#ravnis

Happy 9 years, #FF15! You are my GREATEST turning point in fandom ever! There's so much art, fics, & SHIPS I made with you (⁠*⁠´⁠ω⁠｀⁠*⁠) Most specially #Fleurentia 🫶 To celebrate, i'll be updating my old fics this week!

Ignis stirs awake to find Ravus sitting up in bed beside him, staring pensively at his left hand.

No, not his hand: his arm. He's holding out his left arm as if inspecting all of it. Flexing his fingers as if he was seeing them for the first time, wondering why they were part of him.

When Ignis asks, Ravus looks at him bemused, as if peering through the haze of a dream. His eyes look different. Ominous shadows played in the subtle gray.

"My love," Ravus tells him, "I dreamed we lost everything."

When Ignis asks what "everything" meant, Ravus says "Noctis. Lunafreya. Our cities. Everything that ever shaped us."

Ignis recalls that sometimes Ravus dreams about alternate realities - Eos that could be, but never was. Oracle blood does this.

And somewhere in the Lucian Citadel, lying beside her beloved Noctis, Queen Lunafreya must have similar dreams.

Ignis sits up and takes Ravus' left hand, holds the back of it to his chest. He assures his lover: it was just a dream. Noctis and Lunafreya are safe, ruling all of the cities Eos in peace - guided by their two advisors, who are right now in bed and deeply in love and in peace.

Ignis then makes the mistake of asking "In your dream, did we lose each other?"

Ravus says, the shadows in his eyes fading, "My love, we never found each other."

And before any question could be asked, he reaches out with his his right arm, pulls Ignis close to him. Ravus' left arm lies between them, cold, spectral.

Ignis finds himself almost wishing it wasn't there.

"How do I know I can trust you?"

"Have you any other options?"

We're getting closer to our next goal & bring you a written preview by @clairefiredragon! For her first zine, she brings us a fantastic vampire piece featuring Ignis & Ravus! 

I’m really excited to be starting this fic as I have planned it for a while. It doesn’t have all of the same usual pairs I go for, so I hope I’m able to tell the story well.