#Crowe Altius

[acecaelumizunia]

The amount of times Ive rewatched Kingsglaive is unhealthy and I need to be heavily sedated... or put in therapy.

[hirune-no-jikan]

Happy Halloween！

[characterswithanimalnamesfight]

Prelim 15/27

From the submitters :

Deborah cames from the Hebrew word for bee

Akainu means red dog in Japanese

Crowe is Old English for crow

Karasuma (surname) has the kanji for crow

[freesiavacadoo]

the gfs from the reverse bang last year

[amidst-wonderland]

there is not a day that goes by where i don’t think what could’ve been if square had actually implemented aspects of the omen trailer into the final product.

i’m in two heads as to what was happening to noctis. either influenced by ardyn in some way, similar to what happened between him and prompto or he’s been partially infected by the starscourge. we’re seeing noctis at his most dangerous from luna’s point of view. (as fighting luna as the player feels redundant when we know who’s in the wrong). a one man army who is, for the most part, invincible.

where it could go in the game? probably not any where in its final form. it’s too early for migraine-prone noctis, altissia would be too bloated and the setting doesn’t fit but gralea, even with an isolated noctis, would be too convoluted since luna is already dead.

in a way noctis killing luna is a little cool, again pushing him personally to rid the world of the starscourge (outside duty), knowing what it took from him but that would simply be a fridging² situation and i wouldn’t have trust them to do that, in-terms of interpersonal dynamics, since they couldn’t even do it with luche and crowe.

that said, you know who did do it well? a certain rebirth.

as an aside, whilst on the subject of luna and ardyn. i always thought the backhand was weirdly misplaced and out of character, which the action itself still takes me out of it. someone pointed out it’s likely due to his baggage and bad-blood with aera for betraying him and what’s happening in altissia? luna is protecting somnus’ direct bloodline, aiding him in his journey to his ‘rightful place’ and seal ardyn’s demise as bahamut planned.

[amarabliss]

This was for a Secret Santa for oregonbud. The request was : Anything goes!! I just want to see lovely work from my lovely Glaive loving peeps! 

So I decided to draw our lovely Crowe Altius at the annual Solstice ball. The boys have never seen her dressed up before and anticipated her being in uniform. She instead to go for the fancy option lady glaives got to dress formally. I can just imagine them in the background: Nyx - Wow pretty... Luche - That's Crowe you goof! and Pelna - Still pretty... Then maybe Titus coming up later asking her for a dance to which she happily takes his hand.

[mrsmneme]

Crowe did not get much screen time in the movie, but, in various fans' points of view, she stole the spotlight and caught their attention. Crowe was not my favorite character in Kingsglaive, but I do wish her longer screen time, more character development and more badass scenes. Because she deserved something better.

[garbria]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Final Fantasy XV Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Cor Leonis/Nyx Ulric, Crowe Altius & Pelna Khara & Libertus Ostium & Nyx Ulric, Regis Lucis Caelum & Nyx Ulric, Noctis Lucis Caelum & Nyx Ulric Characters: Cor Leonis, Nyx Ulric, Regis Lucis Caelum, Noctis Lucis Caelum, Libertus Ostium, Crowe Altius, Pelna Khara Additional Tags: Fluff and Angst, Established Relationship, Hospitals, Recovery, Conversations, Prince Nyx Ulric, Politics, Family Bonding Series: Part 10 of King and Lionheart, Part 4 of Nyx Week 2024 Summary:

The reveal of Drautos' betrayal reverberates through the Kingsglaive and the Citadel.

Nyx recovers in the hospital as his friends and family make sure he knows he's not alone.

For Nyx Week 2024, day 5, magic/family/healing. The next part of my LC bastard au series.

[calling4glaives]

Kingsglaive Legends 2023 Master List

Thank you to everyone who participated in KGLegends23! Thanks to you, we now have 15 new images and over 25k more words featuring the Kingsglaive characters. If you have any works you’d like to add, please do! We’ll update this as we become aware of them.

Thank you also to all those who liked, reblogged, and commented on these works – your support is always appreciated! Please continue to support the fabulous writers and artists in this community.

Participants

Writers

Awlwren (Tumblr, Ao3)

Blossom Adventures (Tumblr)

Dablotte (Twitter)

Firechocobros (Tumblr, Ao3)

Loki_chan / Garbria (Tumblr, Ao3)

StarJunco (Tumblr, Ao3)

The master list itself will be below the cut, along with the badge for using all the canon glaives across the week's fills!

Not an icon this year, but instead a "signed" poster of the glaives by the lovely @starjunco. If you wondered what they glaives were up to in their various poses this week, now you know. Of course they couldn't even behave long enough for a good picture. On the other hand, who put Tredd next to Libertus? Drautos doesn't get to look exasperated by the shenanigans when he indirectly caused them.

Day 1

Art

Title: Sacrifice Artist: dablotte Link: Twitter Glaives: Nyx Ulric, Crowe Altius Relationship: Crowe Altius & Nyx Ulric

Title: Day 1 Artist: StarJunco Link: Tumblr Glaives: Luche Lazarus Relationship: N/A

Fics

Title: Exhaustion (ft. Drautos) Author: Blossom Adventures Link: Tumblr Glaives: Titus Drautos Relationships: Titus / Cor Summary/Excerpt:

Cor woke up to an empty bed, he’s probably already up, he thought as he realised what had actually woke him, his phone was ringing, it was Clarus, he looked at the time in his phone screen, 5:15am. The Marshal let out a groan and answered the call.

Title: Call and Response - Chapter 2 Author: Awlwren Link: Tumblr, Ao3 Glaives: Axis Arra, Tredd Furia Relationships: N/A Summary/Excerpt:

Axis has seen how useful Oracle Sign is. Now to get everyone else to.

Ugh. This means actually socializing with people.

