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charlottedabookworm:
hamelin-born replied to your text post:
…I just. Look, I’m honestly not trying to push anything at you, but I really hope that you write a bit featuring Nyx+Ardyn’s reunion in this ‘verse, and Ardyn subsequently taking Nyx as his own son? It’s just. This is /sad/, and I just…
@hamelin-born
…Right. So. This probably isn’t exactly what you were after - mostly because it’s still really fucking sad - but, in my defence, I did actually try to write something happy.
I’m just… really not good at that today.
And don’t worry about it, sometimes I need a bit of a push to actually do things - I still keep meaning to write up a response to your original response but never seem to get around to it - and you didn’t come across as pushy either, tbh :D
Anyway, snippet under the cut because of length, mentions of cruicifixion, and tell me what you think :)
Keep reading
@charlottedabookworm
Yes yes yes yes yes yes yes. Yes to all of this. Seriously, it’s just - the sheer depth of feeling in this is just. Absolutely, positively lovely. It’s despair and desperation and feeling every inch of centuries pressing down on you; it’s terror and betrayal and family and the faintest, faintest glimmer of something that could almost be hope - it’s two people, holding onto one another in the eye of the storm.
Yes, the mental image of Nyx just. Backtracking suddenly because he almost missed his uncle is comical, for all that it’s deadly serious. And I have to wonder what Ardyn thought in that moment - for that matter, how did Ardyn know that Nyx had been cursed as well? Let alone die on the same damn cross they hoisted him up onto… I mean, Nyx got a post-death heads-up from his Nana that Ardyn was still alive (for a given value of the word), but - I’m not sure that Ardyn would have had a similar opportunity, if only because Bahamut’s (and possible Shiva’s) entire attention would have been focused on him, such that I rather doubt he ever even managed to reach the Beyond for a single moment.
…it might have been. Well. If Nyx and Ardyn have been missing one another for centuries - there might have been legends. There might have been physical messages carved deep into stone - I’m alive, I’m in my mother’s country - or something similar. There might have been something that gave Ardyn the heads-up that his then-nephew was still in existence. And - once he overcame the shock, one he figured out that Nyx shared his Curse - Ardyn might have gone looking. Through the historical record, that is; because all he knew was that his nephew was supposed to have died young, he didn’t know how or why or when and - it took a lot of digging, but this is Ardyn Lucis Caelum. And he found the records of his nephew’s execution.
So Ardyn knows exactly what’s going on, and he goes to find his nephew, and - and his nephew is still his nephew. His nephew greets him as the rightful king, his nephew apologies to him, his nephew bears the same scars and the same nightmares and -
And, for the first time in centuries, they have family again. And Nyx - well. Hm. I see Nyx, in treating his uncle as his king, in freely admitting that he was the wronged party, that Somnus et al were in the wrong - that gives back Ardyn a piece of himself that he thought was lost/had begun to die. Nyx sees him as his King, and so Ardyn is - and so Ardyn can be merciful and just, and hold onto something of his humanity.
They’re going to have a long talk, later. A long, long talk. Sharing exactly what happened to one another, but they’re both - they’re both just so happy to have family again, and even more then that, to have someone who gets it.
Somewhat random side-topic - prior to Nyx’s adoption (which I’m seeing as - well, a magical adoption, more or less, a very, very old ritual calling on Etro and Eos and the Powers That Be, basically making it so that Nyx is literally every inch Ardyn’s son as if he had been born such - they’re basically carving Somnus out of him and inserting Ardyn in his place -) was his magic gold? Did it manifest as such? And when Ardyn took him as his own son, did he give him a new middle name at the same time? (Nyx really. Does Not Want anything to do with his one-time father.)
And Nyx would have been. Just so, so incredulously grateful if/when Ardyn offered him the opportunity to become his son. It’s a way out, it’s a way away from the man who killed them both, and it’s - Nyx is overcome by blind gratitude and sheer, unreserved love.
