final fantasy 15 fic rec
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littlecatkSorted into Femslash & female character centric: Crowe/Luna, Aranea/Luna, others; Kingsglaive, the Chocobros (or Boyband as I call them), other stuff.
as always kind of sorted by word count in this catogories, tried to warn if there is anything but if you need something specific just ask.
other stuff
Title: into battle by mushydesserts
Fandom: Final Fantasy 15
Character/Pairing: Gladiolus Amicitia & Noctis Lucis Caelum
Clarus Amicitia & Regis Lucis Caelum CXIII
Noctis Lucis Caelum, Gladiolus Amicitia
Regis Lucis Caelum CXIII, Clarus Amicitia, Iris Amicitia, Ignis Scientia, Prompto Argentum, Ravus Nox Fleuret, Cid Sophiar
Word Count: 1135
Summary: AU: "It's much later when they manage to understand what the prince is saying, babbling through tears: It was me, it was supposed to be me, he could have run. But he didn't."
"Is this what it's come to?" Regis says dully. "Leading our children to the slaughter?"
Clarus flinches. He hisses, "My son made a choice. Don't you dare take that away from him." His back is straight, like a soldier's.
Title: Photographic Memory by orphan_account
Fandom: Final Fantasy 15
Character/Pairing: Prompto Argentum, Ignis Scientia, Gladiolus Amicitia, Noctis Lucis Caelum
Word Count: 1160
Summary: "Prompto organises his photographs."
Why I Rec This Fic: Love how ordinary the moments are, this definitly captures how the photo game mechanic felt for me.
Title: Look at this Photograph by Kestrealbird
Fandom: Final Fantasy 15
Character/Pairing: Regis Lucis, Caelum CXIII, Clarus Amicitia, Cor Leonis, Cid Sophiar, Weskham Armaugh
Word Count: 1163
Summary: "One of the last things he does is send all of his friend's a photograph each. Clarus' photo is of him, Regis, Aulea and a pregnant Amaryllis. Weshkam has a photo of himself fishing with Cid falling into the pond. Cid's photo is the one we see in the garage. Cor carries his photo of them all leaning against the Regalia, panting and smiling, in his breast pocket. On the back of each one is a single message. 'I'm sorry'"
Title: there's a divinity that shapes our ends by NinthFeather
Fandom: Final Fantasy 15
Character/Pairing: Ignis Scientia, Noctis Lucis Caelum, Prompto Argentum, Gladiolus Amicitia
Word Count: 2126
Summary: “Why didn’t anyone tell me that people pray to my ancestors?” Noct asks, and really, it all snowballs from there.
[Or, an exploration of how religion might work on Eos.]
Why I Rec This Fic: Interesting World building! Also nice (read sad) end scene with the chocobros and their bond.
"It is not a scientific belief. That said, I would advise you not to pursue similar lines of questioning when you encounter others whose belief systems you find baffling.”
“Oh, yeah, definitely do not do that,” Prompto agreed. “Unless you want to start a fight.”
The door opened and shut, and Gladio entered the room. “We talking about starting fights? I’m an expert on that!”
“Actually, we were discussing religion,” Ignis corrected.
“That’s a good way to start fights,” Gladio said with a nod, sitting down on the arm of the couch. “Glaive Altius beat up three Crownsguards for calling her a heretic last month.”
“Why’d they do that?” Prompto asked.
“One, because they were idiots and thought they could take her,” Gladio said. “Two, because she’s from Galahd and they do that ancestor-worship stuff over there.”
Femslash
Crowe/Luna
Title: Secret Vacations by Strange and Intoxicating -rsa- (strangeandintoxicating)
Fandom: Final Fantasy 15
Character/Pairing: Crowe Altius/Lunafreya Nox Fleuret
Crowe Altius, Lunafreya Nox Fleuret
Word Count: 514
Summary: "Secret vacations aren't so easy to plan when you're the Oracle.But Crowe and Luna manage."
Why I Rec This Fic: This is a short but such a sweet/funny moment.
“It would be best if we traveled to the Tidemother and offered something. I’m unsure of what is commonly given to several hundred, if not thousands, of meters of sea Goddess, but I am sure there will be some kind of record that my mother knows about.”
