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Please direct any questions or report any problems to the Ask a mod post.
Prompt, write, draw, comment, and most importantly have fun!
(You can also check out our Pinboard for Filled or Unfilled prompts)
UPDATE 12/30/16: I'm looking for some help! Details here. (I'm always looking for more pinners; this is an open invitation.)
I've added/clarified some rules to make life easier to my pinners. Please refrain from changing the subject lines except when filling or updating a fill. It makes it easier for us to keep track of what we've already looked at. Thank you so much!
UPDATE 1/28/17: We've opened up a Drabble Tree post! Go check it out.
UPDATE 2/21/2017: ROUND ONE IS CLOSED FOR PROMPTS. Please feel free to continue posting fills. Round Two will open for prompts and fills on 3/1/2017.
FILL: Regis - Watching from the other life (1/?)
Date: 2017-02-18 01:30 am (UTC)This first part doesn't have the 'watching from the other life' bit so I hope you don't mind. And apologies for any mistakes.
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Regis had lived with this knowledge for nigh on fifteen years. Since the moment Noctis had first stood in the light of the Crystal, Regis had known.
The Ring of the Lucii was not an easy burden to bear. Small and unobtrusive though it may seem, all knew of the power it harbored, and all knew of the promise of salvation it would one day bring. Almost all knew it as a fairy tale, bedtime stories to soothe babes to sleep. Few knew the true extent of its abilities. Few sought it. Few could bear it. And fewer, still, knew of what exactly it is to wield the Ring.
When five-year-old Noctis had taken that first, small step into the Crystal Chamber, Regis knew because the Ring knew. And the Ring knew because the Crystal knew. The Crystal had Chosen its champion: The Chosen King, the King of Light, the True King.
It was to be his little boy Noctis.
And when little Noctis collapsed from the forging of the Bond, he had called upon the Lucii and bargained with the Kings and Queens of old, bargained with the Crystal. He pleaded and begged. He made demands. He offered everything he had. And they had refused him without ceremony. Even his father Morus, though softened in tone at the sight of his small grandchild, had refused. With a sweep of blades from the great guardian, Bahamut, the convocation ended and he was left alone with Noctis' fate sealed in crystal. He took Noctis away from the Crystal and vowed to never let him near it.
At least, not until the time was right.
He had made a promise to Aulea as she exchanged her last breath for her son's first. With what remaining time he had – that Noctis had – he would see that promise through.
..
He tried, he did. He watched as the nights grew longer, as the daemons became stronger. He fought back against Niflheim as they beat against his doors, showering his land and taking pieces little by little until it was all he could do to maintain the Wall around the Crown City and share what magic he could with those he trusted. It took a toll on him, and Noctis took the worst of that toll.
If Niflheim took Insomnia, the last remaining haven of Lucis would crumble for his people. If Niflheim claimed the Crystal, the Crystal would act too soon and take Noctis from him. If he even turned his back just the once from the threat of invasion, he would lose everything. And so, he had to decide. As much as it pained him to turn his back to Noctis, he would rather his son alive and well. He renewed his efforts with the Wall, he formed the Kingsglaive as an extra measure of resistance, and he watched from afar as Noctis grew from a precocious boy into a fine young man.
He tried, he really did. He tried, too, to not think of what little time remained for Noctis. He tried his very best to fill Noctis's every need. He bought him toys. He opened up new wings in the palace and turned them into play areas. He built little towns of blocks with Noctis in these rooms. He bought him new balls every time the old one was lost. He had Noctis's future Shield, Gladiolus, and future adviser, Ignis, brought in to keep Noctis company. And every night he was able, even if he was exhausted from meetings and the taxed from the Wall and the efforts of his Glaives beyond the Wall, he would tuck Noctis into bed and tell him tales of adventure.
It was little moments that make his time with Noctis, small slices of time every day of every week. These small moments that kept him going through the long days and even longer nights – they were everything to him. To see Noctis happy, to feel Noctis' little arms wrapped around his middle – they were all he could ever ask for.
And it was on Noctis' eighth birthday that he almost lost it all. He thought he'd lost Noctis, then. He should have been there with Noctis as promised, and he could have stopped it. But he wasn't, and he didn't.
Niflheim was going beyond their mechanical obsession and have begun experimenting on daemons. It was one such daemon that accosted Noctis and his entourage as they made their way back from Noctis's birthday trip to see the fireflies. When Regis pushed the daemon into a deep ravine with all the waning power of his Armiger, he almost leapt after it to finish it off – slash its head clean from its shoulders for daring to attack his boy. But as he glanced back to the wreckage and beyond it, he saw Noctis look towards him. The pain in those blue eyes was more than he could bear. He turned his back on the daemon and knelt by Noctis' side. The daemon would face its end soon enough, Noctis should never have to know this pain, this fear. He would not let it take over his boy. He swore once again that he would protect his boy with all he had.
