Iggy's marginally happy because Noct's now eating fruit, but it's a hollow victory as it's only fruit he'll eat, he still refuses veggies. Gladio tells him to at least consider it a win.
Prompto meanwhile takes over Gladio's hat as his nest and decides it'd look better up in the rafters.
He'd be mad at first, then see those baby bat eyes and just realizes "oh no, I'm weak to the baby eyes. Cor come get your kid." Baby Talcott slips Prompto grapes from his high chair.
Cor enjoys time with his bat son, bat cuddles are soft, and goes with Cor to the Crownsguard office on the weekends, Monica slips him banana slices. He also somehow gets the glaives wrapped around his little bat fingers.
Regis is jealous everyone else gets to hang out with bat!Prompto (because he has a soft spot for bats) but he's so busy dealing with the council. (Prompto helps him by hiding in the council room rafters and squeaking loudly every time the council starts saying dumb stuff.
Cor trains the recruits with his bat son on his shoulder. Sometimes he slips him a little fruit. The hardest part of training is that the recruits aren't allowed to coo at Prompto.
Poor Regis should get some bat time too. Maybe after the council sessions are done he can go spend some time at Cor's and see his favorite bat nephew.
Prompto gets used as interrogation training ("can you resist the baby bat eyes?") and sometimes finds fruit on Cor's desk from the recruits like a teacher being given an apple.
Regis totally tries to bring Prompto into council meetings, he finds the council much more agreeable because who could say no to that little face? And Noctis totally jokes that Prompto could blend in with his dad's cape and sneak in, but Prompto likes to squeak a bunch and they got caught.
The recruits make it a game to try and sneak Prompto fruit, and whoever gets closest gets like "top dog" status. Prompto likes to try and play along when Cor's not looking, but Cor is like "no, you'll ruin your dinner." Cue Prompto's tiny "but daaad" squeak that totally doesn't make half the recruits go weak kneed because of the cuteness.
I just imagine one of the council members trying to propose something bigoted/racist and Prompto just lets out this loud shriek and Regis goes "what he said, answer's no."
Cor has to start pat down recruits to look for hidden fruit pieces. The new game is see who can bring the most fruit to training. Prompto will not tell on anyone so long as they let him munch.
The bat is the one who takes the big decisions. That's his role here. No bigger authority
The game eventually spreads beyond the recruits until everyone in the Crownsguard is trying to slip fruit to "the Marshal's Bat Son." Cor is not amused. Monica wins the game in the end, she doesn't say how, but she somehow managed to get an entire Edible Arrangement to Prompto without Cor seeing. Cor just walks in and sees Prompto eating at a mango cut into the shape of a rose and just...gives up.
The guards also nickname Prompto the "Vibe Check Bat" when he goes into the council meetings. Some also make jokes about Regis looking like a goth mafia boss with a bat instead of a cat. Clarus and Cor aren't amused. Regis is very much amused.
Prompto is going to end up the most spoiled bat in the world. Every day he gets people giving him bananas and mangos and strawberries. Cor is just trying to get people to understand that feeding his son will not have him go easy on them.
Prompto goes to Council just to scream at people. He can flap down on the table and shout. He marches up and down along the table like he owns the place.
Prompto's just happy for the attention (and the food, he's very happy about the food), because he's always worried about people being scared of him, so people finding him adorable is generates all sorts of seretonin for him.
At council meetings he vibe checks councilmen's waterbottles/mugs/cups whenever they start to go too far. News gets out and he gets another nickname, Guard Bat.
Also when Pryna or Umbra show up you'll just see a magic dog walking around with a bat on their back. Several people have fainted from the cuteness.
Prompto starts stealing councilmen's things and hiding them away. Cor finds it later, finds three pens, a pair of cufflinks, four sets of eyeglasses, a flask, and at least seven pairs of shoelaces.
Riding around on the dogs is all fun and games, until the very first time Pryna decides that Luna absolutely has to meet this bat-boy, and takes Prompto back with her. It leads to a lot of confusion and laughter. They decide to prank Ravus together, and Prompto ends up hanging off Ravus's belt for half the day before he notices.
