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I did it! Writing prompt from celsiahawthorn about the question how Regis would react to Noctis having a wife and children in Dreams of Our Past.
It got quite long (I seem unable to give short answers). I hope you like it!
Cor burst into the middle of an audience. That in itself wasn’t that strange since his duties as the General of the Lucian army often made him late, seeing as they were fighting a losing war against Niflheim.
Cor being late normally meant there was an emergency, some great thing that had gone wrong yet again. From property damage to people nearly dying during training to surprise attacks of Niflheim, everything had happened at least once during his tenure as king.
Before Regis’ heart could do more than skip a beat in trepidation because the surprise attacks had been happening more and more often as of late, the look on Cor’s face made him feel nervousness of a different kind. It wasn’t that mix of anger, determination and growing resignation he wore every time he brought news of yet another attack, another battle lost, another retreat, more lives to weight on his conscience.
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the spirit answers writing prompt ffxv dreams of our pastregis lucis caelum hiemi lucis caelum cor leonis clarus amicitiaregis hasn’t met is grandkids yet but he loves them alreadyand would kill everybody who would harm thembeware the lucis caelum courting techniques cultural differences at playmost go over regis’ head rn he just want’s to hug his familyand since hiemi is confirmed as family he want’s to hug her toocor will kill everything that wants to harm the royal familythey are his damn it!clarus is just done with lucis caelums being lucis caelumssorry this got so long but the words didn’t want to stop
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I did it! Writing prompt from celsiahawthorn about the question how Regis would react to Noctis having a wife and children in Dreams of Our Past.
It got quite long (I seem unable to give short answers). I hope you like it!
Cor burst into the middle of an audience. That in itself wasn’t that strange since his duties as the General of the Lucian army often made him late, seeing as they were fighting a losing war against Niflheim.
Cor being late normally meant there was an emergency, some great thing that had gone wrong yet again. From property damage to people nearly dying during training to surprise attacks of Niflheim, everything had happened at least once during his tenure as king.
Before Regis’ heart could do more than skip a beat in trepidation because the surprise attacks had been happening more and more often as of late, the look on Cor’s face made him feel nervousness of a different kind. It wasn’t that mix of anger, determination and growing resignation he wore every time he brought news of yet another attack, another battle lost, another retreat, more lives to weight on his conscience.
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the spirit answers writing prompt ffxv dreams of our pastregis lucis caelum hiemi lucis caelum cor leonis clarus amicitiaregis hasn’t met is grandkids yet but he loves them alreadyand would kill everybody who would harm thembeware the lucis caelum courting techniques cultural differences at playmost go over regis’ head rn he just want’s to hug his familyand since hiemi is confirmed as family he want’s to hug her toocor will kill everything that wants to harm the royal familythey are his damn it!clarus is just done with lucis caelums being lucis caelumssorry this got so long but the words didn’t want to stop
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Oooo. Ooooh I hadn’t thought of that. I mean- I want to say yes because that’s just the running theme but I think even as an “adopted’ Amicitia, Titus wouldn’t go for the eagle tattoo. He either doesn’t feel worthy of it or doesn’t think it … fits him. Same for the dragon tattoo because Titus isn’t Galahdian. Maybe-
Hmmm I can’t pick. I’m thinking either a coeurl tattoo that stretches across his back and shoulders with the head resting on his chest over his heart, thorny vines with a few blood-red flowers crawling up his arms and back and shoulders, or Fenrir the wolf (who in this HC would be a long lost Messenger representing loyalty in the face of hardship).
Feel free to make a suggestion or three because now I need to pick a tattoo for Titus and I don’t know what to pick….
Behemoth maybe? Double meaning of strength and power but also danger/hint to his once-status as a danger, as Behemoths are often seen as the tyrants of the wild.
Titus why must you be difficult.
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Oooo. Ooooh I hadn’t thought of that. I mean- I want to say yes because that’s just the running theme but I think even as an “adopted’ Amicitia, Titus wouldn’t go for the eagle tattoo. He either doesn’t feel worthy of it or doesn’t think it … fits him. Same for the dragon tattoo because Titus isn’t Galahdian. Maybe-
Hmmm I can’t pick. I’m thinking either a coeurl tattoo that stretches across his back and shoulders with the head resting on his chest over his heart, thorny vines with a few blood-red flowers crawling up his arms and back and shoulders, or Fenrir the wolf (who in this HC would be a long lost Messenger representing loyalty in the face of hardship).