Title: Holding Out for a Hero Author: Garbria aka Loki_chan Link: Tumblr, Ao3 Glaives: Pelna Khara Relationships: N/A Summary/Excerpt:

Pelna knows he’s not the Hero of the Kingsglaive but when he runs into trouble on his own, he rises to the occasion.

Title: Love, War, and Sacrifice Author: Firechocobros Link: Tumblr, Ao3 Glaives: Titus Drautos, Nyx Ulric, Sonitus Bellum, Luche Lazarus, Axis Arra, Crowe Altius, Pelna Khara, Tredd Furia, Relationships: Polyglaive, DrauCor Summary/Excerpt:

“If it will end this fucking meeting,” Titus started with a heavy sigh. “I will sacrifice the stupid fucking closet to the Guard.”

There were head nods, and they all moved on to the next thing on the agenda. Little did they know that Titus was not giving his closet up without a fight.

Featuring Titus being a petty king and using his Glaive to the best of his abilities.

Day 2

Art

Title: Day 2 Artist: StarJunco Link: Tumblr Glaives: Crowe Altius Relationship: N/A

Title: Sleeping in the Clouds Artist: dablotte Link: Twitter Glaives: Libertus Ostium, Nyx Ulric, Crowe Altius Relationship: N/A

Fics

Title: AU & Life After (ft. Luche) Author: Blossom Adventures Link: Tumblr Glaives: Luche Lazarus, Nyx Ulric Relationships: Nyx / OC Summary/Excerpt:

at the start of The Long Night, Cor and Titus buy a penthouse apartment in Lestallum and they get bunk beds to accommodate their close friends and “family” so that they all have a safe place to live and don’t have to worry about accommodation themselves… also there’s a little teaser to Violet and Nyx’s relationship ☺️🥰

Title: Lichtenberg Figures Author: Firechocobros Link: Tumblr, Ao3 Glaives: Nyx Ulric, Sonitus Bellum, Luche Lazarus, Axis Arra, Crowe Altius, Pelna Khara, Tredd Furia, Relationships: Polyglaive Summary/Excerpt:

It had been storming all week, and Nyx’s parents had warned him to stay inside, but he was getting restless. Something kept telling him to go outside; the voice was getting stronger, and Nyx was about to listen to it out of pure boredom. 

How the Glaives found out who their Clustermates were and what their Asteral Event was.

Title: Delta Blues - Chapter 2 Author: Awlwren Link: Tumblr, Ao3 Glaives: Libertus Ostium, Nyx Ulric Relationships: Cor / Nyx Summary/Excerpt:

He whirled, sole remaining kukri at the ready as the Princess spread her feet and crouched slightly, ready to run or attack. A car pulled up behind them and jerked to a stop. Libertus rolled down the window and beckoned them over.

“C’mon, get in! They set up a trap in the square, I heard it on the radio,” Libertus yelled in that tone that he was convinced was quiet.

Continuing my Nyx Lives AU where Libertus finds Nyx before he gets shot, and so he never puts on the ring. And things go from there.

Libertus PoV this chapter!

Title: Not All Who Wander Are Lost Author: Garbria aka Loki_chan Link: Tumblr, Ao3 Glaives: Luche Lazarus, Nyx Ulric, Libertus Ostium Relationships: Luche & Nyx, Libertus & Nyx Summary/Excerpt:

The Lazarus clan has been responsible for protecting the royal family of Galahd for centuries, and Luche takes his duty seriously. It's a shame the only surviving member hates him.

Day 3

Art

Title: Day 3 Artist: StarJunco Link: Tumblr Glaives: Pelna Khara Relationship: N/A

Title: Pelna!!! On a fishing (?) adventure Artist: dablotte Link: Twitter Glaives: Pelna Khara, Titus Drautos, Nyx Ulric, Luche Lazarus, Libertus Ostium, Tredd Furia Relationship: N/A

Fics

Title: Tredditions Author: Awlwren Link: Tumblr, Ao3 Glaives: Tredd Furia, Nyx Ulric, Pelna Khara, Libertus Ostium, Luche Lazarus Relationships: N/A Summary/Excerpt:

Tredd hazes the rookies educates the new class of Glaives on Important Glaive Traditions. And then celebrates some more somber ones with the rest of his own recruiting class. Fill for Kingsglaive Legends 2023: Day 3 - Tradition

Title: Training (ft. Nyx & Drautos) Author: Blossom Adventures Link: Tumblr Glaives: Nyx Ulric, Titus Drautos Relationships: Nyx / OC Summary/Excerpt:

It was the hottest day of the year, the height of summer, the training grounds in the Citadel were exposed to the full sun at this time of day. Captain Drautos had called off training when he saw how the Glaive were struggling, he let them go home, and they did just that, all but one.

Title: All That Is Gold Does Not Glitter Author: Garbria aka Loki_chan Link: Tumblr, Ao3 Glaives: Libertus Ostium, Nyx Ulric, Luche Lazarus, Crowe Altius Relationships: Libertus & Nyx Summary/Excerpt:

On their way to Insomnia after the attack on Galahd, Libertus decides Nyx needs some time away and invites him on a hunt. Unfortunately, he should have realized that nothing is simple when traveling with an Ulric.

Day 4

Art

Title: Day 4 Artist: StarJunco Link: Tumblr Glaives: Sonitus Bellum Relationship: N/A

Title: Family Fix-it Home Artist: dablotte Link: Twitter Glaives: Nyx Ulric, Libertus Ostium, Luche Lazarus, Pelna Khara, Crowe Altius Relationship: N/A

Fics

Title: Shifting Sand - Chapter 2 Author: Awlwren Link: Tumblr, Ao3 Glaives: Crowe Altius Relationships: N/A Summary/Excerpt:

Crowe’s not quite sure what’s going on, or who this lady is, or why people are trying to kill her, but she’s determined she’s not going to die first. Crowe’s POV of the last section of Solid Ground.

