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> i believe in love (and the darker it gets, the more I do)
or, I lovingly dropkick the official timeline into mt ravatogh
> aulea and regis are still childhood acquaintances
> cor and aulea know each other because of their mothers
> regis's roadtrip is just cid babysitting child soldiers
> war on lucian continent goes on a lot fuckin longer than canon
> 98% of my galahdian headcanons come from the sun is out, the day is new
> aulea helps regis form a covenant with ramuh, weakening her considerably (why noct doesn't have siblings)
> maura is one of my comrades ocs and I love her (stronk tall bab with Issues)
> regis, even as a 19 year old, is a dad
> regis goes to galahd after the wall has been pulled back to help try and kick some of the niff's grip loose (where he meets kid nyx and libertus fighting and gets the idea for the kingsglaive)
> meanwhile insomnia riots bc mors is perhaps the most unpopular king ever and he gets murdered by a mob
> when noct is injured by the marilith, aulea goes with him to tenebrae
> so it's aulea who has to leave luna and ravus behind (she takes that personally)
> prompto gets rescued as a 4y.o. instead of an infant (for maximum ow)
> nyx, crowe, clarus, regis and aulea all survive kingsglaive (some in more pieces than others)
> crowe's body is actually a similar civilian, since crowe managed to get away (somehow, idk plot did it)
> cor doesn't fuckin know that regis survived - luna told him that she saw him die when glauca ran him through (aulea rezzed both clarus & regis with a megaphoenix
> aulea accidentally-on-purpose causes a massive lightning storm (hence the rain when noct & co roll up on crestholm the next day)
> nyx still has to put on the ring bc regis dying ended the link with the ring's magic for the kingsglaive
> the gang runs into luna the first time they try to get to the disc (prior to getting to lestallum and meeting up with iris) (she's trying to kickstart the covenant)
> noct gets the headaches anyway (turns out putting an oracle and the prophecied king close to titan will just Do That)
> gladio still bails to get Stronk after arriving at cape caem
> guess who's also at cape caem?? DAD AND MOM AND OTHER DAD (cue ugly fucking tears) (you can pull my hc of regis/aulea & clarus/serphina co-parenting their sprogs from my cold dead hands)
> also sprinkled through this is weird cryptid ardyn just showing up in various places
> game basically proceeds as normal until altissia occurs
> who the fuck knows how chapter nine goes down
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> astrals gave magic to specific bloodlines
> ifrit's gift is red magic (crowe's mage abilities that saw her outcast, not actually affiliated with a particular family)
> shiva's gift was specific to a niflheimr family that was extinguished by the aldercapt family years ago
> ramuh tends to pick specific individuals, usually galahdians. it's not really something that the chosen families spread around (aulea ends up being a catalyst for regis's covenant with ramuh, and is technically then gifted with powers as a result)
> titan gives the gift of extreme endurance/strength and the ability to no-sell physical attacks for a limited amount of time (this is maura's family's ability.)
> the hydraean is a cagey bitch and no one knows if she's ever actually given.... anyone anything....
> bahamut stole eos's powers and split it in half (half to lucis caelum and half to nox fleuret)
> the ring spells are technically his, as is his ability to manipulate where souls go (i.e. powering up the armiger/royal arms by trapping souls of the lucii in the ring/crystal)
> hexatheon killed eos, but ifrit regretted it and took her 'heart' (the crystal) to mt ravatogh
> rest of hexatheon then betrayed ifrit, humanity sided with hexatheon, ifrit said FUCK ALL Y'ALL and created the starscourge
> shiva goes o fuk and essentially bullies bahamut into doing something, you idiot (hey shiva why don't you fight him)
> bahamut goes okay, let's try this, and gives one random solheim guy absorby-powers (technically bahamut's powers)
> this goes well and then it doesn't
> regert.jpg
> hey somnus your bro's a daemon
> aw beans
> okay so now that he's 8000 daemons in a robe, ardyn can't die
> well let's try that another 35 times
> bahamut meanwhile fucks around with the crystal, ifrit goes OI STOP THAT, bahamut dunks ifrit into lava, yeets the crystal to somzunia, says 'hey this is yours now, you're king of light, demons are bad y'all, btw here's a prophecy about the accursed' and goes to chill in the beyond for 2000 years
> aulea and regis are still childhood acquaintances
> cor and aulea know each other because of their mothers
> regis's roadtrip is just cid babysitting child soldiers
> war on lucian continent goes on a lot fuckin longer than canon