Feel free to make a suggestion or three because now I need to pick a tattoo for Titus and I don’t know what to pick….
Behemoth maybe? Double meaning of strength and power but also danger/hint to his once-status as a danger, as Behemoths are often seen as the tyrants of the wild.
Titus why must you be difficult.
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elidyce:
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elidyce:
queerqueerspawn:
elidyce:
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teaboot:
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Too bad the prophet Cassandra never met Odysseus
They say if she made a prophecy Nobody would believe her
I’ve gotta say, that is exactly the kind of stupid thing that probably would circumvent a curse.
Cassandra: YOU ARE ALL GOING TO REGRET THIS SO MUCH YOU DON’T EVEN KNOW.
Odysseus: Regret it why?
Cassandra: You won’t believe me if I tell you. If I prophecy, nobody believes me. That is my curse.
Odysseus: … I’m Nobody. Fill me in.
*A couple of months later*
Odysseus: HELLO PENELOPE, I AM HERE PRECISELY ON TIME AND NOT YEARS LATE incidentally I rescued and adopted a Trojan seer while I was away, she’s great, got me home really fast, Cassandra this is your new mother who’s not going to treat you like shit.
Penelope: … I’m going to need more details, but okay, sure.
Cassandra: *in tears* I love you, new family.
I love this but…
First, in order to be Nobody, Odysseus must have already left Troy, been fucking around to find out, and ended up meeting and tricking Polyphemus - and most likely being cursed by Poseidon, which is the whole inciting event for the Odyssey.
Second, since this is after the fall of Troy, Cassandra’s already been taken captive by Agamemnon, so there’s an urgent ticking clock for Odysseus to get to her before Clytemnestra and Aegisthus do (and kill her), while he’s doomed to be bad at sailing and essentially marooned.
All that being said, there’s something delightful about Odysseus overcoming his curse from Poseidon while circumventing Cassandra’s curse from Apollo with a blessing from Athena - the thick soup of boons and maledictions from a crowded pantheon cancelling each other out, with human ingenuity and cooperation at the core of untangling them together.
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queerqueerspawn YAY DISCOURSE Okay, so here’s how I was picturing it:
Cassandra, having *just* been taken captive, *during* the final sack of Troy, is ranting up a storm about how profoundly they’re all going to regret this because why the fuck not at this point.
Odysseus, who has not lived this long by ignoring important stuff like ranting seers, goes over to ask, you know, what’s up.
Cassandra tells him that nobody ever believes her when she makes prophecies but for the record HIS FUTURE IS TERRIBLE.
Odysseus may not have encountered Polyphemus yet, but he’s still the guy who came up with ‘Nobody’ as a workaround on the spur of the moment. A seer saying ‘Nobody believes me, there’s a curse’ is absolutely enough to give this very clever man the idea to call himself ‘Nobody’ a little ahead of schedule and ask for more details. He was smart enough to think of it in the original timeline, he can do it now!
Cassandra, who has no reason to lie at this point, gives him the low-down.
Odysseus, reassured that Agamemnon is not going to live much longer in any case and also fuck that guy, basically shoves Cassandra into a bag and escapes with her before Agamemnon can catch him. There’s a fair bit of chaos at this point and he’s one of the sneakiest people alive, he can manage it.
Cassandra’s advice gets Odysseus home in record time because she is able to keep him away from Polyphemus and thus Poseidon’s curse, along with all the other things that go wrong.
Odysseus thinks Cassandra is GREAT. After what happened with Apollo he is WAY too smart to try to get into her robes, but she’s smart, she’s gifted, and she’s been treated ridiculously badly by pretty much everyone. He decides to adopt her - what better gift to bring his son than a future-seeing sister with absolutely no loyalties left to anyone else, right? - and presents her to his wife as a new daughter. Penelope, being pretty sharp herself, can really see the advantage to a gifted seer nobody else can take advantage of who is also Extremely Grateful and Loyal to Odysseus and his family and is down with this plan.
Cassandra loves the plan and is an enthusiastic assistant in Odysseus’s future endeavours. Curses and blessings cancel each other out. Happy endings all around!
One plot hole: Penelope does not call herself Nobody.
So Odysseus comes home with some hot young thang who is Extremely Grateful and Loyal to him, and is about to get her hackles up about the hypocrisy of him chasing away her suitors who had only just begun to gather when Odysseus ups and outs with, “I want to adopt her.”
