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sparklecryptid:
oh god, okay, but
a Reveal! Scenario where the Wall still falls, Regis still loses his finger, and things look hopeless but just as Nyx and Crowe are leading the King, Clarus and Luna out of the Citadel and Glauca appears but so does Ace
and Ace is pissed. this is his second home that the Imperials have ruined. in a flash of motion so fast few catch it Ace grabs the ring from Regis and slips it on.
Everyone that knows what the ring does expects him to die, but he doesn’t, instead the ring seems to listen to him and Ace promptly kicks Glauca’s ass with Nyx’s help as Crowe gets the others out of the city.
#royal bastard au#reveal! scenario#lmao also imagining that after that; when ace shows up to the hammerhead a day later with nyx and the ring he just kinda; tosses it back to#regis and says; ‘i believe this is yours#also i ruined your city by bringing some giant ass statues to life im sorry’#‘but i’d rather that happen than a bunch of giant ass daemons wander around’#then he just; collapses at a table#nyx who now knows who aces father is coughs awkwardly#ace groans ‘i am not dealing with this right now alright nyx? i just shortened my lifespan by literal years this is not happening right now#i am not dealing with it’
Ace might have also had a few words for Somnus. As a matter of fact, he probably had an entire phone book’s worth of them. The rest of the Kings of Old sat back and enjoyed the spectacle as Somnus was lambasted within an inch of his unlife by an individual trained in the fine art of sarcasm and roasting by one Ardyn Lucis Caelum, who himself holds the title of Trollmaster Supreme. Ace probably ended up by telling the kings in tones brooking No Argument that if they even thought about ashing Nyx/blinding Ignis, he’d come back. And he’d let them all know what he really thought of them.
Ace was actually glad to get some of that off of his chest. It was very refreshing. And he needed it, before being thrown into a battle against General Glauca, for Ramuh’s sake, he’s been dying to do this ever since Ace first introduced him to his ‘boss’.
…Ace really never expected to reach the age he’s at now anyway, so he’s grumpy about the lost years, but not devastated. He just knows that Uncle Ardyn’s going to have words for him, though.
Nyx continues to look at Ace. Ace groans, and rolls his head to one side so that one bloodshot eye fixes on Regis. “Fine! Mom was Katrina Appollonian. My birthday is (date here). Hi. I’m going to sleep now.”
Somnus: The ring-
Ace: Comes with a price. I know, but if you even think about hurting my husband or my half-brothers’ friends I will come into the afterlife and erase you from existence alright?
The first time Ace was introduced to Glauca he had to resist the urge to stab him. It would not have been Good if he stabbed the General. So it was kinda freeing really to go all out against Glauca.
Ace really didnt expect to live as long as he has so he just kinda goes ‘fuck thats annoying that my lifespan just got shorter than it already is.’ and shrugs it off.
“You can’t just drop a bomb like that on them and sleep,” Nyx says, Ace promptly gives him the finger, Nyx bites back a chuckle.
Cid has a few words for Regis and they as follows, “You fucked up.”
royal bastard au later when ace is actually awake enough for a conversation he tells everyone that he has no desire for the throne so like noctis can still have it ace doesnt care and of course while hes saying this fucking ardyn shows up having heard what happened and goes 'the ring has already accepted you; should you be king’ and at this point its more teasing than anything between them still ace tries to elbow hi *him
Ardyn: Really, nephew, your acceptance by the Kings of Old does indicate that you -
Ace: I met great-grandfucker when I put the ring on and tore Somnus a new one.
Ardyn: *switches tracks instantaneously, eyes bright* Tell me more!
Also, Ace to Nyx: Nyx. Sweetheart. Husband. Love of my life. I have fucking been awake for seventy-two hours straight organizing evacuation routes, stuffing damn near everything I could get my hands on into my Armiger, swearing at Uncle Ardyn over speakerphone, literally RUNNING from my bar to the Citadel, literally warping all OVER the damn place trying to find you, had a SCREAMING MATCH with my great-great-great-great-you get the fucking idea grandfather who is an ENORMOUS DICK, fought GENERAL FUCKING GLAUCA with you, had to escape a Nifleheim-occupied INSOMNIA with you, had to hitchike out to the Hammerhead and THEN tell my father that he had sex with my mom which is something that makes me want to scrub my soul out with razor wire, I will fucking kill the next person who wakes me up and if it’s YOU I will tell Selena about that time with the Malboro AM I CLEAR? Ace: *Pauses for breath.* Oh, and I’ll also tell Uncle Ardyn that you’ve volunteered for a refresher course in sensitivity training. (Ardyn’s ‘sensitivity training’ is the kind of thing of which nightmares are made)
*snicker*. Cid’s got the right of it, Regis - quite literally, in this case. Ace: Do you know how embarassing it was having to ask Mom if she’d had sex with the king after I damn near started an earthquake?
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