#Nocte’s thoughts

[noctesimpsalot]

Note to self, never read angst scenarios while playing lover’ oath/Guizhong lullaby in the background. I started crying my eyes out

[alienglowgarden]

[Text Transcript: "Big brother, // yesterday I had a dream // that everything changed. // The sky was the color of blood, // and everywhere I looked, // I could not see a single sight // I recognized, // Including this body."]

[purgetrooperfox]

there will come a soldier :) who carries a mighty sword :) he will tear your city down :) oh lei-oh lai-oh lord :)

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[feratu]

“I’m a healer but...”

[fatuismooches]

I had a brainrot about how the Harbingers kept in touch with their s/o when they're away on a mission or just have not seen each other in so long because they were very busy. I thought of FF15 wherein Noct and Luna would have this journal that gets delivered to them back and forth. And now I thought of how the s/o would write from one side of the journal and the Harbingers would reply on the other. When the pages meet at the center, both say "I love you" and that journal gets archived in an enchanted time capsule before they make a new one until it just becomes a series of archived journals. If this was about fragile!reader or poly!reader, this would be even cuter.

This would also be so much more meaningful to Scara when the journals remained untouched after the Irminsul incident and the last page he filled in is, "This is not goodbye as long as you choose to not forget about us." And his s/o replied, "I will always wait for you." And although his s/o was confused about who this mysterious lover is, she oddly believed in the journals so when he returned for her in Snezhnaya...she smiled and did not hesitate to take his hand to start a new life together.

☆Starlight Anon

CRYING SOBBING. I just looked up the "Lovers' Notebook" on the FF wiki and I'm in tears, that'd be so cute for the Harbingers and their lover.

For fragile reader I can imagine them writing to the clones on missions in other nations, they get bored really easily there but now they can look forward to you writing them sweet messages in the notebook! They always fight over the journal (unbeknownst to you) and eventually after many rock-paper-scissors (a game you taught them to use to sort out their problems peacefully) they work out an order of who gets to write to you first... they each sign their message off with the name you gifted to them <3

Hehe, for poly reader, the Harbingers would definitely subtly compete with each other over how many notebooks are filled out (hah, [name] definitely likes me more than you, we have more pages filled out) (foolish, quality over quantity. [name] and i have much more fulfilling conversations than your useless prattle.) I imagine each of them has a different design on the notebook to make it even more personalized <3 They definitely read through the old ones while they're during paperwork ;(

For Scara it would be so bittersweet ;( You would be so confused about why you have this stack of journals, one page has your writing, which is oddly lovey-dovey, but you can't remember having a lover... plus, even stranger, the next page is left completely blank. No matter how much you think about it, you can't come to a conclusion other than skipping a page is just weird! You try to forget about it, but some nagging feeling inside you beckons you to read all of the journals you have for some clues, and that's when you realize the lone sentence on the opposite page of your writing - you have absolutely no idea who it is, but your body moves before you can think and you're writing out a response, one that fully welcomes this mysterious presence.

[lem-argentum]

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[lunarlegend]

LOOK AT HOW CUTE MY HOTEL ROOM IS

[rathologic]

Isn't it weird that in Nocturnal, the civilization led by the Kin occupies the burnt-out shell of the town? Obviously there are game development reasons to set the ending in the same location that contains all the assets (though, concerns about the player walking are nullified by the use of teleportation between vignettes in this ending), but it creates a ton of weird messages in context of the Kin's traditional relationship to their land + the point that the town itself damaged the Earth - basically expressed by the Kin and child NPCs being placed in Town locations during this ending, while the exiled settlers are the ones who walk off into the Steppe to presumably live a nomadic lifestyle if they don't immediately perish. That being how the Kin are implied to have lived before their community centered on the Town/Abattoir. and considering it a death sentence inasmuch as those settlers cease to exist as personalities in the ending is interesting itself, as the exact "faceless subhuman" that the Kin are described as essentially being, slash as a corollary from how the idea of not living in a town is never considered as an option in either Pathologic game... These both associate the Town with the Polyhedron as a more compelling single entity (where the physical town can also not be removed from the Earth), and reflect resoundingly bad (that is, coherently) on the idea of reciprocal colonial violence that p2 already surrounds the Kin with, re: occupation, expulsion, and the populations "trading places" in a sense. But the first point is thematically nuts, saying that since the Polyhedron is here now they must adapt to how it has changed life in this place and develop a new life in the geographical and (to an extent) social context of their oppression, when 2's big association is of the Kin with the past and tradition, and when the one almost liberatory thing Artemy can do for the Kin during the game is physically move them away from the Town... I think there's just no awareness of what the "past" it wants to associate with the Kin is in the first place?

