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You might not need another au but do you want it?
Think of how much fun it would be, Sola and Ardyn snarking at each other in the middle of the throne room and before the entire court.
The resemblance is uncanny.
You can track which of the nobles noticed it by how much they pale, their polite masks turning a little bit tense.
You. Are an enabling gremlin.
Plopping this in the Combined Retinue Nox/Sola au, because this is what my brain finally decided to spit out at 2 in the morning.
@secret-engima have an early Christmas present, I guess?
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“If I have to dress up, Uncle,” his niece tells him fiercely, “then so do you.”
Ardyn raises a brow from the bench he’s languidly lounging on, watching his Tailor circle Sola with sharp eyes as she tugs on the black fabric of the dress she’s wrangled Sola into wearing for her upcoming Coming of Age, unfazed by the equally black scowl on the princess’ face.
Beside him, Nox is firmly pretending to nap on his Shield’s shoulder. Axis has his gaze glued to the book in his hand.
It seems he’ll have no allies from that quarter.
Admittedly, Ardyn had perhaps been enjoying Sola’s irritation too much, and hadn’t bothered to smother his growing amusement with every dark mutter Sola had made about protocol and where the court could shove said protocol.
He gives Sola an indulgent smirk. “I highly doubt I’m on the guest list, my dear. Given the current state of international politics.”
Not that he’d let the lack of an invitation stop him from attending his niece and nephew’s birthday party.
From the glare Sola levels at the mirror, and the minute stiffening of Nox’s spine, Ardyn has the feeling his niblings will ensure he is invited, regardless of anyone else’s feelings on the matter.
Nox’s eyes actually open a sliver when Sola’s magic abruptly curls, all mischievous glee with an edge of bared teeth. His nephew warily eyes his twin and the grin growing on her face.
Ardyn does not share Nox’s apprehension. He rather thinks his niece should smile like that more often.
“A suit for your Uncle, then?” Penelopeia asks archly.
“If you would be so kind.” Sola replies before Ardyn can protest. Sola’s blue eyes narrow on him through the mirror. “Black for the shirt, instead of the suit, I think. Gold as an accent color, but otherwise I have full faith in your judgment.”
To Penelopeia’s credit, his Tailor pauses for but a moment. “Of course, Your Highness.”
Ardyn gives Sola a long look. His niece knows very well protocol prohibits him from wearing black. He is neither a (known) member of the royal family nor in sworn service to them. Sola cares little for protocol and tradition, especially when it gets in her way, but even she can’t get away with flouting such an old and respected tradition. Not like this. “Niece.” He warns.
Sola raises her chin, defiant. “Do you trust me?”
Ardyn sighs. Smiles reassuringly at the fierce girl who’s been Nox and Ardyn’s staunchest supporter these past near three years. “Yes.”
Sola nods, and that is that.
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Copia Egestas adores her Queen.
Sola’s last minute changes to the twins’ Coming of Age gave her a solid week of extra work to do - with help from Ignis, who volunteered on account of her being nearly six months pregnant - hunting through the Archives and preparing her arguments before she and Sola sat down in front of the King and finally told him exactly who would be presenting his daughter at her Coming of Age. Presenting both his children, in fact.
Unsurprisingly, Regis was not pleased. But between Sola’s staunch refusal to change her mind and Copia’s presented precedents, he reluctantly conceded.
Now, eyeing everyone as they wait to enter the ballroom, Copia can only feel a vicious anticipation.
Nox and Sola make a striking pair in black and gold. Both of them have their hair carefully pulled back, decorated further with gold. Nox still wears his usual earrings, the only silver on him as he’d declined the offer for golden versions, and Sola has mirrored him with a set of earrings arranged in the opposite ears. Not the same earrings, but the studs and climber are similar enough in shape to achieve the desired effect.
Copia’s sleeveless black dress is cut to flatter her pregnant figure, a gold shawl for her shoulders because six months pregnant and she gets uncomfortably warm now that the summer months are upon them, which also why she’s elected for an updo instead of letting her thick curls tumble loose. Unlike Sola, Copia is in comfortable flats instead of heels, again on account of being pregnant.
Axis is in a black suit jacket with gold details, and his Clan’s purple and green tartan. His hair’s been styled back from his face, but otherwise remains free.
