[Mission] Jasmine and Aladdin's Wedding!

Originally, Ardyn meant to simply pass this party by. It was some sort of wedding celebration; a young royal couple, around young Noctis and Lunafreya's age, turning an entire day into a celebration of their wedding for their entire city. It was rather cute, but ultimately rather unimportant in the grand scheme of things. What wasn't unimportant was the strange creature, a blue man of malleable shape and size, approaching individuals in the crowd seeking companions to become the entertainment. That smacked of poor preparation, but the creature himself was intriguing, as was the first one to accept the offer: possessed of giant wings and sharp claws, the entertainer was, quite simply, strange. He appeared to be a Daemon, and there was some Darkness in him, but no part of him, not even his wings, contained even an ounce of the Starscourge.

Most people in Agrabah we're captivated by the salesmen in the bazaars but Ardyn found the strange people far more compelling.

A chance to observe both of these anomalies up close led Ardyn to approach them and offer his own services. That decision led to his current presence, in his human Seeming, backstage. He had collected a series of small rocks and was currently plotting a few throws. The Lucis Caelum bloodline had always specialized in throwing and warping to their weapons. With 2,000 years of experience, Ardyn could take the wings off a crow from the top of a skyscraper, in combat.

Give him time to plan his throws?

The red-headed man threw the tiny stones, so fine only the closest members of the audience would see them, and that only if Varian's spectacle failed to keep their attention. As he took the stage himself, the Armiger flared into being behind him, stones falling at just the right angles to make the crystalline phantom weapons flash with light as they expended miniscule amounts of magic to deflect the projectiles, creating the illusion of a pair of sparkling wings made of a panoply of kingly weapons.

The attention of the audience successfully gained, Ardyn spoke. "Ladies and gentlemen, my name is Ardyn," he announced, letting all his blades but his own, personal favorite fade from view, and planting the sword in the ground like a cane. "And I don't know about you, but I think I'd like to see some aerial acrobatics! What say you, shall we see if our valiant Sorcerer friend can dance in the air?"

Without awaiting a response, Ardyn grabbed the first of a series of large rings, made of wicker for just such a purpose, and waited for Varian to build up some speed before tossing a few rings into the air behind his back, leading the half-gargoyle into a graceful loop-de-loop with almost contemptuous ease while he attempted to play to the crowd down below.