#Ardyn/Gentiana

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is she... disappointed...?

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Chapters: 11/11 Fandom: Final Fantasy XV, Anastasia (1997) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Lunafreya Nox Fleuret/Nyx Ulric, Prompto Argentum & Ardyn Izunia, Lunafreya Nox Fleuret & Ravus Nox Fleuret, Lunafreya Nox Fleuret & Libertus Ostium, Lunafreya Nox Fleuret & Gentiana, Libertus Ostium & Nyx Ulric Characters: Lunafreya Nox Fleuret, Nyx Ulric, Libertus Ostium, Ravus Nox Fleuret, Ardyn Izunia, Stella Nox Fleuret, Regis Lucis Caelum, Noctis Lucis Caelum, Umbra (Final Fantasy XV), Pryna (Final Fantasy XV), Gentiana (Final Fantasy XV), Ignis Scientia, Gladiolus Amicitia Additional Tags: lunyx, Anastasia AU, Political Alliances, Amnesia, Secret Relationship, stella is luna Series: Part 2 of The Lost Princess of Tenebrae Summary:

Stella, Nyx, Libertus, and of course Umbra, finally arrive in Altissia and it's time for the fateful meeting with Prince Ravus. While happy reunions abound, hidden feelings can't go unnoticed any longer. This is Part 2 of The Lost Princess of Tenebrae Series. If you want the whole story, I urge you to go back and read Part 1.

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I'm live again and we're back playing more Final Fantasy XV!

Tonight, we're staying more story focused so come through and chat, chill, laugh and lurk while we get through the struggles of Noctis and find out why he's going through them.

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Rating the FFXV official minecraft skins

Of course ffxv has a fucking minecraft crossover, but since theres not really that many popular major characters they have made some.... interesting picks for this. let's take a look

the chocobros. the guys. yup. thats them. its hard to see gladio's nose so it kinda looks like his eyes are hella far from his mouth.

either way they all look gay as usual 10/10

ardyn's look here is a little less detailed than i'd want it to be. it doesnt capture the look of all the layers he wears (maybe it needs more contrast?). his mouth is so wide for what. also i want his hat. where is it.

give me the hat. 7.5/10

lots to talk about here. regis is looking pretty damn accurate. luna is a little bland, even with her normal clothes being white i feel like there could've been more detail. the rest of these capture the general vibe tho the level of detail is unequal smh. i like how cute iris's outfit is.

overall, luna 6/10, the rest 8/10.

i was lamenting the lack of tits on cindy but the wise @orangenuggets let me know its bc of the top surgery. 10/10

aranea, wedge, and biggs. i pretty much only remember aranea, and honestly there should be another version of her skin with the helmet that shit went hard. i like the hat on biggs, even though i had to double check which one he was oops. the helmet for wedge looks a little awkward it doesnt feel like he's a character here

10/10, for aranea and biggs, 7/10 for wedge

this is what i call the "why are you here" section. we have evil science guy, that one blond bitch who like immediately explodes and dies, the fucking nifflheim emperor, gilgamesh??? daemon ravus??? whoever the fuck this is???? why are you here. who wants to play as any of these guys except for like. ffxv minecraft roleplayers.

the skins are accurate i guess. 5/10

they decided to put some of the enemies from the game in here. as someone who hardly remembers any of them its similarly as "okay. why" to me as the last group. the tonberry is cute and kinda dinky looking. i really like the mindflayer design surprisingly... that def brings it up a point

overall 8/10 for these guys

MASCOTS YAY, these are all pretty cute and bulky, really gives off the costume feeling. the chocobo bigass beak is adorable i like it a lot 11/10

gentiana's design here actually goes way harder than i thought it would. she slays 20/10

now for the astrals! shiva is so blue. i need like 10 more of her thank you. 10/10

the god of being sososo mad at everyone. i think if there were more raised textures on the body it'd be cool ykwim? 9/10

its ramugh. if only you could remove the leg walking animation so he floats ominously. i suppose there's mods... 9/10

titan. his design was pretty simple already but somehow this doesnt look like him to me? am i crazy? 7/10

bahamut that stupid god that i hate. i hate how sick this looks. i hate him. 10/10

and last but not least.... the design that sucks the most......

