Ardyn and Somnus lineart! I am actually really happy with how this is coming along and am having a great time adding all the little details in their clothes.
I have been staring at FFXIV clothes for inspiration for their outfits - especially the belts.
Ardyn is so proud of his lil bro, they are having such a fun time exploring!
I have like. Actual events I should be drawing for but instead I decided to draw all of Ruby Weapon’s outfits in the pokemon verse. A couple represent some characters, and a couple represent his canon outfit. :3 All of them I think are adorable. :3
You said “Please” and “Thank you”, so yours first. Thank you. <3 Sorry for taking so long!
(Spoilers ahead…I guess? And a Read More line)
Everyone remember Ardyn wasn’t born the devil; he grew up a kind and caring healer and prince, so I’m sticking to that side of him rather than the one we see in the main FFXV story.
Everyone beware…
The heir prince of Lucis, Ardyn Lucis Caelum.
Smol child Ardyn:
He’s the prettiest prince ever.
…so far, of course.
A bit chubby, with the roundest, softest cheeks ever.
Look at that ridiculous lonely lock of red-violet hair on his bald head, it’s so stupid and adorable.
Baby Ardyn in a moogle onesie.
Baby Ardyn’s greatly spoiled, he’s the baby prince.
Baby Ardyn’s laughing and clapping cause he’s getting so many gifts all the time, omg, he’s got a whole castle room all to himself just for his gifts and toys.
Smol child Ardyn is obsessed with moogles.
He l o v e s moogles.
Perhaps moogles were still alive during his times, so he has even more reasons to love them; they’re a real thing, not just plush toys.
Baby Ardyn is screeching when he sees one.
THEY ARE. SO. CCCCCCCCUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUTEEEEEEEEE.
Baby Ardyn’s never getting separated from his moogle plushie.
He’s a smol kid now and he’s still not getting away of it.
Smol kid Ardyn is best friends with a real moogle.
Good luck trying to get the prince out of that moogle onesie.
Smol kid Ardyn ows a pair of fake moogle wings that he’s wearing when they do get him out of that onesie.
He’s not a prince, he’s a moogle!
Or so he says.
Smol kid Ardyn, despite spoiled, grows up super sweet.
…a bit too sweet.
He’s so sensitive, please be careful with this child.
Smol kid Ardyn isn’t particularly keen of weapons.
He likes his toy sword and admires his dad and the tales of knights and that, but he doesn’t like that guards carry weapons.
Smol kid Ardyn doesn’t like when they jail people.
Smol kid Ardyn has tried to tell papa that people are good and only need to be “taught” to be good.
“Please, don’t kill them, papa :’(”
Smol kid Ardyn doesn’t like death sentences.
Smol kid Ardyn actually loves the life of Eos, every living creature.
Smol kid Ardyn is sneaking out of his room to wander around the castle looking for rat traps.
He’s hiding all the rat traps he finds in a drawer in his room.
If he finds a rat in one of them, he’s going to free it.
“It’s okay, little friend, I’m going to…how do I open…can you help me? Ah, it’s okay, please stop crying…I’m just going to…pull and…YAY! RUN! Don’t worry, I won’t tell anyone! :’)”
This once, the people of the castle went nuts because a stray dog made it into the gardens. The guards are chasing it and throwing rocks at it.
Smol kid just heard the news.
Good luck trying to separate that child from the dog.
Smol kid Ardyn’s hugged to the dog.
Accidentally received the hit of a rock for it.
Of course, no guard’s opening the mouth to say “It was me, I’m sorry”, THEY JUST HIT THE PRINCE.
No matter how many times you tell the prince to let go of that pulpy animal, he’s not going to let go until you all have put the swords down and until the dog’s been given water and food.
Smol kid Ardyn likes to play in the garden.
Smol kid Ardyn is stopping in his way if he sees ants passing by.
“Apologies, little friends. I’ll play in that other place :)”
He doesn’t want to hurt the ants.
Smol kid Ardyn likes to help the gardener to water the plants.
Smol kid Ardyn’s petting all the flowers and telling them they’re “good boys” and “good girls”.