> 98% of my galahdian headcanons come from the sun is out, the day is new
> aulea helps regis form a covenant with ramuh, weakening her considerably (why noct doesn't have siblings)
> maura is one of my comrades ocs and I love her (stronk tall bab with Issues)
> regis, even as a 19 year old, is a dad
> regis goes to galahd after the wall has been pulled back to help try and kick some of the niff's grip loose (where he meets kid nyx and libertus fighting and gets the idea for the kingsglaive)
> meanwhile insomnia riots bc mors is perhaps the most unpopular king ever and he gets murdered by a mob
> when noct is injured by the marilith, aulea goes with him to tenebrae
> so it's aulea who has to leave luna and ravus behind (she takes that personally)
> prompto gets rescued as a 4y.o. instead of an infant (for maximum ow)
> nyx, crowe, clarus, regis and aulea all survive kingsglaive (some in more pieces than others)
> crowe's body is actually a similar civilian, since crowe managed to get away (somehow, idk plot did it)
> cor doesn't fuckin know that regis survived - luna told him that she saw him die when glauca ran him through (aulea rezzed both clarus & regis with a megaphoenix
> aulea accidentally-on-purpose causes a massive lightning storm (hence the rain when noct & co roll up on crestholm the next day)
> nyx still has to put on the ring bc regis dying ended the link with the ring's magic for the kingsglaive
> the gang runs into luna the first time they try to get to the disc (prior to getting to lestallum and meeting up with iris) (she's trying to kickstart the covenant)
> noct gets the headaches anyway (turns out putting an oracle and the prophecied king close to titan will just Do That)
> gladio still bails to get Stronk after arriving at cape caem
> guess who's also at cape caem?? DAD AND MOM AND OTHER DAD (cue ugly fucking tears) (you can pull my hc of regis/aulea & clarus/serphina co-parenting their sprogs from my cold dead hands)
> also sprinkled through this is weird cryptid ardyn just showing up in various places
> game basically proceeds as normal until altissia occurs
> who the fuck knows how chapter nine goes down
---
> astrals gave magic to specific bloodlines
> ifrit's gift is red magic (crowe's mage abilities that saw her outcast, not actually affiliated with a particular family)
> shiva's gift was specific to a niflheimr family that was extinguished by the aldercapt family years ago
> ramuh tends to pick specific individuals, usually galahdians. it's not really something that the chosen families spread around (aulea ends up being a catalyst for regis's covenant with ramuh, and is technically then gifted with powers as a result)
> titan gives the gift of extreme endurance/strength and the ability to no-sell physical attacks for a limited amount of time (this is maura's family's ability.)
> the hydraean is a cagey bitch and no one knows if she's ever actually given.... anyone anything....
> bahamut stole eos's powers and split it in half (half to lucis caelum and half to nox fleuret)
> the ring spells are technically his, as is his ability to manipulate where souls go (i.e. powering up the armiger/royal arms by trapping souls of the lucii in the ring/crystal)
> hexatheon killed eos, but ifrit regretted it and took her 'heart' (the crystal) to mt ravatogh
> rest of hexatheon then betrayed ifrit, humanity sided with hexatheon, ifrit said FUCK ALL Y'ALL and created the starscourge
> shiva goes o fuk and essentially bullies bahamut into doing something, you idiot (hey shiva why don't you fight him)
> bahamut goes okay, let's try this, and gives one random solheim guy absorby-powers (technically bahamut's powers)
> this goes well and then it doesn't
> regert.jpg
> hey somnus your bro's a daemon
> aw beans
> okay so now that he's 8000 daemons in a robe, ardyn can't die
> well let's try that another 35 times
> bahamut meanwhile fucks around with the crystal, ifrit goes OI STOP THAT, bahamut dunks ifrit into lava, yeets the crystal to somzunia, says 'hey this is yours now, you're king of light, demons are bad y'all, btw here's a prophecy about the accursed' and goes to chill in the beyond for 2000 years
PROMPTS
- Prompto being adopted by the Kingsglaive (cool sis Crowe)
- Prompto being terrifyingly competent at guns
- Nyx having feels about Aulea
- The entire Kingsglaive having feels about Aulea
- Drautos is maybe-still Glauca but fuck it's hard
- Aulea being the catalyst for Regis's covenant with Ramuh
- kingsglaive movie (set to dancing queen but it's 15 times slower)
- dowager shield ianthe amicitia, pushing 90 and keeper of skeletons in the closet
- cor whumph (with bonus maura)
- fucked up kids serving a fucked up king (thanks mors)
- riot! in the streets of insomnia
no subject
- is a king still a king if there's no kingdom left
- oh no the caravan is overcrowded so we must share a bed..... oh no.....
