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Prompto Argentum ([personal profile] this_loser) wrote2019-07-26 04:31 am
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[personal profile] carbungle 2020-02-18 04:47 am (UTC)(link)
Hm.

[A non-committal response if ever there was one; no, everything is definitely not okay. There's a click of nails on the floor as Umbra trots over, having come in with him; the dog sits at Noct's side and rests his nose on the prince's knee, offering a quiet and encouraging whuff. Come on, out with it.]

I was over at Besithia's place tonight. He wanted to ask me about "fixing" the timeline.
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[personal profile] carbungle 2020-02-18 05:41 am (UTC)(link)
He's a Nif, so of course he just wants to save Niflheim.

[It's hard not to roll his eyes at the selfishness of it. Verstael had a point- his priority is Lucis, sure, as it should be. But at least they're trying to save the world as a whole with what they're doing. It may be true that Niflheim's downfall brought the rest of the world down with it - which makes sense, considering they practically ruled the whole place by then by taking everything over - without that event they'll still have daemons and the Starscourge to contend with.]

Had it all mapped out like some kind of conspiracy board, all these dates and events I didn't know about. Stuff that happened, or is gonna happen. Said Cor gave him his research notes, so there was a lot about MTs. And Ardyn, because... yeah.

[Because of course Ardyn. He may not know the future yet, but he knows that Ardyn is the pivot point for a lot of things that go down.]

...And he asked me for your number.

[He shoots Prompto a pointed look. Why would he do that, huh?]
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[personal profile] carbungle 2020-02-18 07:44 pm (UTC)(link)
...Yeah? Is that what you said? Just MTs as a whole?

[Because that's not what he wrote down.]
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[personal profile] carbungle 2020-02-18 09:56 pm (UTC)(link)
Prompto, he said you told him that you should exist. Not MTs. That's how he phrased it. That there's something wrong with you, that you shouldn't have kids.

["He thought the world would be better off." Those words stick in his throat, and he hates the very idea of them. In what reality would that ever be true?]

He didn't sound like he was lying.
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[personal profile] carbungle 2020-02-19 05:43 am (UTC)(link)
[Noctis studies his expression for a long moment, a small measure of tension leaving his shoulders. It isn't much better, but Prompto looking at the big picture is better than being singularly suicidal, and he'll buy Verstael just misunderstanding the request. His gaze drops to the bracelet, hiding the tattoo, then away.]

What could be wrong with you? You don't come across as anything but normal to me. You're probably the most normal person I've ever known.

[And it's not an insult by any means. There's something akin to gratitude in his tone, subtle but there. So much of his life had been grim and serious and married to duty until Prompto walked himself into it. It was only through Prompto that he really got to feel normal himself.]
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[personal profile] carbungle 2020-02-20 04:49 am (UTC)(link)
You're not a Besithia. You're an Argentum, and a Lucian. Where you came from or how you were born- [Yes, born, he doesn't care if he's a clone or whatever-] -that doesn't matter. It's who you are now that counts, and you're nothing like that guy.

[Deep down he knows he needs to act like a king, when it comes to decisions like this, when the question asked is "should MTs exist". He knows the answer should be no, absolutely and unequivocally. He can't be a king here, though. Not with Prompto, the only person back home who's ever left all those royal expectations on the floor. He and Prompto, they're just two people, same as always.]

Whether you have kids or not, whatever, that's your call. But it should be your call, a hundred percent, and not because of him.
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[personal profile] carbungle 2020-02-21 03:26 am (UTC)(link)
[Adopt... yeah, that tracks. While Prompto's parents weren't around as often as they should have been, at least he had them. At least they kept him, let him be a person. That's better than Niflheim would have ever given him. Sometimes you learn how to be a good parent by having a shitty one; here and there, he'd thought about what it might be like to be a father, and he stubbornly believed that he could do better than the kings who came before him to balance his life, spend more time with them. And Regis wasn't even a bad father, just. Could have been better.

