[He'd been almost hopeful when Junpei handed it back to him--with that magic he'd have been able to overthrow PAL with hardly an effort--and genuinely upset when it didn't answer it. The ring had always answered him, always reacted and responded when he needed it.]
[Until one day, it hadn't.]
[It was the symbol of all that he hated. The Crystal, Bahamut, the entire line of Lucis distilled into a simple black ring that should have held untold power. So why, Ardyn had been asking himself, couldn't he bring himself to just take it off and throw it into the middle of the garden as hard as he could? It wouldn't respond to a king it deemed unworthy; more likely it would burn his entire arm off if its power ever returned.]
...It's everything that should have been mine. All that I was and all that I wanted to be. I hate the Crystal, as well as the gods which granted it to us. The Ring of the Lucii's power will never answer my call again, even if this were more than a mere replica.
It rejects those deemed unworthy, so wearing it now...was hardly more than wishful thinking for me.
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[He'd been almost hopeful when Junpei handed it back to him--with that magic he'd have been able to overthrow PAL with hardly an effort--and genuinely upset when it didn't answer it. The ring had always answered him, always reacted and responded when he needed it.]
[Until one day, it hadn't.]
[It was the symbol of all that he hated. The Crystal, Bahamut, the entire line of Lucis distilled into a simple black ring that should have held untold power. So why, Ardyn had been asking himself, couldn't he bring himself to just take it off and throw it into the middle of the garden as hard as he could? It wouldn't respond to a king it deemed unworthy; more likely it would burn his entire arm off if its power ever returned.]
...It's everything that should have been mine. All that I was and all that I wanted to be. I hate the Crystal, as well as the gods which granted it to us. The Ring of the Lucii's power will never answer my call again, even if this were more than a mere replica.
It rejects those deemed unworthy, so wearing it now...was hardly more than wishful thinking for me.