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"Prompto’s self-control reached its limit the moment he stepped onto the roof. Every thought, every emotion he had bottled up since Gralea came back to hit him full-force, and he felt like he was going to be sick. This was just too much, it had to be a nightmare, it just had to be. He was going to wake up, Noctis would be asleep beside him, the sun would be rising, everything and everyone would be fine."
After coming back from Gralea, Prompto learns the hard truth about Noctis' fate. He spends the next ten years trying to move on and accept that even if he ever gets to see Noctis again, he will have to face the future without him.
But then, when everything seems to be over, Noctis is granted a second chance. Feelings are explored as they also try to find their dynamic again after everything that has happened.
Who knows... Maybe the future won't be that bad after all.
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- Part 1 of Happily ever at your side
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18 Oct 2025
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“Do you ever have the feeling… That we were all too young to deal with this?” Prompto asked, his voice breaking a little.
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All Prompto could think about were the memories of the man he had loved, the dorky teenager who liked napping and playing video games, the young man who was always helping others although he had lost almost everything.
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“Bro… Bro, what- seriously, who the hell proposes like that?” Prompto’s voice was getting way too high-pitched for his liking.
“‘Dude’, ‘bro’, such cute pet names you’ve got for me.”○○○○○○○○○○○○
“Right, Specs here is getting all emotional at the idea of our bratty former-Prince marrying his little nerd friend,” Gladio said, raising an arm in fake defense as his three friends smacked him in reply.
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None of them truly realized the intricacies of being friends with a centaur until Noct dragged one into his apartment.
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26 Sep 2025
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“I’m in the way,” Prompto murmured, so soft he was barely able to catch it.
“No, you’re not,” Noctis answered gently. Ignis watched them in the sunset-lit reflection of the floor to ceiling windows. Noctis strode up to the centaur’s side and, with all the boldness his royal status granted, reclined himself over the back of his friend and leaned into him so they were pressed back to back, at least in terms of human anatomy.
Silence dominated the apartment for a long couple of moments and Ignis was just about to roll up his sleeves and scold the Prince when-
“Horse couch,” Noctis said simply. Ignis could feel the distinct pulse of a headache developing directly behind his eyes. Prompto burst into laughter.
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Gladio and Noctis hatch a plan to prevent Ignis from spending his entire vacation working by enlisting Prompto to be Ignis’s "Fun Coordinator" for the whole week. By Royal Decree.
Ignis, of course, is not on board with this plan, even if he has no choice but to obey. He can't decide which part is worse: relinquishing control of his daily schedule to someone else, the fact that refusal means he suffers the consequences of disobeying His Royal Pain-in-the-Ass, or that he has to awkwardly navigate an entire week trying (and failing) to hide his infatuation with Prompto.
Surely, no good can come of this.
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17 Sep 2025
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"This is a conspiracy."
Noctis laughed and so did Gladio.
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“I never imagined in a thousand years I’d be discussing gay penguin courting rituals with you, Iggy,” Prompto said. “But I’m surprisingly okay with that.”
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“Iggy,” he murmured.
“Hmm?”
“You brought me to see chocobos?” he whispered.
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Luna loves Noctis.Noctis loves Prompto.
Prompto just wants everyone to be happy, but that may require getting more involved in their marriage than he ever expected to be.
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11 Sep 2025
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So when Noctis has his shoes back on, and they’re just standing there staring at each other, the realization comes crashing down. They’ve had their last kiss already, and Noctis doesn’t even remember it, because, in his infinite stupidity, he never expected their relationship to end.
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To see Luna in real life, to realize how charming and insanely beautiful she was, even more worthy of his adoration than he ever imagined, and knowing she was going to marry Noctis, the person he cared about most in the world...Even though he would miss having Noctis in his life, he couldn’t deny that he’d found someone better. Noctis deserved the very best, and that was never gonna be Prompto.
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Shit, Prompto must have a thing for royalty or something. If anyone found out about any of this, they’d think he was some brilliant, charming guy to win over a prince and a princess. But Prompto honestly didn’t even mean to. In fact, he kinda meant to do the opposite.
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01 Sep 2025
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“Gladio? Oh gods you didn’t-”
“No! He’s fine, it’s just… I can feel his little heart going…”
There was a beat of silence, Prompto could hear just how fast his heart was going too.
“He’s terrified…”
He was.
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“It’s like you’re allergic to gentle.”
“You’re like, the size of my finger.”
“Exactly, don’t be mean to me I’m small.”
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“You weren’t like…watching me sleep were you?”
