rivers run dry, leaving holes in the sky

So here is the aftermath of the miscarriage. Noctis has his heroic BSOD and is medicating. I'm not sure how many guys actually think about passing their genes on to the next generation but apparently he does. If you're one of them please let me know in the comments. Here is a transcript, even if I inked the text:

Gladiolus: What's the deal with this hypodermic needle? Have you been shooting heroin?

Ignis: Do explain this empty prescription bottle.

Noctis: I've been pumping myself full of Prozac and Novocaine until it doesn't hurt anymore.

Prompto: Is this about me?

Gladiolus: Is this about Flumina?

Noctis: Ding Ding Ding Ding.

Noctis: I put your life in jeopardy. I put my life in jeopardy. I put my kingdom in jeopardy. I realize it could have been disasterous if she had been born, but she was still mine. I had passed my genes on to her.

Noctis: Ire alize she was just a cluster of cells, but she was my cluster of cells. I had helped conceive her. I know she technically never even lived, but in my mind she still belongs. Though we never knew her, it's as though there's big holes in my heart and my soul where she should have been.

And then I was a wretched lech. The sex with Lulu was great, but I don't think we really loved each other. She was frustrated, i was hormonal, and we were noth attracted to each other. Then one of the birth control spells failed and it was downhill from there. The poisoning, the miscarriage, it's divine retribution. We were so wrong to be unfaithful. I realize Flumina was just a mouth attached to an anus, but to me she's still a person. And if I'm suffering, Lulu must have it much, much worse. She was the mother.


Noctis: I can't be redeemed, and Flumina can't be erased.

Prompto: We know you're depressed, but consider yourself lucky. It could have been you puking your guts up and pissing blood and jabbed full of needles and hooked up to a bunch of machines and gotten a tube stuck up your dick.

Noctis: I'm doing fine. Silence, you peasant.

So now the saga is complete. Though at eight weeks a fetus already has its arms and legs and eyes and brain developing we do begin life as an anus attached to a mouth. Don't believe me? here.

Once again, Flumina means "river" in Latin, and the title is taken from a line from Inside the Winter Storm by DragonForce. I had wanted to elaborate on it "When Rivers of Pain Run Dry, Holes are Left in the Night Sky" but there wasn't enough room so I left it at that.

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Epilogue

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