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Camping + Rain

theydonotbindus:

Or the Chocobros and what they do when it rains while camping. 

  • They’re not about to make Ignis cook in that. 
    • He reluctantly agrees to use the smaller camp stove in the tent (with the flap open to let the gas fumes escape) to boil water for Cup Noodles. 
    • Gladio doesn’t want to trouble him any more, so he throws some jerky into his. It was pretty good. 
  • They’re all fairly packed in the tent, but they’ve worked out a system. 
    • They sit along the same wall, in Ignis-Noctis-Prompto-Gladio order, and do quiet individual things for a bit.
      • Noctis plays on his phone, Prompto adds filters to some photos, Gladio reads, and Ignis reviews Crownsguard intel.
    • After an hour or so, they circle up and either play Kings Knight, play cards, or if Ignis got some important information they plan out their next moves. Most of the time it’s cards, though. 
  • If they get caught in the rain before camping, they all change into spare dry clothes in the tent. 
    • Prompto has a tendency to ruin shirts, so when this happens he’s almost always out a spare shirt. 
    • Gladio lends him one of his tank tops. 
      • Yeah, Noctis or Ignis can spare a shirt too, but Gladio always does it because the size difference is hilarious to him. 
    • Ignis and Gladio both make sure to (subtly) check Noct’s back when they change–see what the muscles are doing. He has a bad habit of hiding it when his injury flares up. 
  • If Noctis skips brushing his teeth on these nights, Ignis sighs but doesn’t force him. 
    • Nope, this time Prompto will. “Dude. I am not going to be trapped in this tent with you and your ass-breath. Nuh-uh.” 
  • Prompto tends to share more photos on rainy nights since they’re all in there anyway. He uses the tent to show them what bad lighting looks like.
  • Gladio refuses to skip his nightly workout, so two of the guys sit on one side of the tent and the other one sits on his back while he does push-ups.
  • Ignis sharpens his cooking knives while in the tent, but doesn’t maintain his daggers there–Noct can be sensitive to the oil he uses on the grips. 
  • In the morning, when the rain’s stopped, they all take some extra time to stretch from being cooped up all night. 

everkings:

Camping!Headcanons

  • Noctis has terrible nightmares. He likes it when they leave the lantern light on low during the night, so that when he wakes up he knows where he is.
  • Noctis often becomes a tiny ball and lives in Ignis’s ribcage after he falls asleep. Ignis has given up trying to fight this, it’s been a thing since the prince came back from Tenebrae. Ignis does not understand how the prince doesn’t suffocate.
  • Noctis burns hot, a potable furnace with the power of the crystal racing through him. This comes in handy when the temperature drops. On icy nights they fight over who sleeps by him.
  • Ignis can’t fall asleep if he can’t feel his phone or glasses nearby.
  • Gladio’s legs don’t fit in the tent without bending them.
  • Prompto doesn’t sleep well. He stays up late into the night almost every night. It could be because it’s quiet, and there’s no where to hide from his thoughts. He gets lost in his phone games.
  • Gladio wakes up at god knows what hour in the night and often sees Prompto’s phone lit. He’ll take it and stay up and talk quietly with him about everything and nothing until the younger man falls asleep. He gives the phone back before breakfast.
  • Rarely, Prompto talks in his sleep. He mutters about strange things, daemons and magitek. He never remembers this when he wakes.
  • Ignis is always the first one up. He knows just the ringtone to set for an alarm that doesn’t wake the others. He likes to have his first cup of coffee and watch the sun rise to start his day.
  • Should his phone die or fail to go off and Ignis oversleeps and misses his coffee sunrise date, he’s grumpy for the rest of the day.
  • If his snoring is particularly awful, they’ve trained Gladio to roll onto his side when they knee him in the kidneys. He has no memory of this the next day.

Xenophobia and Insomnia

theydonotbindus:

If you’ve seen Kingsglaive, you caught it floating around the edges of the plot. A look at how the Chocobros deal with it when they see it. 

Noctis actually doesn’t realize it until they’re on the road trip. While he was allowed to go to the arcade with Prompto, most of his time in the Crown City was very monitored–and otherwise? Everybody knew he was the prince. His reaction is an angry, shocked what the Hell?! and glaring down the xenophobic person until they leave. He’s pretty morose after each incident, but asks Ignis about laws to stop it once he retakes Insomnia. Isn’t happy to learn there’s not a fast fix.

Prompto is aware of it, and doesn’t like it. He knows he’s adopted so part of him wonders if they’d say that to him, if they knew. The casual remarks not directed at individuals, he ignores, if a situation looks like it might get more serious, he has his phone ready to film anything that might go down. Sometimes tries to pretend he knows the victim of the attacks and chatters them away to safety. Once in the Crownsguard, asks for verbal deflection tips for future incidents.

Gladio is honestly confused by it. Some families like his had been in Insomnia for forever, but why the Hell do these folks think they have anything to stand on–three generations ago, they were from other places, too. Hypocrites. He goes with the guilt angle to deal with it: “Man, can you imagine having to flee your war-torn home? That must be so terrible. Why don’t you think we want them here?” Most aggressors are cowards and shrink away from his bulk. The ones that don’t tend to regret it. 

Ignis is personally offended by xenophobic sentiments–after all, he’s from Tenebrae*, originally. He’s actually on good terms with quite a few Glaives due to his ruthless defense of them; quick to point out to an aggressor that they’re provoking a highly trained member of His Majesty’s personal army. Fear, he thinks, is no excuse to ever be cruel…nor is stupidity. Also prone to “what’s so bad about them being from X?” and making the jerk reveal their cruelty through logic. 

*His accent is meant to suggest he’s from somewhere else, and I wonder where else in Eos they have British accents….

ataraxetta:

2500 words of hurt!Noct ignoct (with bonus Gladio carrying Noct bridal style), by me, in hopes of one day finishing it! Canon-divergent AU, because Ifrit is a summon in it (as he damn well should have been in the game,tyvm)

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There’s something to be said of their luck since leaving Insomnia – or rather the lack thereof – but stumbling into an actual nest of Malboros is a new low, even for them.

Ignis can only recall bits of the battle between crashing waves of illness, blindness, and disorientation. The monsters’ fetid breath, the slimy tentacles leaving blistering burns on skin, the sound of glass breaking and blessed cool energy soaking in, coming to his senses in time to see Prompto or Gladio or all three go down, tossing Phoenix Downs and Fire spells between them without having to pause or even look at each other, listening to his friends’ screams of pain beneath the shrieks of furious monsters, finally slaying one only for three more to surge forward. Prompto’s perfect aim and magic-infused bullets taking the heads off two of the young Malboros one after the other, Gladio’s greatsword cleaving another in two, trading his own daggers for a spear to break through the hard outer layer and pierce the heart of a fully mature one. And Noctis.

Noctis, a blur of energy and magic, feet never touching the ground, slashing and hacking and cleaving, fire surging from his hand one moment and the cool green relief of restorative magic the next, taking hard hits and picking himself back up, taking harder ones and lying unmoving until the skies rip apart and Ramuh picks him up instead.

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gigglincactus:

Someone might’ve posted about this already but I find it very interesting that when Noctis get KO’d the magitek troops stop attacking your party (only when you are using another character to fight, I think).
They even started targetting the daemons that were wandering nearby.

Hotel Room Headcanons

theydonotbindus:

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.