Every flower.
Every. Flower.
It’s a royal garden. The child is petting. EVERY. FLOWER.
The gardener laughs and asks him how he knows which flowers are boys and which are girls.
“They tell me :)”
Oh.
Please don’t question him.
Smol kid Ardyn’s standing up for all the animals that the guards want to shoo away.
Smol kid Ardyn’s constantly found sat or knelt on the floor hugged to some stray animal he’s trying to protect.
“Your Highness, please let go of that cat…we have orders to-”
“No! :’(”
“It’s direct orders from the king-”
“Well, I am going to be king too, right? And I…and I…and I order you to not hurt the kitty!”
“Your Highness, please don’t make this any harder and let go of-”
“NO!”
I told you, you can try but no way is he ever letting go until you all put the swords down AND go away.
All animals are “Little friends.”
Smol kid Ardyn is apologizing to and thanking the meat he eats.
Smol kid Ardyn is apologizing to and thanking the wood and paper he uses.
Smol kid Ardyn also loves chocobos.
His obsession and passion for moogles isn’t surpassed, though, but he still loves em chocobos.
He’s growing up with his own black chocobo.
Both were babies together, aaw <3
Smol kid Ardyn attends his chocobo everyday.
He spends more time with his chocobo than with other people, tbh.
Smol kid Ardyn’s trusting all his secrets and gossip to his chocobo.
Best friend Moogle is a best friend and adviser moogle, but chocobo is a brother.
Smol kid Ardyn likes storybooks.
He has his own private shelf full of storybooks.
He doesn’t even need somebody else reads it for him, he likes to do it himself too.
Smoler child Ardyn that can’t read didn’t necessarily need someone either; he was content with seeing the drawings.
Smol kid Ardyn is constantly carrying with a storybook.
It’s not necessarily the same everyday.
He may not even read it, he just likes to carry it around “in case he wants to read it later and that way he doesn’t have to go all the way back to his shelf for it, he can carry it with him always.”
There goes the tiny 5 y.o. prince, running through a hallway, hugged to a book like he just stole it.
Smol kid Ardyn loves puppets.
Any way to entertain the prince? Do a puppet show.
You should have seen his face when it was a puppet show of MOOGLES.
He was ecstatic about it and requested it to be repeated for five days straight.
Smol kid Ardyn does this 5-second-long dance every time he enters the kitchen like it’s protocol.
“Why do you do that, your Highness?”
“It’s the kitchen!”
Please, do not question him.
Smol kid Ardyn has a collection of rocks.
They all have names and titles.
Indeed, it’s not a collection of rocks.
IT’S HIS COURT.
Smol kid Ardyn’s putting tiny pieces of clothes to each of the rocks.
It’s their capes.
Smol kid Ardyn likes camping.
He’s so smol, camping is shut short to happen in the castle’s gardens.
He doesn’t mind; he’s in a tent and “hunts for terrible, scary monsters and saves the kingdom”, so he’s cool with it.
Remember smol kid Ardyn’s constantly carrying a storybook around in case he feels like reading it at some point of the day?
The book can be missing. But one thing never is.
His journal.
Smol kid Ardyn has started writing and drawing in a journal.
It contains everything that makes him happy and that happened across the day.
He’s writing down what he did and how he felt.
He’s drawing lots of stuff to accompany the things he writes down.
Smol kid Ardyn’s carrying his journal everywhere to write down on it almost as soon as things happen.
“*scribbles* The guard didn’t let me thru trh trouhg the door :’(”
“Your Highness, please stop writing about me, I can see you, and I will not apologize for not letting you visit the prison with that murderer inside.”
“*scribbles* The guard is mean :’(”
“…come on, your Highness, I do NOT look like that. That is a childish drawing of- my teeth are not- can you please not- *sigh*”
Smol kid Ardyn doesn’t only care for his animal “little friends”, he’s also majorly concerned about people.
Smol kid Ardyn spends more time at the infirmary (is that word correct? non native speaker over here) than in his own room.
