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[daemonized]

ARDYN IZUNIA

Ardyn Izunia. Professor of law. Lord of law. Liege of law. The one grading your papers. Leave a message.

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[rygdea]

Maybe it's for the best you're still in the dark about all that. Trust me, I'm not really digging who this "Rygdea" guy was. He's no fun from what I've gathered.

Too strict.

Possibly, maybe? Eden is a fal'Cie from Cocoon, that floating continent I told you about. I don't know too much about her but she looks like a mechanical woman dressed in all white.

[daemonized]

"Rygdea"? Was that your name?

[The rest is difficult to parse, but he tries nonetheless.]

And fal'Cie?

[rygdea]

Last name, apparently. The first remains the same oddly enough.

["Fynn Rygdea", odd name. He doesn't remember others calling him by his given name often. Probably has something to do with his rank in that fantasy military. Being in the Cavalry was nothing like being a cop. Everything was so strict.]

From the gist of it, a fal'Cie is something like a "god" but I hesitate to call them that.

I don't know why but I really don't like them.

[daemonized]

I see. I suppose we weren't really related in our past lives, then. I remember my surname as well; or rather, the /other/ Ardyn's surname.

Maybe they were unpleasant? I don't think I held a particular fondness for the gods of Eos, either.

[rygdea]

If you don't mind me asking, what was it? the last name, I mean.

I'm starting to think the "other me" was the only child. Kind of lonely, no? I can't even picture it. I would've hated growing up like that.

[There's still so much he doesn't know about his "other self" but he does get the sense that this other Fynn was a lonely man.]

They weren't unpleasant in the sense that they were attempting to harm us but more like...they coddled us. My memories are still fuzzy but Cocoon was a paradise created by the fal'Cie. There's more than one of them, thousands even.

[daemonized]

Lucis Caelum. Ardyn Lucis Caelum. Quite the mouthful, isn't it? The strange thing is that it's shared with another young man here.

Perhaps, but the important thing now is that you /do/ have siblings. And more importantly, the one that matters -- me.

[An attempt at levity, but also true. Because, gross, their older brother and sister.]

You lived with your blinders on, you mean? Oblivious?

[rygdea]

Ardyn Lucis Caelum? Are you serious? Sounds like someone was abusing the Latin for the heck of it.

Wait, you share this surname with someone else? Who? It almost sounds too fictitious to be real.

[Oh, Ardyn. That slight joke does win a smirk from Fynn.]

Yeah, that's right! I didn't grow up alone in this life. I was karate choppin' you by age two, bro.

[He's not even lying about that. Fynn was a very energetic child and the source of many migraines.]

Painfully oblivious. We might as well had been cattle. Life on Cocoon was different than here in Recolle.

Much different. We really didn't have a care in the world.

[daemonized]

I know. Over-the-top even for me, hm? As for the other person, a young man named Noctis. He's a student in one of my classes, and a good friend of Prompto's.

[At least the injection of humor worked.] That you were. How can I ever forget? [HE'LL NEVER FORGET...]

And all that changed? Or do you know?

[rygdea]

Noctis? [Too bad Ardyn can't see him roll his eyes.] Geez! Talk about pretentious. That is the most pretentious name I've heard yet and I thought "Prompto" was a snootie name.

[Probably less "snootie" and more "silly" to be honest.]

You know you loved my bad kungfu moves! You used to play along, dork

[Ah, talk about the good old days!]

I think so. Something bad happened but I can't remember what. Maybe Cocoon it fell.

[daemonized]

You can hardly blame anyone for being named what they are. I can't judge, after all, if my last name used to be "Lucis Caelum".

And that was only to humor you, Fynn.

[A lifetime ago.]

Fell? Due to what? A war? A revolt?

[He's fishing, knowing full-well that Fynn likely doesn't have all the answers.]