[PSL] that ardyn thing

[carbungle]

Dumping ground for the Weird Uncle Ardyn PSL, something something shenanigans

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[carbungle]

Established premise for Weird Uncle Ardyn AU:
(so i can track shit because i am forgetful as heck, to be edited as needed if this becomes A Thing)

• At some point Regis stumbled his way onto Angelgard and found Ardyn, instead of Verstael, and brought him back to Insomnia to recover there
  
• Because of Ardyn's absence, Niflheim did not so easily create a magitek army, and they also had to deal with a non-subjugated Ifrit trashing the place whenever he woke up; both issues meant Niflheim was not so much of a threat and Lucis was a little safer
  
• Over the years Ardyn has become something of a weird unchanging cryptid in the Citadel with ties to the royal family
  

For Ardyn - Cryptid Gossip

[equinoct]

[Noctis Lucis Caelum is Displeased, stomping through the Citadel with an air of sulking authority unusual for a boy of eight years old, leaving befuddled servants and laughing guards behind him. Dumb, they're all dumb. They don't even bother to check, they just want to gossip about things they don't understand…

Turning a corner, he reaches a familiar figure - the person he'd been stomping his way to find - and picks up the pace, barreling right into Ardyn's legs and burying his face in whatever weird outfit he's wearing these days. He sniffles, rather dramatically.]