Day 5

Art

Title: Day 5 Artist: StarJunco Link: TumblrGlaives: Tredd Furia Relationship: N/A

Title: Slice of Life/Love(?) Artist: dablotte Link: Twitter Glaives: Nyx Ulric Relationship: Nyx / Noct (possible)

Fics

Title: All Through the Night Author: Awlwren Link: Tumblr, Ao3 Glaives: Luche Lazarus, Sonitus Bellum Relationships: Luche & Sonitus Summary/Excerpt:

Luche is working late on the Night Shift, and struggling with the weight of responsibilities.

Day 6

Art

Title: Day 6 Artist: StarJunco Link: Tumblr Glaives: Axis Arra Relationship: N/A

Title: Titus...more like TiSUS Artist: dablotte Link: Twitter Glaives: Titus Drautos Relationship: N/A

Fics

Title: Hide and Sneak - Chapter 2 Author: Awlwren Link: Tumblr, Ao3 Glaives: Pelna Khara, Nyx Ulric Relationships: N/A Summary/Excerpt:

Pelna loved figuring out secrets. It was one of the best things about being a scout – putting together puzzles and learning the crucial pieces of information that could save his fellow glaives, or the Crownsguard holding the lines, or the people just trying to live their lives as the tides of war swept over them. He might not be able to liberate whole towns himself, or smash through the enemy lines to allow advances and retreats, but he could find things no one else could, and that saved lives, too.

Pelna is clever, and sneaky, and learns a lot, maybe even more than he wanted to.

Chapter 2/2! Pelna heads home.

Title: Today's Gonna Be My Day Author: Garbria aka Loki_chan Link: Tumblr, Ao3 Glaives: Titus Drautos Relationships: Titus Drautos & Cor Leonis Summary/Excerpt:

Crownsguard Titus Drautos is determined to make a place for himself in the Crownsguard, despite the hostility of his fellow recruits. If only he could stop running into the same smug bastard every time he tried to train. ​

Day 7

Art

Title: Day 7 Artist: StarJunco Link: Tumblr Glaives: Libertus Ostium Relationship: N/A

Title: Day 7 Artist: StarJunco Link: TumblrGlaives: Nyx Ulric Relationship: N/A

Title: Live Libertus Reaction Artist: dablotte Link: Twitter Glaives: Nyx Ulric, Crowe Altius, Libertus Ostium Relationship: N/A

Fics

Title: Where Angels Fear to Tread Author: Awlwren Link: Tumblr, Ao3 Glaives: Nyx Ulric, Titus Drautos Relationships: pre- Cor / Nyx Summary/Excerpt:

When he’d turned back enough to have a clearer shot of where Drautos had been standing guard over the glaive wounded, Cor had a moment of confusion when he didn’t see the man. A quick survey of the field showed the lone glaive who’d reinforced the western flank holding back a wall of gunfire with an impressively sturdy shield, one that surely couldn’t last, but no sign of their Captain.

As he got close enough, Cor finally realized that the hunched figure in the middle of the courtyard he’d previously missed was not wearing the red of blood but the darker shade of Drautos’s uniform.

Somehow, while he’d been being cautious, Titus Drautos had fallen.

Cor goes to meet the Kingsglaive returning from their latest raid and helps them out of an ambush, and meets someone who might be worth keeping an eye on.

Title: Fools Rush In Author: Garbria aka Loki_chan Link: Tumblr, Ao3 Glaives: Nyx Ulric, Titus Drautos Relationships: pre - Cor / Nyx Summary/Excerpt:

Things go badly when Nyx’s unit gets ambushed on the way back from a mission. Then Cor shows up.

[raven-6-10]

The original post is starting to branch due to comments from multiple people, so could you post this and tag the appropriate individuals, please? Consider: If Crowe heads straight for the mainland, she misses siblingship with Libs and Nyx, and I'd like to keep that. Hm - maybe Regis is on the islands for Some Reason, and Crowe is - almost compelled to head towards the delegation from Insomnia?

@hamelin-born @ertrunkenerwassergeist

See, the thing is that Crowe doesn't meet Lib and Nyx until she's 14. Which, for me at least, is a bit too long without something major happening in Insomnia because People Are Upset About the Missing Monarch.

(Lucius the Late took throne after 3 years and he was welcomed with a civil war.)

Consider the alternative - Regis allows Crowe to take trips to Galahd regularly so she stays connected to her roots and birth culture, and she meets Lib and Nyx during one of them.

***

On a separate note, the tag #a crown and a name fits much better for Crowe who's normally a Nameless.

[andywinter16]

Random headcannons for FFXV in general, because I would love to know more about it, and there is not enough info for my gremlin brain.

Galadh:

- I kinda see clan Lazarus like those who deal with foreign policy. Also lot of Lazaruses married non-galadhian, they just loves other cultures. (They are still loyal to Galadh)

- Galadh is in my opinion similiar to the Greek islands. Mainly few big ones and then lot of small ones. There is a definitively volcano. 

- Galadh is also known for its natural hot springs. Glaives definitively were chilling there.

- Galadh officially worships Astrals, Ramuh and Leviathan are the main protectors. There is also a very strong bond with the ancestors.

- Clans have totem animals. (Ulrics have coeurl, Arras have sabertusk, Ostiums have kujata, ...)  

- A beautiful legend is attached to it´s origin. Once upon a time, during a great disaster, there were a few animals that went to help humans to survive it. But in the process they have died themselves. Their human friends wheeped to Astrals about this woe. They heard their plea and united the man with the animal.

Random:

- Regis remembers all names and faces of his employes 

- Clarus hair fell out during stress from both of his idiots. The idiots in question are Regis and Cor

- Cor and Titus are actually good friends who are little shits together  (Glaives and guards are dreading those days when two of them are together)

- There is annual boot camp where glaives and guards measure their forces 

- Luche either doesn´t sleep at all or is having short power naps during day. He´s got nightmares about Galadh and his fallen comrades.

- Nyx hair and beard grows super fast, he needs to shave it at least every three days. He tries to shave it when deployed, but Nyx just gave up after that.