Prompto has his thief drawer where he keeps all his stolen goods. Cor scolds him sometimes but also always lets Prompto keep the stuff he took from particularly annoying people.
Prompto can take a nice trip of Tenebrae, carried by his magical steed! Luna makes him try all new sorts of fruit. And Ravus blows up and says something rude when he does notice Prompto is there and Luna makes him formally apologize and also get more fruit.
Ravus acts like the dad that doesn't want the dog but then spoils him. Like, he acts like he hates Prompto being there but yet does nothing when Prompto nuzzles in between his collar and neck when the winter winds come.
But human form Prompto definitely drinks his blood like a juice pouch. Just stabs a straw into the bag and sips it like a Capri Sun. Noctis is behind him daring him to chug it while Ignis is like "where did you get that straw?"
No one can truly stay mad at the little bat, not even Ravus. Prompto's cuteness powers are too strong. He's charmed even Gentiana.
Prompto tries to drink the entire blood bag at record speed and almost chokes on it. Ignis is so annoyed because if Prompto ends up coughing blood everywhere who will be the one to clean the room until it doesn't look like a murder scene? Can't Prompto use a glass like all civilized beings?
Ravus and Luna sneak him fruit when Cor finally stomps out the recruits giving him some. Prompto meanwhile is sneaking treats to Pryna and Umbra.
And Prompto totally wasn't going to attempt to drink the bag that fast until Noctis started chanting "chug chug chug!" like a frat boy. Relax Iggy, he knows how to get blood out of things, he'd done it before. And he refuses to use a glass because what if he has guests? He doesn't want them accidentally drinking from his blood cups. (Noctis totally doesn't be a little shit and go get him a diva cup, calling it a "vampire shot glass," leading to such a ruckus that Clarus and Regis think there's an attack. Nope it's just Noctis being a menace.)
Bat Prompto dragging around one dog treat that's bigger than his head because he has to reward the two good doggos. Magical animals gotta stick together
Ignis thinks that if Prompto is so good at cleaning blood he should also know how to thoroughly disinfect the glass he drank from so that no unfortunate accidents happen, but Prompto insists blood just tastes better if you drink it this way. Straw is closer to the organic, sucking it from a person thing. Also Ignis has banned Noctis from going to the store on his own ever again.
Bat Prompto totally sneaks the Nox Flueret siblings cell phones from Lucis. He also tries to play frisbee with Pryna, and it's marginally successful after trial and error.
Ignis may have banned Noctis from going to the store by himself, but it doesn't stop him. Noctis has online shopping! And that's how Prompto ended up with a bat onesie.
Luna tries to join in on playing fetch with them once. Prompto tried to ride on the frisbee but it ended with him and the frisbee in one of the ponds. On the plus side, Luna got some pictures of a freshly blowdried, fluffy bat in a blanket.
Prompto sees the bat onesie and decides "I'm not gonna be alone in this" and gets Noctis a cat onesie.
Prompto can be a screamy little sky puppy wrapped in his towel, mad about the wetness. He shall be given some mango as an apology.
Noctis posts videos on TikTok where he and Prompto dance in their onesies. The videos are taken down almost immediately because no fun allowed to the Prince.
Luna gladly gives him mangoes, and berries only found in Tenebrae. He also gladly snuggles into the towel, they're very nice towels.
Noctis is annoyed about the video being taken down, little does he realize some of the glaives saved some because they all find it funny, and contraband videos are even funnier.
Luna is spoiling him so much, Prompto can't believe when he goes back to Lucis he will have to deal with so many people who aren't allowed to spoil him (but do so anyways as soon as Cor is looking away)
The glaives have all the most incriminating material on Noctis. Some of them might even have gotten their hands on baby pictures
Luna loves to spoil Prompto, because it means she has a friend to talk to in person. Prompto is excited because he always wanted to talk to Luna, and thank her for encouraging him talk to Noctis, so it's fun. Also he loves to mess with
The glaives like Noctis, but love Prompto. After all, kid with a not-so-good home life, (to them) potential refugee heritage, and a bunch of unbridled optimism is like a neon sign to the glaives of "potential little brother."
