Bagginshield definitely fits the ico au I’m writing, but if I was going to write a shadow of the colossus au I would pick ignoct, because let’s face, Ignis would Do That for Noct.
So I have been thinking about this au while replaying SoC, and in it Noct would be killed due to a dual prophecy about him – that he would restore the light, but also bring about the return of the Accursed, and since it’s light enough now no one wants that.
After he is killed, Ignis (with help from Gladio and Prompto) smuggles Noct’s body away and heads to the shrine/prison of a shadowy entity known as the Undying and asks it to return Noct’s soul.
It agrees, if Ignis defeats the Six massive gods who are keeping him imprisoned, while warning Ignis that the consequences for him will be dire. It sounds amused by the prospect.
Ignis doesn’t care. He takes his daggers and Noct’s magic ring and sets off.
He manages to kill the Six, with great difficulty (though Ramah doesn’t fight back at all. Somehow that’s worse) and with each one that is killed, the Undying gets stronger and his form gets clearer, and Ignis gets weaker, the repeated use of magic, combat and curse-like backlash from killing the gods damaging him.
By the time Ignis killed the last god, he’s actually dying, but he is conscious enough to realise that the Undying and the Accursed are one and the same, and Ignis has freed him.
I confess to loving the self-fulfilling prophecy trope. Anyway.
(Ignis should have known, did know, deep down but he didn’t care. What does the world matter without Noct?)
But ‘a promise is a promise’ and the Accursed brings back his “beloved Noct” just so he can suffer from watching Ignis die, and know that Ignis’ pain was because of him.
But Noct is still the child of light. He takes back his ring, heals Ignis, makes him promise not to do anything like that again (Ignis does not promise) and they have a loving moment, before heading out to track down the Accursed.
And they lived happily ever after because I say so. The end.
Bagginshield definitely fits the ico au I’m writing, but if I was going to write a shadow of the colossus au I would pick ignoct, because let’s face, Ignis would Do That for Noct.
So I have been thinking about this au while replaying SoC, and in it Noct would be killed due to a dual prophecy about him – that he would restore the light, but also bring about the return of the Accursed, and since it’s light enough now no one wants that.
After he is killed, Ignis (with help from Gladio and Prompto) smuggles Noct’s body away and heads to the shrine/prison of a shadowy entity known as the Undying and asks it to return Noct’s soul.
It agrees, if Ignis defeats the Six massive gods who are keeping him imprisoned, while warning Ignis that the consequences for him will be dire. It sounds amused by the prospect.
Ignis doesn’t care. He takes his daggers and Noct’s magic ring and sets off.
He manages to kill the Six, with great difficulty (though Ramah doesn’t fight back at all. Somehow that’s worse) and with each one that is killed, the Undying gets stronger and his form gets clearer, and Ignis gets weaker, the repeated use of magic, combat and curse-like backlash from killing the gods damaging him.
By the time Ignis killed the last god, he’s actually dying, but he is conscious enough to realise that the Undying and the Accursed are one and the same, and Ignis has freed him.
I confess to loving the self-fulfilling prophecy trope. Anyway.
(Ignis should have known, did know, deep down but he didn’t care. What does the world matter without Noct?)
But ‘a promise is a promise’ and the Accursed brings back his “beloved Noct” just so he can suffer from watching Ignis die, and know that Ignis’ pain was because of him.
But Noct is still the child of light. He takes back his ring, heals Ignis, makes him promise not to do anything like that again (Ignis does not promise) and they have a loving moment, before heading out to track down the Accursed.
And they lived happily ever after because I say so. The end.
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