, Ultimecia in her castle at the end of time, and this guy scalping tickets outside a Phish concert. I’m not saying he can get you E, but he definitely knows a guy.
All I can say is this is the one Final Fantasy villain whose crimes include “loitering.”
This is made, if anything, even funnier by the fact that he has no actual need to do any of that- dude’s an undead immortal, he doesn’t really need the money and probably physically can’t get high. He’s just doing it to be a shit.
Yeah, he could easily spend the years skulking in a dungeon, biding his time until his revenge, but nope, here he is, the universe’s one vengeful revenant who is for obscure reasons no longer welcome at Burning Man.
He drives a convertible with the word “Vixen” written on the front and a pom-pom on the antenna.
Ardyn’s the one video game villain I can picture buying a car. Not having a car, but actually going into a dealership, bargaining with the salesman, drinking the coffee in the office while he gets all the paperwork drawn up, signing on the dotted line, and getting a little moogle antenna ball on the way out.
This is a man who legitimately has used the phrase “It’s not a pyramid scheme, it’s a marketing opportunity!” with all sincerity. He’s the guy who sticks gum in the coin slots of video game machines just because he can.
Ardyn would look Maester Seymour in the eye and laugh, like bitch, you don’t want to destroy the gods or their talon-like hold on your world? That sounds fake but okay.
Ardyn loitering, though. Imagine he simply loses track of time.
“Oh, but officers, I was merely perusing these fine wares.”
“For eight hours straight?”
He sometimes lets himself be arrested for whatever petty crime he has or hasn’t committed only to warp out of the cop car mid-destination.
More often he doesn’t bother doing even that and stays a night or two at the local precinct, chatting up the officers and criminals alike in an oddly polite, friendly manner.
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