- Tredd´s got younger brother who is still in Galadh. Their relationship is sadly very complicated. But Tredd always sends him a birthday card nonethless.

- Axis is great at bargaining prices at the market, also always picks the juiciest vegetables/fruits. (I believe this is some kind of superpower)

- Sonitus has sharp teeth (they looks like shark ones), he can open cans with it or beers. 

- Pelna plays exceptionaly guitar and ukulele. Sometimes brings it to Yamachang for a spin.

- Libertus is suprisingly good singer when he gets little bit of alcohol into his system. Everyone always shut up and listens when Lib starts to sing. (Usually galadh tunes)

- Crowe loves to go on night ride with her motorcycle. Has favourite spot where she can see whole Insomnia. Usually sends gang a random photos she took on the way.

- Titus favourite place to relax is at top of Citadel at night. The night sky is breathtaking. He usually brings some alcohol to drink his sorrows and regrets away.

[dirtyffxvconfession]

[ertrunkenerwassergeist]

Regis' reaction to learning that he has a sister young enough to pass for his own daughter was definitely Something. Nobody expected him to know that many curse-words, that's for sure.

Regis stared at the tiny slip of a girl sitting across from him. All bony wrists and elbows and knees, wild hair and large eyes that stared back at him with a distrustful glint that made Regis's heart squeeze in anger and pity.

They sat in a pub, at a table tucked as far out of the way as possible, but still they could not escape the curious glances of the Galahkari in the room. Regis dearly wished they could do this in a more private seeting, but his sister had clearly not been getting enough to eat. The man sitting beside her, staring at him like he was about to murder him if he made one wrong move, also did not help.

Despite the ambient noises of the pub, the silence had settled heavy and uncomfortable between them.

His sister clutched at a steaming bowl of some kind of thick stew, waiting for it to cool a bit after the first bite had burned her tongue.

"Now," the man said, deep voice cutting though the air like a claimore. Still, Regis could not look away from his sister. "What do you Lucians want with the girl?"

The man had a thick accent, much like everybody on the islands who spoke Lucian, though he was more understandable than most others.

"And who is asking that?" Clarus demanded, matching the man's agressive tone of voice.

"Kapil, Head of Clan Ostium. I ask again: What do you want with one of our children, a Clanless one at that?"

Regis tore his eyes away to look at the man. "I am looking for a missing relative, my Lord," he said with a polite tilt of his head.

A disgusted snort was his answer. "Cut that shit out. There are no lords here. Why would someone like you look for a relative here of all places?"

He did not want to do this, but Regis knew he wouldn't get anywhere otherwise. At least someone was looking out for his sister, even if only to protect her from suspicious strangers. Never in his life had Regis been treated like a suspicious stranger. So he reached into his coat pocket, slowly under the sharp eyes of the adult Galahkar in front of him, and pulled out a folded paper. It was a copy of his sister's birth certificate, stamped and notarized.

Kapil snatched up the paper as soon as it touched the table between them and opened it. Few moments later the man paled at a rapid pace.

Beside him, the small girl took a bit from her stew with an audible slurp.

[primamchorus]

Enemies at the Wall

Relations between Niflheim and Lucis have always been tenuous, and it has been made worse with Niflheim pressing an offensive to Insomnia's borders. The Kingsglaive, wounded by the loss of their homes in Galahd, have sworn themselves to the Crown to protect what they have now as well as each other. It is this that strengthens their drive to protect the Wall -- to protect each other.

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“All units move to secure the wall! If they break through, we’re done!” shouted a voice over communications that rang through into all ears of the Kingsglaive that were either fighting out in the sandy fields before the towering wall, or were stationed atop the wall itself. Battle cries roared out from the Glaives as attacking forces from Niflheim only advanced on the perimeter.

On Niflheim’s side were creatures alongside their Magitek Troopers; behemoths, daemons, and other technological monstrosities built by the engineering heads of the Niflheim army. It was a daunting sight to people who mostly considered themselves mortal men with only a smattering of magical power gifted to them by the King of Lucis. Most people would cower in fear before them. Should have cowered before them.

Protection of the wall, however, was the agreement of those that accepted refuge in Insomnia after Galahd was razed. Asylum in return for their service to the King as magically powered infantry. A fair deal, some might have thought. Some even reveled in it.

Libertus, however? He stood with his back to one of the still standing ruins, breathing deeply to calm himself as he peeked past the edge. MTs were advancing on his location. The sight served as the go ahead he needed before he mustered the magical energies within to create a cloak around himself that rendered his form invisible to the naked eye before running from cover to cover of still standing ruins.

‘It’s now or never, Libertus…time to play the hero. We can’t have them take away our homes again,’ Libertus thought to himself as he ran out from cover toward a group of MTs. The cloak of invisibility wore off as he took his hatchet from its holster and cut down two of the MTs. Turning, he commanded a magical lightning blast toward the remaining ones. Libertus' fingers ran numb with the lingering electrical current.

‘Remember your six!’ rang the words in Libertus’ mind before he turned around. Stretching out one of his hands, he erected a crystalline, honeycombed barrier in a semi-sphere around himself to block incoming fire from the mechanical army still coming in.

Taking steps back whilst keeping the barrier erected, Libertus yelled into his own comms device: “What’s the hold up, Crowe!?”

At this point, Libertus had been expecting offensive magical cover from the Glaive Black Mages stationed on the wall itself.

“Crowe, status!” another voice on the communications channel demanded.

“Almost…there…!” a female’s voice finally responded, her voice masking no shortage of strain.

Looking up briefly, Libertus saw the swirl of dark gray and black clouds forming overhead. A mixture of fire and lightning elemental energy converging with one another to create a fiery maelstrom. However, whatever it was brewing, it seemed like it was taking too long to press with an offensive as missiles rained through the sky from Niflheim’s forces toward the wall.

“I need help! The east wall is going down!” cried a voice over the comms. Libertus could only imagine it was someone stationed at the aforementioned wall that got a better sight of the missiles than he did. Of course, he could only listen in on this plea backup — responding to it was something he could not commit to.

