rakasha | Aug. 9th, 2018

Aug. 9th, 2018

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owlteria:

„I-I did my best…to save everyone! You…you trusted me, didn’t you?!“

„You have bravely fulfilled your destiny. However, the accumulated darkness inside your heart is what endangers this world. Fallen son of Lucis…it is time for me to put you to rest…“

@sparklecryptid @charlottedabookworm @notavodkashot @lectorel @theotherguysride

And this is the birth of the Accursed.
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timberwolf-manstab:

It’s a hippocampus based on a black dragonscale hmpk betta. Black and white pen in a ‘lil greytone sketchbook.
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Okay but-

Let’s make it a Reveal AU too. Noctis, when things get explained to him, gets why he and Gladio are there. That doesn’t explain why a bartender and a Glaive are there.

Meanwhile, Nyx is giving Ace a Look.

Ace: “Okay, Prince Regis, you remember that time you stopped in Galahd?”

Regis: “Oh, OH! But that means- Your Katrina’s?”

Ace: “Surprise.”

Nyx: “Please tell me you are not implying what I think you are implying.”

Ace: “I am implying that Regis is my father.”

Nyx: “Well, shit.” They are Going to Talk later about how This is Important Information Ace and You could have told me Ace.

Noctis: “That makes you my brother.”

Ace: “Half-brother. But yes.”

Noctis refuses to get starry-eyed. But he does look like he’s one second away from jumping up and down.

Gladio meanwhile is staring at Nyx.

Gladio: “Thought the spell only worked on the royals and their Shields.”

Nyx: “Yeah, well, I’m no Shield.”

Ace, realization dawning on his face: “Fuck. I’m going to kill uncle.”

Nyx: “…Why?” What did he do? is implied.

Ace: “Remember how you vowed to protect me during our wedding? That could have been taken as the Vow of a Shield to their Prince.”

Nyx: “And you’re just telling me this now?”

Ace: “It didn’t occur to me until just now! It wasn’t like I was ever planning on having a Shield. I zoned out when Uncle gave me the whole ‘And this is how you take a Shield’ speech.”
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WELL

It’s their turn to be stunned, for once. Nyx doesn’t know what the big deal is. (He should remember how he reacted when he saw them. Really. Then he’d get it.)

And Ardyn, he gets an idea. Because he can get impatient sometimes and also because he’s curious. It’s a thing.

Keep reading
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nocountryforoldjetpacks:

thegestianpoet:

Update I just got an opportunity to make exactly $115 and i’m not kidding so like. Reblog to make $115.

Idk what I have to lose at this point
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virbro:

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witchfromthemidwest:

I CLAIM THAT SHIT

AMEN

re-up bc a BITCH WANTS TO BE A NURSE!
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laticatdraws:

Commission done for a good friend of mine, Tarshaan on flight rising! This piece gave me a lot of problems, but in the end I learned a lot.
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lunette3002:

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OKAY so I saw this a few days ago and was like “whatever” but then I smashed my phone in a car door, had to clean up some dead baby bunnies in my yard, and have just generally NOT had a good week. I’m fucking spooked and I’m reblogging this twice to get the universe to stop.

I ignored this too and then i got kicked out of my house. Also reblogging twice.
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sparklecryptid:

reveal!au where clarus is driving regis around and everything is fine. everything is fine until they regis orders clarus to stop because regis-

feels something. feels something that feels an awful lot like magic coiling in on itself as though it wants to lash out but it doesn’t. for a moment regis thinks its noctis, wonders if his son is having a panic attack but this magic doesn’t feel like noctis but regis doesnt know who else it could be

so he gets clarus to stop the car, they wind up stopped outside an alleyway and even from within the car the two of them can hear jeers and taunts and what regis isn’t expecting is to see a group of people, a few of which are crownsguard, beating up a fucking civilian

(later Ace will argue that he’s probably the Least Civilian civilian)

clarus sees it too and steps out of the vehicle. because clarus has a Sense of Justice and isn’t going to let this happen and Regis is safe in the car.

regis watches his Shield approach the group, watches them scatter, or try to as they recognize Clarus and can see Clarus pull out a phone to call Cor to tell him that who needs to be discharged

Ace, for his part, was basically letting himself get beat up by a bunch of assholes because a) if he fought back it would give them fuel to make things worse for galahdians and b) he didn’t trust himself not to actually seriously hurt someone if he did fight back. Needless to say, he’s pretty damn injured. likely has a concussion if the bleeding from his head is anything to go by and maybe has a few broken ribs. still he manages to stagger to his feet when clarus is finished with the assholes and mutters out a ‘thanks’ before trying to leave.

Clarus doesn’t let him leave because Ace is injured and he isn’t going to let an injured man walk the streets of insomnia by himself fuck that. meanwhile regis blinks because when it was revealed that there were crownsguard where involved he thought the magic was coming from them but it isn’t.

its coming from the man that clarus has leaning against his shoulder while they wait for the medics that clarus called to arrive, its coming from a very galahdian looking man with amethyst in his hair. something in his mind clicks and regis steps out of the car.

ace looks up at him and groans

#aka reveal via ace gettin beat up! and clarus and regis stumbling upon it! IMAGINE THE GUILT REGIS FEELS

@sparklecryptid

*drools* SO GOOD. And yes, imagine the guilt Regis feels! This is his son this is his firstborn son who he sired and unknowingly left at the mercy of the world. This is his son, a Galadhian who had to flee his homeland with little more then the clothes on his back, this is a son whose mother is - gone (Regis knew Katrina, once upon a time. He knows she would never, never had let anything like this happen to someone she cared for. Katrina is most likely gone, and Regis - doesn’t know what to feel about that.) This is his son, a Lucis Caelum, who was just beat within half an inch of his life at the hands of Insomnians, at the hands of Crownsguards, no less - this is his son, staring at him with wide, wary eyes, his gaze constantly flickering to the sidewalk as if gauging the chances of escape.

