#fleurs fic

I'm sorry lol this is rambley and long and probably doesn't even make any sense. But thanks for reading my fics, and thanks for this message! <3333

Ahhh, thank you!!! T_T I remember that being one of the more intense scenes to write (although that’s to be expected I guess?), and I’m glad it turned out rather well ^_^

Twelveyears, and the war was finally over.It seemed like a dream, atoo fragile dream, like he would wake up at any moment and return tothe nightmare that was real life. But time kept ticking on, the daywas already underway, and he wasn’t waking up.Regis wentthrough his morning routine in a bit of a daze. He showered, hebrushed his teeth, he got dressed, he stood in front of his bathroommirror as he put on his crown. An old man stared back at him from hisreflection, older than how he should have looked, younger than how hefelt. He didn’t think he had a single strand of hair left thatwasn’t grey, there didn’t seem to be any patch of skin thatwasn’t marred by wrinkles or scars or other signs of age.Twelveyears.Todaywas the day. The war was over now, the declaration of surrender hadbeen signed nearly a week ago, and already Iedolas, his officers andhis council members were being taken into custody on charges of warcrimes.He had finally done it. It had taken far too long, ithad cost the lives of so many people, it had revealed betrayals hehad never thought were even possible, but they had all done it.Thewar with Niflheim was finally over.And today was the day thechildren would be returning home, after solong.Ravus, Lunafreya, Noctis.They were coming home,they were being returned to him after years of captivity.Andyet he felt almost sick with nerves.The last time he had seenNoctis, he had been an eight year old boy, barely able to walkwithout assistance, quiet and withdrawn after a brutal attack from adaemon. He had been a small boy with a round face and bright,beautiful eyes.He would be twenty years old now, twenty onelater on in the year. He was a mannow.What would he look like? How long or how short would his hair be? Howround was his face, how bright were his eyes? Would he resemble hisyounger self, would he still look like someone Regis knew, would hebe someone he could recognize?Or would he look like someone completely different, barely even ahint of the boy he had once been?And what would he be like?Would he be as kind as he was? Shy? Determined? Sweet-natured? Orwould he be angry at Regis, would he loathe him for taking so long inrescuing them?Twelveyears.Thewait was almost over. In a few hours, Regis would have to sit in thethrone room and receive the final prisoners - the chancellor and afew other council members, the ones who were seeing about thetransportation of their captives - and then he would finally meetwith those missing children, he would finally see what the years haddone to them.He wanted it to be done with already and yet,at the same time, he was dreading it approaching.

Unfortunately no D: Noct was far too confused about what had happened to actually make any sense of it at the time, and Luna and Ravus were fearing that everything that had happened was finally getting to him, that he was losing his mind, and Noct quickly realized that they wouldn’t really believe anything he had to say because of those reasons, if that makes sense?

Weeeeeellllllll...okay, maybe it won’t have him doing such a thing lol, but I can tell you that there will be quite a few bonding/emotional moments between the two, and Ignis is very protective of him :O

Yeah, he’s definitely way more interested in toying with them mentally than anything else, even making such a comment about teenage!Noct would probably just be another way to play with them, to make them paranoid and fearful.

It is absolutely about controlling Noct in all ways and stealing away his identity, and I like to think it works even better now after the Episode Ardyn stuff came out and we learned more about Somnus :OOO New names or nicknames would definitely also have to be included in that (I did have this idea of Ardyn forcing bleach haired Noct to call himself Ravus to try and mess with his head and his sense of identity, but I think that might not be a thing lol). Ardyn is pretty cruel in his search for revenge in this fic haha.