Penelope reassesses the situation.
She’s a sweet if deluded dear, and it is just like her idiot husband to want to take care of the sweet and the deluded, is that not why he went to war in the first place? Bundle of idiots, the lot of them.
And aside from the nonsense about seeing the future, Cassandra is quite good about being a princess and developing a relationship with Telemachus.
Yes, this can be permitted to stand.
“I brought this home for our son.”
“…. yeah, okay, honestly there are worse gifts you could have brought home.”
I do like the idea that Penelope would be willing to take the crazy kid on because honestly, the poor kid seems nice and it’s reasonable that if she helped Odysseus somehow they should do something for her.
But if you think Odysseus wouldn’t do the Nobody Routine with Penelope and Telemachus so they can have their Own Private Always Correct Seer, you clearly don’t think he’s as smart as he’s supposed to be. Like I said, he’s VERY SMART, he would have figured the Nobody thing out VERY QUICKLY.
“Just introduce yourselves as Nobody, it’ll make sense in a minute.”
“Dad, this is kind of weird - “
“I have had this argument with the WHOLE DAMN CREW like five times already just DO IT.”
*ten minutes later*
“OH WOW APOLLO IS QUITE AN ASSHOLE HUH.”
“If you’d been in the war *I* just went to, the idea that a god would completely destroy one young woman’s life just to cover up the fact that he treated her badly would not surprise you EVEN A LITTLE BIT. The Gods don’t treat people very well. Except Athena, she’s been pretty good to me.”
“… yeah, sounds right.”
elidyce I’m thinking maybe Dionysus would step in, too, as one of the three semi-decent gods of the pantheon. I imagine he’s sick of everyone going ”lol Cassie, you’re so crazy” because he finds a connection with a seemingly-crazy seer who everyone mistreats, considering many people forget that their local party god is both a seer and the GOD OF INSANITY as well. So he goes “all right Apollo, you cursed a girl who didn’t want to sleep with you and made everyone think she’s crazy when she sees the future? GUESS WHO IS A SEER AND LITERALLY WORSHIPPED BY CRAZY GIRLS!!!”
And then he figures out a loophole that cancels out the “no one believes her” half of the curse, so maybe at some point during the sack of Troy that people didn’t believe her about, he goes “here honey, drink some beer. It’s been a rough day for you and I don’t see anything getting better in the morning,” and so she gets drunk—but then she wanders up to Odysseus and tells him about his future ten-year journey home, and he starts taking some notes and she’s like “Wait, normally people laugh and say I’m crazy!!! Is this what having a conversation is like?”
And both Odysseus and Dionysus are like “…don’t sober up just yet.”
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Too bad the prophet Cassandra never met Odysseus
They say if she made a prophecy Nobody would believe her
I’ve gotta say, that is exactly the kind of stupid thing that probably would circumvent a curse.
Cassandra: YOU ARE ALL GOING TO REGRET THIS SO MUCH YOU DON’T EVEN KNOW.
Odysseus: Regret it why?
Cassandra: You won’t believe me if I tell you. If I prophecy, nobody believes me. That is my curse.
Odysseus: … I’m Nobody. Fill me in.
*A couple of months later*
Odysseus: HELLO PENELOPE, I AM HERE PRECISELY ON TIME AND NOT YEARS LATE incidentally I rescued and adopted a Trojan seer while I was away, she’s great, got me home really fast, Cassandra this is your new mother who’s not going to treat you like shit.
Penelope: … I’m going to need more details, but okay, sure.
Cassandra: *in tears* I love you, new family.
I love this but…
First, in order to be Nobody, Odysseus must have already left Troy, been fucking around to find out, and ended up meeting and tricking Polyphemus - and most likely being cursed by Poseidon, which is the whole inciting event for the Odyssey.
Second, since this is after the fall of Troy, Cassandra’s already been taken captive by Agamemnon, so there’s an urgent ticking clock for Odysseus to get to her before Clytemnestra and Aegisthus do (and kill her), while he’s doomed to be bad at sailing and essentially marooned.
All that being said, there’s something delightful about Odysseus overcoming his curse from Poseidon while circumventing Cassandra’s curse from Apollo with a blessing from Athena - the thick soup of boons and maledictions from a crowded pantheon cancelling each other out, with human ingenuity and cooperation at the core of untangling them together.
queerqueerspawn YAY DISCOURSE Okay, so here’s how I was picturing it: Cassandra, having *just* been taken captive, *during* the final sack of Troy, is ranting up a storm about how profoundly they’re all going to regret this because why the fuck not at this point.
