#ravusdeservedbetter

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RAVUS & THE STARSCOURGE

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This is Ravus.

Don’t even get him started on the empire.

(Previously on ‘This is Ravus’)

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“Blessed are the righteous, the lights in the shadow. In their blood the Maker's will is written.”

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Curious about your thoughts on this...what do you think Ravus's real fears are? Besides the obvious worries over Luna's safety and Tenebrae as a whole, do you think there are particular things that consistently bother him? Personally I'm not sure if Ravus would be more afraid of physical pain or of losing himself mentally, so I'd love to hear your input. Plus a guy who's that tall has gotta be at least a little claustrophobic

Psychologically, Ravus probably does have quite a bit of attachment issues, I feel – especially after having lost those he grew-up around during the assault of Tenebrae. Perhaps he has night terrors still about the incident, often feeling the guilt that he couldn’t do anything to protect his mother. And that his sister was subjugated to the sudden responsibility to train as Oracle and whom was probably physically and mentally abused by the Empire as she was trying to continue her training to stop the Empire ultimately. So he probably has alot of pent-up anxiety that probably triggers when he feels inadequate. When he feels like he isn’t good enough. And the really shitty thing is is that the entire series just showed just how much his fears came to life – with just how much he will fail and eventually prove that he is in fact not good enough.

That when he’s around, tragedy follows soon after. Because think about it: he probably felt guilty about what happened to everyone around him. If he wasn’t so weak, he could have protected his mother from the MTs and Glauca. If he wasn’t so arrogant and full of hate, Regis’s fate wouldn’t have been so awful. If he hadn’t provoked Ardyn and betrayed his trust, Lunafreya wouldn’t have died. Over and over, Ravus felt like things were always his fault. And I think that’s what scares him the most – it’s realizing that it all is. So I think that really weighs heavy on Ravus, and he struggles and struggles to find a way to redeem his faults. And yet, it never did seem like it was enough – no matter how hard he tried.

Another thought: have you ever considered the possibilities of Ravus being pyrophobic? After all, fires seem to be a reoccurring sight for Ravus. First having to see his mother burned alive before being slain before his very eyes – all at the age of sixteen. Then, when he attempts to wear the ring of Lucii, the fires of the king ultimately burn his hand away – scarring him for life and taking away a physical part of himself in its wake. That, and even during the fall of Altissia, I’m sure fires from the destruction really did cause Ravus to feel the anxiety and fear. And when word of Lunafreya’s death came to his attention, the fires and the destruction really did have a horrible omen and association with them.

So those are my thoughts for Ravus’s fears: the High Commander Ravus Nox Fleuret, the man who strikes fear in the hearts of men – all while trying to combat fears of his own.

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Damn, Shade. Damn. @mashimarorabbit

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Yeah. Probably.

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Hey, I'm sorry you might have been asked and answered this before but, do you think Ravus had the Oracle's abilities as well ?

Oh, don’t apologize at all! C: I never explicitly answered this question before, I don’t think, but I did discuss it over HERE in regards to why the Ring of Lucii spared Ravus. It talks about Ravus being the last of the Oracle line, that sort of thing in it~

But to me? I think he did have some sort of hints of Oracle power in him. I mean, Ravus was enough of a threat, potentially as Oracle, for Ardyn to kill him too, right? He could have just let Ravus wander and let Ravus’s internal injuries kill the high commander. Because let’s be real: Noctis survived that fall on pure fate. Ravus probably survived it by either his MT arm or his oracle abilities healing him enough to move along. The idea of another Oracle wandering around, potentially going to be there to try stopping Ardyn and the prophecy? Ardyn had to stop Ravus because Ravus was going to be a threat. Just like how he killed Lunafreya, Luna was going to try helping him and aid in stopping him. So he killed her and gave Noctis a reason to want Ardyn dead.

Why not do that with Ravus as well? Push Noctis even further by killing a man who didn’t deserve his fate at all, and then punishing Ravus and Noctis by turning Ravus into a monster?

By defiling the very thing that would help protect the world from the Starscourge and eternal night? The Oracle.

And if you think about it too: the Oracle has the ability to heal the affects of the Starscourge and of daemons, right? Throughout the game, we never see Ravus fight with his arm, much less use it for anything except to choke out punk-ass fiances, caress sister hands, and do the angsty emo fist clench. Typically with prosthetics, it can bring alot of physical strain and probably really wears Ravus down. It’s probably why we never really see it leave his side unless he’s gotta use it (mostly to comfort Lunafreya. Natural reactions and feelings, etc).

So after Lunafreya’s death, when he actually had a reason to use his oracle powers (or perhaps when the powers were relinquished to him), we start seeing him use his arm slightly more. To secure a grip on Regis’s sword, to give the sword to Noctis/Ardyn, to block a goddamn necromancer with his metal arm i mean how cool is that that’s crazy cool…! So perhaps he healed himself just enough to allow himself to fight: to combat Ardyn and find a way to get the sword back to Noctis and help him finally stop the Starscourge once and for all.