Axis isn’t the only one wearing purple and green. Nox has the shifting purple-green galahdite in his ears, hair, and decorating his cufflinks. Sola’s chosen a selection of amethysts and emeralds to decorate her gold jewelry, while Copia had been gifted a pair of ebony hair sticks topped with amethyst and emerald carved cabochons.
(Copia knows just enough about Galahdian culture to know to tell Penny the goal, and follow the woman’s instructions on how to support Axis without overstepping cultural boundaries. The result, she is told, is a careful blend of Lucian and Galahdian color codes, but Copia has never seen Axis struck speechless before so she makes a mental note to commend Penny and her recommended jewelers for their hard work.)
With Ardyn, however, Penny has evidently decided to take refuge in audacity.
The suit is a lovely shade of dark purple, decorated with an intricate pattern of - much to Copia’s amusement - peacock feathers. At a glance they could be mistaken for phoenix feathers, certainly, but Copia knows her birds, and those feathers belong to the phoenix’s non-magical dramatic cousins. Studded at the eye of each feather are small galahdite stones to match Nox and Axis.
Under the suit, Ardyn’s shirt is black, which will no doubt give the Court conniptions and the press a field day, despite them following protocol to a T. Instead of a traditional tie, Ardyn’s kept his usual scarf, but in a rich green. How it doesn’t clash with the purple, Copia doesn’t know, but she knows Ardyn’s vest is a matching shade of green. Ardyn has a gold and galahdite lapel pin, linked by a fine gold chain to a paired piece on the front of his breast pocket.
The master of ceremonies glances over at them, expression half-expectant, half-despairing.
It turns to resignation when Ardyn and Sola gift him identical smirks.
Nox sighs.
Copia hides a grin behind her hand. Oh yes, tonight is going to be so very entertaining, with uncle and niece actively working together.
She wonders how many people will notice the family resemblance before the end of the night?
#ffxv#Shadow of Heaven’s Light#Nox verse#Combined Retinue au#Ardyn Izunia#Copia Egestas#Sola Lucis Caelum#Nox Izunia#Axis Arra#Penelopeia Lazarus#galahdite is the in-verse version of alexandrite that specifically shifts green-purple
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I recently found this one soulmate fic where every time you loose something, it ends up with your soulmate.
Now please imagine how Interesting this might get in Nox verse, considering that both Nox and Ardyn have propensity for displacing their cell phones.
(Drautos tries to call Ardyn to report something important that he just learned in Niflheim. Except Ardyn is Not Answering for the longest time. After twenty minutes he finally gets through and opens with very cranky "How difficult it is to answer your phone, you bloody idiot?".
". . . Drautos?" says a Very Confused Cor who just found this random cell in his sock drawer.)
*wheezes*
That would be honestly so funny, especially if it happens with platonic soulmates and not just romantic ones.
Nox at least is *decentish* about not losing his stuff because he has armiger but that also means whenever he finds a Random Item in his camp he just assumes it's his somehow and tucks it away into armiger and forgets it exists so it is a VERY one-sided exchange most of the time when it comes to losing stuff.
He does wonder the first time he realizes some of the products he is finding in his possession are noticeably Feminine Oriented. And then depending on whether he knows soulmates are a thing or not this could lead to some very distressed shenanigans on his part.
Meanwhile Nyx is always kind of ecstatic when she finds something that isn't hers in the apartment because FINALLY. How organized IS her soulmate that he never loses anything ever?
Nox: *walking disaster vibes only staved off by his magic mary poppins level handbag*
I have no idea if you intended Cor and Ardyn to be romantic soulmates or platonic but I think platonic is WAY funnier so Cor just- finding a very battered unknown cellphone in his drawer and answering it and being- Drautos? Who are you calling?
Drautos: *internal screaming intensifies*
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STATUS UPDATE:
So I'm finally working on the spirits from Nox's universe again.
Had unfortunately lost a lot of stuff I was working on as it was being transferred via a hdd that is now malfunctioning.
That and the fact I've been dealing with some health issues I've not been the most productive and honestly upset at how much i keep sleeping due to fatigue.
I have added some things to the known vampire clans mainly their various means of propagation. (for now) and have some basic groundwork for the Werecreatures and thier clans/packs.
One example being that any were wolves live in forests that share their pack's namesake.
I also eventually have plans for various fae creatures and have something up my sleeves lore wise for how they relate to the changelings we all know. (known as equus changelings in Nox's universe)
In additional news I do have an art tablet thanks to @duran301 and a new computer via a late christmas gift from some of my friends and after I get a hdmi adapter I can finally throw myself at digital art!