Prompto turned to stare up at him for a long time, but Noct seemed unable to hold his gaze, a soft blush painting his neck.
“As fascinating as that sounds,” Prompto said slowly, “no.”
“Oh he does sarcasm now too.”
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“It’s alright, you’re going to be alright, Prompto, I promise we’ll look after you,” he soothed, not even sure who he was reassuring. Prompto curled even more into himself, shivers racking his fragile frame and, all at once, he was struck with the overwhelming terror of holding such a breakable thing, the sheer weight of the tiny yet monumental life he now cradled in his hands crashing over him like a tidal wave. It almost felt wrong, like it was a sin for him to even touch something so precious.
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“I still think there’s a pretty big difference between ‘friend who’s a prince’ and ‘friend who is literally five inches tall’ that you’re not really acknowledging here.”
“Oh I’m acknowledging it,” Noctis said, a mischievous grin pulling across his lips, “I’m acknowledging it by saying it’s a load of crap and I don’t care.”
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“Uh, dude,” Prompto said hesitantly, patting at his enormous neck in confusion, “what are you doing?”
“Trying to give you a hug, dumbass,” Noctis grumbled.
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Cor's assignment to Niflheim was to escort a Crownsguard spy and defecting scientist back to Lucis. He couldn't have expected the addition of the child they stole from the facility, one of many born in the labs to become an MT. He also couldn't have expected to care about what happened to that child once they reached the safety of Insomnia.
It was chance that took the child from the fate he was created for. And it was chance that brought him back into Cor's life years later. Cor wasn't one to get attached, but he couldn't help but root for the boy who's fate he helped change.
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25 Aug 2025
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It took Cor a few seconds for his brain to click into place and notice the tuft of yellow hair being stirred by the wind.
“Fuck me, is that one of the MT clones?”☀︎ ❅ 𖤓 ❄ 𖤓 ☀︎ ☼ ✹
Dustin sighed. “I don’t know. I don’t think there are any right answers here. I doubt a potential family would take him if they knew all the details. If it ever got out that the Crown knowingly brought a Magitek clone inside Insomnia’s walls and subsequently put them into the civilian population, it would be a disaster. Every person brought into this project is a potential security risk. The goal of the Crown is to keep that risk as low as possible.”
Cor thought about red eyes turned violet. Hands clutching a plush chocobo. The kid deserved a blank slate.☀︎ ❅ 𖤓 ❄ 𖤓 ☀︎ ☼ ✹
The odds that this kid who was born as a Niflheim lab experiment would someday befriend the prince of the nation he was created to fight against seemed past the point of irony.
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It was strange. He didn’t make a sound on their journey across Eos, a blank slate who had no idea how to be human. Seeing him now, smiling and animated as he explained how the sea birds would start migrating in and hanging out by the fountain, gave him a feeling of hope. In his position, he saw the worst of humanity. It was easy to see the steady creep of the Empire and fear that all that was good would soon be devoured by it. The kid was proof that sometimes bright things can still grow from those ashes.
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“I see.” Ignis adjusted his glasses. “If I may be presumptuous, your involvement goes beyond keeping track of him for security concerns. You’re protective of him.”
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Eventually Gladio will get to meet Noct's mystery new friend, he's sure. But for now he's got bigger things on his mind, like finally getting his tattoo and having some temporary fun with whoever peaks his interest.
“Did you like the studio? Prompto speaks very highly of it,” Ignis asks.
Gladio nods, “It seems pretty cool,” he admits, “Plus they've got the cutest blond I’ve ever seen wandering around.”
Ignis smirks, “You don’t say?”Alternatively: Gladio gets a rad new tattoo and a super cute definitely-not-a-boyfriend. What would he want a boyfriend for? That doesn't really fit in with that inevitable life path the world has laid out for him.
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- Part 1 of Ink and Feather
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25 Aug 2025
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[Freckles 09:43] next time i steal one of your books remind me not to read it on the bus
[Freckles 09:43] not only did i have to read about THROBBING MEMBERS but an old lady tried to talk to me about it
[Gladio 09:56] Holy shit.○○○○○○○○○○○○
It’s from so long ago, from the very first time Gladio had discovered that Prompto even existed, but he had been warned.
Gladio had been told in no uncertain terms not to ask Prompto about his own tattoos.Gladio’s one silver lining in this, come lunch time the next day, is that Prompto, however upset he is, doesn’t seem to have told Noctis that Gladio upset him.
Gladio makes this assumption confidently based on the fact he still has all his hair and both knee caps.○○○○○○○○○○○○
“Gladio, you need to make an honest man out of my friend, you can’t keep living in sin like this,” Noctis had teased and somehow Gladio had found himself laughing.