Odysseus, who has not lived this long by ignoring important stuff like ranting seers, goes over to ask, you know, what’s up.
Cassandra tells him that nobody ever believes her when she makes prophecies but for the record HIS FUTURE IS TERRIBLE.
Odysseus may not have encountered Polyphemus yet, but he’s still the guy who came up with ‘Nobody’ as a workaround on the spur of the moment. A seer saying ‘Nobody believes me, there’s a curse’ is absolutely enough to give this very clever man the idea to call himself ‘Nobody’ a little ahead of schedule and ask for more details. He was smart enough to think of it in the original timeline, he can do it now!
Cassandra, who has no reason to lie at this point, gives him the low-down.
Odysseus, reassured that Agamemnon is not going to live much longer in any case and also fuck that guy, basically shoves Cassandra into a bag and escapes with her before Agamemnon can catch him. There’s a fair bit of chaos at this point and he’s one of the sneakiest people alive, he can manage it.
Cassandra’s advice gets Odysseus home in record time because she is able to keep him away from Polyphemus and thus Poseidon’s curse, along with all the other things that go wrong.
Odysseus thinks Cassandra is GREAT. After what happened with Apollo he is WAY too smart to try to get into her robes, but she’s smart, she’s gifted, and she’s been treated ridiculously badly by pretty much everyone. He decides to adopt her - what better gift to bring his son than a future-seeing sister with absolutely no loyalties left to anyone else, right? - and presents her to his wife as a new daughter. Penelope, being pretty sharp herself, can really see the advantage to a gifted seer nobody else can take advantage of who is also Extremely Grateful and Loyal to Odysseus and his family and is down with this plan.
Cassandra loves the plan and is an enthusiastic assistant in Odysseus’s future endeavours. Curses and blessings cancel each other out. Happy endings all around!
One plot hole: Penelope does not call herself Nobody.
So Odysseus comes home with some hot young thang who is Extremely Grateful and Loyal to him, and is about to get her hackles up about the hypocrisy of him chasing away her suitors who had only just begun to gather when Odysseus ups and outs with, “I want to adopt her.”
Penelope reassesses the situation.
She’s a sweet if deluded dear, and it is just like her idiot husband to want to take care of the sweet and the deluded, is that not why he went to war in the first place? Bundle of idiots, the lot of them.
And aside from the nonsense about seeing the future, Cassandra is quite good about being a princess and developing a relationship with Telemachus.
Yes, this can be permitted to stand.
“I brought this home for our son.”
“…. yeah, okay, honestly there are worse gifts you could have brought home.”
I do like the idea that Penelope would be willing to take the crazy kid on because honestly, the poor kid seems nice and it’s reasonable that if she helped Odysseus somehow they should do something for her.
But if you think Odysseus wouldn’t do the Nobody Routine with Penelope and Telemachus so they can have their Own Private Always Correct Seer, you clearly don’t think he’s as smart as he’s supposed to be. Like I said, he’s VERY SMART, he would have figured the Nobody thing out VERY QUICKLY.
“Just introduce yourselves as Nobody, it’ll make sense in a minute.”
“Dad, this is kind of weird - “
“I have had this argument with the WHOLE DAMN CREW like five times already just DO IT.”
*ten minutes later*
“OH WOW APOLLO IS QUITE AN ASSHOLE HUH.”
“If you’d been in the war *I* just went to, the idea that a god would completely destroy one young woman’s life just to cover up the fact that he treated her badly would not surprise you EVEN A LITTLE BIT. The Gods don’t treat people very well. Except Athena, she’s been pretty good to me.”
“… yeah, sounds right.”
elidyce I’m thinking maybe Dionysus would step in, too, as one of the three semi-decent gods of the pantheon. I imagine he’s sick of everyone going ”lol Cassie, you’re so crazy” because he finds a connection with a seemingly-crazy seer who everyone mistreats, considering many people forget that their local party god is both a seer and the GOD OF INSANITY as well. So he goes “all right Apollo, you cursed a girl who didn’t want to sleep with you and made everyone think she’s crazy when she sees the future? GUESS WHO IS A SEER AND LITERALLY WORSHIPPED BY CRAZY GIRLS!!!”And then he figures out a loophole that cancels out the “no one believes her” half of the curse, so maybe at some point during the sack of Troy that people didn’t believe her about, he goes “here honey, drink some beer. It’s been a rough day for you and I don’t see anything getting better in the morning,” and so she gets drunk—but then she wanders up to Odysseus and tells him about his future ten-year journey home, and he starts taking some notes and she’s like “Wait, normally people laugh and say I’m crazy!!! Is this what having a conversation is like?”