Though I am used to drawing traditional and mostly free hand as I always have struggled with not DRAWING SO DAMN HARD to be able to erase any kind of guidelines.
It has been both frustrating and super satisfying when I manage to get a drawing made since I was forced to do it I one go and very little room for messing up.
Am hoping having the ability to undo mistakes without worrying about whether or not the paper will withstand the erasing will help me not be so hard on myself and have more fun drawing again!
Though I know transitioning to digital is most likely gonna be somewhat overwhelming at first.
#status update#Getting back into putting my creativity into something#World building#Nox verse#mlp au#Mlp au lore#nox lore#artist ramblings#autism go brrr#Propreceptive sensory issues#noxs-mun#mun speaks
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@baby-royalty didn't ask for a thing but gets one anyways 💙
why does her mouth sound like that, though ?? nox is CONCERNED.
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it’s so good to have company . for a long time , i was on my own.
the devil in me ━ accepting ( @asterites )
❝ yeah, i know the feeling. ❞
prompto curls a knee up, resting his cheek against it as he looked at stella. he never would've thought that royalty and those with divine bloodlines suffered from loneliness or other things that seemed so trivial in the grand aspect of their lives. there were many things the blond didn't know about politics and the daily performance people like the noctis and the nox fleurets had to live with, and it brings a frown to his face. he never would've thought at the beginning of their little road trip that he'd feel sorry for the people he saw as the guiding light in their world.
❝ but, uh, my stuff is probably not even close to what you have to deal with. still though, i'm happy to keep you company as long as you'd like. ❞
#asterites#☾ ━ prompto ( ic ).#not me writing this while brainstorming about his vs verse lol#prom looking between noct and the nox fleurets: damn and I thought /I/ had problems
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Path, inspired by some rp with @sylleblosscm
They both enjoy being in the garden together, and Luna tries to put him on a better path than the child soldier Caligo wants.
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@novaragno : starter call / spiderverse .
" AGH - "
the crash of falling into a dumpster was ALMOST as loud as the static that was in his brain moments prior . constant noise in his brain was bad enough, but man did dimension hopping hurt MORE than usual . no wonder he's ended up decidedly not in his destination .
crawling out of the ( heavily dented ) dumpster and resting on the edge, tristan yanked off his mask and pushed down his hood in one quick motion . " okay, okay, okay ... " right . he could FIX this . at least nobody saw him wipe out, right ? just had to readjust his watch, and -
there's a sudden wave in his mind, like cold water has been dumped on him .
yeah, nevermind . someone's definitely there . he grabs the edge once more and swifly lands behind it to try and hide .
" uh ... don't mind me ! just ... night-cosplaying ? " it came out as more of a question than a convincing excuse .
#🎶 he fleeth as it were a shadow┊┊☽ * · : ic#🎶 verse 006 ┊┊☽ * · : spiderverse#novaragno#// waves . hi nox#// tristan cringe ass momence
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{ @were-jer liked for a Nox starter! }
“So, like, not to make this weird or anything --” he cut off, pausing to rake his teeth over the inside of his lower lip, as his gaze shifted to...anywhere that wasn't Jeremy, really. Shit. He was gonna make this weird, wasn't he? He really hadn't known what to expect from Jeremy's home town -- it was still a little crazy to him that he was here at all, honestly -- but what he hadn't expected was for the whole to bear the lingering scent of predators.
He couldn't imagine Jeremy didn't know. There was no way he didn't know, right? He really didn't need to say anything...except what if he didn't know? They'd never really directly talked about...that sort of thing while at school. Maybe this was a new thing since he'd been away? In the end, Nox couldn't find a good enough excuse to keep quiet. Sure, it might make things weird if he did know... but if he didn't and Nox didn't say anything... yeah, no, it wasn't worth the risk. Finally, he looked back to Jeremy, and finished speaking. “--- you know there are like, a LOT of vampires in this town, right?”