Luna and Prompto can become the best of friends. Prompto can introduce her to so many video games and all the strange Insomnia fashions.
The glaives are almost loyal to Prompto before Noctis. Like Noctis is their boss and all, but Prompto is just so nice, he earned that loyalty. Who wouldn't love him? If anyone ever hurt him the glaives would hunt down whoever was at fault.
Luna and Prompto totally binge watch shows together and facetime Noctis so they can all yell at the screen together. And Prompto totally sneaks Luna some Insomnia clothes, like he gets her her own denim vest and Luna embroiders her own patches for it during her free time.
The glaives have a group chat, and any time someone says "little bro" they all know it's Prompto.
Noctis can get facetimes with both Luna and human Prompto, or also with Luna and bat Prompto lying on top of her head making faces at Noctis. And Prompto gets her some punk clothes and Ravus almost has a heart attack when he comes across his sister all dressed in black and with her hair gelled up.
Prompto is everyone's honorary brother. Maybe even honorary son, for the older glaives. They all claim him as their own.
Prompto and Luna do tie dye with any clothes they can find (usually Prompto thrifts them bc then if they get ruined no harm done), and finds her a set of earrings with the helix cuff and chain. That's when Prompto finds those 18-day temp tattoos and Luna looks far too excited to try them for him to say no.
Some glaive tried to call Prompto "my smol son" once, then caught sight of Cor giving him a death glare and realized, "nope he is only baby bro." Dad Cor is very territorial.
Luna shows up with a band t-shirt and five temp tattoos on her arms because they couldn't decide on just one. She's a got a huge skull on her bicep, which is very in theme with Lucis in general. Prompto takes so many pictures.
Cor is the only one here with dad privileges. Everyone else go find their own sons.
Prompto and Luna sneak out to concerts in disguise, and it goes perfectly, until they come back to find Ravus sitting in the living room and gives them an "wtf you two, that was so dangerous" speech.
Cor is the only dad to Prompto, he will take no substitutes. But if you try and call him Prompto's dad, he'll deny it (mostly if it's Clarus and Regis doing the teasing).
Luna is blocking out that speech entirely. She had fun, it was cool, and nothing happened! Ravus should try going to a concert too sometimes, it'd make him relax.
Cor isn't a dad, he's a, uh, a paternal figure. That's how he sells it. He's not a real father but he is a man Prompto can rely on if he needs that. He'd like it if Regis and Clarus would stop making fun of him already
Luna's more occupied with the merch she got at the concert than listening to her brother. She convinced Prompto to get crop tops with her. They try to drag Ravus with them at one point, but when they can't find him, they just face time him the concert and watch his blood pressure rise.
Cor is like the reverse of that B99 clip where the guy calls his superior officer 'dad' and then tries to deny it. He says "I'm his father " once and then has to backpedal hard because Regis and Clarus jump on that faster than a chocobo can run.
Ravus gets sent a video where Luna sits on some stranger's shoulders because she couldn't see above people's head and some friendly musclemen decided to give her a boost. Ravus has a fit.
All Cor's friends are forcing him to be a father against his will. He will swear to his deathbed that he has never had any paternal feelings at all. The fact that Prompto lists him as his emergency contact and closest relative on all forms has nothing to do with anything.
Ravus tries so much to get Luna to stop sneaking out. He straight up passes out in anger when he sees a (thankfully) disguised Luna crowdsurfing and right in the middle of a mosh pit. He just can't believe she'd disregard her own safety like that, and especially with a Lucian she (in his mind) barely knew. The only time he feels marginally better is the one time he gets sent a picture of Luna, Prompto, and the dogs completely blasted with color from a color run, because at least that takes place during the day and there's a predetermined route and security.
Cor continues to deny until one day Prompto gets hurt and calls for cor, calling him dad, and Cor's like "my SON, everyone out of the way!!"
