RyoAlouette's Perch

gonna take him to the humane society on monday to see if he's got a microchip, if he doesn't then i think since there's literally no missing posters for him, and since no one has hit me up on where i posted his pic, he might be mine frfr?

Not me checking if the anatomy looking plausible and using the Kingly Railment costume (which might be redesigned to fit HSR style later on) as base.

Daily (???) update of doing a bit of research or do a cleaner lineart I guess, even if UI and upper body part of the Kingly Railment costume is subject to change considering the other reference (from HSR) gives dem male charas A LOT of deets in upper body part that I don't think suffice from FFXV side. Like say, I think I'd be adding some sort of pattern in the inside of his cape, amongst other deets.

Meanwhile UI, I think Imma use FFXV side of UI later on.

(And this is not yet the BG perspective aaaa)

Day 7 (... or 8? Admittedly I skipped drawing the other day....)

You can see how I'm very much dreading drawing the sword so Imma just use that sparkly arminger effect instead.

Not me checking if the anatomy looking plausible and using the Kingly Railment costume (which might be redesigned to fit HSR style later on) as base.

Daily (???) update of doing a bit of research or do a cleaner lineart I guess, even if UI and upper body part of the Kingly Railment costume is subject to change considering the other reference (from HSR) gives dem male charas A LOT of deets in upper body part that I don't think suffice from FFXV side. Like say, I think I'd be adding some sort of pattern in the inside of his cape, amongst other deets.

Meanwhile UI, I think Imma use FFXV side of UI later on.

(And this is not yet the BG perspective aaaa)

Not me checking if the anatomy looking plausible and using the Kingly Railment costume (which might be redesigned to fit HSR style later on) as base.

Daily (???) update of doing a bit of research or do a cleaner lineart I guess, even if UI and upper body part of the Kingly Railment costume is subject to change considering the other reference (from HSR) gives dem male charas A LOT of deets in upper body part that I don't think suffice from FFXV side. Like say, I think I'd be adding some sort of pattern in the inside of his cape, amongst other deets.

Meanwhile UI, I think Imma use FFXV side of UI later on.

(And this is not yet the BG perspective aaaa)

Not me checking if the anatomy looking plausible and using the Kingly Railment costume (which might be redesigned to fit HSR style later on) as base.

Daily (???) update of doing a bit of research or do a cleaner lineart I guess, even if UI and upper body part of the Kingly Railment costume is subject to change considering the other reference (from HSR) gives dem male charas A LOT of deets in upper body part that I don't think suffice from FFXV side. Like say, I think I'd be adding some sort of pattern in the inside of his cape, amongst other deets.

Meanwhile UI, I think Imma use FFXV side of UI later on.

(And this is not yet the BG perspective aaaa)

Not me checking if the anatomy looking plausible and using the Kingly Railment costume (which might be redesigned to fit HSR style later on) as base.

Daily (???) update of doing a bit of research or do a cleaner lineart I guess, even if UI and upper body part of the Kingly Railment costume is subject to change considering the other reference (from HSR) gives dem male charas A LOT of deets in upper body part that I don't think suffice from FFXV side. Like say, I think I'd be adding some sort of pattern in the inside of his cape, amongst other deets.

Meanwhile UI, I think Imma use FFXV side of UI later on.

(And this is not yet the BG perspective aaaa)

Not me checking if the anatomy looking plausible and using the Kingly Railment costume (which might be redesigned to fit HSR style later on) as base.

... Maybe I should just do et like Nike's tagline says??

That if Niflheim just go to bio-weapon route instead of engineer route, we could've gotten a Resident Evil in Final Fantasy route lol

Like yes, we have StarScrouge, the Vanishing Disease, and Cloning from Niflheim. We even have the "patient zero" in Ardyn. But then Niflheim might be the Raccoon City of Eos. Or maybe it'll be Insomnia instead. Who knows.

Which. Would shift the whole-ass genre of FFXV, as somewhat confusing it actually is.

I mean. You go you, you can always write in Leon S Kennedy and Chris "punch boulders" Redfield as part of Lucian army against Niflheim, bet no one would complain about them being awesome and potentially being more awesomer if they're a part of Kingsglaive or have their own division specifically against StarScrouge.

That said. Now that you reminded me of Prompto 🤔 This honestly kinda made me torn between two possibilities:

A) Besithia Verstael having antibody against the... Imma call it S-virus for the sake of not typing so much lmao- which makes him a very much twisted SOB, which somehow fits his character even in-game. He might make an antivirus using his own DNA if ordered by Emperor Aldercapt? Or not, since the Emperor has come off his rocker.

B) Prompto being a FFXV version of Jake Muller in terms of he got a natural antibody immunity against S-virus since he's able to "heal" himself even with that Starscrouge infection since birth, while canon FFXV only says that S-virus can only be healed by the Oracle? Or is that fanon? Hm.