And both Odysseus and Dionysus are like “…don’t sober up just yet.”
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Oooo. Ooooh I hadn’t thought of that. I mean- I want to say yes because that’s just the running theme but I think even as an “adopted’ Amicitia, Titus wouldn’t go for the eagle tattoo. He either doesn’t feel worthy of it or doesn’t think it … fits him. Same for the dragon tattoo because Titus isn’t Galahdian. Maybe-
Hmmm I can’t pick. I’m thinking either a coeurl tattoo that stretches across his back and shoulders with the head resting on his chest over his heart, thorny vines with a few blood-red flowers crawling up his arms and back and shoulders, or Fenrir the wolf (who in this HC would be a long lost Messenger representing loyalty in the face of hardship).
Feel free to make a suggestion or three because now I need to pick a tattoo for Titus and I don’t know what to pick….
Behemoth maybe? Double meaning of strength and power but also danger/hint to his once-status as a danger, as Behemoths are often seen as the tyrants of the wild.
Titus why must you be difficult.
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Oooo. Ooooh I hadn’t thought of that. I mean- I want to say yes because that’s just the running theme but I think even as an “adopted’ Amicitia, Titus wouldn’t go for the eagle tattoo. He either doesn’t feel worthy of it or doesn’t think it … fits him. Same for the dragon tattoo because Titus isn’t Galahdian. Maybe-
Hmmm I can’t pick. I’m thinking either a coeurl tattoo that stretches across his back and shoulders with the head resting on his chest over his heart, thorny vines with a few blood-red flowers crawling up his arms and back and shoulders, or Fenrir the wolf (who in this HC would be a long lost Messenger representing loyalty in the face of hardship).
Feel free to make a suggestion or three because now I need to pick a tattoo for Titus and I don’t know what to pick….
Behemoth maybe? Double meaning of strength and power but also danger/hint to his once-status as a danger, as Behemoths are often seen as the tyrants of the wild.
Titus why must you be difficult.
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Ooohohohohoho *rubs hands* this is gonna get long I can feel it but HERE WE GO:
-Short version? Badly. And with strong alcohol and much dazed staring.
-Longer version? He is incredibly doubtful at first and maybe (out of stress) says something to that affect to Axis, who just- looks him dead in the eye without a word and there is a fire and stubbornness there that looks too familiar and makes Clarus’s heart sink (there’s a memory from his young, pre-married days of a Galahdian woman with those eyes and that skin tone, who had looked at him with a similar fire and contempt before he’d managed to charm her. But that was once and so long ago, surely it’s just a coincidence. Surely if he had an illegitimate kid it would be from one of his longer flings when he was truly young and dumb?). He’s seen Axis around the Citadel a lot before now because he’s Nox’s close friend, they’ve even talked cordially a few times, but … his son? Surely not. Surely he would have known before the young man stormed in and demanded a blood test to prove he could be Nox’s Shield. Axis has been around for like- idk how long but definitely upwards of a year, because the Council only really kicked up the Shield fuss after Nox’s existence was leaked to the public (I think). Surely Clarus wouldn’t have remained oblivious to the presence of another child of his blood for that long right? RIGHT?
-Clarus awaits the results with increasing dread and a feeling of doom at the sheer burning, resentful, confidence this young man has in his declaration. Like Axis believes down to his bones that he is Clarus’s illegitimate son and is angry that he must now flaunt that fact to get what he wants (a permanent place at Nox’s side). It really doesn’t help that Nox spends the wait lingering near Axis, shooting worried looks at Clarus and bristling protectively whenever Regis’s Shield comes near (like he’s afraid Clarus will hurt Axis for this, like he’s afraid Axis will be punished for announcing his lineage to the world).
-The results come through and Clarus’s world comes down around his ears. Axis watches the doctors hand Regis the positive report with sharp eyes, then promptly turns on his heel and walks away. He doesn’t look at Clarus even once. Nox trails after him with a sigh, like he expected this, and starts talking softly to his Shield (to Clarus’s SON) about how being his formal Shield means he’ll have to move into Insomnia. Clarus doesn’t hear anything more past the ringing in his ears and the hand Regis has on his back to keep Clarus upright.