Title: Passenger Seat by priestessarcana
Fandom: Final Fantasy 15
Character/Pairing: Crowe Altius/Lunafreya Nox Fleuret
Crowe Altius, Lunafreya Nox Fleuret
Word Count: 780
Summary: AU: Luna, Crowe, and the open road. (or, the chance that Crowe deserved to know and love.)
Crowe presses the hairpin she had bought for Luna into the blonde’s palm. “Remember me, okay?”
It’s a moment of weakeness. She shouldn’t care this much. She really shouldn’t.
“I’ve enjoyed getting to know you, Crowe Altius.” Luna smiles subtly, the corners of her lips just slightly turned upward. It’s delicate, just like her.
It’s quiet for a moment. Were they always standing so close?
Luna allows herself, too, a moment of weakness - in its own way, also a moment of courage - as she takes hold of Crowe’s face gently, their lips meeting. It’s over all too soon, the Glaive thinks as Luna pulls away just as suddenly.
Title: when the music feels like this by MagnaCartaCalintz
Fandom: Final Fantasy 15
Character/Pairing: Crowe Altius/Lunafreya Nox Fleuret,
Crowe Altius, Lunafreya Nox Fleuret,
Word Count: 1065
Summary: "Lunafreya and Crowe might have grown up with different traditions, but one night is enough to share them all."
Why I Rec This Fic: Femslash dancing! Funny and sweet.
Lunafreya is intrigued. “What sort of dance are you accustomed to?”
“The kind we have back home. In Galahd. That’s where I’m from.”
“You should show me.”
“Not here. They might kick me out.”
“Is it inappropriate?”
“No, I’d steal the show.” Crowe’s confidence is unexpectedly high for someone who steps several times on Lunafreya’s toes and doesn’t apologize once for it.
Title: Another Level by Riona
Fandom: Final Fantasy 15
Character/Pairing: Crowe Altius/Lunafreya Nox Fleuret,
Crowe Altius, Lunafreya Nox Fleuret,
Word Count: 1152
Summary: "Crowe arrives to escort the princess to her wedding, and finds herself unprepared."
“Will you be at the wedding?”
“Outside the hall,” Crowe says. “As a guard, not as a guest."
“I’d like you to be a guest, if the king can spare you.”
Aranea/Luna
Title: Not Alike by Klioud
Fandom: Final Fantasy 15
Character/Pairing: Lunafreya Nox Fleuret/Aranea Highwind
Lunafreya Nox Fleuret, Aranea Highwind
Word Count: 1801
Summary: "OG. Canon Divergent. Post-Chapter 13. Contains Spoilers.
Aranea finds Lunafreya sitting on the roof of her airship."
"Whatever Lunafreya is, it is something that knew that daylight was finite. Aranea cannot help but wonder how she knew this. And for how long. She might have known since she was a child. Or even before that. It could have been since she was little more than a shrieking lump of an infant. Either way, Lunafreya had known that sunlit hours would turn into sunlit minutes. And those minutes into nothing."
Title: little things by crosspolination
Fandom: Final Fantasy 15
Character/Pairing: Lunafreya Nox Fleuret/Aranea Highwind
Lunafreya Nox Fleuret, Aranea Highwind
Word Count: 3355
Summary: AU: "Luna realizes that she loves a few things about her bodyguard. Or, maybe the little things are what make Luna love Aranea so intensely.
Or, the one where Luna just loves Aranea so damn much."
Luna loves Aranea’s hair.
Luna loves Aranea in general, but that’s another topic — one she doesn’t want to dive in at this moment in time. She is aware that whatever relationship she has with her bodyguard would only bring her despair, knowing that if the time ever came, Aranea would take a blow for Luna, and that’s one thought Luna can’t dwell too much on.
Title: Astra Inclinant by thekindmagic
Fandom: Final Fantasy 15
Character/Pairing: Lunafreya Nox Fleuret/Aranea Highwind
Lunafreya Nox Fleuret, Aranea Highwind
Word Count: 5854 (work in process)
Summary: AU: “Look,” Aranea laughs, shaking her head. “I’m not trying to shit on your destiny. But the way I see it? A lot of the time, there’s no big mystery. You either keep going, or you don’t.”
