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Noctis Lucis Caelum ([personal profile] berriedmemories) wrote in [community profile] childrenofbahamutlogs2025-02-01 06:49 pm

Castles they may crumble

WHO:XV Cast
WHAT: General catchall
WHERE: Probably mostly at the XV cottage
WHEN: spring/summer 2025
WARNINGS: blanket CW for depression (Noctis), suicidal ideation (Ardyn, Cor, Ravus), and general PTSD from a bunch of men that've been through hell. See subject lines for specifics


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[personal profile] threevirtues 2025-04-11 12:06 am (UTC)(link)
For him, it has mattered so rarely what he wants in the face of Noctis's needs. And he can tell, clear as day, that Noct needs to hold onto him after everything. Both what he's gone through today, and what he's yet to go through in the present that Ignis has just left.

Other things, as well. Things that Ignis dreads to think about right now, and yet which won't stop haunting him.

And maybe Ignis needs this as well, to hold onto Noctis and feel the warmth of his body that is only made a touch wet from tromping through the snow holding onto Ignis. He might not be as obvioux, but he needs it too, and indeed only pulls away from Noctis when his prince does. "It would help a good bit with this weather," he agrees. Fortunately, foresight even as a teenager had ensured he had plenty of large and thick sweaters to put on - something to take into consideration the bulk of his wings in case he couldn't put them back.

Obviously not a problem now, but... that just will help make him feel a bit warmer and more snug.

In the meanwhile, indeed, he has to sit down if only so that he can force off his socks and shoes. Yet he barely even gets that far before he notes something on his nightstand. That endeavor is abandoned swiftly enough, and Noctis will find Ignis with the card in hand, a soft look on his face.

"...My neediness as a teenager really did make you fuss, didn't it?" he murmurs, as though he didn't admit this under great pain while wings ripped out of his back.
threevirtues: (submissive in a way)

[personal profile] threevirtues 2025-05-12 06:56 pm (UTC)(link)
Even without truly leaning against him, just this close, and it's all too easy to pick up on even more ways that give away how rattled and exhausted Ignis is. There'd been little signs of it all the way back home, of course... and yet maybe some of it had been easy to miss in their movement, how they were all so close as to jostle Ignis. And maybe some of it only can come out back in a place they can call home.

Something to truly tell his subconscious that they are out of the flooded battle zone which Altissa had become.

So, now, it's easier to feel the way his entire chest seems to shudder when he inhales, how iron-stiff his back is from pure tension, and every little tremble from an over use of adrenaline that will not stop for at least a couple hours yet. Despite that, Ignis so carefully sets the card back down in its place. In its place, he takes Noct's hand.

"I like to think I hardly need fussing," Ignis says, opting to not say if he does now or not. Instead, he remembers himself, and raises one foot up so that his free hand can begin the process of tugging free his shoes and socks. His toes are all pins and needles.

"But you know that I will always be glad to help you with whatever you want. And I think there are far worse things, than being the recipient of such wonderful cards."