-He goes home and gets drunk. In between the glasses of whatever poison he’s snatched from the wine-shelf (he hasn’t checked), he tells Juno everything. He’s always told his wife everything, and he can see in her eyes that she isn’t really surprised. She’s known from the start that Clarus had been with other women before meeting her. He’d gone to extraordinary lengths to prove to her that she was different. That he had been serious about her in a way he hadn’t with his flings. So the knowledge that he’s apparently been seeing his illegitimate son around the Citadel without realizing just makes her sigh and pat his hand and take his wine away before he can get blackout drunk.
-Clarus continues to panic the entire time Axis is gone to “retrieve things from his home outside Insomnia” (read: tell his own wife Porrima that they have to move to Insomnia now, sorry about that). Nox shows very little sympathy, instead busying himself picking out a nice house in one of the “security approved” neighborhoods for Axis to live in. Regis, Cor, and Juno make up Clarus’s sanity for about the next two weeks it takes him to get his composure together, figure out (sorta) what to say to his long-lost son (as well as what to tell Gladio and Iris oh boy), and tentatively follow Cor’s directions to the house Nox picked.
-Clarus has no idea how Nox found the one house in upper Insomnia that was essentially an overgrown greenhouse of jungle plants (the last owner had been from Tenebrae and imported a lot of plants from his homeland), or why Nox chose the three-story, plant-infested house for his Shield (wouldn’t Axis get lonely living alone in such a big house?), but he sucks it up, gingerly makes his way under the drooping, flowering vines dangling from the trees to the front door and rings the doorbell with the hand not holding the housewarming/please-talk-to-me-I’m-your-Dad-and-I-want-to-know-you-better gift.
-Axis opens the door and stares him down, Clarus manages to stiffly get out a greeting and offer the gift (how do you talk to your illegitimate son you didn’t know you had until two weeks ago????) and Axis looks like he’s debating shutting the door in Clarus’s face when a woman shows up behind Axis, takes one look at Clarus, and invites him in.t
-The woman turns out to be Porrima Arra. Axis’s wife. A Galahdian woman with a prosthetic leg and a much friendlier demeanor than his son (his SON. Clarus is still not over this fact). She serves tea and apologizes for the mess because they are in the middle of moving in (Nox scoots by and dumps an armchair out of his armiger, which is a shameless abuse of magic but hey). Nox gives Clarus a look that might be pity, gives Axis a look that is definitely pity, and calmly asks if he needs to go “watch the gremlins” while they talk.
-Clarus has maybe three seconds to wonder what “the gremlins” are (pets? Galahdians are known for exotic tastes. Or maybe its a nickname for some of the glaives Nox has befriended?) when there’s a loud clatter from upstairs and a loud shriek noise that his father instincts recognize instantly. Axis seems to teleport out of the room, Nox on his heels and Porrima limping behind and Clarus finds himself bringing up the rear as they all tear up the stairs.
-The three children, two girls and a boy all about Iris’s age, blink up at the sudden appearance of adults in the room from beneath the cardboard box fort they have just knocked over. They all look like a flawless mix of Axis’s and Porrima’s features, with identical smiles as they look up at Axis and call him “Pater!” and scramble out from under the boxes to crowd around, “N’uncle Nox!” and Clarus-
-Clarus finds himself sitting down rather hard on the floor.
-This attracts the notice of the three children (Axis’s children. His son’s children. CLARUS IS A G R A N D F A T H E R) who hide between Nox’s legs and peer at him in question.
-Axis takes one look at Clarus’s expression and sudden seated position on the floor, sighs heavily, and says, “This is your grandfather, Clarus Amicitia.”
-”Is he safe?” Asks one of the little girls in suspicion, eyes narrowed in what is probably supposed to be a fierce glare but really just makes Clarus’s already stuttering heart melt.
-Nox laughs softly and pats their heads, “He’s safe. He’s just a little surprised is all.”
-Clarus suddenly has three kids (G R A N D C H I L D R E N) crowded around him asking questions that keep slipping off into the unintelligible Galahdian native tongue. Clarus looks up helplessly at Axis and Nox and he can see the moment Axis’s burning, vaguely resentful expression softens into something kinder.