Why I Rec This Fic: This fic really has Luna down or at least as I see her, the conflict between being a young person wanting to LIVE (and love) and her duty, I also really like the writing style.
other
Title: (I Walk Through Fire) Your Name on My Lips by ProwlingThunder
Fandom: Final Fantasy 15
Character/Pairing: Lunafreya Nox Fleuret, Iris Amicitia
Word Count: 701
Summary: AU: "Luna realizes that Iris is hers in the same way that Gladio is Noctis'."
Why I Rec This Fic: While I am not 100% happy with how canon handles Luna – I have to admit I am weak for duty bound characters and that being explored with female characters interacting (rather then Luna only being to serve the chosen King (aka male main character)) is something i am there 100% percent.
"She's young, fire-bright, nine years Luna's junior with eyes of dried blood. She's young and happy in a way that Lunafreya doesn't remember ever being, and the smile she offers Lunafreya is dazzling in it's intensity, near blinding."
Title: Home by cerisemoon
Fandom: Final Fantasy 15
Character/Pairing: Aranea Highwind, Cindy Aurum
Word Count: 719 (work in process)
Summary: "Aranea's never been one for sentiment, or cuddly, touchy-feely stuff, but watching the sun rise after a decade of darkness? Man does that do something to her chest. It's the same kind of fuzzy warmth she gets when she wakes up before Cindy, and finds her laying in the moonlight beside her, or the small flames of pride she stokes whenever Prompto tells her about her latest accomplishment, or when Tiny Amicitia kills something huge, or-"
Okay. Maybe she doesn't mind the cuddly shit so much. Bite her.
Why I Rec This Fic: Lovely Aranea voice!!
She smiles, and laughs, breathless. "Sure has." The sun's morning rays are bright, and she has to squint when she looks up, but it's there. Aranea's never been one to admire the sunrise, the gold and rose skies that romantics adore, but she's never been happier to see their star. They watch it, for a while, until the rush of euphoria and adrenaline leaves Aranea's body and her legs give out. Her hands grip the lance tighter, and she exhales forcefully, but Biggs lets her take his arm.
Title: it's a dark road (when you walk it alone) by dustofwarfare
Fandom: Final Fantasy 15
Character/Pairing: Iris Amicitia/Aranea Highwind
Aranea Highwind, Iris Amicitia,
Gladiolus Amicitia, Cindy Aurum, Takka
Word Count: 8257
Summary: "Aranea and Iris find common ground as daemon slayers in the World of Ruin, and Aranea learns maybe it's okay to have someone to want to survive for."
Warning: Sex, Age difference (Iris is almost 21 at the first sexual encounter, Areana is 37)
Why I Rec This Fic: Characters who are afraid to hope in fear to be dissapointed are my jam – and so are characters who are stubbornly hopeful – combine this two to a ship? I am very happy.
The voices for them are great and I specialy love the respect/love the writer has for Iris kind of strengh (as I have seen lots of characters like her being mistreated by fandom).
“This –” she touches her fingers lightly to the burnished silver of Aranea’s lance. “This is what keeps us safe.” She reaches out and touches her fingers to Aranea’s armor, the spot above her heart. “This is what keeps us going.”
It’s a pretty sentiment. Aranea wishes she could believe it. Maybe she does believe it. Maybe that’s why she’s so scared.
Title:and the night is gonna be just fine by ghostl0rd
Fandom: Final Fantasy 15
Character/Pairing: so far: Pelna Khara, Crowe Altius,
promised: Crowe Altius/Lunafreya Nox Fleuret,
Nyx Ulric, Libertus Ostium, Lunafreya Nox Fleuret
Word Count: 835
Summary: "The one where Crowe survives and gets the happy ending she deserves.Let the healing begin."
Why I Rec This Fic: This fic promises. Self-Discovery and Coffee Shop-AU stuff, and I would like to see it.
So far there is a real sweet moment between Pelena and Crowe, and the promise of growing and healing - my fav theme for fiction.
That’s what she fixates on while the doctor pokes her here and there and waves a penlight in front of her eyes. Not the fact that she had almost zero chance of survival and even less for recovery; the fact that nothingness could have been her last memory on Eos. The fact that she came this close to leaving this world the same way she arrived: abandoned, and alone.