[halchron]

it’s so good to have company . for a long time , i was on my own.

the devil in me ━ accepting ( @asterites )

❝ yeah, i know the feeling. ❞

prompto curls a knee up, resting his cheek against it as he looked at stella. he never would've thought that royalty and those with divine bloodlines suffered from loneliness or other things that seemed so trivial in the grand aspect of their lives. there were many things the blond didn't know about politics and the daily performance people like the noctis and the nox fleurets had to live with, and it brings a frown to his face. he never would've thought at the beginning of their little road trip that he'd feel sorry for the people he saw as the guiding light in their world.

❝ but, uh, my stuff is probably not even close to what you have to deal with. still though, i'm happy to keep you company as long as you'd like. ❞

[luridaemos]

i know people are tired of versus 13, but i've been thinking about if anything from the trailers will be made relevant to kingdom hearts 4 lately so i want to just dump my thoughts here. also a little bit about the 4 trailer because a certain line is bugging me and i’m going stir crazy waiting for news. like for one "there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so" was so important that it was in all of the trailers until the direction change and could possibly be mentioned by mom or yozora himself. if maybe "the true figure is still hidden in sleep" is still important with how much sleep still seems to be (sora and yozora sharing dreams but also riku’s dreams and sora’s apparent coma upon arriving in quadratum). strelitzia is the new white-robed figure & it’d be so cool to maybe see a variation of yozora vs strelitzia or even sora vs her:

i kind of feel like maybe the conversation between noct and stella might have been mostly scrapped

i think mainly the parts about a select people being able to continuously see a light in the sky after a near death experience from which they gain power from at the cost of another's life. but the stuff about etro opening the door for the dead and a light shining down could easily become ��door to kingdom hearts” related or even related to the meteor shower that happened on destiny islands. maybe worked into the characters we know arriving in quadratum the way kairi arrived on destiny islands.

there’s also the whole “eyes that see the light of expiring souls” and “there are things i just ‘know,’ and i have no idea how.” which i guess could now be yozora being able to go to the final world in his dreams. 

plus an conversation that happens directly after noct talks to stella after their first trailer interaction which boils down to a disembodied voice asking who noct is and him responding that he was going to ask them the same thing. a line added in a later trailer is him saying “goodbye. whoever you are.” which i’m thinking could either be now yozora talking to whoever stole his appearance/whoever told him to “save sora” or completely reworked into his meeting with sora in the final world. i think it’d be super interesting if yozora had spoken to the person who stole his appearance before hand and maybe even become friends before it happened, but i’d honestly be okay if that isn’t the case. it being whoever told him to “save sora” could also lead it to him not knowing who stole his look and that maybe the same person took nameless star’s name.

i’m also wondering if “the heart resides within the soul, which in turn is guided by fate to its rightful place.” and “the choice is yours once more.” form the kh4 trailer is related to yozora saying “if you are who you say, and it was fate that brought us here, then... my path is clear.”

i also wonder if “guided by fate to its rightful place” is more related to yozora or sora, or perhaps everyone who isn’t supposed to be in quadratum and it’s clear that it’s up to sora to decide what to do. sorry if this is all something people have already talked about at length. i just figured i might as well use this tumblr dump my hyperfixation thoughts somewhere.

[astralucis]

not to get mushy on main, but i love noct's story / journey as a metaphor for what it's like to live with depression and mental illness overall. more under a read more due to a heavy discussion topic!

