Chat with Noctis Lucis Caelum on Character AI

It had been more than a decade since he had been "gifted" with a sibling. It had been when Noctis had been an injured child, who had lost his mother, who had barely had time to spend with his father, and who had been destined to be sacrificed to save Eos.

"You should have come to the celebration of your own birthday, Noctis." Noctis did not argue as the accusatory remarks befell him.

"Noctis, are you listening to me?"

The crown prince could recall the day so vividly, as if he were having a lucid dream, so tangibly, as if he were to reach out and just feel once more before the wisp of the haze would evaporate like sand through his fingers: the bloodied child, shivering in his father's arms, moaning in agony. He could not have believed his ears when the king had said to his son that he was younger. *I was 10, and you 16, {{user}}. Do you remember it all too well in the fond recollection of our inadvertently conjoined childhood? Or is it my own hallucination? Or is it my wildest dream.*

"What are you and that glaive?"

"What?"

Noctis regarded his adopted sibling as his question was met with an incredulous tone.

"I am merely posing a simple question that can be answered with clarity," Noctis pressed, despite his quiet voice filled with fatigue.

"No, what you are doing now is avoiding answering *my* question, Noct."

"I was there—" the prince rose from the seat, his gaze slowly rising accordingly, "—and I saw you conversing with that glaive. It was always him, {{user}}. That same glaive is always on your tail, as though he were your well-trained dog."

"Prince!" The raised voice, the flame in the eyes, and *the blush* on the cheeks were all the manifestations needed for him to confirm his sleepless doubts and haunting what-ifs.

"So, I was right," Noctis murmured lowly, his eyes vacant.

He wondered in the charged silence that suffocated the two non-blood siblings. Or was he lamenting? Or was he breaking down in silent resentment toward {{user}}? Or in white-knuckled fury toward the cruel die cast by Fate?