Bonds and Talks and Chocobros, Oh My! [closed]

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Who: Prompto Argentum, Noctis Lucis Caelum, and Ignis Scientia
When: July 6th onwards
Where: Prompto's place and Noct/Iggy's place
What: Bonding needs to happen stat, but so do some important conversations.
Warnings: TBD

Starters below because there's a lot of threads about to happen here.

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[eluci]

...You're kidding.

[He's clearly not, and Noctis doesn't think he is, but he's having trouble wrapping his head around all of that. Niflheim's weaponized daemons, news at 11, but he'd assumed that the MTs were just what their name sounded like--magitek.

He smooths his thumb over the barcode a couple times, before putting his own hand over it.]

...Shit...so all the ones we've killed up to this point...?

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Just daemon-powered machines. Whatever they do to make 'em, they're not human inside. Not anymore, just like how most daemons aren't human or dog or whatever anymore.

[eluci]

[That's...strangely relieving. Then again, he didn't witness all of that first-hand and isn't the one with the barcode.

While he's got his hand on Prompto's wrist...he's just going to tighten his grip on it, and use that arm to pull Prompto into a hug. There's nothing he can think of to say that doesn't sound either ridiculous or insincere even in his head, so this seems like the best option.]

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[Oh.

Wow he needed this. He clings to Noct, trying very hard not to cry right now. It's not working so great, but.]

You still wanna be my friend?

[eluci]

[Cling away--Noctis isn't letting go anytime soon, holding to Prompto's shirt and depending on what he's wearing, possibly fur.]

That's a stupid question and I'm not answering it.

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Look, I just wanted to make sure. You said it was fine before, but we never talked about it...and we're not gonna get the chance to back home. Not for a while.

[eluci]

I'm saying it's fine now.

[He has no idea what he said then. Says? It's in his future, but it's still his answer.]

I'm not ending our friendship over something like that. Especially if you're not ending it because I pushed you off a moving train.

[clickclickbang]

You thought I was Ardyn and after being his prisoner for a while I can totally understand. He's freaky, Noct, like "able to control daemons" freaky.

[eluci]

Awesome. He totally needed that upgrade. Acts creepy and is able to control daemons.

At least he can only be creepy here.

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Seriously...

[He's not going to tell Noct about Ravus. That'd be too much.]

Anyway, after all that...he starts sending a lot of daemons after us and closing off the Crystal.

[eluci]

Of course.

So we...go for the Crystal, right? Since it's supposed to get rid of the daemons.

[That is about half of what he knows about it, aside from it giving his family their powers.]

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You go. The rest of us stay back to fight them off...and, uh, I dunno who started the rumor about the Crystal stopping the daemons but it doesn't. It just...basically sucks you into it.

[Look there is no easy way to say that.]

[eluci]

Whoever started it knew what they were doing, because I believed it.

[Okay, he knew it did other things, but people liked to keep him in semidarkness about too many things, so that's his excuse.

What Prompto just said it did is not some thing he knew it to be capable of.]

It--what? Why? Did they do something to it after they took it from us?

[The last question is more rhetorical, but Prompto's welcome to answer it if he knows the answer.]

[clickclickbang]

No clue. By the time we got to it, Ardyn was the only one there and...well, we tried to kill him but he can't be killed, Noct. Not by normal weapons.

[eluci]

No kidding. I found that out on the train. Met the Glacian, she froze him solid and I shattered him. He came right back like nothing even happened, like it was a prank he and she were in on.

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--wait, she's alive?!

[Detour, sorry.]

[eluci]

[Detours are a-okay.]

I guess so. You remember Gentiana? That's her.

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...dude. What.

[Did he have a vague crush on an Astral? What the hell!]

Damn.

[eluci]

[Prompto your love life is a disaster.]

Gentiana aside, what happened after I...got eaten by the Crystal?

[He's just going to assume from now on that Ardyn forced him into it somehow because that sounds like something he might do.

Maybe he should confront him about it later.]

[clickclickbang]

Not much, honestly. We got out of Gralea, got back to Lucis, and split up to start tackling the end of the world. I was with Wiz, getting his birds and other animals onto a ship, when I got pulled here.

[eluci]

I knew that part.

[That's why he had Primula with him.]

End of the world...

[By the time they'd reached Gralea, everything had been in perpetual dusk, so he's guessing that the sun stopped coming up altogether eventually. But that meant that the daemons would soon be out in full-force all the time...maybe 'end of the world' was an apt description.]

I take it Arydn wouldn't let you take the Crystal back with you.

[clickclickbang]

Nope, and even if he had it's not like we could have used it. We're not you.