For the first time in years, he called to the Gods, and Carbuncle answered his prayers. Noctis opened his eyes from his stasis and it was all Regis could do to not weep in front of his son.
He didn't know if the trip to Tenebrae was for the best. Noctis was a changed boy when he woke and Regis had worried. His body would not heal and his physicians feared the Starscourge was to blame. As the days wore on and Noctis spoke less and less, even dismissing Ignis when the latter tried to keep him silent company, Regis knew they had to make a pilgrimage see the Oracle.
They were welcomed with open arms, of course. Such was the gentle nature of the Oracle line. In many ways, the royal line of Tenebrae were far more burdened than the royal line of Lucis. If a king Lucis was to purge the star of the Scourge once and for all, the Oracle of Tenebrae was to keep the Scourge at bay until that day. He had spoken with Queen Sylva of course, though they'd never met more than a handful of times, being separated by a war that threatened to consume both their nations. His station was the most coveted and his presence was like a flame to the moth that was Niflheim. Even as they both knew that his presence with his son could open the doors to Tenebrae's fall, they also knew that he would risk it all for his son. Sylva would not turn away the King of Light, after all. And so, they were welcomed.
And the flames rained on Tenebrae. Sylva gave her life for her son, her Oracle status affording her no protection, and young Lunafreya, Princess of Tenebrae and now to become the Oracle in millennia, was lost to the iron grip of the empire. How darkly fitting, that the burdens of their bloodlines would fall on those far too young. Too young to give their lives to the fates.
But Noctis was speaking again, Noctis was walking, Noctis was smiling and running to greet Regis with a hug at the end of each day. And Noctis knew. Regis could sense the change in his little boy. Noctis knew of his fate, perhaps not all the details, but Noctis knew and embraced it. In those determined eyes, Regis could see the great man his son would become. He knew then, that Noctis would be ready one day. He had to let Noctis go one day. But for now, he would do all he can to keep his son happy and safe.
Until a new treaty came to him from the Chancellor of Niflheim many, many years later. Noctis has been living his own life away from Regis and Regis was… He was weakened. He was in pain. His leg was failing him and his body was quick to follow. More than anything, he was tired. The terms… they involved neither giving away the Crystal, nor losing Noctis to the empire. He knew he would accept before he even raised a hand to wave away the turning back of Chancellor Ardyn Izunia.
It had been too long. He couldn't hold the Wall. He couldn't fight this war. It had been too long. It was time he laid down his arms.
He hoped for honesty but he planned for what he hoped would not come to pass. Even as he watched Noctis live his life from afar, even as he knew what fate would befall Noctis – maybe especially because of it - he had to protect Noctis above all else. He made his peace. As his father before him, he would walk tall until the very end, for himself, and for his son.
..
When his time came, it was almost peaceful. The empire could take the Crystal, but they couldn't have the Ring, and they could never, ever have Noctis. So in the ever morphing game of cat and mouse, Regis became the mouse, a traitor's blade through his heart. The real glaive through his heart was seeing his son smile as he'd left the city with his friends, oblivious to the storm he would be consumed in, without a home to return to. Regis had wanted to tell him then, but he couldn't; he couldn't let Noctis bear his fate so early. He had to let Noctis go, ignorant of his plans. He had to let Noctis go. He had to let it all go. His time was come.
Through the crystalline wall he'd conjured, his last sight was of Luna and his last loyal Glaive, Nyx Ulric - they who carried his final hopes. As his vision faded, he thought he saw Noctis standing by Luna. He hoped they would find some measure of happiness together. Before…before.
Re: FILL: Regis - Watching from the other life (1/?)
Date: 2017-02-18 01:54 am (UTC)Re: FILL: Regis - Watching from the other life (1/?)
Date: 2017-02-18 02:43 am (UTC)There'll be more a-coming!
Re: FILL: Regis - Watching from the other life (1/?)
Date: 2017-02-18 03:12 am (UTC)Re: FILL: Regis - Watching from the other life (1/?)
Date: 2017-02-18 12:17 pm (UTC)Re: FILL: Regis - Watching from the other life (1/?)
Date: 2017-02-19 06:17 pm (UTC)Re: FILL: Regis - Watching from the other life (1/?)
Date: 2017-02-19 02:32 am (UTC)I didn't think that anyone was going to fill this but I'm so glad that you did because this is all wonderful <3
Re: FILL: Regis - Watching from the other life (1/?)
Date: 2017-02-19 06:17 pm (UTC)Re: FILL: Regis - Watching from the other life (1/?)
Date: 2017-02-27 12:13 am (UTC)I hope you finish this.
Re: FILL: Regis - Watching from the other life (1/?)
Date: 2017-02-27 03:14 am (UTC)