Okay so in my little ffxv au Noct isn’t the chosen king and the chosen king will be born later in the bloodline
And originally I was gonna end the little series where a 31 year old Noct is lead to the crystal by Umbra and then is consumed by the crystal in a similar way to how he is in game
And then there he meets Noctis from the game, who had passed about a year ago and has been curious of other timelines and parallel universes he exists in, so he’s visiting them to chat, but his parallel selves don’t retain any of the memories of the conversations if they’re still alive
And they’d just talk about their lives, game Noct tells Au Noct about how he dies, Au Noct tells game Noct about his life and kids, and then Au Noct is spat out in the throne room and Ignis and Gladio find him and are like ‘dude it’s been days wtf’
And then the epilogue would end with Noct, a spirit watching over his family, just after his eldest daughter’s 35th birthday (he’d be 63 when he dies) after succumbing to the effects of the link to the crystal, and he watches his eldest daughter break down after having been the one to tell her that her now 5 year old son is the chosen king, after having lost her father, also knowing that her other parent is going to die in a month due to heartbreak
But…
I think it would be interesting if I don’t end it there, if Noct retains certain memories of the conversation and makes it a mission to find and contact Ardyn, and he finally succeeds when he’s 35, and they, along with Luna, work together in a similar fashion to how they do in the book…
Looks like it’s reading time lmao