Which. In this AU kinda want Cor adopting Prompto in this AU coz I doubt dude would miss the S-virus he saw on this bebey disappearing without trace like that.

And now that I think of it, maybe Solheim was technically the Raccoon City of Eos? Why else the ruins are just so abandoned and all over the place while also being technologically advanced? S-virus has apparently been around for more than 2k years if I read my lore right. And daemons are universally NOPE to everyone. Specifically when: person/fiend(?) > got S-virus > vanishing disease > daemon.

Anyways back to the prompt.

I'm currently deep in FFXV fandom despite not playing it or even watched a playthrough of it (rip). But still. Fandom osmosis.

Somehow some of the fics are insistent that Noctis have photographic memory or something near that? Not sure. But like. That sounds integral to something potentially chaotic funny tragic idk.

Hear me out.

Doctor Noctis.

Dude got motivated from his childhood Daemon attack. From trauma to motivation kinda thing.

His hero is Doctor House from the TV series Prompto once mentioned to him.

Coz "he got a limp, I got a limp, we match!" kinda chaotic energy.

Healer's Vow? Whazzat, greens? Ew. I'm your Crown Prince, you don't get me to obey that vow when our nation is literally in a war situation, man.

Considering the ridiculous quests I heard he went up to in game (capturing toads???), I don't think it would be "out of the way" if he went to do detective work too, in his road trip to hell. Or maybe that's me watching too much Bones.

Right back at you coz wow this tags are a lot, it needs to put into proper post instead of only tags aaa

Tho extrapolating regarding the worldbuilding stuffs, regarding what you mention of princeley stuff, I got some OPINIONS about it and no, I don't exactly have any knowledge regarding royal family and stuffs; it's just an observation regarding FFXV Kingsglaive movie and the anime episodes. AKA Regis as King has a Council, and him as Father seems to limit Noctis' involvement into the Council since knowing A) he wants Noctis to have a "normal childhood" (as somehow it's canon he worked part-time in a restaurant pre-Insomnia Fall??? Aside from having normal school in his childhood era) and B) Noctis is to be sacrificial lamb for the prophecy, so he won't be ruling any time soon. So with that, any princeley duty he has is less than RL princeley duties. At least, that's what I think.

... Albeit RL princes prolly don't have the combat training and warping magic that Noctis' prolly taught since childhood. Anyways.

Also YES that's what I think of Noctis be ??? why healthcare is WEIRD when we have magic and stuff, why can't I be back walking normally and so on and so forth. That's exactly what I want for the origins of Doctor Noctis lol

I'm not sure if "over reliance of magic" would even be the word since there's a lot of engineering stuffs in Eos in general. But in the other hand there's Daemons and the magic users being Oracle line, Lucis Caelum line (and whoever they're... what, blessed? linked?? with), and Ardyn (who is technically Lucis Caelum anyways).

Prompto being vet: YES. GIVE HIM CHOCOBOS TO cuddle CURE.

I think you're right about the princeley duties yea! I may be a bit rusty remembering all the details, it's the first time in 7 years that I spontaneously rejoin the fandom and start a new game (and I very very rarely replay games, or give up halfway point, so I think FFXV needs a special badge of honor from me, for tugging at my nostalgia so hard and pulling me right back for the whole road, where no other game could).

And that makes it even more ironic, doesn't it? For Regis to give Noct all the freedom for choosing his future (at least until he needs to take the throne and, yk...) and he willingly chooses the most strenuous profession. Which in this AU I think can work wonders for his character arc because we'd see him break right through the "lazy and indifferent prince" facade much earlier on and much more prominently. It was heavily implied at in the Brotherhood anime (ep 4 which i also rewatched the other day very perfectly timed lol) that Noctis avoids his duties, and is a general disaster, because he doesn't want to accept the future of his father dying and him taking his place, and instead prefers to disassociate from reality for as long as he is able.

And if he was studying to be a doctor, he'd really understand this fastly approaching inevitability of death, and it would be very hard to ignore it for long. I like to imagine that he wouldn't tell anyone (out of embarrassment or fear for making it real) but he would have his mind set on using the road trip as something of a side-hustle to find a cure for his dad (or something to help keep the Wall up without draining his life energy) and learn more about daemons as a whole to help heal injuries more effectively. This is where we'd get him acting immature as a teen/at the beginning of the adventure because every time someone would hint at "hey, yk your dad is like, doomed, right? you need to take your duties more seriously because who knows how much time you have left until you have to take his place," he'd be rightfully pissed/ snap/ stand his ground, but he wouldn't give away his actual intentions of curing him himself.

