[he's not sure anything he's doing is giving up. he's just willing to accept a possibility hates, that he doesn't want or like. but...
hasn't that always been the duty of a king? to be able to give everything up in order to protect others. to be willing to sacrifice it—he was always on that path anyway/ what scared him so much abut becoming king, aside from the responsibility, was knowing that protecting the crystal would likely bring him to an early grave.
the output of magic to keep niflheim's forces out of insomnia and keep up a barrier is something that aged his father rapidly, to the point that before he'd even finished school, noct knew his father couldn't even summon weapons anymore—a staple of lucian royal magic.
that had always scared him shitless.
but with all he's seen and experienced now, it's a lot harder to fear death and dying the way he once did.]
I won't let this end with regrets. I already... had enough of those, when my dad died, and when Luna died.
[he's so serious right now—it's almost like he's found some way to channel some of that conviction that he admires so much in milla.
he looks at her, and his expression holds that so much, but there's still something softer and a bit warmer about it.] That's...
no subject
[he's not sure anything he's doing is giving up. he's just willing to accept a possibility hates, that he doesn't want or like. but...
hasn't that always been the duty of a king? to be able to give everything up in order to protect others. to be willing to sacrifice it—he was always on that path anyway/ what scared him so much abut becoming king, aside from the responsibility, was knowing that protecting the crystal would likely bring him to an early grave.
the output of magic to keep niflheim's forces out of insomnia and keep up a barrier is something that aged his father rapidly, to the point that before he'd even finished school, noct knew his father couldn't even summon weapons anymore—a staple of lucian royal magic.
that had always scared him shitless.
but with all he's seen and experienced now, it's a lot harder to fear death and dying the way he once did.]
I won't let this end with regrets. I already... had enough of those, when my dad died, and when Luna died.
[he's so serious right now—it's almost like he's found some way to channel some of that conviction that he admires so much in milla.
he looks at her, and his expression holds that so much, but there's still something softer and a bit warmer about it.] That's...
Part of why I wanted to come here tonight.