Ravus had to wonder if his sister is just so determined to give him a heart attack. She and Prompto go to a rave once and Ravus almost passes out when he finds out. She's a princess, she should act like one! Meanwhile Luna is like yeah Noctis is a prince too and he does what he wants so I can too
He may deny it again after the accident. It was a spur of the moment thing. He cares about Prompto like any other recruit, he says, while hugging Prompto
Luna just wants to enjoy her youth. Also she wants to experience thing she never would otherwise. It's not like she's abandoning her duties, she just wants some fun. She's able to hear the plights of the people who normally would never be able to get close to her. Its reconnaissance Ravus.
Cor is denying while Prompto's just vibing in his dad's hugs, the touch starved boy he is. Of course, when they all find out about his and Luna's adventures, Regis and Clarus go "like father like son" and Cor nearly screams
Luna is going to be a much better Oracle if she knows what people need, if Ravus can't see it that's his problem. Ravus thinks this is just some kind of elaborate set of excuses she makes to keep sneaking out. Prompto thinks Ravus is just too grouchy to have like, desires and feelings about the outside world
Regis talks fondly of what kind of little punk Cor used to be, and how much Prompto takes from him. Cor is outraged. Clarus adds that well, the kid is actually a lot more polite than Cor used to be at his age, so they are improving with the generations. Cor says he hopes Gladio will improve on his father's mold by not getting a receding hairline at 30
Prompto then gets the idea that Ravus needs a hobby, so he and Luna set off to try and find him one. It doesn't end well. Though Ravus does end up trusting Prompto's motivations a little more (not that he'll admit that). They become a bit more amicable, but he still doesn't like Prompto taking Luna out on these trips (though they know he wouldn't say no to some of the snacks they bring back for him, like a pretzel or something). Ravus's only response "fuck they know my weakness."
Cor is suffering from embarrassment as Regis calls up both Cid and Weskham and is like "he finally admitted it, our boy Cor is all grown up!" and decides to prank Clarus for the manners comment. This starts a prank war (just like the old days), and this time the kids get involved.
Ravus's favorite hobbies are seething and brooding. But maybe they can also get him to read a book or something. But nothing that involves the outsides, he doesn't see why he should ever leave his room, let alone to go mingle with people in such dangerous places.
Prompto sides with Cor. Noctis and Gladio are on Regis's and Clarus's side. Ignis is the wild card who will side with whoever he thinks most deserves the prank, while also acting as if he is way above this
Ravus is even picky about his books. Its poetry, Tenebraen history, and classical literature only for this man.
The prank war eventually encompasses the citadel. Everyone gets involved (Cid ends up mailing a glitterbomb to Regis). It ends in a ceasefire, as they can't get any work done with all the pranks going on
Ravus is so damn pretentious. Prompto thinks he should just unwind already. Have a nap maybe
Cor enlists all the Glaives to support him with the prank war. They will help in exchange for bat Prompto quality time. Noctis and Regis have no qualms about using magic to make everyone's lives harder
Prompto is 90% sure Ravus needs a spa day, maybe a good nap or three. A self care day. Too bad you'd have to knock him out to get him to do anything like that. He's allergic to self care.
The Glaives don't even need Cor to enlist them (for the most part), they just go "which side is Prompto on?" and join (there's some who join Regis's side, but the bulk of the glaives are on their side, the Crownsguard mostly join the other side (even if it means going against Cor) because there's like a rivalry between the guard and the glaives so they'll take the opportunity. Regis and Noctis are known to warp in and warp out just to leave a cloud of ultra fine glitter all over their target (or in Noctis's preference, waterballoons filled with slime).
Ravus is convinced he can live entirely off of spite and anger and he won't accept any critique on this. Sleep is for the weak
Noctis glitter bombed Ignis at one point and for punishment Ignis put vegetables in all his food for a month. He managed to sneak chunk of carrots even in fried chicken. That was how Noctis decided Ignis was off limits and not worth trying to prank.
Luna hunts him down like once a week and nails him with a sleep spell then drags him to bed and makes him sleep for at least twelve hours. Anyone who tries to make fun of him for it or interfere gets sleep spelled too. Pryna and Umbra lay on him to make sure he stays down.
