[suddenly this is far less funny and ardyn is vastly less comfortable.]
It was-...it started out as seeking ways to minimize casualties. He called it the 'Deathless Project', because its purpose was to stop Niflheim's soldiers falling in battle. But even I couldn't sublimate an entire daemon army, and the initial magitek cores were unstable. The soldiers lost their sense of self and identity in complete mental collapses.
[Ardyn shifted almost nervously, twisting the ring on his hand.]
Eventually, Verstael concluded that there was no risk of ego death if his subjects were too young to have developed an ego. From there, the slippery slope descended into replicating himself to provide the necessary numbers. Around the time the production of magitek troopers began to present results, one such subject went missing.
...That subject was Prompto. Twenty years later I knew him the instant I saw him, because he looked exactly as Verstael did when I first met him.
no subject
It was-...it started out as seeking ways to minimize casualties. He called it the 'Deathless Project', because its purpose was to stop Niflheim's soldiers falling in battle. But even I couldn't sublimate an entire daemon army, and the initial magitek cores were unstable. The soldiers lost their sense of self and identity in complete mental collapses.
[Ardyn shifted almost nervously, twisting the ring on his hand.]
Eventually, Verstael concluded that there was no risk of ego death if his subjects were too young to have developed an ego. From there, the slippery slope descended into replicating himself to provide the necessary numbers. Around the time the production of magitek troopers began to present results, one such subject went missing.
...That subject was Prompto. Twenty years later I knew him the instant I saw him, because he looked exactly as Verstael did when I first met him.