Hurt Noct Week 2021

August 22-28, 2021

[hurtnoctweek]

While Noct's recovering from his week of hell, we want to thank everyone for making this event so wonderful. We will continue to accept entries so please don't hesitate to share your late works with us when they're finished.

We hope to see you all again for HurtNoctWeek2022.

[ammyc-art]

I know this is late but I wanted to make art for my Hurt Noct Week 2021 fic

Please mind the tags, it’s very dark

archiveofourown.org/works/33574885

[ffxvficrec]

Hurt Noct Week Round Up 1

Here we are with the first round up for @hurtnoctweek​! 

- We have listed relationships [platonic and romantic], ratings, and Archive Warnings - With that in mind, please tread mindfully! Remember to look at the tags before reading.

You can also check out the AO3 collection: https://archiveofourown.org/collections/HurtNoctWeek2021/works

Day One: Captured Prince 

Bird in Hand by Mokulule

Graphic Depictions Of Violence

Noctis Lucis Caelum

Iedolas Aldercapt

Verstael Besithia

Mature Rating

In which Noctis generally doesn’t have a good time.

Fight or Flight by Nyxx_Kess

Graphic Depictions Of Violence

Noctis Lucis Caelum

Ignis Scientia

Prompto Argentum

Gladiolus Amicitia

Mature Rating

But trussed up against something solid, hands stuck too far behind him to get any real leverage, he hasn’t figured out a way to disentangle himself from that.

Gladio’s going to need to add this one to the training drill list.

Seen Not Heard by everylemon

No Archive Warnings Apply

Noctis Lucis Caelum

Ignis Scientia

Gladiolus Amicitia

Prompto Argentum

Teen Rating

Whatever his kidnappers had done, they’d done as if to intentionally steal the Prince’s voice—an unsavory blend of fairy tale and horror story.

Of course, they hadn’t killed him. They clearly could have.

But Noctis never spoke again.

Deals in Darkness by GuineaGoon

No Archive Warnings Apply

Ravus Nox Fleuret/Noctis Lucis Caelum

Teen Rating

Everyone knew the Caelum family was odd. Their eccentricities were remarked upon in history books going back to their founder king. Anyone who spent enough time with the family knew this. Most people dismissed it as a quirk of being royalty and usually accepted it without too much trouble.

“If you truly want an interesting time, catch yourself a Caelum. I assure you, you’ll learn a great deal about daemons, and how to utilize the Crystal’s power,” Izunia mused while looking at his nails.

They only had one Caelum to catch, and they had been having a hard time tracking down Noctis Lucis Caelum in the wilds of Lucis ever since the fall of Insomnia.

Longing For the Sweet Oblivion of Death by star54kar

Graphic Depictions Of Violence

Major Character Death

Explicit Rating

Blisteringly bright, white pain, worse than anything he’d experienced in the entirety of his existence, consumed Noctis’ being as he was dragged back to consciousness with a harsh gasp.

He Endures by sabishisa

Graphic Depictions Of Violence

Teen Rating

Noctis suffers extreme electrocution for the sake of science. Made for Day 1 of Hurt Noct Week, the theme of which was Captured Prince.

Day Two: Relationship Woes 

Cross My Heart and Hope to Die by everylemon

No Archive Warnings Apply

Prompto Argentum & Noctis Lucis Caelum

General Rating

But the buzz cut guy’s not giving up, and he’s definitely got Prompto in his sights, too—which, great, gotta love that. He shoulders into their way, forcing them to stop because there’s no way around him in the crowded hallway, and gives a mocking little half-bow. “Prince Noctis! This here your royal consort?”

Nif by somewherealight

No Archive Warnings Apply

Teen Rating

Someone in Noct’s retinue is a traitor.

Not Like This by sabishisa

No Archive Warnings Apply

Lunafreya Nox Fleuret & Noctis Lucis Caelum

Prompto Argentum/Noctis Lucis Caelum

General Rating

Noctis meets Luna in Altissia and finally makes a major confession that shatters their relationship.

Things Change by quartzguts

No Archive Warnings Apply

Noctis Lucis Caelum & Ignis Scientia

Prompto Argentum & Noctis Lucis Caelum

Gladiolus Amicitia & Noctis Lucis Caelum

Teen Rating

When Noctis wakes up, his friends aren’t the people he remembers them to be.

