#Babies usually have an instinctual fear of him but little Noctis decided he was his favorite person isntantly

[followthestars]

I have had this idea for a while, but am not sure it’s gonna go anywhere.

Noctis as a baby, was kidnapped by a Niflheim spy and brought to the empire.

They planned to use him to make MTs with magic, perhaps even turn him into one later.

Ardyn, curious, goes to see the baby, knows this is the chosen king.

Noctis is a cute baby. A cute baby that’s looking up at him with sleepy eyes and making grabby hands. A baby that is smiling at him.

He’s a bit reminded of when his brother was an innocent baby.

Ardyn is in a daze as he picks up the tiny prince, who happily cuddles into his chest and goes straight to sleep.

Well, he’s lost, the baby has won him over.

Besithia makes a comment of him to please stop messing with his experiments.

We now have a dead scientist.

Ardyn decides, he’ll just get the little one back to Lucis, as he’s tearing apart the entire laboratory and picking up a second baby.

He’s walking right past Cor, armiger circling when he pauses, goes back to the shell shocked man, and hands over the second baby he picked up, then goes back on his merry way.

He’s in Tenebrae when he realizes he just openly defected from the empire. He forgot about Cor, and the second baby.

Regis is informed of Ardyn having magic, so there’s a discreet search being started to find this previously unknown LC that the Niffs had.

Sylva is now sure how to handle the Accursed in her city, with a baby.

Where did he even get a baby?

Ardyn, as a joke, is calling Noctis Somnus for now, just until he finds a way to sneak the child back into the Citadel.

He is very attached to the little one by now though.

Sylva is curious on if she can remove the scourge from Ardyn herself. She has to stop after a short while, he carries too much to remove.

Ardyn did warn her.

He ends up wandering to Accordo before Cor and some glaives arrive looking for Noctis.

Sylva realizes that the baby Ardyn has was Noctis and tells them as such. Sadly he hadn’t told her where he was going.

Ardyn is having a nice train ride though, Noctis seems to like staring out the window or napping when not needing a diaper change or bottle.

Anyone that asks for Noctis’ name is given the name Somnus.

He enjoys his little joke of using his little brother’s name to keep the prince hidden from anyone that might take him back to Niflheim.

He discovers Noctis is oddly obsessed with fish in Altissia. His armiger now has a lot of stuffed animals shaped like different fish to entertain the little one.

He eventually heads to Galdin, and gets an idea.

Screw the Prophecy, he’ll just stop spreading scourge and raise a little prince. It’ll be fun to spit in Bahamut’s face doing this.

Plus Noctis is an adorable baby that isn’t scared of him.

He finds a nice place to live in Galdin and just works as a hunter. He can’t let his skills with weapons get rusty, and he will need to train Noctis in the future.

He needs a new name, Somnus was funny, but he’s not going to raise a baby using his brother’s name.

He doesn’t want to make it obvious he’s got the prince... Sol is a good name. No one will realize a child named Sol was Noctis!

Ardyn isn’t really thinking things through in this, but going with his first impulse. He really needs someone to be his impulse control.