The spider-like akumo daemons were scurrying forth and in Libertus’ direction. He could not be distracted — not now!

Throwing a magic flask filled with fire elemental energy toward his nine, Libertus took care of any nearby akumo that he could fight off. He swung his axe at any spindly legs, hacking them off and throwing the creatures off balance. A few more busts of electrical magic energy was used to stun or fry the other arachnid daemons.

Too many to deal with set forth a problem, however. Libertus was just one man, after all. He was knocked to the ground by a different akumo. As it went in for a fatal blow, Libertus swiped up, cutting off its mandibles before a different voice spoke in his ear: “Watch your back, Libertus! We got more incoming.”

“We ain’t gonna last much longer!” Libertus shouted, blasting the akumo above him with more lightning. He pushed back up onto his feet, and put his free hand to his communications device. He ran the opposite direction of his enemies, looking for any cover.

Libertus ran past a fallen pillar before sidling against a ruined brick wall before yelling out a singular name: “Crowe!”

Libertus could only hope that she was holding her own alongside the other mages within the Glaive.

“All Glaives fall back! I repeat: All Glaives fall back!” The command rang out through their communications devices.

The swirling mass of black clouds, fire, and lightning was finally forming into a deadly, functional tornado that was beginning to suck up any unfortunate to linger within its wake. Akumo, Glaives, behemoths, MTs, and those light enough to get plucked from the sandy grounds into its deadly hold were swept up into it with no remorse.

A rock of grief settled in the pit of Libertus’ stomach as he watched from his cover. Before long, he laid himself flat against the ground and made sure he remained tight against what was left of the structure he hid behind so as not to get sucked up himself. Just when he thought all was leaning in their favor as the battle waged on, the hum of multiple magitek aircrafts filled the air, humming even louder than the whirling tornado of death that the Glaive mages conjured up.

Chains that followed after each of the aircrafts were attached to something giant — obscured by the billowing of sand, dust, and smoke. However obscured, the thing was obviously another creature that the Niflheim empire had at their beck and call. It was only a matter of time before those chains were let loose, and that giant, monstrous thing of a daemon flailed one of its arms, sending any still-attached airships crashing into the ground.

A sacrifice that the enemy was willing to make if it meant making a bigger dent in Insomnia's defenses…

The beast marched forward through the whirling flames of the mages, forcing them to fizzle out into nothing. A sure sign that even the mages could not press an attack against it. As the flames died out, bright red orbs shone through the remaining dust and smoke still shrouding the monstrous creature’s body. Libertus could only assume they were the daemonic red eyes that were evident in most that stemmed from the Starscourge.

Giant maws opened up on what was previously assumed to have been the giant daemon’s shoulders, revealing more red orbs that slowly built up their harrowing glow. The creature then leaned forward as a rattling and popping noise filled the air not unlike fireworks bursting in the sky. The daemon fired projectiles from its two giant maws, the missiles firing forth from the glowing orbs within.

Not just a few, but tens upon tens, maybe even hundreds upon hundreds of magical missiles that swiveled every which way onto the battlefield. They showered even more death and destruction with each impact they made, the ground shaking and rattling with each hit.

“We can’t take down that daemon…” an authoritative voice said over the communications line. “I’m ordering a full retreat. Get back here alive. That’s an order! For hearth and home!"

Libertus certainly did not have to be told twice about making his way back. Leaving his cover, he spotted other Glaives that were following orders and moved as quickly as he could to catch up. With the massive daemon’s attack, however, some of the nearby spines of the Cavaugh region had been caught in the magical missile crossfire.

The stone spires cracked and crumbled apart, raining down even more danger upon anyone who was unfortunate to still be beneath them.

Unfortunately for Libertus, he made the mistake of looking at the falling rubble as he ran. The sight of one of the boulders falling down made him almost take a tumble…before the boulder rolled into him, catching his leg underneath it and breaking it underneath its weight.

A pained cry came out of Libertus as the searing pain ripped through his leg and through his body like a shock wave.

‘This is it…’ Libertus thought to himself, noticing he was now pinned to the ground with no real way of freeing himself to abide by the order for retreat. ‘This is my payment for serving Insomnia after our home in Galahd was taken from us…’

“All units fall back to the extraction point. Support is inbound.”

A resounding, rhythmic thumping of something large running made Libertus give freeing himself another shot as he pushed himself up into a seated position. He caught the sight of a three headed canine beast, bigger than any dog he had ever seen, and with both glowing eyes and a glowing mouth. The daemon was known as a cerberus, and like most daemons, was not something you would want to face alone. That much he knew very well.

“You’ve gotta be kidding me!” Libertus shouted before a bright blue-white glow warped around his vision. He recognized the deep purple scarf that billowed behind the figure when their body was not entirely cloaked in light. It belonged to only one person: Nyx Ulric.

“What are you, crazy, Nyx!? You’re supposed to be retreating with the others! Don’t you play hero for me…! Gah, idiot…” Libertus managed, groaning with pain. However, it seemed Nyx was barely able to hear anything as he cut through the neck of the daemon. As Nyx distracted the cerberus daemon, Libertus tried to muster as much strength as he could to push the boulder from his leg. With enough wriggling and pushing, Libertus freed himself and started to crawl toward safety. Unfortunately, that meant missing most of Nyx’s heroics until Nyx himself had come back to help Libertus up onto his feet and support him.

“Whoa, whoa, whoa! You know I ain’t got the stomach for this crap!” Libertus grunted as he hooked an arm around Nyx’s neck and shoulders. He limped clumsily, trying to suppress any noises of pain from how the pain burned and radiated its sharp, stinging pain along his leg.

“Would you rather walk?” Nyx quipped back as the cerberus seemed to continue to flail and stomp in the background, carrying on at as swift a pace as he could manage with Libertus in tow. “Come on! Just like Galahd Canyon back home!”

