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[ She had hoped it wouldn't be so obvious, but has never been good with subtlety. ]

Just remember that he lived. It is what he wanted.

[Sadly it's just not her gift.]

it isn't much, but i can do that.

did someone erase him from the history books too

He was one of three survivors of the Old World.

Only those survivors remembered the world that existed Before, and the people that lived upon it.

Hades loved those people with all that he was.

It was this love that spurred him to destroy my worlds, and why I had to kill him.

things were a lot more complicated then i knew, sounds like.

hades?

The Ascians I spoke to you of before... The people who destroyed seven worlds and ruined another

He was not their leader, but had been their most powerful member.

Emet-Selch was his title. Hades was his true name.

why didn't he use his name?

My companions and I were eight fourteenths of what he considered to be truly alive. Those of the Shards are viewed by Ascians as even lesser.

To give us his name would be to see us as something closer to equals.

uh, yikes

[what an asshole!

...he will refrain from saying this.]

He was Tempered by the eldest of all Primals. Because of this, he was incapable of seeing any life upon the Sundered world as worthy. For twelve-thousand years he tested the limits of his bindings and worked within them.

I was working on a way to free him of those bindings, and a way to bring his soul home with me.

I could have given him new life and purpose.

The gods here are cruel.

[Ah. Tempered, again. The more he hears about that thing, the more grateful he is to have avoided the effects.]

sometimes it feels that way

but without them we wouldn't have the people here that we lost, either. i can't hate them even if it's temporary.

More than once I have heard the saying 'it is better to have lost and lost than to have never loved at all'

Now I can't help but think it utter gobshite.

it's a shitty thing to say to someone who just lost someone. not like it makes it any better

but i think it's okay to feel it, and that's how i feel

I never understood it, before. But perhaps it's different when you know they loved you in return.

maybe. wouldn't know.

[they never talked about that, never got that far. like when they were children, she was here and gone too quickly.]

I met Lunafreya only once so I could not say how she loved you, but I can say with certainty that she loved you and your family both.

I have some pictures from your father's birthday, if you would like them.

i

not yet

i can't look at those

[A different sort of trauma, that one.]

I understand.

They will still be here when you're ready.

thanks, i'll let u know.

[Ahhh hell, he does not want to think about this. Anything, anything- oh.]

so.... you saw them as kids? in the echo

Not in Ardyn's, but Somnus'. I'm not certain of their ages, though Ardyn's voice had not yet matured.

must be weird, seeing someone else's perspectives like that over and over. was it at least a good memory

[He knows his wasn't, so.]

Seeing their perspective was never so odd to me, as it was an ability I've had since I first awoke. Experiencing them is ... 'weird', yes.

The first memory was.

With hand to chin, Somnus leaned forward to scrutinize the pieces. Even he could tell that he had lost.

When Ardyn took the king, Somnus had visibly sagged in disappointment. He had clapped his hands upon his lap as he straightened up, Ardyn watching him closely the whole while.

"You really are amazing, brother." His voice was so very young and childish; filled with emotion he shared openly. "This time we'll do as you say."

"This time?"

Ardyn's voice was filled with such mirth, not yet weighed down with sorrow. He extended his hand for his brother, and Somnus all but jumped at the opportunity to take it.

He was so happy. Walking together, hand-in-hand with his beloved older brother. He could not fathom life without him by his side.

you have a good memory

[That could be a double meaning, there. Both are true.]

i know what-ifs are kinda dangerous but still

wonder what they'd be like now if things hadn't gone the way they did

[ She can't help but find the humour in being told that as an amnesiac. ]

I think...

Aera would have finally made Ardyn her husband. They would have been happy, and had children. Ardyn would have been both joyous and terrified beyond measure, constantly doubting his abilities as a father.

Somnus would have reassured him when necessary, and teased him ruthlessly in his own way when it wasn't. He would have loved his nieces and nephews as fiercely as his own.

They would have been a family.

yeah... sounds about right.

[It's a nice mental image, at least. those what-ifs.]

lucis could've been very different, if it wasn't built on what it was. maybe our whole line would have a different fate.

[wouldn't that be nice.

instead, as things stand, the first and the last of the family kill each other and die, with no family left behind to carry on after. only friends to remember.]

With no obligation to produce an heir, perhaps your founding grandsire may have been different.

I am sorry your family has been dealt such a miserable hand, Noct.

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