[Oh but it would be so much easier to blame Ardyn for it all than consider that Drautos was just legitimately insane. That none of them had noticed. That they'd been so thoroughly played. That the King's death had been secondary to seeking out the ring.
He's on edge, at best, and the phase, the little shift out of the way of something so viscerally satisfying is what finally makes him crack. He doesn't want logic right now, he wants one moment to be gut-wrenchingly angry, to feel all the hurt and grief and betrayal. So Ardyn phases-
And Nyx follows with his fist, aiming for where the man will stop as best he can, and it's certainly something he has a fair bit of experience with. ]
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He's on edge, at best, and the phase, the little shift out of the way of something so viscerally satisfying is what finally makes him crack. He doesn't want logic right now, he wants one moment to be gut-wrenchingly angry, to feel all the hurt and grief and betrayal. So Ardyn phases-
And Nyx follows with his fist, aiming for where the man will stop as best he can, and it's certainly something he has a fair bit of experience with. ]