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“Hey,” he says, “I love you.”
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Prompto was always going to stay with Noctis no matter what and as time goes by it somehow gets easier and harder all at once.
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23 Aug 2025
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Prompto’s no good at being alone anymore. He’s been alone so much in his life and he hates it. Momentarily hates his friends for making him forget what that’s really like.
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“I’m not Noct,” Prompto says weakly.
“The two of you are so intertwined - it’s hard to think of one of you and not immediately think of the other.”○○○○○○○○○○○○
When Prompto looks up Noct is staring at him, eyes soft but intense. He raises his hand to Prompto’s neck, gently traces the edge of Prompto’s jaw with his thumb.
“It’s okay,” Prompto tells him. They both know he’s lying.○○○○○○○○○○○○
For the first time in ten years Prompto feels the light of dawn on his face, the heat of the sun against his cheeks but Prompto can’t see it for the tears in his eyes.
Prompto sinks onto the bottom steps and the joy of this first light never comes for him.○○○○○○○○○○○○
Noct tells Prompto he loves him every single day, at least twice most days, yet sometimes the depth of that still takes Prompto by surprise.
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“Hey,” Prompto whispers, suddenly overcome with emotion.
“Hmm?”
“We got married today.”
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As a sign of Lucis’ dedication to peace and harmony between their two nations, Niflheim demands the marriage of Prince Noctis Lucis Caelum to Prince Prompto Argentum Aldercapt, thus ending the Lucis bloodline and keeping the Prince away from his Oracle.
Because that's a good idea.
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19 Aug 2025
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"It’s better than Niflheim," Prompto whispers to himself, repeating the words like a chant, hands stroking the silk of the bed sheets. Because it is better. It is. But the thing is, anything would be better than Niflheim.
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Prompto is left alone on the floor, fingers gripped tight over his head, so small against the thatched beast of his own chaos.
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‘Dancing Beneath the World,’ Noctis calls it, and wishes he could capture it, paint it himself, because he never wants to lose it, this moment where Prompto is staring at him yet again, like he’s something no one has ever seen before.
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These fics all have about 2 things in common (aside from subject matter I guess). They were all inspired by Kaciart's drawings, and I gave them all these awful names to bewilder and confound readers.
You definitely don't have to read them in order, if anything the canon of each negates the canon of the others.
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19 Aug 2025
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Then Noctis, returning with the glass of weirdly pinkish water in hand, leans over the back of the couch and presses a kiss on the side of Prompto’s head. It makes an audible smack. Gladio gapes. That’s about the most affectionate thing he’s ever seen Noct do (outside of limp hugs).
“Specs says drink this weird water,” Noctis says, holding it out.○○○○○○○○○○○○
But he locks eyes with Noctis, and he hopes his point comes across. We’ve got to be more careful with him, he means to say with the look. He’ll die for what he believes in: and he believes in Noctis. Noctis nods to Ignis. Like a king, he bears that burden.
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“Just… I’ve been kinda useless lately,” Prompto mumbles, like he’s saying it to the paper sheet beneath him. Noctis blinks. It’s like getting slapped in the face.
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When Prompto was fifteen, if he woke up screaming, it was never a problem, because no one ever heard.
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Fortunately, Cor comes back before he can start properly freaking out, because shit, in all the time he’s known Prompto, it hasn’t occurred to him how small he is? The kid seems to be 90% bones. It feels like he’s holding a baby bird he found in the snow, and it’s making his heart do its best attempt to crawl up his throat.
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When Ignis left, their beds were pushed together, Noctis was playing on his phone in one and Prompto was unconscious in the other.
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Prompto lives with his two closest friends, Gladio and Ignis, in a small town house in the outskirts of Insomnia. They try to get by in their lives with low-income jobs that they have to fight to keep because of their status as alpha's and omega's. It didn't use to be like this, but after the old king died and Ravus Nox Fleuret ascended the throne, life hasn't been easy for their kind. Then one day Prompto finds a homeless omega in their garden, and after a rough start he starts taking care of the poor man. Soon they become friends and as he gets to know the shy and mute omega he slowly but surely unravels his traumatic life story and a secret that could be the key to their freedom.
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10 Aug 2025
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“Are you really sure that you’re behind me on this?” he asked. “Once we’ve started, there’s no going back. Either we win, or we die trying.”
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AU where the circumstances of Prompto being extracted from Niflheim are different and Cor takes it upon himself to oversee the boy's healing and integration into a softer world. But he realizes he can't do this all on his own, and that healthy children need to talk to other children. So he enlists the help of one junior advisor, Ignis Scientia.