#werejer#were-jer#( m. nox )#( nox v. tbd )#/ okay so I made a LOT of assumptions here#/ casually set it in your bloodlines college verse and assumed they met there#/ I figured maybe they're on break and Nox was like “yeah I'm just gonna stay here” and Jeremy invited him to tag along instead or somethin#/ I'm happy to change/adjust anything as needed!!#/ this was just the first thought that came to me and I ran with it
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i hope the field maintenance crew for e4 & champion level events & leagues is well compensated
#talkin w nox n thinkin abt the absolute destruction of both satoshi n willow being in the same tournament has me#thinkin abt the Nightmare of clean-up#thinks abt how it's Common for satoshi to blow the roof off any domed stadium#hes got like a lv400 pikachu it's an occupational hazard#thinks abt how in frontier!verse satoshi does all his own stadium maintenance & just. oh buddy.#mostly cleaning up after himself rifp#ooc. pkmn is autistic culture.
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You're their favouritest unit, @heartwilled ( Zelda )!!
Zelda pats little Terrako upon the head, smiling warmly. "I'm so glad you're here with me, you know that?"
Terrako readily leans into her hand, optic unwaveringly fixed on that smile and shining ever brighter. It doesn't know what it's like to laugh. As it is, it does the next best thing: mimicking the rhythm of Zelda's past giggles — sound-clips securely stored and marked modifier://important in its memory systems — with short, whistling chirps of its own.
It knows that very well, Zelda! It was a line of code first written years ago, in the quiet wake of a little Hylian slipping into rest, strung together under the soft touch of her tiny hand pressed against their chassis and the concept://warming memory of three words whispered into the night. Addendums have been made to it — tags opened and modifiers attached and new ergos reached — but the primary statement has persisted in their core unchanged since then.
Terrako sings a trio of swooping notes, high-low-high, and they reach for her hand before she can completely retract it. They catch her index finger in the gentlest grasp they can deliver, holding it in place between the two of them to shake it up and down, up and down. They're concept://glad you're here with them too, Zelda!
#heartwilled#( brb weeping over these two oh my god#on my hands and fuckening KNEES!!! I'M GONNA CRY I REVISITED CUTSCNES FOR THIS AND. WAAAAAH#thank you so much for sending this in nox!! :SOB: )#* guardian / ic.#* ic / para.#* ic / answer.#ao.c verse tbt.
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I think I'm gonna need a list of Sola's relationship status in different verses because I'm lost.
Nox!Sola gets married at 20 and has three kids by the time canon rolls around.
Dyn!Sola is married but has only the one kid when she's 27.
Hanahaki!Sola is dating but not married?
And I have no idea what the rest of them are doing.
No problem!
In Shadows of Heaven's Light, Sola starts dating Libertus at 20, marries at 24, and they adopt their first kid during the Long Night when Sola is 27-28 (exact timeline on that is still TBD). For reference, Libertus is 5 years older than Sola.
For aus or crossovers where Sola and Libertus don't time travel, they end up adopting another four kids. Sola dies in her sixties from the strain using so much magic over the years had on her body, while Libertus lives into his eighties and gets to meet the first of his great-grandkids.
Take My Breath au (Hanahaki!Sola), Libertus and Sola don't start dating until she's 25 at the earliest, but I may push that back to when she's 26-27 depending what I plan to do with the plot. So she and Libertus are dating but not married by the time canon starts.
Sunshine Never Stops au (Nif!Sola), Sola doesn't meet Libertus until she's 19-20 years old, and while she does get a crush on him, she hasn't at all considered the idea of dating anyone while she's so focused on curing the Starscourge.
Nox!Sola starts dating Libertus when she's 20, like in SoHL, but she and Libertus have a whoops pregnancy when she's 21, resulting in twins when she's 21-22. Sola and Libertus marry Galahdian-style shortly after Sola finds out she's pregnant, but they don't have a Lucian wedding until after the twins are born. Then, during the Roadtrip Nox and Sola take Noctis on when Nox and Sola are about 24, Sola finds out part way through that she's pregnant again, resulting in kid #3 by the time she's 25. Which is all I've got so far for that.
Dyn!Sola again started dating Libertus at 20, only for Noctis to disappear a year later. Sola and Libertus married shortly before Noctis came home with Dyn, and Sola got pregnant about three months before Noctis' Coming of Age, shortly before she turned 25, so she'll give birth in the coming spring, a couple months before she turns 26. As for how many kids that'll be... I think I'll keep that under my hat for now. >:)
But general rule of thumb: if Sola's younger than 20, she hasn't started dating Libertus, and barring a whoops baby or other unusual circumstance, Libertus and Sola date for four years (traditional in Lucian culture) before getting married. And, barring extenuating circumstances such as time travel, Libertus and Sola eventually end up with a bunch of kids, biological and/or adopted.
