43rd ♫ | one more time, one hundred more tries

[eudemonics]

THE MEMORY SHARE MEME
(i want every single person here to appreciate how hard it was to find a gif that adequately conveyed the idea of this meme)

HOW IT WORKS:
⍟ Post your character's toplevel with their name, canon and anything you might need to warn for in their memories.
⍟ Post a handful of memories from your character's past -- you can write them up or just links to clips and scenes, DO IT HOWEVER YOU LIKE.
⍟ SURPRISE, EVERYONE CAN SEE EACH OTHER'S MEMORIES so tag around as you like
⍟ GET EMOTIONALLY TERRORIZED FOR THE HOLIDAYS

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[founderinglight]

I know I am.

[And yet, here he is.]

But even so, I'm sorry.

[scourgingstars]

Liar.

[Ardyn snapped that without thinking, scowling viciously as he did.]

Don't you dare apologize when we both know you would do all of it just the same again, given the chance.

[founderinglight]

[And Izunia just. Folds his arms, and adopts a posture that Ardyn surely hasn't forgotten is the one he used to use for 'I know damn well you're the reason there's chocobo dung tracked all over the rug, Ardyn.']

We both know, hmm? Funny, in all the centuries I spent in that ring, not a single person was ever able to see enough of my mind to pass judgement back, and you haven't even put it on!

[scourgingstars]

If I did, no doubt I would catch godsdamned fire. How ironic, that there's no way in hell I might be considered worthy in the eyes of my brother and the Lucii after all I've done.

And whose fault is that, exactly? Who was it that pushed me over the edge of two thousand years of misery and darkness?

will i ever tire of having this discussion fifty billion ways? Signs also point to no

[founderinglight]

...Well, you would, but it wouldn't be my doing. There are a hundred and twelve other people in there.

[RATHER CROWDED, HONESTLY.]

I won't shy from the blame, Ardyn. Just the assertion that making you suffer like that was ever my intent. I...

When Ignis donned the ring was the first time I understood that it was you, and not some monster wearing my brother's skin.

same

[scourgingstars]

Too little, too late, as the saying goes. You should have known before you cut me down in the first place.

[founderinglight]

I know. The what-if of it has destroyed me more effectively than you ever could, anyway.

[scourgingstars]

Good. If you expect sympathy, you look in precisely the wrong place for it.

[founderinglight]

[He just nods, because to say 'I know' again would get repetitive.]

Was - was Noctis at least able to bring the pain to an end?

[Is that suffering, at least, over?]

[scourgingstars]

Less so than I would like.

[depends on continuity Still alive, which was a problem to Ardyn in itself.]

[founderinglight]

[the fuck is continuity for anyway]

I see.

[scourgingstars]

That's it? That's all you have to say, after all of this? After what you did to me, and now you pretend to give a damn?

[founderinglight]

What do you want me to say, Ardyn? I'm sorry. I know saying that will never be enough, and you know damn well that I loathe repeating myself.

[scourgingstars]

Oh, Astrals forbid you have to do something so terrible as repeat yourself, how could I be so cruel.

[founderinglight]

It's not like you'd accept it even if I repeated it a thousand times.