Ignis is master prankster, if Weskham ever returned to the Citadel, the two would win the prank war on their own side, just a two man side and would demolish all the competition.
Such cruelty, being forced to sleep. Ravus hates it. He can't believe he is being forced to take care of himself.
If Weskham returned not only would he destroy everyone else in the prank war, but he also would have so much incriminating material on Regis, Clarus and Cor to blackmail them with. They'd better not annoy him if they don't want him to tell their sons all the bullshit they did when they were young.
Lunafreya sees his whining, and each time he does it, she hides the coffee maker. It becomes a second war, though this one more of a capture the flag with the coffee maker. What's strange is the sides on this one. There's Ravus (who actually has Gentiana on his side (she loves coffee, but Lunafreya is both a tea and a coffee person, so it's a coffee vs tea reason for her)), Luna (with Umbra), and Prompto (with Pryna, they just want to cause some chaos, so they steal the filters).
Weskham is like, the wine aunt of the Chocobros 1.0, shows up completely ready to take no prisoners and cause some trouble for the sheer enjoyment of it (also because he heard Clarus telling Gladio some very....polished....tales of his youth (i.e. completely editing out the fact that he fell on his face while trying to flirt with a woman, got scared by a fish that jumped onto the boat while Regis was fishing, made the dumb mistake of trying to spook Cor, etc.)
The kids are rolling with laughter by the end of it.
Ravus finds the coffee machine and finally he can get his coffee, but then finds that all the actual coffee has been stolen and he can't make any. Pryna buried it in the garden somewhere. Ravus can have fun looking for it now
Weskham is going to have the time of his life. He knows everything. He can tell Gladio how his parents actually met (it involved Clarus getting kabedon'ed), he can tell Noctis about what his father used to do (broke all the rules he now tries to enforce on Noctis), he can tell Prompto how Cor acted as a teen (skipped class half the time). The dads (and not-dad-Cor) are never going to recover, but they have no way to embarrass Weskham back. If they complain too much Weskham threatens to call Cid
I don't even think they have ebony in Tenebrae, so Ravus has to find a way to get it smuggled in (Gentiana totally has a stash). Around this time Prompto shows Luna bubble tea and she loves it, so the two of them sip their drinks and watch as a caffeine deprived Ravus tries to find the energy to move (and Luna hits him with another sleep spell right after and they drag him back to his room).
Cid doesn't even need to be called, he hears the roast session and practically warps to the Citadel himself. He tells the kids how each of their dads have (at one point or another) called him dad, how Cor was a gangly giraffe when he hit a growth spurt and fell all over himself on their road trip, how Regis's first attempt at facial hair went (badly), and how Clarus tried to act all tough and cool during his first time drinking and threw up after the first sip because he tried to chug whiskey because he saw someone do it (they didn't it was a plain thing of soda, he just thought it was alcoholic).
Prompto can slurp his tea while Ravus murderously looks at him, envious one of them has their preferred beverage. Prompto points out tea also has caffeine, technically. Ravus refuses anything that isn't coffee, and especially anything that is sweet or fruit flavored or has bubbles.
The dads' reputation will never recover from these hits. They can no longer keep their children under control. Regis tries to tell Noctis he has to do something and Noctis is like mmm no, don't you have so much skipped duties to catch up with since you were thirteen?
Ravus hates tea, but he gets even more livid when Prompto suggests a latte or hot chocolate (one because it's barely coffee, the other he considers a children's drink). Prompto shots him in the head with one of the bubbles for that. He's too caffiene deprived to catch Prompto and they both know it.
The dads lament the loss of their rep, though Prompto actually becomes more at ease with Cor. Learning about those things made Cor a bit more approachable in his eyes. That Cor had once had similar problems makes him not feel so alone.
Ravus will only accept tea if it contains high quantities of alcohol too. Luna is like ok edgelord, I think you need a nice calming herbal tea.