-Clarus spends the afternoon sitting rather dazedly in an armchair, babysitting his grandchildren (G R A N D C H I L D R E N. THEY’RE IRIS’S AGE HOW YOUNG WAS AXIS WHEN THEY WERE BORN-) while an amused (if vaguely wary) Porrima babysits him and Axis, Nox, and the collection of glaives that just trickled in help finish the moving process.
-When Clarus finally gets back to the Citadel hours later, he staggers into Regis’s study, drawing alarmed reactions from both Regis and Cor, snatches Regis’s brandy off the desk, takes a drink straight from the bottle, then sits down on the couch and numbly announces, “I am a grandfather of triplets. They’re Iris’s age.”
-Beneath his own shock, it is extremely gratifying to watch Regis lose it as badly as Clarus himself is. Cor just muffles his laughter behind a hand (troll already knew about them, he’d been to Axis’s new house first he’d SEEN THEM and NOT TOLD CLARUS the little-)
-Clarus throws a couch pillow at Cor’s head and the man laughs openly in their faces while Regis fights down his growing grin as he realizes that Clarus no long has any grounds to lecture Regis on “safety first” and “his reckless youth”.
-Clarus has horrible friends. See if he tells them anything about his grandchildren ever again.
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Ooohohohohoho *rubs hands* this is gonna get long I can feel it but HERE WE GO:
-Short version? Badly. And with strong alcohol and much dazed staring.
-Longer version? He is incredibly doubtful at first and maybe (out of stress) says something to that affect to Axis, who just- looks him dead in the eye without a word and there is a fire and stubbornness there that looks too familiar and makes Clarus’s heart sink (there’s a memory from his young, pre-married days of a Galahdian woman with those eyes and that skin tone, who had looked at him with a similar fire and contempt before he’d managed to charm her. But that was once and so long ago, surely it’s just a coincidence. Surely if he had an illegitimate kid it would be from one of his longer flings when he was truly young and dumb?). He’s seen Axis around the Citadel a lot before now because he’s Nox’s close friend, they’ve even talked cordially a few times, but … his son? Surely not. Surely he would have known before the young man stormed in and demanded a blood test to prove he could be Nox’s Shield. Axis has been around for like- idk how long but definitely upwards of a year, because the Council only really kicked up the Shield fuss after Nox’s existence was leaked to the public (I think). Surely Clarus wouldn’t have remained oblivious to the presence of another child of his blood for that long right? RIGHT?
-Clarus awaits the results with increasing dread and a feeling of doom at the sheer burning, resentful, confidence this young man has in his declaration. Like Axis believes down to his bones that he is Clarus’s illegitimate son and is angry that he must now flaunt that fact to get what he wants (a permanent place at Nox’s side). It really doesn’t help that Nox spends the wait lingering near Axis, shooting worried looks at Clarus and bristling protectively whenever Regis’s Shield comes near (like he’s afraid Clarus will hurt Axis for this, like he’s afraid Axis will be punished for announcing his lineage to the world).
-The results come through and Clarus’s world comes down around his ears. Axis watches the doctors hand Regis the positive report with sharp eyes, then promptly turns on his heel and walks away. He doesn’t look at Clarus even once. Nox trails after him with a sigh, like he expected this, and starts talking softly to his Shield (to Clarus’s SON) about how being his formal Shield means he’ll have to move into Insomnia. Clarus doesn’t hear anything more past the ringing in his ears and the hand Regis has on his back to keep Clarus upright.
-He goes home and gets drunk. In between the glasses of whatever poison he’s snatched from the wine-shelf (he hasn’t checked), he tells Juno everything. He’s always told his wife everything, and he can see in her eyes that she isn’t really surprised. She’s known from the start that Clarus had been with other women before meeting her. He’d gone to extraordinary lengths to prove to her that she was different. That he had been serious about her in a way he hadn’t with his flings. So the knowledge that he’s apparently been seeing his illegitimate son around the Citadel without realizing just makes her sigh and pat his hand and take his wine away before he can get blackout drunk.
-Clarus continues to panic the entire time Axis is gone to “retrieve things from his home outside Insomnia” (read: tell his own wife Porrima that they have to move to Insomnia now, sorry about that). Nox shows very little sympathy, instead busying himself picking out a nice house in one of the “security approved” neighborhoods for Axis to live in. Regis, Cor, and Juno make up Clarus’s sanity for about the next two weeks it takes him to get his composure together, figure out (sorta) what to say to his long-lost son (as well as what to tell Gladio and Iris oh boy), and tentatively follow Cor’s directions to the house Nox picked.