Smol kid Ardyn is visiting all the sick/injured people he finds, each one personally, and plays nurse with them.
Indeed, his healing abilities are discovered because of that.
Smol kid Ardyn, hand in hand with his moogle plushie, is constnatly visiting the castle’s infirmary and going with every person in there.
Smol kid Ardyn is climbing onto the chair at their bed’s side and he’s talking with them for like an hour or two.
Smol kid Ardyn is always going to reach for them and touch their foreheads like he’s seen nurses do.
He has no idea what he’s doing.
But he cares. And worries. Which is what matters.
Sometimes, smol kid Ardyn’s going to let magic act on people with neither noticing from that touch.
Or from hugs.
Smol kid Ardyn likes to hug the sick and injured.
Smol kid Ardyn likes to tell them over and over how they’re doing super good and how soon they’ll be alright again.
Smol kid Ardyn’s constantly told to leave and chased by guards because if the prince catches an illness due to direct contact and exposure, the king will be VERY upset.
Smol kid Ardyn’s never falling sick for his constant visits to the infirmary.
Smol kid Ardyn wants to cuddle all the injured and sick.
Sometimes he’s gifting some of them a plush toy.
“But, your Highness…this is yours…”
“I have too many! You have this one! :)”
Smol kid Ardyn is scared of large water bodies.
He likes jumping on puddles, but…a lake…
Brr.
Smol kid Ardyn’s hiding behind dad or a guard if he thinks they’ll get close to the lake.
Please do not take this child nearby the sea.
Smol kid Ardyn likes fire, though.
His greatly developed talent and skill for magic first showed, after the healing abilities, through fire.
Smol kid Ardyn likes to lit a small flame in his palms.
The movement is so pretty. The colors are so pretty.
FIRE IS SO PRETTY.
Smol kid Ardyn’s never doing that in the garden or nearby “little friends”, though.
Doesn’t want to harm anyone :’(
Smol kid Ardyn LOVES BUBBLES.
HE LOVES THEM SO MUCH.
The prince won’t stop being all excited, giggly, or happy when he’s bathed because THERE’S SO MANY BUBBLES.
The prince’s favorite time is bath time, because BUBBLES.
The actual trouble with him is trying to get him out of the tub.
Smol kid Ardyn’s chasing all the bubbles he sees.
Smol kid Ardyn’s eating the bubbles.
It’s adorable, but please do stop him.
Smol kid Ardyn likes ribbons.
His favorite part of gifts is the ribbons.
Smol kid Ardyn’s putting all ribbons he finds on his head and arms.
Smol kid Ardyn will put a ribbon on you if he likes you.
Smol kid Ardyn’s putting a ribbon to everything.
Smol kid Ardyn carries with a lot of ribbons he kept from gifts he was given so he can go around put them on things and people he likes.
Guard was good with him. Kid Ardyn is asking him to lean down so he can put a ribbon on him.
Frog is cute. It needs a ribbon.
This chair was nice with him. Ribbon.
“Mister papa’s Shield, you’re TOO TOL, can you please come down, I can’t reach you :’(”
Ardyn’s putting a ribbon on him, too.
Rock is nice. Rock needs ribbon.
This ribbon is so nice it needs a ribbon.
Smol kid Ardyn likes to poke people with a stick.
He’s not trying to make them laugh or upset. He just likes poking.
Smol kid Ardyn’s not expecting any reaction.
Smol kid Ardyn’s poking you for hours.
Smol kid Ardyn is sat on the floor, poking your leg.
“Why are you doing this, your Highness?”
“Poke.”
Okay.
Smol kid Ardyn is a bit frightened by short haired women.
Do not question him.
You wanna make smol kid Ardyn happy?
Let him roll down a hill.
Smol kid Ardyn’s rolling down a hill.
The nannies and guards are losing their shit; the prince is going to harm himself, look, this is so aggresive, such a barbarian activity, what will we tell the king if the kid ends up hitting himself against something, omg, whatdoIdo
Smol kid Ardyn’s not going to be convinced to return to the castle until he rolls down the same hill another 50 times.