Basically: kids who lost their childhood, trying to be children.
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07 Aug 2025
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The kid nods a little absently, eyes overwhelmed with thought, and his finger presses down on another fruit in the painting.
“Yeah, okay” Cor nods and settles himself more comfortably on the floor. “That’s a banana. It’s cut up into pieces here but it’s usually, uh, one long piece? And in a peel. Ignis, do you have any banana facts.”
“Well, there’s much that could be said about them. They are an appealing bunch.”
“I said banana facts, not banana puns.”
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He’s about to stop the video to console him in any way he can, but then he finishes processing the expression, and he stops. The tears are something different, distinctly not of despair. His expression looks too hopeful and awestruck. But still, Ignis is forced to realize: now he must cope with the fact that the boy is crying over chocobos.
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He holds the device in position and types:
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“…You kids were just chattin’ it up about photosynthesis?” Cor says, quiet and incredulous.
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That boy is human. He’s completely, and utterly, human.
…But he was treated like a piece of equipment. He was raised like a machine. He has a serial number.
Cor refuses to share any specifics on the boy’s background.
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A fill for the kinkmeme: Niflheim’s terms for peace are clear: In order to ratify the treaty between Niflheim and Lucis, Noctis and Lunafreya are to be wed. The only problem is, they’re both omegas, which means unless they think fast and find a loophole, the line of Lucis will end with their childless marriage. Good thing Noct has found such a loophole in an obscure tradition, which will make Prompto, his best friend and an unmated alpha, the only man for the job...
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03 Aug 2025
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"Fucking dork," he says, and kisses Prompto, holding his head in both hands. The kiss is open-mouthed and needy, and Noct presses himself into Prompto, who goes reeling into Gladio, who lifts Prompto bodily into the air.
"I will get a spray bottle," Ignis warns, as Prompto hangs limp in Gladio's arms. "Honestly, Noct. I saw tongue."
"Then don't look!"
"Your father's on the other side of the door!"
"Welcome to Lucis," Prompto says to Luna, as Gladio sets him down. "Land of the nerds."
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To Court a Witch by royalmess
Fandoms: とんがり帽子のアトリエ | Tongari Boushi no Atelier | Witch Hat Atelier (Manga)
28 Oct 2022
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It started with a simple question: What's the nature of their professors' relationship? To say it snowballed from there would be a gross understatement. The answer is much more complex than the girls were anticipating.
A.k.a an exploration of witch courtship and tradition through the lens of young witches in the past and present.
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27 Jul 2025
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Qifrey knows he’s doomed, but Olruggio doesn’t have to be. However, in the end, he wants Olruggio by his side for as long as he can have him, and even if every decision is another card on the tower, he’ll build higher and higher until it all crashes around him.
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Interviewers always spin his answer to imply Noctis hated growing up in a small town, how he chafed at the confines and longed for the big city but that’s not really true, just a picture they paint, the story they want to tell. Not what’s true.
All Noctis wanted was music, and he simply didn’t think there was space anywhere for him to do that but Tokyo.
What point is there to music if there’s no audience clamouring to hear it?
But now, back here pouring his heart into a boy that will never hear him sing—he knows he was wrong. About so, so many things.Alternatively: Noctis' despondant life as an Idol is interrupted by the most unexpected person.
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26 Jul 2025
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“I mean, obviously sometimes it’s hard for me to know exactly what you’re saying,” Prompto explains, reaching up to gently touch Noctis’ mouth. He purses his lips, clumsily kissing Prompto’s fingertips. It makes Prompto smile. “But I think I always know what you mean.”
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In which Prompto has an unfortunate run in with a mean-tempered Gigantoad and is placed in an unusual situation.
He does not like it at all and would like a refund Mr. Toad, thank you very much.
Oh, okay...maybe it's not so bad after all. He'd still rather to...well, just not...but he could see the benefit. Sort of.
Status Ailment Series: A series of unrelated or only vaguely related stories featuring various Status Ailments and their effects.
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- Part 3 of Status Ailments
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26 Jul 2025
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“Think we can make it back to the car?” he asked, tiredly.
“Think I can just lay here and twitch for a while instead?” Prompto countered, already flat out on the ground.
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No one else is looking at the screen when the newscaster announces the discovery of facilities in Niflheim before the screen is filled with the image of a hundred identical people walking tentatively out into the sunlight.
Noctis huffs behind him, mutters, “It’s always Niflheim.”
