#noctella

Plot bunny in question:

Post-canon, Noctis and Luna reunite in the beyond (don't have the wedding though because they don't want to rush) and meet with their family and friends who died over the course of the XV canon in general.

They also explore the afterlife which looks a lot like the living realm.

Eventually they run into Ardyn and Aera. Things are tense for a while but they let it be water under the bridge.

Meanwhile, Somnus is not showing his face to his brother and descendants because he feels guilty for playing a part in their misery. He isn't alone though as he is surrounded by characters that were scrapped during FFXV's development i.e. Stella, Umbra and Pryna's human forms and Gentiana whose visage Shiva used as disguise to roam Eos. He jokingly calls their company "those erased from existence by Bahamut."

Some time after the reunions, Noct starts having weird feeling like something (or rather someone, not that he knows) is missing. Luna agrees to help him.

Their investigations lead them to the part of the afterlife where it's nothing but ruins, eeirly similar to Lucis and Tenebrae.

They stumble into Stella by accident and she explains that this part of the afterlife is where things that were never supposed to exist end up.

Feeling like he knows Stella from somewhere, Noct starts spending time with her.

Stella is reluctant in contrast because she is forgotten part of Noctis' life and is intruding on his and Luna's love (which is how she and Somnus bonded in the first place).

Luna doesn't mind those meetings because by that point, she and Noct figured out that they purely platonic, and is happy with Nyx.

The more Noct meets with Stella, the more he falls for her.

Eventually, the memories come back and it's revealed that Stella and her friends and their old version of the world — aka Versus XIII — was erased by Bahamut because they didn't fit with his plan with the prophecy and all that jazz.

Noct is understandably pissed, but Stella convinces him not to do anything reckless and enjoy peace together.

Later, he introduces Stella to the rest of the gang. Nox Fleurets accept her as family while Stella knocks sense into Somnus. The brothers reconcile, all is well.

We'll never know how similar or not Final Fantasy Versus XIII and Final Fantasy XV's stories are or were to each other (after Tetsuya Nomura, director of Versus XIII, got kicked off the project and the game got a new director and became FFXV, and the story did at least slightly change)--even with Nomura now putting some of his Versus XIII ideas into Kingdom Hearts. It seems here, though, that even when it was Versus and Noctis and Stella, instead of Noctis and Luna, there was at least one flower scene with them. Perhaps this is the aforementioned Noctis and Luna flower crown scene (maybe originally it happened with Noctis and Stella, and that was then repurposed for Noctis and Luna). Like, for whatever reason, something upset Noctis' childhood friend here (the responsibilities her mother had to endure, perhaps, if this part of the story was still very much like XV's. Mayhap that hurt Stella to think about), and Noctis comforted her with the sylleblossom, and then we got the flower crown scene Luna alluded to in XV... or maybe it was something totally different from that with Noctis and Stella. Maybe sylleblossoms didn't even exist in Versus. Like I said, we might never know. But here, at least, was another couple (again: how similar they were to the later Noctis and Luna: who knows?) where flowers were at least important to them for a hot second.

Kairi likes to pick flowers, as we see here and in a scene in the BbS credits (that I'd show, but picture limit is keeping from doing it [I'd show a lot more pictures for a lot of these girls, if it weren't for picture limit)].

She also has a flowery Keyblade, of course, surely because of her love for flowers:

And I guess part of her Keyblade's design is that a king chess piece--which Sora's chess piece was the king one in KHIII, of course--is attached to a red string. And we all know about the red string of fate (I bring that up, because another common theme in all of this, is that all these gals with the flowers are part of a star-crossed lover pairing).

Kairi's heart is also in the shape of a flower in Re:Mind and Melody of Memory?

Yep.

Edit: Oops. I forgot Squall and Rinoa: Squall's promise to Rinoa that if she comes to Edea's orphanage--that is full of flowers outside, giving us our flower connection--that he'll be waiting for her, so she'll find him.

NOCTIS X STELLA - OVER YOU

Somnus Crystallia — a Final Fantasy Versus XIII fanfiction

Rating: T (subject to change)

Warnings: Graphic Violence, Major Character Death

Pairings: Noctis Lucis Caelum x Stella Nox Fleuret (Noctella)

Summary:

Noctis Lucis Caelum is sixteen when he is branded by a l'Cie and dreams of Stella Nox Fleuret dying.

He is twenty when he sees her again, as enemies.

Chapter 1

Noctis: “What?”

instead of doing anything productive.. just been spamming this on repeat - yep..