[note: this may sound unplausible but it makes sense in my head because i see Noctis having problems with showing affection and care to his father the more he grows up, and them drifting apart through the years as the fear of death grows stronger in Noct and his defense mechanism against it is to try his best to ignore it (and being close to his dad only serves as a reminder) and search for a work-around method without wanting to burden any of the people around him. so you have this sort of "avoidance love" relationship where Noct cares extremely much about his dad but is also extremely shit at externalizing it out of fear, social expectations, embarassment, and so on.]

More on my previous thought: if this is hypothetically implemented into the game, I think it would be a great fix for the ludonarrative dissonance you need to have to be able to fully immerse yourself in the story (i am very good at that yes) because you'd actually have a character-driven reason to take all the errand-boy side quests, as it would be Noct's way of dealing with the grief of Regis' death by sticking to his studies and his wish to help people by discovering more of the world and its creatures and how magic works on the field. I imagine it wouldn't be outright mentioned in the quest logs or objectives (because it would kinda kill the magic and make it less meaningful), but we'd get dialogue hints of Noct commenting on the stuff he finds and his friends trying to carefully approach the subject without being obtrusive or bring back old wounds.

So on your B) point: it is true, Regis and we as the audience know it, but Noct doesn't have a clue he'd need to throw his life away as a sacrificial lamb, he kinda gets the point from Chapter 13 onward. So until then, he works on the presumption that he has all the time in the world to make things right, and I think that gives great potential to his growth. His dad's worsening state would serve him as a grim reminder that the clock is ticking and he'd feel guilt over the avoidance of his duties but not enough pressure to act upon them. Reality is dawning on him by the minute, and just as he can finally start feeling useful/ like he's fulfilling his purpose with the trip to Altissia, then the Fall happens, and everything comes crashing back to 0. Mmm wanted to say more things here, but my brain crashed, I may come back to it when I clarify my headcanons.

I may need to brush up on the lore to comment on the relationship between magic and technology in Eos, I just don't remember how much was explained in the game and what part of it I know by fanfiction means heh.

Ok, you got me curious, have you seen the video essay "Final Fantasy 15 was a Mediocre Disappointment" by Super Eyepatch Wolf, first because it's one of my very favourite videos on the whole platform (and it's so soothing for bedtime story too), and second because he touches exactly on those worldbuilding problems, of course coming from a place of love. I absolutely agree with those points, I'm just more than happy to look past the flaws and enjoy meandering about the world, as vast and empty and illogical as it is in its structure. You can feel the steady foundation being there, waiting to be built upon and flourished, but I believe it's not for a lack of care that it's overlooked and rushed and plastered with meaningless buildings for the sake of gameplay, it's just the time restrictions and the disaster of resource management in the development; hence all the copy-pasted locations like diners and gas stations with little to no protection against the wild fiends, and the people feeling like being picked up from a generic commercial center and plastered upon this dangerous world.

I don't hate it, I don't love it, I wish we could have had more, but I'm content with working with what we got. The relationship between the boys and their story is enough for me to feel a connection to this broken world, and I look at it as a playground where I can imagine what could have been and what can still be. I'm heavily biased from my love, but I'll protect this game to the end of my time, even if it means looking past the break of immersion in the world itself.

[eh there's a lot more eloquent people that me that can say it better, you don't have to watch it of course, but I recommend another video essay titled "I Can't Stop Thinking About Final Fantasy 15" by Big Shwong, which is essentially a love letter to the game, and surprisingly, especially to Eos. It took me so hard by surprise that someone would genuinely adore this world so much that this was my drive to get back into the game and experience it a second time around with new perspectives (and ofc miraculously find this post because I was wondering if the fandom is still alive and kicking)]

In this AU too, I think it would be very funny that Noctis will be begrudgingly agree to eat a specific type of greens since maybe the nutrition can't be found in meat/fish and it's still the best for the body, since his studies as a Doctor says so. A win for Ignis Telling His Majesty The (Ew) Greens. Ignis would definitely search for what sort of nutrients in the greens he's cooking and use it as a proverbial weapon to Noctis.

I'd imagine that Noctis would have different dynamics with his chocobros too. Like say, idk about Gladio specifically, but would he listen to "the medical expert" of the bros? 🤔

I'd definitely go back to Regis and Noctis too, if something about them stuck out to my mind 🤔🤔

Speaking of, I'm not sure either regarding the health of FFXV fandom exactly, since I'm not really actively searching FFXV (or other FF franchise) in my social medias. I do count myself a consumer since I have some of the artbooks 🤔 Feel very lucky/happy you find my post tho, spread the FFXV love ✨

Did you know, that the first fic I'm planning to write for FFXV (simply due to the lack of time and research) is a SI-OC type of fic, primarily for exploring (and expanding) the worldbuilding of Eos without the clusterfuck that's happening to Noctis and co from an "outsider" perspective (aka only familiar with a few of FF titles)? It's still in planning phase, even with several different AU's that I can honestly just put into different Tumblr post just for prompt/brainstorming idea with fans such as you? Aaaa.