That would definitely be interesting if Ravus was an Oracle (it wouldn't be good for Noctis or Insomnia though, but Ardyn would be pretty glad about it probably). AU aside, aren't Oracles always female? Also, there's supposed to be both King and Oracle like Luna's mother and Regis, but if Luna and Noctis had a kid - who woud be an Oracle after Luna? Or if the child was an Oracle, who would be the King? Ravus doesn't have kids, idk if he and Luna have other relatives.
I see alot of Ravus as Oracle headcanons and thoughts, and I can totally get behind the idea of this headcanon! It was mentioned, after all, during the developmental stages of the game that Ravus was the oracle, I think. Or at the very least, he had an ability to see the future and premonitions to the point where he had a visor over his eyes to hide them and prevent his powers from overwhelming him. That’s what I processed from the information. So I don’t think it’d be entirely unheard of for Ravus to have potentially been a candidate for Oracle.
But as you mentioned, oracles are technically female as far as we know. The first Oracle was female, it was suggested that Queen Sylva was oracle too, I believe, and then Lunafreya became oracle. But what if the direct linage of the oracle resulted in a generation of all boys? What happens with that? Does the Oracle have to stay alive until another female is born? I think that’d be really weird if they suddenly went ‘Your sister’s daughter is a girl. Make her oracle instead!’ But that’d be a really weird power struggle between the Fleuret family, even more so than it probably already was.
Imagine the political drama: The two children of the Oracle at the time, but one was deemed Oracle because of their stronger connection to the gods. But despite their power and capabilities, you come to find out that the Oracle is sterile or infertile. They aren’t able to give birth to any sort of kids, despite being the stronger Oracle. The other sibling knows this, so they do everything they could to make sure that their children in the future becomes the next Oracle and, in a sense, the next ruler of Tenebrae. So what do you know? Jealous sibling finds a way to assassinate the Oracle and get the gods to pick another Fleuret most attuned with the gods. I feel like the person with the strongest affinity to the gods will become oracle afterwards. And since the Fleurets are bred to be the closest to the gods, then it’s almost always gonna be a Fleuret, I imagine.
But I digress. Rambling about the potential political struggle of Fleurets!
Back to the topic of Ravus being an Oracle and the fate of the Oracles, I believe it is possible for an oracle to be a man. Nothing ever really said anything about it, you know? I mean, I feel like the Oracle will most like be female more often than male due to genetics and hereditary traits and stuff (Punnett squares, whoop!), but there’s a possibly chance of an Oracle being a male. Iimagine a cute and really pleasant thought the assumption, way back when, that the oracles have to all be female. But the Oracle, instead, gave birth to a son who was prophecized to be the next oracle. Everyone sort of went all ‘What? Your boy’s the Oracle?’ The awkward moment of the Oracle going to Lucis to converse with the king about what the gods were up to, only to have the king squint suspiciously because nobody’s ever heard of a male oracle.
The oracle just has to shrug as he scratches his cheek. ‘Do you want to hear what the gods have to say or not…?’
Or what if there was, perhaps, a transgender Oracle? Born a male, but suddenly picked as an Oracle, which is surprising, but they felt that they should have been born a female. The gods acknowledged that because they always had to pick a female oracle? Or what if they decided to pick a female, who wanted to become a male? If the gods knew about this too, then people would surely be surprised if and when it happened. Cute thought thought of all sorts of diverse and unique oracles over the two thousand years.
BUT I DIGRESS AGAIN. Let’s go back to the idea of Noctis and Lunafreya living and Ravus doing his thing. I imagine that if Lunafreya and Noctis did have a kid, they’d probably be both. Most of the Fleurets, it seems, perished during Niflheim’s attack. Even then, the family seemed rather small on its own. Unless Ravus has a minion child worthy enough to be picked in place of one of Lunafreya’s children, then I doubt the gods will really pass up the chance to pick the True King and the Oracle’s tiny child, male or female. The Fleuret line is small, so they’re going to pick the most powerful and closest to the gods regardless, so why not pick the king, even if he has his own duties?
Unless they decide to pick someone completely new from the Fleuret line, but that’s a whole different concept, I imagine. But not a possibility that can be overlooked either. Say the gods decide that with the conflicts of Oracle versus king, they decide to pick a new family line that can thrive as Oracle. It would be douchey, but still possible to keep a sense of balance for the world. The Astrals just have to pray that Luna and Noctis have another kid or they have to pick someone else, Fleuret or not.
Rambling Steph is rambling, but I feel like there’s alot you can speculate about the Oracles. c: Whether it’s an AU of Oracle!Ravus, the historic characters who could have been oracle, or the future of the Oracle linage. All sorts of speculations!
Too bad they all died though. Probably won’t be an oracle for a really long time. Oops.