The rocky spire that they had been doing battle on had finally started to give. The more that the cerberus thrashed and flailed about in its attempts to snap up either Nyx or Libertus, the more the rocky structure gave way. The cerberus kept up its attempts until, eventually, the spire broke apart. While the cerberus was not so fortunate, both Libertus and Nyx threw their respective weapons before their bodies flared in a blue-white light and warped through to the safety of the sturdier portion of the rocky spine.

Thanks to Nyx, Libertus could live another day.

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“Luche, report,” came the stern command of the Kingsglaive captain, Titus Drautos. He paced forward, hands behind his back as he approached a more wiry-looking man with combed back blond hair donning the Kingsglaive attire.

“The imperial forces look to be withdrawing, sir,” Luche replied, standing at attention with his gaze pointed forward. His own hands were at rest behind his back. His voice was the one that had been on communication channels with other Glaives that were stationed on the higher walls protecting the city of Insomnia: ranged and caster Glaives that did their combat from a distance.

As the captain was busy collecting his intel, Nyx had been walking alongside a stretcher that carried his long-time friend — a brother in all but name — from Galahd, Libertus Ostium. Nyx could really only listen and watch for the time being as Libertus fought off the pain that still seared within his leg.

“Guess I owe you another one,” Libertus finally managed as whatever support was there carried him toward one of the vehicles.

“I’ll put it on your tab,” Nyx started in his typical smart ass way, placing a hand briefly on the edge of the stretcher. He patted it twice before continuing with something a little more genuine: “You just try to get some rest, all right?”

A halfhearted scoff came from Libertus as he was gently loaded into the back of the van. That was about all Nyx saw before he went and took a seat on the back bumper of a different parked vehicle. Despite his cocksure nature out on the field, he had to take a moment to reflect on the fact that he almost lost a friend.

He had to be the hero for them. That was what he told himself, anyway.

“You disobeyed a direct order to retreat.” Titus’ voice cut through Nyx’s thoughts, and he drew near to where Nyx was sitting. It seemed Titus had gotten all the intel he wanted from Luche.

Nyx could only really give a silent, defiant sigh as he rolled his eyes slightly at that moment. Now was not the time he wanted to have some lecture of one kind or another. Not over something that he firmly believed was more right than obeying some retreat. Not when he would have rather saved lives than let them perish on the field of battle.

“For hearth and home, right sir?” Nyx retorted, doing little to mask the slight disdain in his tone as he kept his gaze pointed in a different direction. “As long as I got strength in my body, I obey that order.”

“Don’t fool yourself, Nyx Ulric,” Titus nearly spat, casting his gaze over his shoulder in Nyx's direction. “Whatever strength you have is on loan from the King. You are nothing without him."

Turning on his heel, Titus paused and left Nyx with his last order of the night: “Await details of your reassignment.”

"Great…" Nyx muttered under his breath, shaking his head slightly. Just another thing that had to be taken in stride.

[blossom-adventures]

Kingsglaive Legends 2023! Organised by @calling4glaives

Day 2: AU & Life After (Feat. Luche & Nyx, Pelna, Crowe, Libertus and Drautos)

I’m classing this as an AU even though it will appear in my fic, because I am intending most of the Glaive to survive… so it’s kind of AU but most of the main plot of the game and film still happens

Little context: at the start of The Long Night, Cor and Titus buy a penthouse apartment in Lestallum and they get bunk beds to accommodate their close friends and “family” so that they all have a safe place to live and don’t have to worry about accommodation themselves… also there’s a little teaser to Violet and Nyx’s relationship ☺️🥰

A year into The Long Night

Luche climbed the stairs to the apartment he shared with the rest of the Glaive, he’d just got back to Lestallum after a supply run.

He unlocked the door and pushed it open, being hit by the strong smells of curry being prepared in the kitchen, Libertus was working with Crowe to prepare the evening meal for everyone, there were a lot of people living in this apartment, so Libertus was hard at work, throwing various spices into the large 2 handled pan, while Crowe was carving up the Dualhorn steaks into bite sized cubes.

“Hey, Luche!” Nyx stepped out the bathroom, he had clearly just had a shower, “how’d your supply run go?”

“Ok, not great, we didn’t get much, but I did manage to bring back some more resources for the Power Station, so it wasn’t a complete loss” Nyx clapped him on the shoulder while Luche looked around, it seemed to him that they were the only ones in the large apartment at the moment. “Where is everyone?”

“Pelna was called to help Monica with some communication problems, Drautos and Cor had a meeting with Holly, Violet was helping Iris at her shop and the Kings friends are still out on a mission, most of them will be back soon��� Nyx pointed over his shoulder to the bathroom, “we’ve still got some hot water and you’ve got time for a shower if you want, dinner is probably going to be another hour or so”

By the time Luche had showered and changed most of the others who lived in the apartment had arrived; Titus was now helping Libertus and Crowe prepare dinner, Cor was discussing something with Pelna and Iris was bouncing her nephew on her knee while Nyx and Violet sat together on the opposite sofa, Violet saw Luche leave the bathroom and gave him a smile.

Luche had been so unsure about the apartment at first, the idea of so many people sharing a space was bound to cause issues, but he’d been wrong, so far there had been no problems, the people who could cook took it in turns to cook the evening meals, and if they needed help, others would step up, but there was never any arguments or shouting. Everyone offered to help Violet and Nyx with their son if he was crying, or they offered to babysit him, like Iris was doing now, just to give them an hour or 2 to themselves. The house work was everyone’s responsibility, you cleaned up after yourself, it was only fair, and everyone was responsible for their own belongings.

Luche sat down next to Iris and reached over to her nephew, who was laughing and clapping every time she bounced her knee, Luche tickled him under his chin and he squealed happily before he took hold of Luche’s finger and looked at him, he had the same rich amber eyes as his mother and aunt but he had his fathers hair colour; an unkempt tuft of slate grey hair covered the top of his head.

