#wmine

The betrothal happens. Everyone is surprised.

"But, weren't they betrothed already all this time?"

Turns out they had been so close and supportive of eachother that the biggest shock to the public was that they had not been secretly arranged from childhood or something.

---🌙---

"The good ties between Tenebrae and Lucis will remain the same after the union."

"What is your personal perspective on the betrothal, Lady Lunafreya? Do you personally favor Lucis' prince?"

Luna thinks for a second, and then answers. "There's no choice I would rather have than him."

---🎣---

Noctis first broadcasted speech is set up. He answers all question smoothly as he was trained to.

"Following on the topic of your betrothal, there's been a lot of talks surrounding Lady Lunafreya's claim favoring your union. What is your response to her words?"

Noctis smiles to himself. He stills his nerves, and looks to the camera like he practiced in secret.

"I'm sorry it took this long. I'll make sure to properly propose once we meet again. See you soon, Luna."

---🍴🥾👑---

"Well, that was out of script."

Ignis' shoulders drop. "I told him not to be rash..."

"That's fine. It's the most genuine thing he has said so far."

"Your Majesty...!"

Regis signals for Gladio and Ignis to rest, looking at Noctis on the podium, answering the next round of questions.

Luna is very observant and empathetic, so from the moment she mets him, she can see something important in him: that he is genuine.

If he is sad, if he is interested, if he likes or dislikes something... Unlike most of his status, Noctis is not one to go great lengths to hide his true emotions, if at all. Yet as he heals and they get to know eachother, she realizes that he is also not one to burden others with his feelings if he can help it.

It's a little contradictory, and makes sense all the same.

That's when she learns the second thing about him: that he is kind.

The third big thing about Noctis she learns, and that makes her like him most, is one she doesn't counsciously realize until much time later.

Noctis is always curious, always willing to learn and be amazed. So when he turns to her, starry-eyed and asking for her to tell him more about anything and everything with gentle enthusiasm, she feels equally eager to correspond.

First, they clean up their schedules! Cause they would definitely be taking some time off to spend it around nature.

Noctis gives her the heads up to not plan anything for the day, and she is positively excited for his surprise. The two of them drive down for a few hours to Ulwaat to get away from their responsibilities and the public eye, where Noct leads her down a not very visited nature path along a river where they get to enjoy the sights of for a while. For a moment, she expects him to sit down and indulge in his favorite hobby, but he brushes it off since "there will be a time for that some other day". After expending some of their energy, he surprises her with a hidden country restaurant he reserved for the day, sitting outdoors to enjoy a late lunch with good food and drinks.

It's getting late, they are laughing and a little tipsy, and Luna catches him looking at her a little too long before asking him what's on his mind. He clears his throat, and thanks her for being at his side all the time they've known eachother, through the good and the bad, and that he would never change her for anything. Luna is touched by his words, and reassures him that the feeling is mutual, because there's little in her life that compares to the happiness she feels when they are together like this, sharing and experiencing life side by side.

While he jokes about how she just outperformed his little speech on the spot, is his turn to be surprised when she gifts him a little handmade collage: pictures of happy moments together with their friends, their wedding, their children, put snugly together on handmade paper with tiny pressed flowers making a sort of frame around it, her penmanship that he knows so well commenting each picture here and there to form a delicate, aesthetically pleasing montage that is incredibly Luna in essence...

He takes his time to appreciate the little details that keep popping up wherever he turns his eyes in the page, and he is more moved than he believes when he feels her fingers brush off the tears that are starting to slide down his face. She tries to apologize for making him cry but he asks her not to. The gift is great and he is incredibly grateful.

Leave it to her to pretty much sum up the best times in their life in one single page.

Amid the Haze (you can find clarity)

Characters: Noctis Lucis Caelum/Lunafreya Nox Fleuret, Ignis Scientia. Genre: Suspense, Hurt/Comfort. Summary:

When Noctis arrives from Tenebrae, there are shadows that haunt young Noctis' mind. Can Ignis be witness of something that brings light back into his friend's life?

I managed to make a custom AO3 skin of the Lovers' Notebook! So to test it, I wrote a suiting fanfic for it. Based on what may have happened when Noctis arrives to Insomnia after he scaped Tenebrae’s attack.