Noctis never offered physical comfort to Regis, certainly no position taken up by his side even while his father grew increasingly frail year over year.
Regis didn't vocalize his pride in his son, and despite the times a cripplingly self-critical young man might've laid in bed, too overwhelmed to get up and take care of himself, Noctis manages to believe he would've wanted to.
Noctis also didn't show his anger with his father, not outwardly. Perhaps through pranks that seemed innocent but were anything but: the defacement of their ancestors' portraits or his attempts to sneak away through the royal gardens unsupervised. Anything that might get him scolded, just for a glimmer of attention amongst the criticism. Even that was rare.
Regis was a good man and as good a father as he knew how to be, in his position. And there's so much Noctis has yet to reconcile with that fact. And now, perhaps rightly, she criticizes his assertion that he's been real with her over the topic of discussion. ]
[🔒 locked] i just have to call out what a beautiful tag that was, Jinx is so good 1/2
It's a hard victory to feel triumphant over.
Noctis never offered physical comfort to Regis, certainly no position taken up by his side even while his father grew increasingly frail year over year.
Regis didn't vocalize his pride in his son, and despite the times a cripplingly self-critical young man might've laid in bed, too overwhelmed to get up and take care of himself, Noctis manages to believe he would've wanted to.
Noctis also didn't show his anger with his father, not outwardly. Perhaps through pranks that seemed innocent but were anything but: the defacement of their ancestors' portraits or his attempts to sneak away through the royal gardens unsupervised. Anything that might get him scolded, just for a glimmer of attention amongst the criticism. Even that was rare.
Regis was a good man and as good a father as he knew how to be, in his position. And there's so much Noctis has yet to reconcile with that fact. And now, perhaps rightly, she criticizes his assertion that he's been real with her over the topic of discussion. ]
He's dead. My old man.