mental link // S72
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servitorDIASPEIREIN To scatter, spread about. | MELIORISM The belief that the world gets better. |
ORIFLAMME A symbol or standard that inspires confidence, devotion, or courage. | VANGUARD The troops moving at the head of an army. |
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Date: 2017-07-08 07:36 am (UTC)He exhales loudly, scrubs his face.] That guy sure sounds like he knows how to hold a grudge. [Revenge on the world really sounds melodramatic to whatever it could've been. Then again, he's not exactly privy to the royal stories and legends. Who knows what the Lucis Caelums did to royally piss off a man with tattered clothing.]
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Date: 2017-07-09 07:32 pm (UTC)His real name was Ardyn Lucis Caelum. [A neat little bomb to drop, said plainly.] He held a grudge for thousands of years.
[Yes. His family is... messed up.]
So yeah. You're right.
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Date: 2017-07-09 10:39 pm (UTC)So the chancellor is your... uncle. Cousin. Doesn't matter. He's been around long enough to harness the darkness and destroy the city, then make the world go dark.
[He lets out a low whistle.]
No offense, but I'm not jealous of you.
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Date: 2017-07-10 02:42 am (UTC)[Sarcasm practically drips from every word. Sarcasm, and something faintly reminiscent to pity.]
Either way, I'm not jealous of me either. But if it makes you feel any better, I managed to beat him in a fight.
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Date: 2017-07-10 04:57 am (UTC)[Though Drautos was the immediate threat to the city and the Princess.]
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Date: 2017-07-11 02:23 pm (UTC)[He wasn't exactly, well. Easy to kill.]
But hey, I would've cheered you on anyway.
[You know, if he was there.]
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Date: 2017-07-15 03:09 am (UTC)[Not like Drautos wasn't enough trouble with hulking armor and him without magic.]
I can't imagine things went great during that darkness.
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Date: 2017-07-17 03:43 pm (UTC)[He pauses, taking a drink from his soda, the can almost forgotten. He feels the fizz as it goes down, providing little distraction from the memory of Eos, and the state it was in when he left.]
Insomnia was... a mess. There are daemons crawling around, as far as the eye can see. Most of the civilization is holed up in or around Lestallum; the flood lights keep the daemons at bay, or so I was told. I didn't exactly get a chance to visit.
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Date: 2017-07-18 11:22 pm (UTC)I guess we can count on people to stay alive, huh?
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Date: 2017-07-20 02:05 pm (UTC)[A hand comes up to rub at the back of his neck.]
I was gone for so long... I.... [A frown.] I wanted to set things right again. But, well. You know what happened after that.
[Those plans were cut short, for the sake of being brought onto the Station.]
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Date: 2017-07-21 04:24 am (UTC)[Because he's not... exactly sure how it works here. They're different times, and his future, according to Noctis, is set in stone. Or is it? Now that they're here... does this mean it's going to change?]
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Date: 2017-07-22 01:58 pm (UTC)[It's as honest of an answer as anything. He holds his hand up, Ring facing outward.]
Ardyn's body is dead, but his spirit-- I didn't get to finish the job there. I don't know if he'll just come back, or if it's a moot point because Eos is being overtaken by the Enemy, or what. [Uncertain settles uncomfortably within him, like a puzzle piece with not enough sides.] I just know that I need to get back. Even if they say it's impossible, I know that we have to try.
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Date: 2017-07-23 06:39 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-07-24 05:36 pm (UTC)[No way, he wants to say. No way that the Enemy has been the Empire for all those years, and yet. He blinks at Nyx, trying not to let this theory practically blow his mind.]
Wait, you think that might actually be a thing?
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Date: 2017-07-29 04:54 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-07-31 08:56 pm (UTC)[He looks doubtful.]
I don't know if he was an agent of anything other than himself. That's all I'm saying.
[But as for the rest of the Empire? Who knows? And did it matter now? Niflheim was in tatters, just like there rest of the world.]
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Date: 2017-08-01 05:08 am (UTC)Drautos was the general for longer than I was in the Glaive. He defected without thinking it twice. He got people onto his side. He'd been thinking about it for years and held onto that anger for who knows how long.
[Yeah, it's too much to think about. But right now they've been tackling the Enemy as it comes.
And he thinks it's time to take the fight to them, to start dismantling them, instead of reacting.]
The Chancellor can be his own agent for all I care. We're not given answers about the Enemy but the Enemy knows about us. I'm saying there's got to be something better than just waiting for them to spring at us.
[He sighs deeply.]
That's for another time, I guess.
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Date: 2017-08-01 05:48 pm (UTC)You're right. Nothing to do be done about it, not right now. More will be revealed as we join mission after mission.
[As if they had any choice.
But the subject of Drautos comes up again, and therefore another chance at a question as he tries to parse all of this.]
...Why did he do it? [All that anger, holding onto it for years... sounds familiar, a parallel to be drawn in his own enemy, just of a different degree.]
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Date: 2017-08-02 05:22 am (UTC)[In a way, he could understand it. Not condone. Just understand. Losing so much, to join two armies, in an attempt to enact revenge?
It seems to Nyx that the history of Eos as a whole is steeped in revenge and anger.]
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Date: 2017-08-03 02:23 pm (UTC)Let a whole city suffer because of that anger? A slew of innocents that had nothing to do with it? All those lives lost, I hope he was happy.
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Date: 2017-08-05 04:39 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-08-07 08:22 pm (UTC)[This rings rather familiar, with the own man he had fought and faced.]
I don’t understand that way of thinking.
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Date: 2017-08-08 04:38 am (UTC)