“Why am I awake before my alarm, again? Can I close my eyes for five minutes and sleep just for that? - Yes.”
5:00 alarm is blaring in his ear out like light does not hear it until it goes off after fifteen minutes of horrid alarms buzzing.
Dreams of Ardyn being pecked at by angry white chocobos.
6:00 the Legit Wake Up Alarm
“Fuck, so much for actually doing something this morning.”
If he wakes up by 5 AM he practices writing haiku they are amateur in his mind but if Lunafreya gets a hold of them she is posting them everywhere she has even sent them with Umbra to Noctis. (Though Noctis often thinks they are something she wrote despite she mentions it does belong to Ravus, she’s just proud of her brother’s talent.) The haiku are generally about dreams from the night before or if the birds outside his window he writes about them.
They chirp so loudly now
waking me from my deep sleep
It is pleasant though
His metabolism is high so he has to eat often so there are morning snacks to get him fully out of bed. Butterscotch is the candy of choice for getting him out of bed, a gob of three of them in his mouth.
6:10 AM – Showering
Showering takes way too much time for him now they use to be several minutes long but now it’s almost forty five minutes. He only uses certain hair products made by a old lady from Tennebrae that a “friend” of his suggested to him one day in passing after noticing his hair was not as luxurious as it should be. Showering with one arm is a challenge it takes some serious planning and skill, some days it’s too much and he will just “Whore Bath” it and clean up with a wet sponge and wash his hair in the sink. (Those days he’s generally a bit grouchier as he doesn’t feel as clean.) Ravus has fallen many times in the bathtub trying to reach out for a railing on the arm that isn’t currently attached. He’s pretty sure he’s given himself a concussion several times. The boy has dropped the soap and bottles of shampoo many times, he berates himself often for him so hearing him shower tends to be rather prolific.
“Damn twats making these bottles so slippery who hasn’t heard of ergonomic bottles?”
When he gets out of the shower he looks like a drowned cat it’s rather cute, specially if he has the towel just wrapped around his waist and he’s attempting to comb his hair. After drying his hair it is a complete afro look, all tangled and looking cute.
6:55 AM – Dressing
Dressing is easy for Ravus he has a uniform to adhere to so it’s simple. Though if he’s not working for the day, which is rare he has a small selection of very fine taste clothing. Well fitting three piece suits, to wear outside the house. Inside the house it’s slightly different though only a few have seen these pieces of attire it consists of sweatpants and tank tops, hoodies as well with the arm ripped off to accommodate his Magitek arm. He ripped his favorite hoodie when he first put it on with the Magitek arm, it was not his finest moment in history. The words that flew from his mouth would surprise the foulest of mouths. He ended up sitting on the bedroom floor for several hours plucking at threads stuck in the plates of the Magitek arm.
7:30 AM – Glorious Coffee and Food
One cup of coffee in the morning and the rest of the day it is tea, it’s a personal store of coffee beans he has no one is allowed to use it. Lunafreya doesn’t even dare to touch it. He has a very well loved coffee maker, he grinds the beans himself and tamps the grounds to get the perfect flavor profile. There is no such thing as those flavored creamers in his fridge it’s just straight up half and half milk and a bit of sugar. Coffee is one of the things Ravus does not like sweet. Though the french toast, with whipped cream and powdered sugar on the other hand needs to be sweet with strawberries on top. Ravus cooks breakfast don’t ask him to make any other meals he will fail at it or just plain deny he knows the difference between a tablespoon and a teaspoon. Breakfast is eaten in silence as he reads over the morning news that he gets delivered to first before anyone else there is fresh flowers on the table as well from the local flower shop run by a pretty lady with beautiful black hair and silver-blue streak of hair crossing over her eyes.
8:00 AM – Dealing with that one Twat (aka work)
Work is spent keeping up the personal wall of “leave me the fuck alone”. Frequent breaks are taken to massage his shoulder that aches with a lot of pain on days that is really cold or rainy. He doesn’t like to depend on pain killers or potions to take away the pain as they make him rather loopy and sleepy. He goes for the massages and yoga poses to help with the pains he will lock his office door and pull off the long jacket and do yoga. (Ardyn has photos of him doing the warrior pose and dolphin pose.) Many snacks are in his pockets for sating his high metabolism, hard candies, the strawberry flavored ones are his favorites. (Lunafreya LIVES for the sour candies.)
“I swear if I fine a sour apple gummy…”
“There is more Chocobos in my office?”
“I will do the Thing when I feel like it.”
“More paper work? She stole how many hi-potions this time around?”
?? PM
Upon returning home Ravus is one to change clothes first get out of the jacket and the uniform. ONCE he is comfortable, it goes to dealing with dinner. If he’s feeling brave he will cook dinner but it’s not often as he is way too tired to do so most often. The maid generally has it made for him, she is not seen very often and Ravus likes it that way it’s not like he’s mean to her it’s just easier that way. His privacy is very important to him, hiring the maid was one of the highest importance to him she had to be very special. He really likes his alone time. Guilty pleasure binge watches t.v and eats his dinner sitting cross legged on the couch staring avidly at the screen so in tuned with the show. Has a weakness for comedies though one would never know unless you were quoting it wrong and he snidely corrects you, a glint in his hetero-chromatic eyes.
Reads the text messages Lunafreya sends him through the day finally as he’s bringing dishes to the sink doesn’t always reply but loves seeing her random pictures of things she finds on her adventures dealing with the Astrals. Totally does a face mask before bed, brushes his teeth and gets into sleep pants, doesn’t sleep in a shirt any longer due to the Magitek arm just so annoying. Takes all the medicines supplied to him before bed as they make him loopy and feel gross he just takes them at night, they are to help with the “fusion of the Magitek arm” or some shit the doctors told him.
“Damn Anak sized pills, there is no one that could swallow these without gagging.”
Grumbles each night before taking them, drinks a bottle of water to down them, coughing a little as the pills go down roughly. Ardyn and Aranea tease him for his inability to swallow pills without coughing, whenever he forgets to take one before bed and regrettably has to take them in the morning.
Sleep is not easy, he would love to say the second his head hits the fluffy pillows he’s out like a light. But he spends most of the time reviewing what had happened during the day that he wished he had said or done. Sleeps with a stuffed Moogle that Lunafreya got him, it is always snuggled up close to him alongside his body pillow that is pinned between his knees and arms to help with his back. Once he is asleep though he is out he is snoring, it is small little snores that Ardyn and Lunafreya will say is super adorable. He denies it at all costs.
“I do not snore only plebeians snore!”
Sorry Ravus anyone can snore~.
He has a lot of nightmares which makes sleeping hard but the medication helps make them a little less bothersome as he doesn’t always remember them in the morning.