“Gods,” Prompto whispers before he can stop himself. His voice is rough, almost wet—he doesn’t understand what’s going on.
Prompto doesn’t know if it’s what he says, or maybe something on the television finally catches the attention of his boyfriends but all at once, they react too. Gladio swears, two then three times in a row, and Prompto gets it, wishing he was less frozen, so he could join in too.Alternatively: Prompto finds out he’s a clone at the exact same moment as the rest of the world.
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20 Jul 2025
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No one has ever been able to describe Prompto as particularly smart, or brave, but generally if he’s going to swing one way or the other, he likes to think he’s prone to making decent choices.
Today is not one of those days.
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In which Cor Leonis loses his temper, accidentally acquires a kid, and tries to single-handedly dismantle the Lucian immigration system – and that’s before he and his lawyers find out about this Prophecy business. If the Astrals think Cor’s going to let his kid’s best friend die without a fight, they’ve gotten the wrong cheetah ‘taur.
(a young adult novel set in kickingshoes’ ‘taur AU)
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- Part 1 of 'taur AU
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17 Jul 2025
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“You’re suing the government again, aren’t you,” Clarus says heavily, not bothering to make it a question.
“Yes,” Cor answers anyway.
“You need to stop doing that, Cor. You’re part of the government now.”○○○○○○○○○○○○
"Relax," Cor says, reaching out and snagging Clarus' shirtsleeve to tug him back. "That one's his favorite."
"Cor. Cor. That's a sword he's chewing on!"○○○○○○○○○○○○
Noctis appears to be covered in pillows, which the other boys are stacking up on him under Ignis' supervision.
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“Cor,” Regis says after a moment. “You can’t sue Bahamut.”
“Watch me.”○○○○○○○○○○○○
Regis wrinkles his nose. "Bahamut said that they were – cute."
They all stare at him.
"Noctis did his purring thing," Regis adds. "The one he does when he wants new people to like him. I think it worked." -
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Too much magic, they say. The entirety of Winter, solely under Noctis’ tenuous control. It’s difficult, not least of all because it isolates him, makes it impossible for other Gods to be around him, let alone anyone else.
“Didn’t it hurt?” Noctis asks. “When you touched me.”
“No,” Prompto says. “Should it?”
Noctis doesn’t know if it should, just that— “It does everyone else,” Noctis says.
“Everyone?”
Prompto sucks in a deep breath and pushes it out long and slow. He doesn’t seem scared when he reaches for Noctis’ hand, doesn’t even hesitate to interlock their fingers, and press their palms together.
“There we go,” Prompto says softly. “To start making up for it.”Alternatively: The only thing that can threaten the God of Winter is a broken heart—and no one will ever get close enough for that.
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Noctis doesn’t know what Prompto did, but Noctis was still a child when he first learnt of Prompto’s existence and how he had been banished to the mortal realm.
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“Lucky for you, I am unbotherable,” Prompto laughs. “Bothersome sometimes, but not botherable.”
Noctis laughs, just a rough exhale that escapes him almost silently. Prompto tilts his head, like he hasn’t a care in the world, and Noctis wonders if there’s a way to keep him looking like that forever.𖤓 ❁ ⚛︎ ⚘ ✿ ⸙ ❀ ❅ 𖤓
Prompto rolls his eyes, “You’re so worried about killing me,” Prompto says. “That you fail to realize you’re the only thing that’s ever made me feel alive.”
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N–hN01897 twitched. “What is that?”
N–iP01357 stared at bright blue feathered . . . thing with a look of utter fascination. It reminded N–hN01897 of Doctor Besithia or Chancellor Izunia for a good moment before he blinked. “It’s so pretty,” N–iP01357 cooed and clamped a tight grip on N–hN01897’s wrist so that he couldn’t escape back to the Haven. “I want to pet it, N–hN01897.”
“You will do no such thing,” N–hN01897 snapped and vainly attempted to escape N–iP0357’s ironclad grip. “The number of diseases it carries will most likely diminish the population once it’s released.”
The bird-thing made a soft kweh in response, and N–iP01357 nearly melted.
Three weeks before the Empire crumbled beneath a successful siege from Lucis, before it is unearthed that children were experimented on in the name of the Empire, two experiments labeled the most dangerous and deadliest escape Zegnautus Keep.
Or: Noctis and Prompto are runaway experiments and learn, one day at a time, how to thrive.
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There was comfort in that; an ease in which Noctis’ bones settled. He would not die alone—because Prompto would be there. Prompto had always been there, just like Noctis had always been there. Always Noctis-and-Prompto, ever since their beginning—and it would be that way even to their end.