“You always grab my finger when I do that” Luche spoke to the baby boy, who cooed in response

“He likes you Luche” Iris said “isn’t that right!” She said and she gave her nephew a tickle, now that his attention was back on her she began pulling faces, making him laugh even more than before.

Luche leant back on the sofa and looked at the group, Titus, Lib and Crowe were working together in the kitchen and Cor and Pelna were joining them on the sofas now that their discussion was done, they had become a family over the year they’d been living together and although times were much harder now, Luche wouldn’t change it for anything

[amidst-wonderland]

final fantasy 15 thoughts (replay)

just as a psa, spoilers of course but also this is not in chronological order, not by a long shot as these are thoughts / feelings i’ve been holding onto for almost ten years. (also, i’ll add to this once i’ve finished dawn of the future.)

this is easily the most tense, creepy and downright freighting final fantasy game. say what you will about chapter thirteen but they really know how to build momentum in such an eery way in gralea (you can literally find the clothes of npc’s you’ve encountered like dino’s, in other words they’ve been taken and turned into daemons by the niffs). also, arguably the most bittersweet ending. as, pretty much everyone dies. everyone in kingsglaive, apart from libertus dies.

i used to think ray chase went a bit over the top in the early game in-terms of acting but upon revisit, he absolutely smashes it. that section as the boys look over insomnia is heart-wrenching. final fantasy to me has always been a bit wishy-washy in-terms of voice acting. characters were passable but the voice direction is a little messy at best and sometimes downright flat (which some of the terrible sound mixing doesn’t help) but when it comes to modern final fantasy games? they’re incredible and i couldn’t go back. ray, cody and ben were perfect in their roles (i low-key think cody got snubbed at TGA’s this year but maybe it’s just one actor per game).

on this scene though, i remember there being discourse about iris phoning noctis first, over gladio but it makes total sense to me. gladiolus’ role as the shield is to take a bullet for the king, if noctis is dead according to the press then how do you think that happened? we quite literally see it played out with their fathers.

fifteen’s soundtrack will always be my favourite overall, seven is up there too with ‘seven seconds till the end’, ‘one last date’, ‘tifa’s theme’ and ‘on our way’ but taking the entire soundtrack into account i’d have to say fifteen is just perfect, it’s one of the few things at launch that simply couldn’t be critiqued. also, considering it’s yoko shimomura ‘scala ad caelum’ from kh3 sounds like it could be ripped right from endgame ffxv. its sounds like a more darker version of ‘somnus ultima’. like ‘true love’ is basically luna’s theme + ‘somnus’ as one. ‘home sweet home’, ‘lightless journey’ and ‘dewdrops at dawn’ are perfect in every way (can you tell i like a good piano and violin number? also, if you like ffxv, go listen to professor layton’s, ‘london streets 3’)

speaking of kh3, i have zero interest in anything but the versus thirteen stuff and whilst i don’t know if i’ll play it. i am seated for kh4 to see where nomura’s magnum opus goes, if anything i just want more of yoko’s ‘not, not ffxv’ music.

i truly wish there was more of the kings as they are without a doubt my favourite aspect in the lore with them obviously being this game’s version of ‘knights of the round’ and they way they wove this into an arthurian-inspired story. like, they basically beat you over the head that the ‘sword of the father’ is excalibur. yeah, we don’t have the physical summon but that’s not to say we can’t summon them, which we technically do as noctis is summoning their weapons and the way they’re depicted impaling noct and killing ardyn is basically how their actual summon is.

i’ve been writing this whilst waiting for my game to fully upload, so i only had a the option to play a new game with no royal additions yesterday and now that’s it’s downloaded, my almost two-hundered hour save file is gone, so looks like i really will be replaying this because i don’t have playstation plus. like cheers sony telling me i’ve got 187 hours in a game to only show me three saves that were created less than a day ago.

apparently there were cut lines of the npc’s mentioning what happened with the glaive. which is so disappointing because the kingsglaive themselves are such a big deal but i always felt this weird disconnect between the film and the game outside of regis and luna, like there’s not even a moment of iris and gladio talking about how their father was killed, like do they even learn how regis died?! if i’m right in thinking, the only reference to kingsglaive is when ignis mentions nyx putting on the ring, but we don’t ever learn of them hearing about it. pretty sure noctis would have some choice words, he doesn’t even mention ravus doing the same. also, luna was supposed to join the party with a bahamut summon?! which is kinda weird, because to me bahamut is as much the bad guy in the story as ardyn, somnus and nifflheim. if we wanna compare, it’s basically sephiroth, jenova and hojo.

i don’t hate kingsglaive i was just disappointed. the main thing the game got right was my main grievance with kingsglaive. these are comrades, friends brought together to fight for a city not technically their own and we never get to see how their relationships fall apart. we never see luche grappling with that fact he murdered crowe, especially when he comes across pretty ambivalent to the treaty, a close friend of hers and comes back to save nyx! you don’t properly understand why crowe was specifically chosen unless you get ‘big-brain’ about it. they also could’ve done much better with the foreshadowing and as much as i like nyx and his hero-complex is basically the only arc that works, i don’t think he should’ve won. luna has the ring, insomnia was destined to fall (as much as the kings pretend it won’t) and instead of ravus, considering what ardyn is putting them through emotionally in chapter thirteen, glauca should’ve been fought by the party or better yet, have glauca be fought just before facing ardyn in the throne room.

also, i saw a theory nyx was turned into the daemon that you eventually fight to get his weapons but his body literally turns to dust so…

again, with the glaive (sorry, i will get to the game itself!) the lack of foreshadowing and contradiction with luche bothers me so much, he wrote the damn treason letter. the glaive don’t need to know his intensions but the audience should! we don’t get to see their relationships outside of nyx. the only way i can justify luche coming back to save nyx, other than the recapture of luna is maybe a part of him still wanted to get his friend on board with the cause, but the way he goes about shooting him completely lacks any familiarity. drautos had crowe killed because he thought she was the one person that would turn nyx against regis. it worked on libertus and luche was enough of a suck-up to do it himself.