My Comfort in You by Nyxx_Kess

No Archive Warnings Apply

General Rating

Noctis keeps trying to reach across the gap, but his father seems to stay just out of his reach.

But Who Am I? by GuineaGoon

No Archive Warnings Apply

Prompto Argentum/Noctis Lucis Caelum

Teen Rating

Many days Noctis found himself almost staring at everyone in a daze and trying to find a way to truly connect with them again. They had ten years of experiences together he had missed. There were comments and jokes he didn’t understand, and he couldn’t bring himself to ask what the reference was to.

So he stayed quiet and on the side. He watched and tried to learn, feeling like a stranger in a foreign land.

Prompto did his best to include him, but there was only so much the blonde could manage. He realized that while they had worked to keep him alive, his three friends had also drifted apart in their own ways. He could see the deep fissures they were trying to repair now that everyone was attempting to bring back Lucis to the glory they had had before.

Too Late To Say by Fantasywriter

No Archive Warnings Apply

Prompto Argentum/Noctis Lucis Caelum

Prompto Argentum/Cindy Aurum

Mature Rating

Noctis is too late when he finally decides to open up telling Prompto how he truly feels about his best friend.

[hurtnoctweek]

Be sure to post in the Ao3 collection HurtNoctWeek2021, Twitter, or Tumblr. Don’t forget to tag us at @HurtNoctWeek or #HurtNoctWeek2021. All previews must be SFW & have appropriate trigger warnings. As a reminder, you can substitute a theme/prompt from any day or any of the Alternate Prompts.

[cakelanguage]

This took much longer than I thought it would, but work has been absolutely exhausting lately. I’m honestly just excited that I get to share this with you all because I really wanted to participate in Hurt!Noct Week. This is a combination of day 1 prompts: buried alive and captured by Nifleheim (at least sort of?). This is just the 1st chapter, but I figured I’d share at least this bit for now. I hope you enjoy this!

You can also read this on AO3

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He should’ve called Ignis. Or texted Gladio that he was going to be ten minutes late to their training session. Or Astrals, accepted Prompto’s offer to walk home with him even though his house was in the opposite direction.

But he hadn’t.

Keep reading

[maeroj]

Hurt Noct Week Day 6 | Maeroj #pixiv https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/92310151

In which Noctis experiences Final Fantasy XV from our side of the screen.

My friend Melia came up with this idea and it may fit day 6. Since I may only get one prompt in on time I figured this is the most all encompassing whump I could muster.

[hurtnoctweek]

Be sure to post in the Ao3 collection HurtNoctWeek2021, Twitter, or Tumblr. Don’t forget to tag us at @HurtNoctWeek or #HurtNoctWeek2021. All previews must be SFW & have appropriate trigger warnings. As a reminder, you can substitute a theme/prompt from any day or any of the Alternate Prompts.

[every-lemon]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

T, gen, 1.5k, one-shot. Graphic depictions of violence. For the @hurtnoctweek prompt Stasis.

Noct takes the hit for Prompto.

Gladio's spent the past two hours hunched towards a computer monitor in the tiny cubicle that is the Crownsguard’s evidence review station. Beneath the arrhythmic flicker of the florescent light, he watches the surveillance videos from both cameras again and again and again: in slow-mo, with noise removal filters to sharpen the grainy picture, with Ignis and Marshal Leonis and his dad peering over his shoulder.

But the end result never changes. It’s obvious, every time.

He forces himself to watch the moment when the bullets hit. Ignis would tell him to stop self-flagellating, but he knows he doesn’t deserve to flinch away.

Not when Noct took the hit.

[hurtnoctweek]

Be sure to post in the Ao3 collection HurtNoctWeek2021, Twitter, or Tumblr. Don’t forget to tag us at @HurtNoctWeek or #HurtNoctWeek2021. All previews must be SFW & have appropriate trigger warnings. As a reminder, you can substitute a theme/prompt from any day or any of the Alternate Prompts.