LEVIATHAN. WHAT THAT THING. 10000000000000/10

i think the lesson to be learned here is that you can tell how good the original design is when you're forced to simplify it. and also dont make minecraft skins of an angry water snake thing.

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the role of oracle, which she never wanted, following the death of her sister Lunafreya, who was barely with her for a day before she was murdered in front of her eyes. She has been recognized as queen of Tenebrae, only after killing her brother Ravus turned into a daemon, never managing to reconcile because both preferred to accuse the other of being a traitor who abandoned Tenebrae.

She was able to discover the reason for her powers, but at the cost of her boyfriend Noct being absorbed for 10 years by the crystal and the answer did not improve anything. She is the mortal reincarnation of the goddess Eos who gave her name to the star, and the original astral, mother of the six elemental gods and the goddess of death Etro. She was born with the sole purpose of taking her six children to the kingdom of her daughter Etro for her careless acts towards mortals. But she really does not want to kill Gentiana who she has known since childhood or Titan and Ramuh, whom she has come to respect. Well she only wants to kill Leviathan whom she blames for the death of Luna and the destruction of Altissa, and definitely Ifrit and Bahamut.

In the following 10 years, she suffers assassination attempts by Ardyn and Bahamut. She struggles to fulfill her duties as queen and oracle, leading Tenebrae while avoiding the realm of darkness. She has been learning the extent of her powers and believes she is capable of facing the Dracoin.

Upon Noctis' return, she joins the Chocobros to reclaim Lucis, but rather than allow Noctis to sacrifice himself, Stella convinces Ardyn to infect Bahamut with Starcouge, promising the death of the astral and that the cursed immortal will reunite with Aera in the realm of Etro.

The plan is for an angry Bahamut to cast Terra Flare, but Stella must prevent this by casting the more powerful Mega Terra Flare, but must return to being Eos to kill Bahamut in the spiritual plane. In order to avoid losing another important person, Noctis convinces the other astrals and the spirit kings of Lucis to grant their power to Ardyn to kill Bahamut in the astral plane.

The entire cast fights against mini-Bahamut, until Stella manages to destroy it with Mega Terra Flare. Ardyn manages to get revenge on the draco and reunite with Aera.

The crystal shatters as does the trident, the remaining gods decide to accept Eos' punishment as they recognize that their lack of action against Bahamut and disinterest in mortals caused all the problems, but Eos gives them a second chance for their efforts to save the world, but now they must agree to form contracts with any worthy mortal (Hello summoners) and stop being destructive. Etro is worshipped again by humans, and takes Bahamut's place as leader of her brothers, with the duty of watching over them.

Stella and Noct marry and rule Lucis and Tenebrae together, and have two children. They are happy although the pain of losing her brothers is always present in Stella.

[aesadraws]

Springing for the Latin with the ask game! Arma Deorum Sunt let's gooooooo

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*cracks knuckles* You better strap in because I have been wanting to talk about this fucking behemoth of a WIP for literal god damn months but have been too worried to annoy people about it.

Arma Deorum Sunt is very very loosely translatable to either "the gods are weapons" or "they are the weapons of the gods" according to whatever translator site I used when I was brainstorming a fic title. And it's incredibly on the nose given what this story is about.

The basic pitch is thus: modern day crossover of FFXV and FFXVI (although it's really just taking Valisthea and shoving it east of Lucis lmao) where magic is still prevalent in the world via crystals and Bearers but Dominants haven't been seen in at least a thousand years, fading into myth. That is until within a very short amount of time 4 different children - Lunafreya, Noctis, Dion, and Joshua - are chosen by their respective gods (Eikons, Astrals, however they would be called within their culture) to become Dominants. Which ultimately uncorks the bottle and over time more and more awaken. As the initial quartet are basically children, and either royal or noble children at that, they get to enjoy a few years just being kids who happen to have special powers, but if you know anything about either game's story those happy times aren't going to last long.

The major inciting incident that'll kick everything off is honestly the most serendipitous blend of the tragedies of Fenestala Manor from XV and Phoenix Gate from XVI, as the Niflheim Empire at that time has no Dominant of its own and tries to capture them while the four are all together. How exactly that infamous night goes down I'll leave for whenever I actually have the time to dedicate to writing the fic.

I will however give a few highlights from the outline that I love most.