the light slowly fades as things begin to pile up: grief, responsibility that feels impossible to tackle. all seems bleak and grim for a long time, hopeless. but then there comes a day amidst the darkness that one finds a revelation about themself, as well as motivation to change. and then, they find themselves clawing their way out of the dark ( even as parts of that darkness still take root deep within ). the entire journey is rough, ugly even... but worth it for the light at the end of the tunnel

when i played ffxv for the first time in 2016, i immediately noticed so many signs in noct in the first 3/4 of the game that i had in myself ( as someone who was going through a horrible depression during college ). the ways he closed himself off to people even his loved ones and friends, the ways he tried to bottle up everything, the selfishness in his grief -- even when he doesn't meant to be, the good parts of his personality that get buried behind the grief, the lack of control over himself and his life due to the incredible weight it brings, the burden he feels he's placing on his friends' shoulders

we see him struggle with strained relationships with his friends as the story progresses. and even up to the point where he gets enveloped into the crystal, he was struggling with his journey and fate, just trying to keep his head above water metaphorically -- even as unknown as everything was to him at the time

then we get to timeskip / older noctis. this is what it feels like to be an adult whose learned to live with depression. someone who's gone through a journey of change to be their best self, even if getting there felt impossible and terrifying at times. their path behind and ahead of them isn't pretty, but they've changed for them and they've learned to control rather than let it control them. it'll always be a part of them, but it doesn't define them anymore

this is the noctis we see, using his last days left alive to show the appreciation for the world and people around him that he didn't before. this is the king we see walking tall, finally sure of himself and his place in the world. even if his story ends bittersweetly, it still ends with a personal victory for him. noctis got to prove to his loved ones and to himself that he 'walked tall' and became the king and the person he was meant to be. and he's content with that, at the end of the day

[fightwing]

" if you don't turn that song off, i'm transporting you to the moon and leaving you there indefinitely. " he cannot transport people to the moon. / @proditeur

" YOUNG AND SWEEEET ONLY SEVENTEENN. " he stares straight at regulus when he turns it up. in his defense, he'd put the playlist on SHUFFLE, so really the fates were to blame. and well YES, it may technically have been mar'i's playlist it was all he had downloaded in the spotty service areas they were driving through. and, most importantly, considering it's dick's turn on driving duty and his one role is to stay AWAKE and ALERT, he really needs the near-caffeine boost that is ABB/A. he sings a bit more through the chorus, and then turns it down just enough for his words to be heard without screaming. " i'll make you a deal: you sing along with me to one song OF MY CHOICE, and then you get to pick the playlist for the rest of my shift. " OR, you know, he gets transported to the moon, but after a lifetime of friendship dick's certain he'd only be up there for like a second, max. (he hopes)

[madeimpact]

He wonders if the caterers for the ball will bring that one dessert. A fair number of surprises have been kept for him in the planning process...

[sylleblosscm]

Ok, ok, have some real headcanons now:

The way Luna responds to finding herself suddenly back in time is heavily verse dependent for obvious reasons. But in all of them, she is resolved to change the future.

Beginning with Insomnia - obviously, her first priority is preventing the Empire from taking it. She is reticent to share what she knows also for obvious reasons, so she doesn't tell Regis right away, nor does she confront Drautos. Actually, the first person she turns to is almost always Nyx.

Obviously the extent of what she tells him is dependent on whether this happens in a verse where they travel together and/or become personally involved. She will likely use whatever personal information she knows about him to convince him she's telling the truth, and that in another time, they worked well together.

The only exception is her Insomnia verse, where the first person she tells is Clarus. In this case, she will tell him everything.

Being Luna, she'd rather rehabilitate Drautos than actually kill him. Especially now, since she can relate so heavily to his anger, though hers isn't directed at the Lucian monarchy but at Bahamut himself. She can have a breakdown about her mother's death later - right now, she has things to do.

Naturally, the next thing she does is find Noctis, covenants be damned. Her letters to him cease, instead she sends a simple: "meet me in _" message. I've said before there is no version of events where she doesn't love Noctis with all her heart, whatever form that love may take, so naturally the image of his death is still deeply traumatising, and she is determined that it will not come to pass twice. Though she is reluctant to tell him everything, she may choose to confide in his friends first.

She will awaken the gods again, but this time she has no intention on seeking their blessing. Rather, she intends on recruiting them to fight Bahamut and rid the world of his influence. She will also track down Ifrit for the same purpose, and fight to free him from Ardyn's control.

Speaking of Ardyn, he's probably the biggest wild card in all this. Now Luna knows the extent of his story, she will either offer him Noctis' place in ridding the world of the scourge plus the chance at revenge for the fate he was assigned, or more likely she will try to rehabilitate him also. Either way, deals will be struck.

Anyway it'd be pretty cool.

[astrxealis]

prompto and akechi having the same english voice actor is something that hits me personally