He learns a lot in his time from hibernating and when he wakes up from hibernating. He's a sweet boy and has great leadership skills. He's also an idiot (affectionate)
(Spoilers ahead) He is a catboy who is your (as in the player character's) biggest fan. He's a nerd and a geek. He tried to pretend to be evil but failed miserably because he's a terrible liar and also such a good boy. Most of his plans involve self-sacrifice. He decided to put himself to sleep as the guardian of a magical tower, to be woken up from stasis one day in the far future. Anyways then he ended up traveling back from that future in order to stop a calamity, became the leader of a society in a land teetering on the edge of an apocalypse, accidentally kidnapped the souls of some of the player character's allies, and eventually ends up merging with his original self, waking him up from stasis in the process. Also he's technically royalty. So vote for him!
Noctis Lucis Caelum:
The whole game it's a joke that he's a sleepy boy, having a hard time waking up and hating early mornings. Then he goes into dormancy in a magical crystal for 10 years and proves just how sleepy he is. 11/10 amazing sleepy prince that broke our hearts
i saw this scene being uploaded in english the other day and i can't not rewatch the japanese version because, you know, seiyuu brainrot and whatnot. translations (completely my own) under the cut.
Prompto: What're you doing?
Noctis: Nothing, really. Just spacing out.
Prompto: Huh. I see.
[ Leave him alone / Talk about something random / Wait for him to speak ]
Noctis: Hmph—
Prompto: We went through so much today, huh?
Noctis: Everything's so new to us, too.
Prompto: You can say that again. Things have been super hard, but I didn't expect every day to be so much fun. Y'see, everything I see is new to me.
Prompto: I never expected things to turn out this way or to go out on a trip together.
Noctis: Yeah.
Prompto: How long have we known each other again? It's since high school... So five years?
Noctis: But I've known you for longer. Was it since elementary school?
Prompto: Eh? How'd you remember that?
Noctis: 'Course I'd remember. You stared at me so much.
Prompto: Ugh. [nervous laughter] You see, that's because I have my reasons...
Noctis: But you were still like, "Nice to meet ya!" at the high school entrance ceremony.
Prompto: I had to really brace myself to talk to you that time.
Prompto: [sighs] Kinda takes me back.
Noctis: You could've just talked to me, you know.
Prompto: I know it's easy for you to say— You wouldn't understand, Noct.
Prompto: Back then, I—
Prompto: Sorry, man. It really is nothing.
[ Ask him out of concern / You're concerned but you don't force it out of him / You won't get mad so ask him to be honest ]
Noctis: What is up with that? Just say it.
Prompto: [sighs] All right.
Prompto: You see...
Prompto: I used to be unable to reach out to other people.
Prompto: And I... didn't have anyone that I could call a true friend.
Prompto: I was always by myself.
Prompto: So sometimes I end up thinking maybe I'm not worth anything.
i started playing ff15 and i am glad to know that i'm playing as someone that enjoys fishing as much as me. any time i draw noctis he's going to be wearing a shirt like this
In dreams of our past, Noctis had to actively suppress his healing during the Marilith attack so it didn't give him away as non-black mage.
But what if he couldn't do it? Maybe was unconscious, or maybe in too much pain to concentrate. Anyway, he fails and he heals his injuries where other people, including Regis, can see it. What happens next?
I tried multiple times to write a little one shot for this and failed miserably. So I'll just ramble a bit, if you don't mind.
Noctis falls unconscious and his magic protects him. Which means it heals him. A gentle golden and purple hue glows on his back and Regis is... not devastated, but it's close.
He's happy his son is alive and mostly healed. Of course he is. And his son's magic is strong enough that he can feel it prickle across his tongue from over 10 metres away. But it's not black magic. It's not black magic.
And that is the problem.
Lucis Caelum children without black magic are cursed. Regis's heart bleeds for his son. He rushes over, not quite daring to touch Noctis's back, but cradling him close nonetheless.
All around them the soldiers start to whisper.
"A miracle."
But Regis knows it's not a miracle. Was this what the prophecy was all about? It couldn't have been.
The Chosen King is known however, to the general populous. A knowledge they gained through little grains of the prophecy making it into prayers.
May the Chosen King come and bring us to salvation.
And if the people think the Gods holding a protecting and healing hand over their chosen king as a sign of his coming, then Regis would lean into that until he believed it himself. All to protect his son.