Luna and Jill grow up together, which I loved the idea of as a mirror to Luna being watched over by Gentiana/Shiva in XV. Jill awakens as a Dominant much later than Luna did so when she finally does come into her icy powers she has a keen understanding of what's going to happen to her from having watched what Luna has to go through as Niflheim's pawn. She knows immediately that she's just become another tool for Niflheim to use.

Joshua survives the tragedy and when the Undying swoop in to rescue him they're granted safe passage to Lucis to help him recover. And there Joshua remains for a long time in secret, growing close to Noctis and the other chocobros while keeping an eye on Valisthea from afar. I admit this is mostly because I wanted to let Joshua and Prompto becomes buds.

Speaking of Prompto, he's among the folks who get to become a Dominant in the fic but I'm being mean to him. Given the circumstances surrounding his unique background he would not have been rescued from Niflheim as a baby like in XV canon, and he gets to spend the most one on one time with Ardyn. Sorry Prom :(

Clive, I feel, gets the shortest straw physically possible. Taken prisoner in Sanbreque and forced into their military, no longer just branded as a dispensable soldier but known rather infamously for what went down that night at Fenestala and made use of as the Dominant of Ifrit. Thankfully Dion and Terence will take a much more active role in staying by Clive's side and doing what they can to help him.

I'm also quite eager to write Ardyn in this fic. I had to reconstruct his backstory to better fit the vibe I'm going for but he's still the same slimy bastard we all know and love (to hate). He and Barnabas both have antagonistic roles to play in the fic but I do feel Ardyn shines just a bit more lol.

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by EzraTheBlue Lunafreya declares that she has conceived a child by the Astrals' will, one that is meant to bring peace to Eos... (Or maybe she and Noctis had a rendezvous at a peace summit, and now Lunafreya will end the war and reunite with Noctis, even if it takes one tiny lie.) Words: 40326, Chapters: 8/8, Language: English Fandoms: Final Fantasy XV Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Categories: F/M Characters: Lunafreya Nox Fleuret , Noctis Lucis Caelum , Regis Lucis Caelum , Ravus Nox Fleuret , Gentiana (Final Fantasy XV) , Ignis Scientia , Prompto Argentum , Gladiolus Amicitia , Ardyn Izunia , Background & Cameo Characters Relationships: Lunafreya Nox Fleuret/Noctis Lucis Caelum Additional Tags: Accidental Baby Acquisition , Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence , Humor , Drama , Implied Sexual Content , Unplanned Pregnancy , different prophecy , non-graphic childbirth , Ravus is a jerk

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Can I ask a bit about your process for making Nova Fae and Goblin? I have this need to make my ffxv ocs but also I dont even know where to begin

Nova: For Nova, I just made a person in character creator for comrades to play with Mod Mae and slowly built up her personality and life. I find that I put in a little bit of my own personality when I make characters and Nova was no different. If you want any specific information I'm more than happy to answer! Mae: Absolutely! Thank you for asking! I encourage OCs whole-soul. For my Goblin OC, I tried to tug at the avatara sliders until I got something that was normal looking in that dorky, non-glamorous way, like someone I'd pass at the coffee shop. I love how detailed the face and body options are, even if the hair and clothing options are... slim pickings. I don't know what compelled me to take Sarah's dress and Gentiana's boots, but they stuck.

(My efforts to mod new avatara clothes began about two months ago and have as of yet proven futile.)

Writing with Nova really filled in the rest! Goblin's gimmick is that she has every opportunity to make good decisions, but is ineluctably compelled towards bad decisions, namely Ardyn. I then try to let that inform my screenshots by catching the patron saint of responsibility making sour faces at her, and also cheating Ardyn into the party so that they can stand vaguely near each other while I pine and blush and accidentally die to a havocfang.

[myaaxauthor]

Chapter 1 of Part 2 for The Lost Princess of Tenebrae series is now live!

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What I’ve never understood about this scene is, if Gentiana had the ability to fucking freeze Ardyn why did she do nothing to rescue Luna lol?

The only answer I can think of is that she can’t. Bahamut doesn’t want her to, because Luna has to die to plunge the world into darkness.