Kingsglaive
Title: all things old become new again by shepherd
Fandom: Final Fantasy 15
Character/Pairing: Libertus Ostium/Nyx Ulric
Libertus Ostium, Nyx Ulric
Word Count: 3168
Summary: Nyx cries during sex.
Warning: sex
Why I Rec This Fic: I am weak for this kind of emotional situation, I think the way the fic deals with consent/“something going wrong during sex“ is also nice.
Title: oh, what if we're far from home by mushydesserts
Fandom: Final Fantasy 15
Character/Pairing: Libertus Ostium/Nyx Ulric
Libertus Ostium, Nyx Ulric,
Crowe Altius, Selena Ulric, Pelna Khara, Luche Lazarus
Word Count: 5712
Why I Rec This Fic: childhood friends pinning is clichee but a clichee i am weak for, i also love Crowe in this and the tiny bits that gave me Crowe/Selena feels.
"Nyx and Libertus had never really met for the first time. They'd always just known each other. His mother had said they'd met in the womb, a few months and four lineages removed: their parents had been friends, as everybody's parents were in their village, and Nyx and Libertus had known each other's wailing voices before they'd known their own names.
"You're telling me you two've been like this since you were babies," Crowe accuses when she hears about it twenty years later in a shithole pub somewhere in the slums of Insomnia.
"Like what," Nyx says, relaxed, over his third beer. Libertus eyes Nyx warily.
(Libertus has had a massive crush on Nyx since forever. Literally everybody can see it.
Not Nyx, though. Nyx can't see it. Thank fuck, Libertus thinks.)"
Title: been missing you by shepherd
Fandom: Final Fantasy 15
Character/Pairing: Libertus Ostium/Nyx Ulric
Libertus Ostium, Nyx Ulric. Lunafreya Nox Fleuret
Word Count: 6651
Summary: AU: Libertus takes care of Nxy
Warning: Injuries, PTSD
"A smile spread across her face. Tiny, barely existent. “He will be safe with you?”
Libertus almost laughed. They had been together for a long time. Raised down the winding roads from each other, down the hall at school. Only ever an arm’s length apart at worst, sharing the same bed, the same food. Never once had they been safe. Safety didn’t exist.
He would not say it to her face."
Title: the intervals between here and now by warsfeil
Fandom: Final Fantasy 15
Character/Pairing: Lunafreya Nox Fleuret/Nyx Ulric/Noctis Lucis Caelum
Lunafreya Nox Fleuret, Ravus Nox Fleuret, Nyx Ulric, Noctis Lucis Caelum
Word Count: 1297
Summary: post game, afterlife. "It lasts until Noctis leans in to kiss the salt water off her lips, and then all three of them go cascading backwards into the sand, and Luna laughs against his lips."
Why I Rec This Fic: This kind of after life makes me for a lack of better word nervous/uneasy, but I can see that behind this personal feelings of mine, this is actually 100% soft fluff, and this characters really deserve a chance at „live“ and love.
It's night when they decide it's night. There's no daemons, so there's no reason to pull over -- they drive along the road until it turns to gravel, and when they don't want to strain the Regalia anymore ("She's been through enough," Noctis says, patting the hood), they walk. Luna carries her shoes in loosely in one hand when they get to the sandy expanse of the beach. The evening breeze is warm because they want it to be, and they shed their clothing as they walk: Nyx cracks first and loses his jacket, then Ravus, then Noctis. Luna just has her dress, she places her shoes down when the rest of them do, a spot of white in a circle of military-issue black boots.
Title: Stealing Back the Sun by ohmyfae
Fandom: Final Fantasy 15
Character/Pairing: Lunafreya Nox Fleuret/Nyx Ulric, Libertus Ostium/Lunafreya Nox Fleuret/Nyx Ulric, Libertus Ostium/Nyx Ulric
Libertus Ostium, Lunafreya Nox Fleuret, Nyx Ulric
Word Count: 4230 (work in process)
Summary: AU. Luna, Libertus and Nyx on the run.