the cut content thing it’s just so ‘ugh’ like the main things i wanted was an explorable insomnia (as noctis) and gralea (cause it was inspired by the uk, which is certainly loaded) and noctis’ jpn va confirmed that the boys were present during insomnia’s fall and that would’ve been so fucking cool (and the perfect opportunity to give us one actual noctis and luna scene, like a fleeting moment of them promising to reunite that wasn’t as children). knowing that, i don’t even think that’s what kingsglaive was intentionally about because nyx came into the picture when they couldn’t use noctis, so chances are the film was supposed to be about the boys sneaking out of the invasion, which makes a hell of a lot more sense as the set-up of a game which ‘opens’ on them finally out of the capital. also, as great at the scene is, regis knows exactly who the “imperial chancellor” is.

i will never forgive square for having ignis be stuck with that jedward quiff, like give me yummy hair-down ignis!

cor’s apologising for not being there to save regis, just reminded me that he’s weirdly absent from the film and of all characters in the game, he should’ve had relevance

i beat one of the niff bases severely under levelled. i was a level thirty-two, the recommended is fourty-seven with two level fifty-two bosses, after two previous waves. got my ass handed to me the first time but, think think smarter not harder and the second time wiped the floor with them because thank go for the turret as a i really wanted to boost my level early.

wally west you cannot escape my ears, not even as a niff.

call me a purist, but i don’t think you should be able to access verse two in chapter thirteen until you’ve beaten the game. you miss out on an insanely key moment playing as gladio, like the whole damn reason for this journey, luna, nyx and regis’ death’s and insomnia’s fall were collateral for noctis to put on the ring and i know people complained there was no reason, but there was. players and noctis were too comfortable with the party and their weapon load-out. ardyn forces noctis and the players to put on that ring and prove himself that he and he alone is the true king. also, noctis taking on his own legacy but also his father’s which reads to me that even throughout all of this, regis will always be there when his son needs him most. you get none of that as gladio.

comrades “ending” actively contradicts the ending of the game, like noct leaves the rock alone but in comrades a group of glaives go to retrieve him.

work with me here but i think crowe should’ve been an insomnia native. like, to say, look what the king would do to his own people.

i remember the qte being a lot shorter my first time, so i’m assuming you get as many of the royal arms as you have collected pre-ardyn. which i think i got ten? including the five you get during the story. (i’m still bitter about my save disappearance because i worked damn hard to collect all the royal arms, cause fuck costlemark tower).

i know it’s the in-game lighting but noctis’ final cgi scene shouldn’t be as bright as it is before he brings back the light.

originally (baring in mind, i played base-base ffxv, like no updates whatsoever) considered ardyn being related to noct to be really lazy purely because they didn’t properly explain it until after you get sucked into the crystal and even then i wasn’t fully convinced until we got the gentiana update and episode ardyn.

i need to know the track that plays when noctis gets oracle’s trident, like after the cosmology one.

i’ve mentioned this before but if you know seven and get ‘big brained’ about fifteen’s plot then you can potentially have the caelum’s legacy spoiled by the time gang head to cape caem. you get the blade of the mystic whilst fighting the archaean and again, like i said, if you haven’t properly looked at that thing and know seven then ya probably should. to the game’s credit, you don’t get a proper look at the sword until episode ardyn and by that point you vaguely know what somnus did, or you’re about to find out.

i find it hilarious that the guy who voices wyv, also voices bahamut.

the way the game treats iris is rancid, she is fifteen-years-old square! i don’t care if she’s got a crush on noct, but don’t force me as him to play along it’s gross. also, luna being four years older that noctis is kinda janky too, especially when so much of their romance is shown as children. he’s like nine and she’s thirteen if i’m right in thinking.

not noct having more chemistry with sarah.

visually, endgame cgi noctis and kingsglaive luna? damn that is one hot couple. they look too anime-fied in their final scene but i would’ve killed to see her kingsglaive rendition and older!noctis in its cgi glory.

aranea alludes to the fact that the emperor couldn’t go near the crystal and that ardyn was the only one who could (and that’s why ardyn insisted on being brought to insomnia because it wouldn’t have shifted without him) when you’re in tenebrae which should’ve set off alarms bells.

i don’t personally think luna was fated to die, at least not as soon as she did and had there been no imperial involvement her and noct’s journey likely wouldn’t have begun as early as it did (both she and noctis were clearly unprepared, noct more-so). to me, ardyn’s fate and personal vendetta merged in the killing of luna. to toy with noctis, push him over the edge but also taking his anger with aera (and somnus) out on luna and above all ending the remaining liability in the one cause he has control over. noct is the one true king who can end him, but that still means the caelum line could live on, even without noct. so what do? ensure the caelum line dies with luna. let’s face it, had ardyn not stepped in luna would’ve been free to join the gang and who’s to say she doesn’t end up with a caelum sprog? taking out the caelum line is ardyn’s one solstice.

i was gonna do the regalia side missions but then i remembered the glitched out sewer that gave me motion sickness.

noctis and luna are like really distant relatives, right?

on the previous comment of seven, like noctis and luna is just a shittier re-telling of cloud and aerith, even down to specifics.

noctis dies a fucking virgin, oh my god take this game off me.

the english localisation changing the “i love you” to the ‘#nohomo’ version still pisses me off. yes square, this man loves these men who are basically his brothers.

ardyn’s hatred of noctis probably isn’t helped by the fact he’s the spitting image of somnus and bahamut (which is obviously intentional because bahamut has a severe case of main character syndrome).

not being able to preview regalia colours before purchase is annoying as fuck.

the arena can suck my big, fat, hairy baws.

there’s a lot of great lines in this game but the delivery of prompto’s “son of a bitch!” will never not amuse me. though, in strong runners up are “off my chair jester, the king sits there.” or ardyn’s “is he dead?”