So yes, I do think that Ravus had the oracle abilities as well. Perhaps it wasn’t too apparent, or perhaps he didn’t need to rely on them, but I have a feeling he did have some sort of essence of the power to him – whether he knew it or not. c:

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Hey, do you have any idea about how Ravus managed to not be barbecued by the Ring of the Lucii? I mean, everyone burned, except him.

Dear anon, you provoke me with an analysis based question! I live for answering these types of questions, despite my answers usually being speculation. But let me tell you a bit about my idea about Ravus only getting toasted instead of roasted.

So Ravus Nox Fleuret: the butthead brother of Kingsglaive whom meanders in, tells Lunafreya she can’t go to Lucis with him, and then proceeds to be a spiteful little butthead to Regis by saying ‘You don’t deserve the ring!’ and getting his arm melted off like a kid melts his toys whenever he’s bored. Why would Ravus of all people deserve to be spared for his arrogance and hubris while people like Luche Lazarus got ‘lunchy laza-roast?’ (*badum tsst!*)

Well, there can be many different reasons: the astrals secretly saw he wasn’t as bad of a butthead as they thought he was, they thought Ravus was just being a petty bitch and went ‘Nah. You don’t deserve to die yet.’ So on and so forth, but for me, you wanna know what I think?

In my mind, my theory is that Ravus was spared by the ring of the Lucii because the prophecy wasn’t fulfilled yet. The prophecy of the last of the oracle linage would die for Noctis.

You know how Lunafreya was prophesied to die for the sake of helping Noctis make the covenant and the pacts with the astrals was slowly killing her because of it? To me, that wasn’t the true prophecy then. Lunafreya was the oracle then, but according to what the covenants are, it was inevitable that Lunafreya was going to die if she finalized the rest of the covenants for Noctis’s sake. She already made a deal with four of the astrals over the course of the game, but to be honest? She probably made a deal with Bahamut too, asking him for his help to help Noctis, and of course Bahamut is gonna agree. His little oracle child and the punk-ass prince has to stop Ardyn and Ifrit because, ya know, fuck those two. The Starscourge and darkness has gone too far and Bahamut has had enough of it.

So she was fated to die, yes, and she knew this. But when she died after Ardyn killed her, you know what happened? The prophecy wasn’t fulfilled still. Not by her, because you know what other Fleuret with a candidacy for becoming Oracle was still alive after the current oracle had died?

Ravus Nox Fleuret, the next oracle.

Spoiler ahead for chapter 13, verse 2, but we find out that, what do you know? Ravus had an allegiance to Noctis now. He’s really been siding with Noctis for awhile now, despite coming off as a total butthead for most of the game, and he even has the nerve to outright say to Iedolas that Noctis is the one true king. Iedolas gets pissed, throws Ravus off the edge, and it’s then we see Ravus encounter ‘Noctis,’ saying that ‘By the blood of the oracle’ he gives Noctis back Regis’s sword. Of course, Ravus is offed by Ardyn, who was pretending to be the punk-ass prince, but you know what? Ravus did complete his task to Noctis, because what do you know? Ravus never let go of the damn sword even after he died. Only in that symbolic fall of Ravus’s MT arm was it truly significant that Ravus handed off the title and the approval to Noctis.

Where am I going with this? Well, you see, with Ravus being alive, that means another oracle has to be instated, right? Lunafreya, for example, became the youngest oracle to ever be chosen because Sylva, the last oracle, had died during the attack of the Fleuret manor. So it seems that an assumption we can make that there’s always an oracle that can be chosen so long as the bloodline exists. Lunafreya was chosen over Ravus first though since probably A) oracles are usually female (if you wanna follow that line of logic) or B) she would be destined to have a closer bond to Noctis than Ravus would. So she was picked, but it was said that Ravus was never ruled out as oracle completely, I don’t believe. He even claims himself ‘blood of the oracle.’ Sibling blood, meaning that he too has the candidacy of becoming oracle should he be needed.

And with Ravus being the last of the Fleurets, he became oracle after Lunafreya. He would be the one to fulfill the oracle’s part in the prophecy. 

The Astrals are all big and very into the whole ‘you cannot defy your fate’ type thing, and literally everything had come true in their prophecies. Noctis would take the throne, the oracle would die, and darkness would end after the true king sacrifices himself to bright light back to the world. The prophecy would be fulfilled in accordance to what to Lucii demands and what the Astrals dictate, even if they have to pull the strings to do so. So with Ravus nearly dying because he pissed off the Lucii, that would ruin what the Astrals had planned for Ravus. So, I imagine because of it, Ravus was spared to find his redemption and live up to his part in the prophecy.

So in my eyes, Ravus seems like he was unworthy enough to be killed by the Lucii, but instead, he was deemed worthy. Worthy enough to continue with his life and continue to fulfill his role in the prophecy.