[mokulule]

Bird in Hand - Chapter 1

HurtNoctWeek day 1 Prompt: Captured by Niflheim

Summary: They are silent for a time, until the soldier remarks: “The Emperor wouldn’t have wanted you alive just to have you killed, if that helps.”

“You know, I don’t think it does.” Noctis chuckles humorlessly and tastes fresh blood in his mouth. “If this is the only way you have to contain my magic-” he has to pause, needs to catch his breath before continuing, “‘think I’d rather die.”

Or in which Noctis generally doesn’t have a good time.

Tags: Hurt!NoctAngst, Incidental torture, also a bit of overt torture, Video Game Mechanics, Canon-Typical Violence, Hurt No Comfort, Chronic Pain, Coughing Blood, Impaled through the chest

https://archiveofourown.org/works/33405370/chapters/82976362

[hurtnoctweek]

Be sure to post in the Ao3 collection HurtNoctWeek2021, Twitter, or Tumblr. Don’t forget to tag us at @HurtNoctWeek or #HurtNoctWeek2021. All previews must be SFW & have appropriate trigger warnings. As a reminder, you can substitute a theme/prompt from any day or any of the Alternate Prompts.

[haircutboys]

Duty and Love / Light and Dark

For the @ficwip drabble challenge for August (in the spirit of @hurtnoctweek Day 4: Royal Pressures)

Read on Ao3 

[every-lemon]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

G, gen, one-shot, 1k; canonical character death.

It takes ten years for the Crystal to hatch. No one is there to bear witness. The Crystal has been kept safely tucked deep in a crag of one of its wing-like peaks Angelgard, watched over from afar by the remnant of the Glaives.

(Later, people will come to the island to marvel over the cracked husk of the Crystal, broken open like a geode, with dark splatters of blood to mute its shine and bits of iridescent scales stuck in the cracks between sharp, rocky edges.)

No, no one sees the hatching. But when the dragon inside soars above the island, powerful wingbeats whipping away Scourge-tainted clouds to reveal a patch of starlight in the sky beyond—

When it spreads its massive wings wide, its form silhouetted against the silver of the unveiled full moon—

People see that, and they never forget it.

Read the rest >>

[deducitetemporacarmen]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

This is my contribution for the @hurtnoctweek 2021 Day 1: Didn’t escape the Tenebraen invasion

The fic has 7 chapters (26k in total) and updates daily. I’m hitting some more Noctis hurting prompts in the middle chapters, but there’s also quite a bit of plot, so be aware of that.

Title: what an honor, what an injustice

Rating: Mature

No romantic pairings, Ravus & Noctis, Ravus & Luna

Warnings (for the whole fic): coercion, captivity, human experimentation, violence, violence against children (Noctis is 13 for the majority of the fic), additional (more specific) warnings will be in the notes at the end of each chapter

Summary:

Cowering next to the throne is none other than Noctis Lucis Caelum, crown prince of Lucis. There’s a crude metal collar around the boy’s neck, attached to the throne with a heavy chain. He’s in no better state than Ravus, face dirty and clothes torn. He’s looking back at Ravus, eyes big and glistening. His legs are splayed uselessly to the side, while he holds himself up on his arms.

Joining the Niflheim military was the first impossible choice Ravus had to make. It’s not the last one.

[deducitetemporacarmen]

Chapter 3 is up filling the alternate prompt “public beating/humiliation” for the @hurtnoctweek >:D

[quartzguts]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

My second fic for hurt noct week 2021 - day 3, human experimentation. Mind the tags.

[hurtnoctweek]

Be sure to post in the Ao3 collection HurtNoctWeek2021, Twitter, or Tumblr. Don’t forget to tag us at @HurtNoctWeek or #HurtNoctWeek2021. All previews must be SFW & have appropriate trigger warnings. As a reminder, you can substitute a theme/prompt from any day or any of the Alternate Prompts.

[every-lemon]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

G, gen, 680 words, one-shot. More comfort than hurt this time ♥️

It’s magic, really, the way the weight comes off his swollen knee as the saltwater holds him; a revelation of weightlessness after gravity’s steady pull. He comes up for air and flips to float on his back, breathing steadily until he’s loose-limbed, relieved of the steady burn of maltreated muscle.

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(written for HurtNoctWeek day 3: chronic pain)