TL;DR I have this headcanon that the line of Lucis can just imagine up unique weapons without needing to physically buy or collect any and can tap into Royal Arms without ever absorbing them by coming into physical contact like Noctis needs to. So Noctis pulling out unique weapons in QTE events is him just subconsciously tapping into that untapped potential for a brief moment in the heat of battle as a flight or fight adrenaline type thing.
Now for my in depth reasoning and thought process on this if anyone is interested....
I like to think that maybe conjuring weapons just from your imagination is part of the full power of the Line of Lucis and being able to access all of the previous royal arms regardless of whether or not you've been in contact with them is another skill that Noctis was deprived of due to his injury which only comes back to him in the most heated moments where he subconsciously taps into it as sort of a fight or flight adrenaline thing. It's the only way to explain why Regis' Armiger looks so unique and plentiful despite him never finding the tombs according to Cor and why Ardyn also has all of the same Royal Arms as Noctis despite obviously never visiting the tombs since physical contact causes you to absorb the weapons. It also explains why Ardyn can conjure up an Armiger of a hundred or so weapons in Verse 2 meanwhile Noctis' limit is summoning 13 weapons all at once even when Luna unlocks his "full potential" against Leviathan (even here despite his limit being 13 weapons he still summons Royal Arms he hasn't collected yet btw).
This also brings me back to the similarity between Noctis' Royal Cleave attack while in AU and Ardyn's energy weapon attacks from his bossfights, seems like those aren't related to Ardyn's daemon powers but rather to his Lucis magic. Seems like the magic of the Line of Lucis is far more potent and versatile than we're lead to believe in the story since all we get from it is that Armiger is a thing and elemental magic can also be used. Ardyn shows us there's more to it and it's validated even further by Noctis' AU abilities which bear resemblance to Ardyn's. I already mentioned Royal Cleave but another example is that the area of effect attack Ardyn does that launches you into the air looks like a dark version of Noctis' Legacy of The Lucii attack just without the Armiger barrage beforehand.
Anyways this hindrance in his abilities is probably why Noct's friends tease him as the copy cat king cuz he lacks the power to conjure up a Royal Arm of his own (which is how I believe they're made and what makes them so special based on my own observations until there's further elaboration officially) let alone any weapons he doesn't physically own already which would make sense as to why the Royal Arms are treated with such reverence and why they add to Noct's powers. They're literal remnants of the past kings' magic and make up for Noctis' inability will weapons into existence out of thin air which is what I personally choose to rationalize all the unique QTE weapons as unless they're a Royal Arm.
Sorry to whoever actually decided to read all this. Lmao
Now for my in depth reasoning and thought process on this if anyone is interested....
I like to think that maybe conjuring weapons just from your imagination is part of the full power of the Line of Lucis and being able to access all of the previous royal arms regardless of whether or not you've been in contact with them is another skill that Noctis was deprived of due to his injury which only comes back to him in the most heated moments where he subconsciously taps into it as sort of a fight or flight adrenaline thing. It's the only way to explain why Regis' Armiger looks so unique and plentiful despite him never finding the tombs according to Cor and why Ardyn also has all of the same Royal Arms as Noctis despite obviously never visiting the tombs since physical contact causes you to absorb the weapons. It also explains why Ardyn can conjure up an Armiger of a hundred or so weapons in Verse 2 meanwhile Noctis' limit is summoning 13 weapons all at once even when Luna unlocks his "full potential" against Leviathan (even here despite his limit being 13 weapons he still summons Royal Arms he hasn't collected yet btw).
This also brings me back to the similarity between Noctis' Royal Cleave attack while in AU and Ardyn's energy weapon attacks from his bossfights, seems like those aren't related to Ardyn's daemon powers but rather to his Lucis magic. Seems like the magic of the Line of Lucis is far more potent and versatile than we're lead to believe in the story since all we get from it is that Armiger is a thing and elemental magic can also be used. Ardyn shows us there's more to it and it's validated even further by Noctis' AU abilities which bear resemblance to Ardyn's. I already mentioned Royal Cleave but another example is that the area of effect attack Ardyn does that launches you into the air looks like a dark version of Noctis' Legacy of The Lucii attack just without the Armiger barrage beforehand.
Anyways this hindrance in his abilities is probably why Noct's friends tease him as the copy cat king cuz he lacks the power to conjure up a Royal Arm of his own (which is how I believe they're made and what makes them so special based on my own observations until there's further elaboration officially) let alone any weapons he doesn't physically own already which would make sense as to why the Royal Arms are treated with such reverence and why they add to Noct's powers. They're literal remnants of the past kings' magic and make up for Noctis' inability will weapons into existence out of thin air which is what I personally choose to rationalize all the unique QTE weapons as unless they're a Royal Arm.
Sorry to whoever actually decided to read all this. Lmao
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