- someone made ramuh Angery and now we're stuck huddling for warmth
- prompto's bisexual awakening ft ignis in gloves
- noctis not realising that being in love with multiple people is Not The Norm (regis/clarus, regis/aulea, aulea&cor, cor/maura, cor/regis, cor/clarus, cor/sadness, when did cor become the citadel bicycle)
- gladio realising that O Fuck, he's got the dokis for noct (he is Bad at Feelings sometimes)
- IRIS KICKING ASS WITH STRONG FEMALE ROLEMODELS!!!
- crowe declaring that she's gay for aulea after seeing aulea perform a textbook warpstrike on an assassin
- GALAHD SQUAD BEST SQUAD
- cor the immortal mother hen
- zegnatus but there's more suffering
- discussions about adopting prompto while he's in the room
- maura and cor acting like idiot kids and kicking each other in the shins/noogies in inappropriate places
- "is that lady mallictus kneeling at your feet" "i'd say it's not what it looks like but it absolutely is"
- hey uh so bahamut split eos's powers in half ad gave half to the lucis caelums and half to the nox fleurets
- ardyn is a creepy motherfucker (man of no consequence)
- ardyn is a creepy motherfucker (8000 daemons in a trenchcoat edition)
- ardyn being invited for tea by ianthe amicitia and aulea lucis caelum (shit these two are kind of neat)
- ardyn's fucking weird assistants (niflheimr orphans? tenebraen runaways? who the fuck KNOWS)
- "this is your badness level. it's unsually high for someone your size", but with talcott and ardyn
- disabled badasses kicking copipous amounts of butt
- old people bitch about younguns, starring cid and ianthe
- making fun of people's names ("he's literally king king skylight" "look his dad was death, what do you expect")
- someone watching ignis be terrifying and declaring that they're putting a ring on it
- CHOCOBOS
- everyone getting ill and noct taking care of them
- fun with status effects
no subject
- teaching luna poker
- let! luna! have! agency!
- noctis having a real fuckin big sob when he finds out reggie and aulie survived the fall of insomnia
- broken kingsglaive trying their fuckin best, okay
- galahdians losing their home twice (fucking OW)
- he screm at sky
- the astrals did this
- we're all a lil bit gay for each other (oh no)
- we're all a lil bit gay for each other (and that's actually fine)
- tempering grounds but they're EVEN WORSE
- someone gets spectacularly triggered (whoops)
- more royal arms
- ardyn not resembling a human at all
- aulie complimenting ardyn on his "authentic solheim-patterned vestments", ardyn promptly going "fUCK I can't murder my way out of this, there's witnesses"
- regis being the world's best dad ever
- costlemark but with a bigger party
- LET LUNA HAVE A BISEXUAL AWAKENING
- for fuck's sake someone hug gladio
- train scene but ignis yells at gladio
- 1000% more spooky gentiana & carbuncle
- someone steals a red/iron giant's sword and is like "noooo" when it melts away at dawn
- tonberries watching ignis prepare food and getting excited (food!! knife!! TALLEST wait not that's airlocked)
- at least one scene with someone unlikely walking out of a lake all drenched and someone else going "o fuck they're hot"
- #armigerstruggles and the great bag debacle
- "why is there lube in the kingsglaive armiger section" nyx: ;^)
- nyx ulric: still fucking hot even when crispified by the ring
- never have I ever but it ends up with iris drawing a shipping chart that a homestuck would be proud of
- a family can be two ex-kings, a prophecied future king, several shields, one sad boi, one punchy girl, an iron chef, an ex-queen, a bunch of refugees, one escaped lab experiment, and an oracle.
- weird cryptid ardyn who gets habilitated by degrees
- "i'm not actually fond of the astrals," regis, ME 756 [scandalised gasps from the audience]
- the only thing that can get ardyn to not be an arsehole: apply black chocobo chick
- lich-thing gilgamesh ("what do you mean, you're *average* height?!")
no subject
- regis summoning ramuh during the fall of insomnia
- luna nearly fucking bawling her eyes out but staying composed when meeting aulea for the first time since tenebrae fell (and nyx shuffling awkwardly in the bg)
- let men cry ugly fucking tears
- pillowforts at cape caem
- "iris that's a couerl" "lemme pAT" "NO!!!"