Cor looks so much more human now in Prompto's eyes. He's a real person who did real people things, not just the Marshal. Cor likes that Prompto is more at ease with him but he does wish it hadn't come at the cost of his dignity. Weskham is like you're welcome kid
Prompto hears that Ravus puts x type of alcohol in it and goes "eww, why that one? Y is so much better." Cue both Fleuret siblings looking at him and his underage self has to explain how tf he knows what either one tastes like. (AKA, fourteen year old Prompto did a dumb and got drunk bc he had no parental supervision, an unlocked liquor cabinet, and a bad moment of self control; it started fine and ended with the couch in the kitchen (turns out drunk Prompto likes to redecorate). He begs them never to tell Cor (spoiler alert: he finds out.)
Regis and Clarus are so jealous that Cor got the better end result of Weskham's roast session, they've got to deal with two boys who don't take them seriously anymore and Cor gets the sunshine kid!? They both think it's unfair.
Prompto considers himself such an expert on alcohol. He's basically a grown up, he knows drinks. Cor thinks he absolutely should not know drinks, he wants explanations, also Prompto isn't allowed to drink until he's 40 now
It really is unfair. Prompto is such a sweet boy, so good to his dad. Meanwhile Noctis is deep into his moody teen phase and has no respect for fatherly authority anymore. Gladio isn't so bad, his sense of duty is too strong for him to misbehave, but Clarus has to wonder how is it possible that Gladio is always off somewhere chasing girls and yet never stays with any long enough to bring her home
Even better, Prompto is one of those drunks who doesn't look drunk until he's drank enough alcohol. So in essentially he's the girl from that one video (I can't find it but I think it's a tik tok or something) where she has a little bottle of fireball in her mouth, someone yells at her to put it down, and she chugs the entire thing, only for someone to complain that she's already had "two glasses of wine, [and] fifteen cosmos" before someone else asks how she's "not lit." So yeah, Gladio demands a drinking contest (he loses) and Prompto may only be beat out by Ignis for alcohol tolerance among the boys.
Prompto is a sweet boy. He just has several of his own issues from the Argentums' style of "raising" him that lead to him trying to behave as best as possible (most of the time). There are times Cor practically begs him to act out.
Prompto is that guy who is small and you think he'll fall over after a beer but then just keeps chugging and chugging and makes you wonder where is he even putting all of it. If he reaches drunk drunk levels he'll straight up blackout, but if he doesn't get there he's the one who gets all the blackmail material. He brings his camera to parties and has so many pictures to torture the guys with the next day.
Cor was a nightmare as a teenager and he doesn't get why Prompto is so well behaved. Won't he ignore the rules? Stay out after curfew? Anything? The worst thing Prompto ever did was skipping training once because he was saving some kittens and he apologized 300 times for it
Prompto doesn't look or act like the stereotypical drunk, he just acts weird and everyone just assumes he's a light weight who had a single drink. Nope he put down more than Gladio and still going, he just does weird things like move furniture, climb on cabinets, stuff like that. He has his camera, but the question later becomes "where did it end up?" because drunk Prompto hid it somewhere.
Cor and the others think Prompto is well behaved. But here's the thing, he's really not. Not all the time at least. He just doesn't get caught. Growing up mostly neglected meant he never knew the consequences for breaking a rule, but the idea of it scared him a lot, so if he had to break a rule, he got good at avoiding being caught. Especially if he'd get punished more than others due to his theoretical birthplace. Prompto does less fights, more chaotic good crimes.
Drunk Prompto makes a treasure hunt for his sober self with the camera being the prize. Sober Prompto wonders what the fuck is wrong with him when he drinks
Prompto has mastered the art of sneaking around. He has lying skills no one would ever expect from him, and he knows how to come and go unnoticed after curfew. One day Noctis was complaining about how he couldn't do something and Prompto was just like uh, do it anyways? And proceeded to come up with a whole plan on how to run off from Noctis's retinue in five minutes and Noctis was both impressed but also very concerned
Drunk Prompto is like the "Trickster" drunk. Plays pranks or does things purely to confuse people. It's how Prompto's house keys ended up in Noctis's freezer.