He'd like to meet Prompto's kids one day. If he ever grows up enough to be a dad, anyway. Neither of them are prepped for that any time soon, that's for sure.

He's smiling a little at the thought, but it fades as Prompto continues, brows furrowing. The way he says it...]


What do you mean, getting rid of it?

[You can't just get rid of a tattoo-]
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[personal profile] carbungle 2020-02-21 10:19 am (UTC)(link)
[It's probably expected, but there's no hiding the obvious horror in Noct's expression at those words. He burned it?]

Wh- what? Prompto...

[He wants to ask why, but Prompto had already said as much- lost, scared. And he must have been alone, because if they'd been there for him they would have stopped it, surely. It happened while they were separated, then. To an extent, he can understand. It sounds awful, whatever it is that Prompto had gone through.

At the same time... it's just so senseless. If not for the words coming right out of his friend's mouth, he'd never have imagined Prompto would hurt himself like that.]
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[personal profile] carbungle 2020-02-23 08:35 pm (UTC)(link)
[Only one time... like that isn't enough to horrify anyone.

He isn't so socially inept that he can't recognize that he's handling this poorly, that Prompto is closing himself off, probably regretting sharing it. He doesn't say anything at first, taking a moment to lean back, to take a deep breath and really consider what matters here. He wasn't there for Prompto at the time. He can be there for him now.

Quietly he reaches out to touch Prompto's arm- not where the bracelet is, but close, trying to tug him back from where he'd curled up.]


Hey... can I see it?
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[personal profile] carbungle 2020-02-24 01:27 am (UTC)(link)
[He hadn't even noticed scarring the first time Prompto showed him, wouldn't even have known to look for it, since it was the only time he'd ever seen under the bracelet. Now he takes time to study it more carefully, not the numbers (because those are irrelevant, Prompto is more than a number, and he doesn't even want to accidentally know them in case that information is passed on to Besithia) but the design itself. There isn't much to see, just a simple bar code and some diamonds.

Hm.]


You know... if you fill in some of the lines between, maybe do some work around it, you could turn it into something else. A cityscape, maybe? Or something out of King's Knight. Something cool.
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[personal profile] carbungle 2020-02-26 02:49 am (UTC)(link)
Probably not, but it doesn't hurt to ask around, just in case someone in town knows how. Plus you can play with designs until then.

[He hesitates, then lifts his comm. When he continues his voice is a little more gentle.]

Can I take a pic?
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[personal profile] carbungle 2020-02-28 01:54 am (UTC)(link)
I'll show you.

[Noctis leans his communicator over Prompto's arm just long enough to take a clear photo with it. He checks to make sure it's clear enough to satisfy what he needs it for, then adds,]

All good. You can cover it up if you want.

[He doesn't care, but he'd be an idiot not to notice how uncomfortable Prompto is when it's visible. He focuses back on his comm, loading the photo up in the painting program he's been using for the King's Knight design process, and summons a digital pen from the Armiger. A new layer is created, and first he covers up the numbers, not wanting to even look at them long enough to accidentally memorize them. He never wants Prompto to be a number in his mind. Then he just starts… doodling. Curling lines, twisting patterns, a bunch of nonsense that resembles the simple sketches or stickers he'd sent in Luna's notebook, trying to create something less clinical from the barcode.]
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[personal profile] carbungle 2020-03-02 02:30 am (UTC)(link)
[Noctis tries to interpret the noises Prompto's making, outlining details he likes, redoing whatever doesn't seem to make a good impression. At the suggestion, he tilts his head to consider the idea, then saves the doodle and turns off the drawn layer, creating a new one. He taps the screen a couple of times, then starts tracing along the barcode lines, blending a few together and elongating them into tufty feathers.]

Like the egg at Wiz's place? The chick?

[Adding actual colour for a yellow one would be tricky, but... black chocobo, black tattoo. It's doable.]

Or the one that stole Specs' specs, but you slept right through that.

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