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charlottedabookworm:
hamelin-born replied to your text post:
…I just. Look, I’m honestly not trying to push anything at you, but I really hope that you write a bit featuring Nyx+Ardyn’s reunion in this ‘verse, and Ardyn subsequently taking Nyx as his own son? It’s just. This is /sad/, and I just…
@hamelin-born
…Right. So. This probably isn’t exactly what you were after - mostly because it’s still really fucking sad - but, in my defence, I did actually try to write something happy.
I’m just… really not good at that today.
And don’t worry about it, sometimes I need a bit of a push to actually do things - I still keep meaning to write up a response to your original response but never seem to get around to it - and you didn’t come across as pushy either, tbh :D
Anyway, snippet under the cut because of length, mentions of cruicifixion, and tell me what you think :)
Keep reading
@charlottedabookworm
Yes yes yes yes yes yes yes. Yes to all of this. Seriously, it’s just - the sheer depth of feeling in this is just. Absolutely, positively lovely. It’s despair and desperation and feeling every inch of centuries pressing down on you; it’s terror and betrayal and family and the faintest, faintest glimmer of something that could almost be hope - it’s two people, holding onto one another in the eye of the storm.
Yes, the mental image of Nyx just. Backtracking suddenly because he almost missed his uncle is comical, for all that it’s deadly serious. And I have to wonder what Ardyn thought in that moment - for that matter, how did Ardyn know that Nyx had been cursed as well? Let alone die on the same damn cross they hoisted him up onto… I mean, Nyx got a post-death heads-up from his Nana that Ardyn was still alive (for a given value of the word), but - I’m not sure that Ardyn would have had a similar opportunity, if only because Bahamut’s (and possible Shiva’s) entire attention would have been focused on him, such that I rather doubt he ever even managed to reach the Beyond for a single moment.
…it might have been. Well. If Nyx and Ardyn have been missing one another for centuries - there might have been legends. There might have been physical messages carved deep into stone - I’m alive, I’m in my mother’s country - or something similar. There might have been something that gave Ardyn the heads-up that his then-nephew was still in existence. And - once he overcame the shock, one he figured out that Nyx shared his Curse - Ardyn might have gone looking. Through the historical record, that is; because all he knew was that his nephew was supposed to have died young, he didn’t know how or why or when and - it took a lot of digging, but this is Ardyn Lucis Caelum. And he found the records of his nephew’s execution.
So Ardyn knows exactly what’s going on, and he goes to find his nephew, and - and his nephew is still his nephew. His nephew greets him as the rightful king, his nephew apologies to him, his nephew bears the same scars and the same nightmares and -
And, for the first time in centuries, they have family again. And Nyx - well. Hm. I see Nyx, in treating his uncle as his king, in freely admitting that he was the wronged party, that Somnus et al were in the wrong - that gives back Ardyn a piece of himself that he thought was lost/had begun to die. Nyx sees him as his King, and so Ardyn is - and so Ardyn can be merciful and just, and hold onto something of his humanity.
They’re going to have a long talk, later. A long, long talk. Sharing exactly what happened to one another, but they’re both - they’re both just so happy to have family again, and even more then that, to have someone who gets it.
Somewhat random side-topic - prior to Nyx’s adoption (which I’m seeing as - well, a magical adoption, more or less, a very, very old ritual calling on Etro and Eos and the Powers That Be, basically making it so that Nyx is literally every inch Ardyn’s son as if he had been born such - they’re basically carving Somnus out of him and inserting Ardyn in his place -) was his magic gold? Did it manifest as such? And when Ardyn took him as his own son, did he give him a new middle name at the same time? (Nyx really. Does Not Want anything to do with his one-time father.)
And Nyx would have been. Just so, so incredulously grateful if/when Ardyn offered him the opportunity to become his son. It’s a way out, it’s a way away from the man who killed them both, and it’s - Nyx is overcome by blind gratitude and sheer, unreserved love.
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