Prompto's got an entire arsenal of tricks up his sleeve, all learned through the art of "no parents to tell me no." Lockpicking, hotwiring, parkour, all the sorts of tricker stuff. Combined with his knowledge of basically "how to adult despite being a literal child" it's no wonder he managed to keep it under wraps. When others find out about these they're like "who raised you?" And Prompto replies "No one :D"
Drunk Prompto is happy to prank himself as well. No one is safe from him. He will go and replace all of Noctis's shirts with all of Gladio's (all three of them) and viceversa just to see if they notice.
Prompto raised himself, and he did so to be competent at everything. The others figure out he's basically been on his own his whole life and the parental instincts are even stronger now. Cor will father him so hard. Prompto's friends are starting to get pretty fatherly too
Drunk Prompto also acts a bit braver, almost to the point of forgetting his previous anxiety triggers (i.e. Drunk Prompto can, albiet goofily, talk to Regis with not even a stutter, almost like Regis was just any regular friend's dad), he's also simultaneously more and less clumsy (he can do handstands, cartwheels, backflips etc, but will walk into the nearest wall). Drunk Prompto very nearly restarts the Citadel prank war.
Prompto's self reliance probably makes him chafe a little under the newfound parental instincts of those around him. Like "guys, what's the big deal? I'm fine, I did what I had to, no biggie." Meanwhile the Citadel raised Noct, Iggy, and Gladio, who all grew up with people monitoring their entire childhoods, can't comprehend why Prompto would dislike someone taking care of him. They grew up with people caring for them in one way or another near constantly, had family of all sorts and no shortage of affection from at least someone. Cor is kicking himself and wanting to find the Argentums and kick them as well, because he knew he shouldn't have let Prompto go to someone else, and now this kid had to grow up and be an adult before he hit double digits not out of duty, but out of necessity.
Ignis comes to the conclusion that Prompto should not be allowed to drink again. Noctis, on the other hand, thinks the whole thing was hilarious and Prompto should get drunk more. Like yes the pranks on him were annoying but Prompto also pranked a lot of other people so Noctis wants to see it happen again
Noctis spent his whole life having someone watch him constantly, be it his dad or his nanny or Ignis or anyone else, and at first he used to think Prompto's normal life would be cool, because wow having actual privacy sounds great. But then he realized Prompto isn't alone for a few hours a day while his parents are at work, he's alone always, and that's not good. Meanwhile Prompto used to think it would be nice if his parents had been around a little more, but then when others start taking care of him he feels so claustrophobic. He isn't a kid, he can do some things on his own! And everyone else is like dude you do realize that you are supposed to have people do things for you, right?
Cor very much agrees with Ignis, and Regis and Clarus agree on the principle (despite being hypocrites who not only drank underage, but got Cor drunk during their roadtrip bc the kid was trying it for the first time and was obviously not going to know his limit.) Gladio is in the middle, sure he found it funny, but the fact that Prompto can pack that much alcohol away is bad news for his liver.
It's very much a sort of "you don't know what you have until you meet someone without" situation for Noctis (and the other guys too). Once they come to a realization of why Prompto can and does do what he does, all of his other "quirks" (i.e. blushing at compliments, hiding being hurt, pretty much 75% of his interactions with people) are all because he didn't grow up with any sort of affection, so of course he's going to recoil at this unfamiliar situation. Prompto probably brushes it off at first as "they're just worried bc I'm Noct's friend" and unlike the guys, he knows it's not supposed to be like this, but he just always accepted it as "this is normal for other kids, other kids are x,y,z, not you." and always assumed it was how the world worked. He really gets a wakeup call when the Nox Fleuret siblings hear about this whole situation, and even Ravus is concerned. Like "if he's upset about something other than the Caelums or Luna's safety, then it's probably something to listen to."
