#so of COURSE ace winds up somewhat unwilling in the citadel

[sparklecryptid]

*pfft* Reveal!AU because Ace actually *does* have to register 'Ardyn' as a middle name.

Ace stares at the scrounged up documents he managed to drag out of his burned down home. Apparently his mother and aunt - along with Libertus, Nyx and Selena's mothers - decided that it would be a good idea to put all of their Important Documents - birth certificates, passports - into one fire proof box.

That isn't the issue here. The issue is that Nyx is wheezing in laughter while Selena has dissolved into helpless giggles and Libertus is staring at Ace like he regrets being friends with him.

Ace Ardyn Apollonian.

That's not the name on his birth certificate, but it is the name on his fucking passport.

"I am going to drown him," Ace says.

Selena giggles. "He'd come back!"

"Not if I tie him to an anchor," Ace says bitterly.

That makes even Libertus crack and he howls with laughter.

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It doesn't become a problem that his middle name is technically Ardyn until he applies for Insomnian residency.

The desk worker raises a brow at his middle name and Ace gives her the most exhausted look he can manage.

"You're going to ask about that aren't you?" Ace says tiredly.

"I have to," she replies raising a brow at him.

"Would you believe me if I said my mother had a sense of humor?"

The workers brow raises higher.

Ace sighs.

"This is above your pay-grade," he says bluntly.

"Try me," she says.

Ace stares at her and wordless he extends his palms and an orb of light springs to light in it.

"That explains nothing," the worker says.

"I'll call the Crownsguard," the worker also says when it dawns on her that it really is beyond her pay-grade.