Ace is tired.

Ace is tired and he hurts, both physically and otherwise (because he had to lie there and take the hits, because he couldn’t strike back for what it would have brought down upon his people.)

Ace is tired and is hurting and wants Nyx. Wants his husband. He wants his friends, wants Lib and Crowe and Selena, and he even wants his Uncle - Ardyn would know what to do, Ardyn always has a plan, damn him.

His head’s throbbing. His sides are aching. When he coughs, he coughs blood - and Ace is hoping like hell that that’s from the his punctured lip and from when he bit into his own cheek. Nyx might have been able to squeeze him onto the Glaive’s health insurance policy as a dependent, but he doesn’t want to test it.

Ace wants nothing more then for the hurt to go away. To cuddle up with his husband, and pretend that the world is just the two of them. But he can’t. His fucking father is staring at him, and Ace just - he has to deal with this. So he shoves his magic as deep as he can and ignores the renewed ache pounding behind his temples as he lets the medics fuss over him and dutifully gives out his contact information.

“When can I go home?” Ace asks them dully, and he isn’t surprised when the King takes an aborted half-step forward.
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1.       Nyx starts to learn how to say things with flowers not long after Selena is born. It’s his father that teaches him - together they travel all around Galahd and Ardyn tells him what each plant they come across means in the various different flower languages that he knows. Interspaced with the lessons are stories and anecdotes and adventures - to the point where it takes Nyx several months to realise that they are actually lessons and that he’s learning things instead of just spending time with his dad. Which is pretty par on course actually. Not long after he realises this, he gives his father a bouquet of flowers - one meaning gratitude and happiness and love. Ardyn smiles when he sees it - bright and happy and not haunted by the past in a way that Nyx has hardly ever seen, and he decides that he’ll do anything to put that smile on his father’s face again. (He also starts using flower language for literally everything - including that time he spent several hours searching for the flowers just to tell a boy from his village that he was an idiot - because it made his father smile to see messages written in plants)

2.       When Crowe first meets Nyx and Lib, she’s 11 and an orphan and they’re 14 and on their coming-of-age-trip. They quite literally save each other’s lives - Crowe sets a daemon sneaking up on the duo on fire, then kills it with her knife, only for Lib to yank her back from claws that would have killed her and Nyx to kill the daemons surrounding her with lightning. It’s only later, when they’re all sitting around a fire and laughing and joking like they’ve all been friends for years, that she realises that Nyx has been wearing a flower crown the entire time. She doesn’t ask, not then (because battling a pack of daemons together may have made them friends, but she still didn’t totally trust them and she knows that that goes both ways) but she tags along on the trip and learns that Nyx always wore a flower crown - and eventually, months later when she can hardly remember a life without these idiots in it, she learns that the flowers mean determination and vengeance and duty, because that was what Nyx was using his coming-of-age-trip for.

3.       Nyx decorates their mother’s pyre in flowers. Selena, as the next head of the Ulric Clan, would be the one to light the pyre – but it was Nyx’s right as her eldest child to make her pyre. He’s silent as he works, face blank and eyes cold – but that’s okay, she only needs to look at the flowers to know what her brother feels. Their mother’s pyre is decorated in flowers that represent grief and lose and a hope for happiness and peace and acceptance into the next life. They spell out a blessing almost as old as the land that they stand on, one that Selena knows that Ardyn had taught her brother years ago. Fire burns those messages and pleas away, and the Lightning that Nyx calls removes all other traces of the body itself, but Selena knows that they were there and that’s enough.

4.       After Galahd’s fall, Nyx finds himself speaking in flowers less. The plants in Insomnia are so different to those from home – and while his father had made sure that he could name the meanings of all of them, it just felt different. So, he tones it down a bit – limiting himself to a couple blossoms for good luck or bombarding his family’s phones with pics of flowers. Until some noble, whose name that Nyx knows but choses to conveniently forget, insults his people. If Nyx was any other Galahdian – if he wasn’t raised by his father, wasn’t raised by a King versed in politics and nobility – then he would have retaliated then, because Nyx is a Chosen of Ramuh and his people are his. But Nyx was raised by Ardyn and knows that the best revenge is often a subtle one – he spends hours scouring the flower shops in Insomnia for what they had in stock and ordering a couple different kinds from outside of the city before he presents the bouquet to this noble with a contrite apology for his comments the previous day. It’s a very pretty bouquet, one that looks almost store bought, and Nyx looks so very earnest – so nobody who understands the meanings of the flowers can tell whether Nyx is being truthful or if he just handed a man a bouquet telling them to “take a long walk off a short pier you prejudiced fuckface” with a straight face. (The Galahdians, who know how Nyx is about flowers, cackle about this)

5.       There’s a statue of Somnus - of the Founder King, of the ‘first’ of the Lucis Caelum line, of the Mystic – in one of the main courtyards of the Citadel. It’s a pretty ugly statue, surrounded by a few flowers but mostly grass, and nobody really likes it, but they put up with it because of what it is. Still, everybody is pretty happy when someone plants some flowers around the statue – the first summer afterwards when the statue was surrounded by pretty red flowers, everyone agreed it was an improvement. Nyx is just waiting for someone to realise that red dahlia’s mean betrayal. (he might not be able to shout Somnus’ sins from the rooftops, or to tell the Lucians exactly what the man they so revere did to his father, but he can make sure that they at least have chance of knowing him for the traitor that he was)
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