Hope this helps!
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For Song Ghost, I propose I see fire by Ed Sheeran. Change the wording a little bit and it could be either about the Burning of Galahd (and sang in duet with Axis, maybe) or about the Fall of Solheim (Ardyn's mother taught him that one and she has learned from her own grandma.)
Oh 100% I love that song. It could be so easily tweaked to so much but CONSIDER.
It's not either of those.
Consider in SongGhost Nox is composer, and the song is secretly about the *Fall of Insomnia*.
:3
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#nox lunarwing#world building#supernatural#Fae#Were creaturea#vampires#The east Dragon Empire#spirits#ghosts#yokai#outsiders#poll#Nox verse#Mlp au#Mlp au lore#Mlp fim
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Just thinking about Marius’ agency in the game
Mainly, that he is determined to hold onto it until the end of his part in the game even when his attempts to not become someone’s tool are thrown back in his face. It also seems like he has to deal with this problem back home too.
Sorta related, I like that all the questions asked to Adol (ie. the player) in this game are more about fleshing out the respective characters rather than the player affecting the character or story through choice. For example, I like the question Marius asks Adol about why he decided to help him because the question is actually made to figure out why Adol helps people on all of his adventures (considering he doesn’t need to do that to enjoy them). When the response doesn’t seem to be what he’s looking for he asks again more directly near the end of the game. He does that because he wants to know how he could apply that answer to his own people, is what I figure.
Anyway, I think it’s interesting that what the player thinks (which might be the case for other games) is an opportunity to express themselves through Adol is often actually more about adding depth to the character or to ground Adol in the narrative.
#ys ix monstrum nox#ys ix#ys ix spoilers#ys series#ys marius#marcus claudius garmanicus#im gonna try and make up for not talking about him much in the first art post#so here: i love the track that plays when marius and adol escape (catch me if you can)#because it's a duet with adol rep'd by the guitar and marius with the strings and its so playful and energetic#and theres even what i think is counterpoint going on with the two instruments#probably isnt im not well versed but i love listening to it anyway#'tis mine#i think i drew him different than how he looks in the game but i was able to salvage how this piece looked when i first made it#so im posting it
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@insidi0sum said: ❝ you're such a lightweight, it's so funny. ❞ ( for nox )
“ s’ not my fault they make alcohol so strong, now ! ” he huffed, lips pursed into a faint pout. his words were only slightly slurred, but nick's words were undeniably true. he had been trying to match his friend drink for drink, and that had ended with a very tipsy nox, while nick seemed to be almost entirely unaffected. that seemed unfair, somehow. out of the two of them, nox was pretty sure that he should have the better tolerance, being somewhat less mortal. “ how come. . . ” he started, wrinkling his nose with intense consideration, before sort of just. . .trailing off. evidently nox was, in fact, very much a lightweight.
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verse: 「Nox」 League of LegendsAU
timeline: League of Legends AU
age: all ages, typically late 40s
open to: any type of plotting or interaction, as well as timeline AUs
No love in his heart burns for either Noxus or Ionia, but when came time to pick a side in that terrible war, Cor chose to pick the side that seemed to be winning.
Born on the border of the Noxian-Ionian territories, Cor was raised by his Ionian mother, and never bothered to meet his Noxian father. When the time came for him to leave home and earn money, he left at a very young age and pursued the military, against his mother's wishes. Leaving with the blade he trained her with, Cor was taken to Noxian lines, and trained to fight in their war.
Cor continued to fight in the name of Noxus, branded a traitor by Ionians, although his mother had no love in her heart for Ionia either, most likely contributing to Cor's own decision. Cor focused his efforts in proving himself to not be a traitor, knowing in the process that would condemn himself to the wrath of Ionians for a lifetime for what he has done to them. Now accepted in the ranks of Noxus, Cor has climbed the military ladder, keeping his personal life and his job as separate as possible.
Cor is known by his moniker of the Immortal Marshal, a name that has stuck with him since proving himself in fights against both Ionian forces and Azakana who descended upon the battlefield. Cor views all of battle simply, deciding if it can be killed, he will find a way to kill it.
While Cor has been to many lands thanks to Noxian conquest, he has settled at managing battalions along the Ionian borders, and keeps his focus there, only ever changing things up when his focus must be inwards -- towards Noxus itself.
will use v; Nox and v; league as a tag
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