She hitched a ride on the back of a truck that afternoon, with a group of women Hunters who had business near Galdin. They exclaimed over the state of her shoes, one of them let her wear a spare jacket, and they spoke softly of the news of the fall of Insomnia. After a few minutes of this, Luna’s tongue was heavy with the taste of copper, she couldn’t stop looking up at the sky for passing Imperial carriers, and her hand was unsteady as she pet Pryna at her side.
“Y’all mind if we play the radio?” a woman asked. Luna attempted a smile, and the woman fiddled with the dial until the final strains of a cheery pop song whistled through the air. Luna closed her eyes and scratched Pryna’s ruff as the DJ rattled off an advertisement for hair gel.
Continuing our saga today, the DJ said, we have another request from the Heroes. Princess, this is for you. “I’m On My Way," by S.O.L.D.I.E.R.
Luna wrapped her arm around Pryna, who huffed and lay her blocky head on Luna’s lap while the song played on.
Chocobros
Ignis
Title: Benchstone, Waterstone, Whetstone by gooseberry
Fandom: Final Fantasy 15
Character/Pairing: Noctis Lucis Caelum & Ignis Scientia
Noctis Lucis Caelum, Ignis Scientia
Word Count: 6717 (work in process)
Summary: "Ignis raised to be a tool for Noctis."
Warnings: Emotional Manipulation, purposeful child neglect, Politics,
politically motivated codependence,
Why I Rec This Fic: great writing style and this theme of making children into tools for their politics is a) super important to the canon game b) something i am always down for, for some reason.
He imagines it sometimes: the queen flipping through a portfolio, looking at the headshots of children from across Lucis; reading the carefully compiled family histories and political ties; picking out her own favorites from the candidate pool, lifting their names to the top. He imagines that she smiled when she saw his dossier, when she saw that they’d been born in the same region. He imagines that, if she’d lived, the queen would have taken an interest in him; she might have written letters to him, might have given him an allowance; she might have said, This one. I want this one for my son.
Title: As Plain as the Bumps On Your Face by She5los
Fandom: Final Fantasy 15
Character/Pairing: Ignis Scientia, Ignis Scientia's Uncle
Noctis Lucis Caelum, Gladiolus Amicitia
Word Count: 10326
Summary: "Ignis Scientia is the Royal Advisor to the Crown Prince of Lucis and, at seventeen, the youngest page in the Royal Council. He does a good job in all of his roles, from taking notes on legislation and policy to retrieving his charge from house parties. And he can definitely handle the panic attacks. It really isn't as big a deal as everyone's making it out to be."
Warning: Panic Attacks, Anxiety
Why I Rec This Fic: I like the way the description of Ignis problems and dealing with it feel so close to real life, and how there is this very adult tone about finding ways to cope and accepting help, as someone who deals with brainweirdstuff too it is always nice to read that.
“You’ll have to stop growing like this,” he said, getting back to a friendly, familiar chat instead of the linguistic hellscape that was the newest building code update. “You’ll be taller than Clarus, and he won’t be happy with that at all. He’ll have to pass a law about it.”
“He’ll have to do something about Gladio first,” Iggy pointed out. “He’s consistently had at least ten centimeters on me ever since the whole ‘growth spurts’ debacle started.” With ‘debacle,’ in this case, naturally meaning ‘normal life event.’
“Other Amicitias get exemptions,” his uncle quipped back. “After all, he had a hand in making Gladio; if the boy’s too tall, he has only himself to blame. That’s why all the other pages are older than you: being from a good family and studying law is only one
Prompto
Title: Dawn Child by ohmyfae
Fandom: Final Fantasy 15
Character/Pairing: Gladiolus Amicitia/Prompto Argentum/Noctis Lucis Caelum/Ignis Scientia (Technically this is an OT5 if you include the god sharing Prompto's body)
Gladiolus Amicitia, Prompto Argentum, Noctis Lucis Caelum, Ignis Scientia
Word Count: 14506 (work in process)
Summary: AU: "Summer has always followed Prompto Argentum. He's never had reason to question it, never wondered why he loves so deeply and feels so strongly, or why there are times when it seems as though there's a small piece of himself that stands apart. It isn't until he is on the road with his friends that the truth makes itself known, and Prompto learns that by leaving the safety of Insomnia, he is putting himself in more danger than he can fathom."
