[Just die. Drown, disappear, you don't exist anymore. The savior, the compassionate monarch, the mortal that once was should never have been again. And Ardyn Izunia just wanted to take those shards of humanity and grind them to dust, tear the ring from his hand and shatter it against the wall. Ardyn Lucis Caelum hadn't existed for millennia until this place forced him back into the light, and now...now who or what even was he?]
[Ardyn leaned forward with his head in his hands, every word sounding like it was tearing itself from his throat.]
no subject
[Just die. Drown, disappear, you don't exist anymore. The savior, the compassionate monarch, the mortal that once was should never have been again. And Ardyn Izunia just wanted to take those shards of humanity and grind them to dust, tear the ring from his hand and shatter it against the wall. Ardyn Lucis Caelum hadn't existed for millennia until this place forced him back into the light, and now...now who or what even was he?]
[Ardyn leaned forward with his head in his hands, every word sounding like it was tearing itself from his throat.]
...sounds like-...like a challenge.