And if that’s the case then why tf is anyone supporting these gods and why is Noctis not more pissed that she did NOTHING to protect Luna

If I was Noctis I’d be furious and angry with Shiva. It doesn’t really make sense

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I thank Maetel Cho for sharing his game "FFXV - Somnus is Noctis", there is even gil instead of gladio, it's perfect!! thanks to you ! I managed to save precious time!

voici donc ci-dessus un univers alternatif, des choses qui pourraient s’être passé après l'enfermement du pauvre ardyn sur angelgard ; somnus obéit visiblement à des ordres venant de gentiana, récupérant des armes fantômes dans des tombeaux et récupérant aussi de la foudre….

il s'agit de la partie 1/5

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god id need to actually replay ffx to refresh things though... coz right now im like. seymour = luna???? yunalesca = ardyn?????? i mean it wouldnt need to be a 1:1 adaptation i guess... split seymour in two and have it be ardyn controlling luna?? or its gentiana?? i mean theres also the niflheim emperor and promptos evil scientist dad... but really theyre all controlled by ardyn... the real factor here would be who is FOR the fayth and who is rebelious and who has actual power vs who is just a puppet

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by Kexs Lifestreams cross and diverge. New destinies are being created or ruined. While in one timeline, destiny unfolds as the Draconian had willed it; Noctis sacrificing himself to save Eos and bring an end to the blight, in this timeline, a stubborn soldier takes a stand because he wants to! Wanting was never enough, some were told while others were taught that will is the strongest force to push a human forward. How far must man go to prove that he is worthy of his life? What price must be paid to do the right thing? What is the right thing anyway? Words: 48251, Chapters: 19/88, Language: English Fandoms: Final Fantasy XV Rating: Explicit Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence , Major Character Death Categories: M/M Characters: Ardyn Izunia , Axis Arra , Cor Leonis , Crowe Altius , Clarus Amicitia , Gladiolus Amicitia , Ignis Scientia , Libertus Ostium , Luche Lazarus , Monica Elshett , Noctis Lucis Caelum , Nyx Ulric , Pelna Khara , Prompto Argentum , Regis Lucis Caelum , Sonitus Bellum , Titus Drautos | Glauca , Lunafreya Nox Fleuret , Gentiana (Final Fantasy XV) , Shiva (Final Fantasy XV) , Ifrit (Final Fantasy XV) , Titan (Final Fantasy XV) , Ramuh (Final Fantasy XV) , Bahamut (Final Fantasy XV) , Somnus Lucis Caelum , Gilgamesh (Final Fantasy XV) , Regis Lucis Caelum's Royal Council , Galahdians , Crownsguard (Final Fantasy XV) , The Kingsglaive (Final Fantasy XV) , Original Kingsglaive Character(s) (Final Fantasy XV) , Niflheim Characters (Final Fantasy XV) , MT | Magitek Trooper Characters (Final Fantasy XV) , A very angry Behemoth , Glauca is an actual Daemon , Cid Sophiar , Weskham Armaugh Relationships: Titus Drautos | Glauca/Cor Leonis , Titus Drautos | Glauca & Ardyn Izunia , Titus Drautos | Glauca & Cor Leonis Additional Tags: Blood and Injury , Blood and Gore , Blood and Violence , Gay Sex , Anal , Blow Jobs , Self-Hatred , Self-Worth Issues , Self-Doubt , Humiliation , King Mors as a good guy , Cor's parents being unbelievable , Titus loses every argument , Regis is being unbelievable , Clarus is trying to do his job , Bahamut gets what he deserves , Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence , Cid and Wesk are the real brothers in this

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I mean. Which planet wouldn't have a fossil record? If there's life somewhere, you should be able to trace it back through the fossils found in the area.

Unless you mean a fossil records for human habitation, which honestly might be interesting. Because two thousand years ago - aka when Rome was just turned into an empire and most modern nations didn't exist - Eos had a planet-wide civilization that was further along the technology tree that Earth is currently.

Then it got burned down in a divine war and the humans got blasted back to something like Iron Age. And then they rebuilt. Because that's how it works. And now Eos has freaking airships, mecha and cyborgs, large scale cloning and so on.

Admittedly, most of this is in Niflheim but Lucis probably has their own stuff, like those shield amplifiers that were used to protect Cavaugh.

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The thing about Astrals is that nobody has seen any of them in public - Galahd doesn't count - since Somnus and Ardyn.

Knowingly, that is.