Why I Rec This Fic: Interesting concept, nice writing – with great chocobro bonding and banter, and the promise of a healthy „fuck you destiny“ approache.
The Bros
Title: The Long Engagement by ohmyfae
Fandom: Final Fantasy 15
Character/Pairing: Noctis Lucis Caelum/Ignis Scientia
Noctis Lucis Caelum, Ignis Scientia
Word Count: 1590
Summary: "Ignis and Noctis have been betrothed since childhood. As they grow up, they consider their future in bits and pieces, and maybe fall in love along the way."
Why I Rec This Fic: Super fluffy Fluff!
"When my cousin Emile got married, he had to move out," he says. Noctis gasps.
"Like, out of the house?"
"That's what Aunt Su says. Emile and Richard have their own apartment now."
Noctis stares into the middle distance, his blue eyes cold. "I don't wanna move away from Dad."
"Maybe we can switch off," Ignis says. "One week with my parents, one week with yours."
Noct smiles at him uncertainly. "That's okay, I guess. Race you down?"
Ignis eyes the long, curving railing that ends before a stretch of solid marble. "Sure," he says. "Why not?"
Title: cyclone by FifteenDozenTimes
Fandom: Final Fantasy 15
Character/Pairing: Gladiolus Amicitia/Ignis Scientia
Word Count: 1659
Summary: "The hardest-working teens at the Citadel steal themselves a lazy Saturday afternoon."
Why I Rec This Fic: Given all that canon loads on their shoulders it is nice to see both of them (Iggy too!) just be stupid teens.
“Remember the time you broke your nose ‘cause you were so sure you didn’t need to be able to warp to get to your lance from the roof?”
“And my arm,” Ignis says, thoughtfully, “Touche.”
Ignis rises up from the ground in one fluid motion, graceful like a flower or some shit. Gladio really likes watching him move around; Gladio’s also pretty bad at hiding it, if Ignis’ blush is anything to go by. That’s also a really good look. He gets his lance and sticks it firmly into the ground in the center of the grassy patch, then backs a couple yards away.
“If this is just your jumping off the roof thing, I don’t need to see it again.”
Ignis ignores him, the way he apparently needs to a lot of the time so he doesn’t stop hanging out with Gladio. Gladio’s pretty sure now that the whole kissing thing’s a thing, Ignis is just pretending to get fed up, but he’s also pretty sure he doesn’t get to do the kissing thing if he doesn’t play along. The kissing thing is important, and Gladio’s real good at playing along.
Title: Respite by introductory
Fandom: Final Fantasy 15
Character/Pairing: Noctis Lucis Caelum/Ignis Scientia
Gladio Amicitia, Noctis Lucis Caelum, Ignis Scientia, Prompto Argentum
Word Count: 1852
Summary: right after battling Ifrit chapter 14. Ignis and Noct hold one of their "strategy meetings".
Why I Rec This Fic: Writing the fic focusing on Gladios perspective is such an interesting choice, there is some wonderful banter and the bittersweet mood is set wonderful.
"You guys take some cots into the next room," Noct says at last. "Except you, Specs. You and I need to come up with a plan."
Ignis gives a soft, surprised little laugh. "If it please Your Highness," he says, and the use of Noct's old title makes Gladio's heart skip a beat. If he'd closed his eyes it could be fifteen years ago, Noct taking Ignis by the sleeve and absconding with him on official business, straight-faced and serious like like it wasn't blatantly obvious what the two of them were planning on doing, like Noct hasn't been dragging Ignis into darkened corridors and empty rooms since Gladio was old enough to wear his family's crest.
Title: He Dances Like by ImperfectAlias
Fandom: Final Fantasy 15
Character/Pairing: Gladiolus Amicitia & Prompto Argentum & Noctis Lucis Caelum & Ignis Scientia
Gladiolus Amicitia, Prompto Argentum, Noctis Lucis Caelum, Ignis Scientia
Word Count: 4243
Summary: "While stopping to camp for the night at a haven, on their way to Galdin Quay for the wedding in Altissia, Prompto learns to dance."
Why I Rec This Fic: Super sweet bonding, banter and characterization.
