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The chocobros in a rare hotel room–their quirks, routines, and sleeping arrangements. 

• Never forget that Ignis and Gladio have received extensive training to ensure Noct’s safety–one of them always does a five-minute sweep of the room to check for bugs (real and electronic), any potential traps, and alternate escape routes. 
• While more lax at camp, in a hotel their belongings are kept in the Armiger’s magic space in case they do have to evacuate. 
• Other than the above precautions though, the boys all relax, appreciating the amazing conveniences of HVAC and plumbing. 
• Prompto always showers last so if his stomach is bothering him he won’t inconvenience the next person in line. 
• Noctis is surprisingly fussy about hotel soap and will insist on using his own. 
• Gladio always has to ask for extra towels. The man’s a giant and the one puny hotel towel simply isn’t going to cut it, okay?
• Ignis claims the table in the hotel room as his own and usually spends time mending clothing or the like. 
• In Brotherhood the hotel room is shown having a kitchen, but given that you cannot cook in a hotel I’m holding that as a continuity error. So, when they’re at a hotel they’re eating out…it’s almost always the Crow’s Nest, unless they’re in a bigger city. 
• They don’t want to call attention to themselves, so no matter how heated the card game is getting they all adopt library-quiet voices right at 10 PM to avoid noise complaints. 
• They don’t watch television in the hotel, mostly so Noctis doesn’t have to hear the worsening news. Whenever Noctis is in the bathroom, though, the news is coming on (muted, with subtitles) and the other relay to him what they feel is necessary. Usually this job falls to Iggy, although Prompto has done it a few times. Gladio tends to snarl and stalk out of the room at the news most of the time. 
• Once, in a particularly shady motel, Prompto and Noctis found a vending machine stocked with interesting items like individual condoms, razor blades, and rolls of gauze alongside the candy and soda. They bought one of each oddball item and proudly brought their stash to Ignis.
• …Who simply arched an eyebrow and commented that the condom had been expired for a year. Gladio picked through the rest of their items and kept any that might be useful later. 
• When its bedtime, Prompto and Gladio share one bed, Noctis and Ignis the other. 
• Gladio sleeps like a log, and Prompto tends to toss when overheated–it works because Prompto can fidget and his bedmate won’t wake up. 
• Noctis has a lot of nightmares after the fall of Insomnia, and Ignis is used to dealing with them (he had a lot after his injury and time in Tenebrae). 
• If the room has a couch, one person sleeps on it while another gets a bed to himself. They draw straws to see who has to share a bed. 
• Noctis tried to invoke his “kingly rights” once so he could get the bed. Between Gladio’s headlock, Ignis’ I’m disappointed, Noct, and Prompto’s whine, he relented.