-Clarus has no idea how Nox found the one house in upper Insomnia that was essentially an overgrown greenhouse of jungle plants (the last owner had been from Tenebrae and imported a lot of plants from his homeland), or why Nox chose the three-story, plant-infested house for his Shield (wouldn’t Axis get lonely living alone in such a big house?), but he sucks it up, gingerly makes his way under the drooping, flowering vines dangling from the trees to the front door and rings the doorbell with the hand not holding the housewarming/please-talk-to-me-I’m-your-Dad-and-I-want-to-know-you-better gift.
-Axis opens the door and stares him down, Clarus manages to stiffly get out a greeting and offer the gift (how do you talk to your illegitimate son you didn’t know you had until two weeks ago????) and Axis looks like he’s debating shutting the door in Clarus’s face when a woman shows up behind Axis, takes one look at Clarus, and invites him in.t
-The woman turns out to be Porrima Arra. Axis’s wife. A Galahdian woman with a prosthetic leg and a much friendlier demeanor than his son (his SON. Clarus is still not over this fact). She serves tea and apologizes for the mess because they are in the middle of moving in (Nox scoots by and dumps an armchair out of his armiger, which is a shameless abuse of magic but hey). Nox gives Clarus a look that might be pity, gives Axis a look that is definitely pity, and calmly asks if he needs to go “watch the gremlins” while they talk.
-Clarus has maybe three seconds to wonder what “the gremlins” are (pets? Galahdians are known for exotic tastes. Or maybe its a nickname for some of the glaives Nox has befriended?) when there’s a loud clatter from upstairs and a loud shriek noise that his father instincts recognize instantly. Axis seems to teleport out of the room, Nox on his heels and Porrima limping behind and Clarus finds himself bringing up the rear as they all tear up the stairs.
-The three children, two girls and a boy all about Iris’s age, blink up at the sudden appearance of adults in the room from beneath the cardboard box fort they have just knocked over. They all look like a flawless mix of Axis’s and Porrima’s features, with identical smiles as they look up at Axis and call him “Pater!” and scramble out from under the boxes to crowd around, “N’uncle Nox!” and Clarus-
-Clarus finds himself sitting down rather hard on the floor.
-This attracts the notice of the three children (Axis’s children. His son’s children. CLARUS IS A G R A N D F A T H E R) who hide between Nox’s legs and peer at him in question.
-Axis takes one look at Clarus’s expression and sudden seated position on the floor, sighs heavily, and says, “This is your grandfather, Clarus Amicitia.”
-”Is he safe?” Asks one of the little girls in suspicion, eyes narrowed in what is probably supposed to be a fierce glare but really just makes Clarus’s already stuttering heart melt.
-Nox laughs softly and pats their heads, “He’s safe. He’s just a little surprised is all.”
-Clarus suddenly has three kids (G R A N D C H I L D R E N) crowded around him asking questions that keep slipping off into the unintelligible Galahdian native tongue. Clarus looks up helplessly at Axis and Nox and he can see the moment Axis’s burning, vaguely resentful expression softens into something kinder.
-Clarus spends the afternoon sitting rather dazedly in an armchair, babysitting his grandchildren (G R A N D C H I L D R E N. THEY’RE IRIS’S AGE HOW YOUNG WAS AXIS WHEN THEY WERE BORN-) while an amused (if vaguely wary) Porrima babysits him and Axis, Nox, and the collection of glaives that just trickled in help finish the moving process.
-When Clarus finally gets back to the Citadel hours later, he staggers into Regis’s study, drawing alarmed reactions from both Regis and Cor, snatches Regis’s brandy off the desk, takes a drink straight from the bottle, then sits down on the couch and numbly announces, “I am a grandfather of triplets. They’re Iris’s age.”
-Beneath his own shock, it is extremely gratifying to watch Regis lose it as badly as Clarus himself is. Cor just muffles his laughter behind a hand (troll already knew about them, he’d been to Axis’s new house first he’d SEEN THEM and NOT TOLD CLARUS the little-)
-Clarus throws a couch pillow at Cor’s head and the man laughs openly in their faces while Regis fights down his growing grin as he realizes that Clarus no long has any grounds to lecture Regis on “safety first” and “his reckless youth”.
-Clarus has horrible friends. See if he tells them anything about his grandchildren ever again.
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