- iris amicitia, 5'0" of gonna-fuck-you-up
- the mt reveal, but slowly
- the mt reveal, but the horrifying battlefield version
- ignis is blinded?? maybe?? it's unclear
- noctis has a Bad Pain Day and the bros are Concerned
- "where's titan's dick" "noct that's rude" "he JUST tried to swat us like flies, I think I'm allowed to be rude" [ardyn smirking in the bg]
- shapechanged ardyn nearly being outed repeatedly bc he forgot how to human
- lestallum causes Sexuality Crises (tm)
- "prompto they're lesbians" "wHAT"
- gun
- the a team gets captured, leading to the b team to head up the rescue
- 'lend me a hand' jokes from nyx and regis
- spin the bottle (cute edition)
- spin the bottle (makeouts behind takka's editions)
- trauma confession party!! 8D
- supportive aunty maura
- daring prompto to get into cheesecake photography, ft. gladio's muscles
- the kind of sexual tension that can only occur during a roadtrip with a car full of men
- puppy piles
- someone please fucking hug cor
- daemon behavioural experiments (tm)
- noctis, PRINCE OF LUCIS AND KING OF FISHING!!!
- [pitioss ruins] "politely, what the *everloving fuck*"
- prompto having the universe's most obvious crush on aranea...'s ship
- "hey we found a locked door in this dungeon" "oh yeah, that's holding back a terrifyingly strong daemon. never got around to killing those." "huh. okay." "yeah also those doors are gonna break at some point." "nani the WHAT"
- ravatogh hot springs (hell yeah)
- can the mt dropships juST STOP
- noct princess-carrying ignis for whatever reason. let me have this.
- nyx using shitty pick up lines and always being surprised when they *work*
- world of darkness but noct is there (for some reason)
- "i've never been called 'your majesty' before. would you like to be the first?"
- we're kings of nothing but we make it look *damn good*
- dumb midnight conversations in a laundromat because our clothes got ruined by flans so we're standing around in our underwear bc we forgot the armiger existed
- the ethics of using noct to make potions and then selling them for gil
- lucis caelums, masters of overkilling monsters
- fuck we got something weird on our skin and now we have to wash it off EVERYONE IN THE SHOWER
- platonic physical contact (is weird to luna)
- pant
- clothes sharing
- cor being eos's tryingest not-quite dad
no subject
- EMBARRASSING HOME VIDEO NIGHT
- insomnian noble customs
- clarus being insufferable over small things "how did I deal with this 30 years ago" "you drank seventeen energy drinks for breakfast" "ah, to be young again" "also you were sucking his di--" "COR NOT IN FRONT OF THE KIDS"
- iris's enormous crush on noctis
- "luna!! i'm not decent!!" "time to get up! also i'm your fiance. stop that."
- altar of the tidemother but luna doesn't die
- altar of the tidemother but ardyn is partially cured
- altar of the tidemother and oh god ignis don't you fuckin-- he put on the ring. why. why.
- somnus izunia and his fucking greatest mistake
- spirits of the lucii giving everyone a hard time from the ring
- "hey so their spirits can't move on. they're trapped." uh what the fuck
- y e ET [gladio throws iris at a monster]
- shitty fucking memes in a group chat bc they're 20-somethings, of course they have a group chat
- someone gives luna a phone, she's now addicted to candy crush
- animal crossing but with eos critters
- doing gay shit in altissia, while incognito
- ignis gets scouted for a fashion mag, has to regretfully decline
- there's a serious discussion about non-monogamy and differing marital traditions around a campfire at least once
- gladio benchpressing luna for a bet
- noctis actually getting to know luna the person not luna the ideal and falling in love with her all over again
- knock-down drag-out fights... over who does the dishes
- thrift shop adventure time!
- thank-god-you're-alive kisses
- watching someone sleep, heart aching because you love them so *fucking much*
- waiting in hospital corridors
- turns out the simple life has things going for it
- rooftop chats
- well that's a bad injury
- mindflayer bad touches
- petrification blues (got chipped, was rezzed, now I'm fucking bleeding-- WHERE'D MY FINGER GO)
no subject
- gladio letting himself be gentled and act submissive for a change (that's kinda hot but now is not the time)
- prompto pool-sharking justice monsters five and selling trinkets for food/gas
- kingsglaive's shitty van collection (with fun decals and graffiti)
- fuCK OFF BAHAMUT
- look honestly I wish there were more dumb quests like the cup noodle one, so more of them