Smol kid Ardyn likes to stand among his mountatin of plush toys and pretend to be one.
He could do that for hours.
It’s happened multiple times that the guards lose sight of him and go into a paranoid mess because they can’t find him.
The castle’s turning itself upside-down in the search for the little prince.
The little shit is sat in complete silence among his plushies, staring at everyone pass by.
He’s not even trying to hide, he’s literally sat there, exposed to sight.
Project Adagium didn’t like early morning tests. They weren’t as bad as when the doctor took samples, but he didn’t like getting less sleep either. This one was basic, hit daemons with magic. But somewhere in the middle of it something went odd. Energy started pouring out from the central chamber, not created by himself, and judging from Verstael’s screams to secure the “ruby weapon” not created by the scientist either.
The change from routine scared the little boy, and lighting crawled up his arms defensively as the energy kept expanding until it enveloped him. It pulled at him like a black hole, lighting blinding him and energy roaring in his ears. Thankfully the sensation went away clearly, but he didn’t feel better as he blinked the spots out if his eyes.
He was still in a lab, but it was not the one he spent all five years of his life in. Unlike the stark white of Verstael’s lab, this one was darkly illuminated in shades of red. Less like a hospital and more like the lair of some horrible beast. He could make out figures as well when his lighting dissipated against the glass wall he’d fired it at. All of them dressed in red with strange hair and goggles, and a large man in the center whose lenses seemed to dig into his skull.
“Where am I?” He asked finally, a little fireball held steady in his hands like a security blanket.
"I'll wear this for you cause it's Yule and I love you," He sighed. "But ALSO, I have a knit cap that's actually attractive and looks like a strawberry, and I'm definitely wearing that in public instead of this pet costume looking nightmare."
After talking with @inimiicus some I thought it’d be a good idea to make up some stuff where people can interact with Child Ardyn! T
All versions will be unable to read and relatively confused by advanced technology, though they will catch on quickly.
So there are two versions of this idea, one with 8 year old Zunia, and one with 11 year old Izunia
8 YEAR OLD ARDYN NOTES
Eight year old Izunia is a clever boy, curious about everything people do and quite a quick learner when given have a chance. He’s quiet around strangers, but he’ll follow anyone who’s doing something interesting around to see if he can figure it out. He has some basic knowledge of math, but can’t read because no one’s taught him. His mother has taught him some basic weaving skills at this point, as well as a little embroidery and sewing, but he can’t cook. He will be poltie to authority figures, but doesn’t see a point to respecting the gods since they mostly ignore people anyway.
He’s mostly just a normal child, with no experience with criminal activities or rougher aspects of the world yet.
11 YEAR OLD ARDYN NOTES
His mother has taken sick with an early version of the scourge (and will eventually die of it when he’s twelve.), and because she’s a single parent her being bed ridden has left him with the responsibilities of the household. He cooks and keeps up the house, and tries to sell woven fabric, though with the skill he has he can’t sell it for as much. He’s distrustful of adults and authority figures because he’s worried they will hurt his mom, and his indifference of the gods have upgraded to dislike, because people have already started to make rumors that the disease is meant to punish people.
Still very clever and curious, he’s started using his smarts to try and get more money through theft. His math is pretty decent so he doesn’t get ripped off with money, but he still can’t read. He can’t fight but it won’t stop him trying, and as much as he tries to be a grown up he’s still a kid at heart. ( a good way to see this is to introduce him to a chocobo, since it’s something he’s always wanted to see in person, closer than when nobles are riding them in parades.)
Regis looked down at his surprise visiter and immediately noticed his sullen mood. "Is there something wrong, Ardyn?"
From here with @thelastkingoflight
He doesn’t move much from his flopped location even though Regis asked him a question. Instead choosing to lift up his phone with it’s calendar reminder blaring on the screen. He’s fairly sure his father has a similar aversion to the day, but decides to speak it’s name just to be clear.
“‘s mother’s day,” He mumbles. “It sucks.”
It’s near inaudible, muffled additionally by Regis’ torso with the direction Ardyn is lying. But it’s clear enough when paired with the phone’s date.