...The person I am now may well stop existing someday, yes. But it won't be you who kills me then, and it is not only for my own sake that I want to live.
[If Ardyn Lucis Caelum 'died', then it would be because something unthinkably terrible had put a knife in his heart. Something beyond sanity or reason, who would bring about untold devastation and the end of the world. That wasn't him, or at least Ardyn wanted desperately to believe it wasn't. So long as he existed as he was now, maybe things would never fall so far as they already had.]
I should have died long ago, Noctis. I was already prepared to, well before what happened between my brother and myself. It doesn't bother me to know that I'm destined to die so that the world can continue on, because I had already assumed as much when I was still human.
Besides, there are plenty of things worse than death. I would prefer it to becoming what you know me as, or another thousand years in Angelgard. So the idea of seeking to avert my own fate...just doesn't concern me.
cw: suicidal ideation
[If Ardyn Lucis Caelum 'died', then it would be because something unthinkably terrible had put a knife in his heart. Something beyond sanity or reason, who would bring about untold devastation and the end of the world. That wasn't him, or at least Ardyn wanted desperately to believe it wasn't. So long as he existed as he was now, maybe things would never fall so far as they already had.]
I should have died long ago, Noctis. I was already prepared to, well before what happened between my brother and myself. It doesn't bother me to know that I'm destined to die so that the world can continue on, because I had already assumed as much when I was still human.
Besides, there are plenty of things worse than death. I would prefer it to becoming what you know me as, or another thousand years in Angelgard. So the idea of seeking to avert my own fate...just doesn't concern me.