Regis and Clarus can never let their sons know how much they used to drink. Ever. Gladio tries to tell Prompto that drinking too much is bad for your liver and Prompto replies that too much sodium is bad for your blood pressure but that isn't stopping Gladio from eating his weight in Cup Noodles
Luna thinks Prompto's situation really is fucked up. Like she also has things she envied at first, like his freedom to go around as he pleased, but even if she had to stay in the palace most of the time she still had her brother, Gentiana, the dogs, and the servants who cared about her. She is willing to find Prompto's parents herself and demand to know what they were thinking, and the one thing more intimidating than Lucian royalty mad at you may be the Oracle mad at you
Ignis watches Prompto and Galdio's exchange and just goes "please just eat healthy, both of you. I already have to take care of Noctis."
Luna immediately asks Gentiana if spear fishing is a thing, because if it is, she has some hunting to do, namely a certain couple. Pryna hears and is all too ready to join her Oracle. Ravus can't do much, Empire and all, but he does remind Luna of the several ways to break bones, and to wear gloves when she goes. Can't have the Oracle traced back to a murder after all.
Ignis can't possible take care of everyone's diet. He's like a single parent of three
Ravus can offer her so much clean up advice. Meanwhile Umbra and Pryna are here to track people down. Luna is like that meme that goes *cocks gun* I'm a healer but
Iggy's like, looking between them going "you two have to take care of yourselves, or else I'll tell Iris and let her deal with the two of you." Prompto promises her he doesn't actually drink that much, but he won't do it again (until he's actually legal). Gladio tells his sister he'll cut back, but he really won't.
Ravus is just like "wear a jacket, don't get sick, be back in the manor by 6, look both ways, don't talk to strangers."
Luna meanwhile is just: .
Except it's more of "a very well deserved crime"
The only thing keeping Prompto and Gladio from surviving off of unhealthy food are Ignis's disapproval and Iris's disappointment. Meanwhile Noctis is daring Gladio to beat his record of Cup Noodles eaten in a row
Ravus is so proud of his sister for committing her first murders. She's so grown up. Now Luna just has to figure out how to clean blood off her trident and then she's good to go
Prompto's so weirded out by the idea of someone being concerned for him, so it's just like "??? Tf is this and why do I kind of like it?"
Luna rather quickly learns the wonders of peroxide, and the art of disguise. She cant go out and get away with murder when she's in her bright white clothes now can she
He's like that puppy that sees snow for the first time and is unsure whether it's a good thing or a bad thing.
Luna just takes one of the thrifted clothes Prompto and her had been dying, probably like black clothes with bleach tiedye, and like, a thing of spray hair dye. Perfectly disguised.
People decide they will get Prompto used to affection whether he likes it or not. They will shower him in it until the poor boy is so overwhelmed
Everyone thinks Ravus is the scary Nox Fleuret, but Ravus is mostly just grumpy about the universe in general. Sure, he's a great swordsman, but everyone expects it when he gets pissed off. Luna will take you by surprise instead
Like a feral cat, you have to distract him food. If Prompto is too busy eating he won't spook the second someone tries to be thoughtful
If Luna was left free she would be hunting down MTs. Ravus can't be the High Commander if his sister is running around throwing tridents at his soldiers
Like, you gotta be gentle but firm if you want to be successful at it. Show care but don't smother.
The real reason the empire attacked the manor, they knew the Sylva's children would be far less willing to take this lying down, luna in particular, if they grew up without the empire's hands on control
It's a pyrrhic victory for the empire. They got what they wanted, but it had side effects that almost made it not worth it. Especially when the Oracle repeatedly sneaks out of their custody, even killing a pair of "random" civilians, but always confidently gets back into the manor and acts like nothing happened. They saw the crowdsurfing video Luna, they know what's been going on.
The Emperor is pressuring Ravus to keep his sister under better control. Ravus says yes, will do, but also makes sure to slip Luna a note telling her when he will be far off in Niflheim and won't be able to intervene if she does something. Ardyn is in equal parts amused by the chaos and annoyed that his plans aren't going smoothly
Just straight up plausible deniability for Ravus. Ardyn loves chaos to an extent, but he's just like "okay reign it in puppets, we've got a script to keep to"
In Ardyn's plan Luna is supposed to give Noctis the required amount of help and then die quietly, he's not liking this rebellious Luna. Like sure seeing the Oracle murdering people was fun but he's got a divine masterplan to enact here
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