I don't think many people are aware that Luna's dogs are Messengers, or who Gentiana is. They definitely don't know about Besithia dragging Ifrit's corpse to his lab.

So, the SGC would treat it as any other religion - tells you things about the culture, might be connected to Go'auld or some other aliens, but ultimately not something with military applications.

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The thing is that monarchies are not unknown on Earth.

Yes, even in the modern times of 1999 when it takes place.

Really, the only interesting thing here is that Regis wields more power than most modern monarchs, because Lucis is an absolute monarchy and not a constitutional one.

(Same with Niflheim and the scraps of Tenebrae that have some independence.)

Which might make eventual negotiations kind of interesting - whether the SGC gets an alliance or at least further access to the ruins depends entirely on one person's goodwill.

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So like. SG-1 is scouting around and they see a herd of weird animals that look like a cross between a unicorn and a gazelle of all things, except kind of weird. But also not the weirdest they have ever seen. And they try to keep their distance, really, they're not stupid enough to approach unknown animals.

Except suddenly the entire herd starts running right at them, so of course they also start running to try to get out of the way. Only it turns out the Space Unicorns are running from a bunch of predators that look like really really big cats. Like, big honkin' space cats.

And oh shit, the Cats decided that humans actually offend them on a personal level, so now the team is really hauling ass to get away. And maybe taking some potshots at the Cats, who basically just shrug it off what the hell, and also they can zap you like their grandma was an electric eel, seriously what the hell, and maybe the team is running in the wrong direction, Daniel! the base is the other way! except is kind of too late to change that.

So they make it to the shore and are running along the beach, at least it's rocky and not sandy that would have been really bad to run along. And it looks like the cats are bored of the chase because they all stopped further back and now are only growling and hissing in their direction and backing away.

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. . . something is growling real loud behind them.

[hiddeneosbymrsflowerpot]

I love Gentiana’s transformation into Shiva, from freezing Ardyn with the touch of her finger to appearing as the Goddess before Noctis. It’s the perfect opportunity to photograph the details of her outfit. Her eyes change from green to violet, her brazier is made of swirling frost adorned with silver and blue gems and her impossible hairstyle is braided to look like icicles.  Her fingers and toes have the same electric blue manicure and she wears blue gems on her knees.  She may be frosty but she is beautiful. All images copyright Square Enix Co Ltd.

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I've read the novel a lot couple of times and it's less about like. Bahamut being evil as it is that he's so far detached from humanity that the fight against him is more about survival. Gentiana likens Bahamut to a gardener and humanity as flowers - individually humans are pretty, but not worth much, and once a significant portion of the population is diseased, it's best to just mulch the whole garden and start again. The other Astrals object to this and that's why he's considered more "evil" than the others, but ultimately he's kinda... not?

Granted, there's a couple of lines about how Bahamut's teraflare would wipe out the other Astrals and leave him the uncontested god, but that's not really the goal he has. Bahamut's beef with Ardyn is more about how Ardyn wouldn't follow Bahamut's Perfect Plan and grew beyond it (with the implication that Bahamut had been planning this since Ardyn was rejected by the crystal), and the ending dialogue really drives home how Bahamut has A Plan and no one wants to get with the program.

There's other parts of the book that don't make sense, with things like "why can Bahamut use the darkness to power Terraflare, if it's antithesis to him" and "how can Bahamut bring people back to life and gift them the ability to absorb the darkness" that can certainly lead to implying that Bahamut is actually more evil than he is, but those are pretty small potatoes and not looked into as much. (I looked into it. I'm insane and have a 3k essay about this guy. Don't be like me.)

Ultimately the book/canceled DLC was very much a heaping of "hey we should flesh out characters that didn't get as much, and it kinda sucked that Noctis died", so take what they do with a grain of salt. The chocobros are severely cut down on to give Luna and Noctis time to shine (with an addition of trying to actually give their relationship and romance depth), and you also have a look at what the Empire was like when it wasn't a smoking ruin in the game.

Honestly after thinking about it (again, not having read the novel but seeing some summaries and trying to find some translations....)

I agree with those who think the bahamut is main evil dude thing is just making the original story weaker, and cheapens this alt verse. Stories where there's just One Guy Who Is Ultra Evil and You Can Stab Him to End Evil are not my favorite to start with and I don't like it more here