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

Comments

[scourgingstars]

Then you'll just have to be wrong, then. [If the provocation had struck a nerve, Ardyn was doing an excellent job of hiding it. He answered carelessly with an unnecessarily wide gesture of both arms, as if to indicate the world at large.]

If you must know, the man who would have been Founder King was never so narrow-minded as to focus on a single person alone. Solheim, Lucis, the entire world--it simply didn't matter. None who believe themselves Chosen could possibly afford to think of anything but the welfare and safety of all those who lived in fear of the dark. What is one life weighed against so many others, for a selfless imbecile such as that?

'A fair price', should be the obvious answer.

[unfatalist]

[So. The same choice set before Noctis, then — and ultimately, the same decision. A Lucian king ordained. One life for the betterment of all.

He can't help but wonder if one of those silent retainers of his had longed to see fate changed, themselves. Perhaps not, to have stood idly by while things transpired as they did.

Still, he wonders.]

And therefore now you think only of yourself and your own goals. Selflessness earned you nothing but scorn and condemnation, so now you follow a course purely selfish in nature.

...And pour out your hatred upon those who are selfless in their turn.

[scourgingstars]

Collateral damage. My interests lie in the destruction of my brother's line and the useless Crystal that caused all of this; if that means the world has to burn in the process, then so be it.

[unfatalist]

...If those were truly your interests, then you would have had your satisfaction long ago.

[He tilts his head slightly to one side, as if sensing something on the wind.]

With thousands of years to plan, and a line over a hundred long? You can take the shape of any person you choose. You can't very well tell me you couldn't have ended the line of Lucian kings long ago. Kill them in their beds, as infants. Render another barren. Let old age claim the rest. You might've snuffed them out at any time, but you didn't.

You even had a half-dozen chances to kill Noct himself, and you didn't. You've not been pursuing their destruction. You've been waiting.

[scourgingstars]

You are quite perceptive, as far as reckless fools go. I said 'destruction' of the line, not a simple ending. I've waited all these long ages to see what kind of King of Light the Draconian saw fit to choose over me, and quite frankly? Not all that impressed.

[Ardyn laughed as though this were nothing more than an ordinary discussion, shaking his head.]

As I said--disappointing. I've my doubts he'll even be able to fulfill the prophecy at all, and that's meant to be a foregone conclusion. Why, all the work's practically done for him already.