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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