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Five Headcanons About…

Ardyn Izunia

—- I figured this would be fairly obvious with how calculating he is, but he’d probably be an OG at playing chess. Not because he’s good at playing the rules and strategies, which he probably is good at doing too. But he probably wins mostly because he’d cheat, lie to you about it, and get you to believe that he wasn’t lying about it. He’d then make a move, win, and then be on his way.

—- The guy doesn’t look like he moisturizes that often, so he probably has some really calloused and scarred-up hands. Could explain why he simply wears fingerless gloves, but his fingers, I imagine, are probably really scarred up over the two thousands years of being alive. Give that man a mani and pedi because he probably sure as hell needs them.

—- Why does he wear a hat anyways? For mystery? Because it represents an old memory? Was it perhaps Izunia’s, but Ardyn had gotten his revenge on him and taken his hat as a memento? Probably. Maybe. But he probably only really keeps the hat to keep his hair from getting too frizzy. We already see how bad his hair can get, so when he tries to be menacing, the hat covers the frizz.

—- People sometimes wonder if Ardyn’s really hot in all of those layers, concerned with whether or not he’ll bake alive in that coat. Ardyn merely plays it off and claims that he’s dealt with temperatures hotter than the weather. Because after all, he’s way too hot for his own good! …Just kidding. He’s never hot because he’s kinda undead in a way, being a man who’s ‘killed’ alot.

In the internal dialogue that circulates around the good headcanon, I’m pretty sure Ravus would have a cat. In a general FFXV headcanon for people, though, I can do that as well. But let’s talk about Ravus! Because, you know, Ravus. There’s alot of funny headcanons that is oriented around Ravus and Lunafreya’s two dogs –  he’s allergic, he likes dogs, hates them, etc. Though to be honest, in my mind, I imagine him as the kind of guy who doesn’t mind anyways. They just don’t like him, the poor guy.

Like, if you look at the concept art of Ravus and Lunafreya talking with each other (in either one, really), the dogs are always by Lunafreya’s side. Yeah, dogs are always obedient to the person that trained them first. But considering that Ravus lives in the same place as the dogs, you would think that they’d be more friendly to him, right? Maybe Pyrna just runs up, jumps on Ravus’s leg until she gets ear scratches and a treat from him, but no. The dogs are rarely seen away from Lunafreya’s side. They guard her, protect her. Even in the scene with Ravus telling Lunafreya not to give up hope, Pyrna doesn’t leave Luna’s side. Not even to run up to Ravus out of curiosity and see why the human is kneeling down to him. Must be a really well-trained dog if they can resist head-pets.

Heck, Umbra too is hesitate to be near Ravus as well. He’s more friendly with Noctis, whom only ever visits briefly but freely lets Noctis give him paw or head pets too, something Ravus is never really seen doing. They may be messengers for the Astrals and Oracle, but dogs can still be happy to see people too – especially if Ravus is one to be around Lunafreya quite a bit.

I probably imagine Ravus doesn’t particularly dislike animals though regardless. He probably can’t focus on them due to always being with his work. But he doesn’t ever show a distaste for Pyrna being by Lunafreya’s side a good majority of the times he talks to her. He might even bit a bit envious that the dogs like her more, that they remain distant from him because of their obedience training, but perhaps something else.

Perhaps the Magitek arm that he has. After all, with the Magitek technology being a daemon-infused power, wouldn’t something as close to the astrals as Pyrna and Umbra be weary around a man with a small bit of the Scourge’s taint in the limb he had replaced?

Makes me kinda sad thinking about it all… But we’ll say that Ravus probably does like cats at least. Can’t have them either though, considering Umbra and Pyrna might eat it. That, and if he did have a cat, he’d probably act very much like Jumin Han from Mystic Messenger, adoring his cat more than he does actual people. Lunafreya would be beyond concerned about it, that’s for certain.