PEACE WEEKEND

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[It's your first week here, and you've been offered a fantastic prize for killing someone: an all-expense paid vacation! It's a pretty standard prize as far as reality game shows go.

Unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on how you look at it), this isn't exactly a game show.

It seems that no one has died this weekend, and the deadline for the prize is now expired. There's no announcement from the Overseers to that effect; in fact, none of you have seen either of them since Tuesday. Maybe they'll make a reappearance soon, but for now, it seems that you've got a moment of peace.

Hopefully nothing happens to it.]

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[photoshooter]

[He grins even through his protests.]

There was a puppy in the road! I couldn't hit it!

[HE'D RATHER KILL HIMSELF AND EVERYONE ELSE IN THE CAR WITH HIM.]

[hellahighwater]

Oh m- you really are just fucking like Max, you loser!

[ like honestly if she weren't in the mourning phase and you were a girl-- ]

[photoshooter]

[He'd be a super cute girl and I have fanart to prove it.]

What? Come on, nobody'd hit a dog on purpose! Only evil people. Evil people and people who shouldn't drive cars.

[hellahighwater]

[ au where... ]

Yeah, but you'd totally cry, wouldn't you? You'd spend the whole day crying.

[photoshooter]

[I'll dig through my tag when I get somewhere with better-behaving internet.]

I'd spend my whole life crying. Dogs are perfect beings and we don't deserve them.

[hellahighwater]

[ She's laughing...! Sorry...! ]

...You do have a point. There- I never had a dog, just a cat? But I've always liked them. Floppy ears.

[photoshooter]

I never had a dog, either. Or a cat. But! [He puts his coffee down and uses his hands to talk, excited.] Okay, you've met Lady Lunafreya, right? She's got these two dogs, Umbra and Pryna, and I'd get to see them all the time because they'd come to Lucis to deliver secret messages to Noct. Ever since they were kids! Isn't that the most romantic thing you ever heard?

[hellahighwater]

Oh, whoa, wait time out. He's into it with her? Proper princess lady? [ Former princess, she kind of wants to ask about that- ] Score.

[photoshooter]

Well, they're not official. Or actually, I guess they're official, officially, but maybe not official privately? Uhhh, how do I explain this. It's all... political.

[He delivers that in the same tone he'd use to say 'it's all... full of spiders.']

But Noct really loves her. I'm his best friend, I can tell these things. So I know he'd've wanted to make it officially unofficially official once they got married.

[hellahighwater]

Ohhhhh. So, what you're telling me is, this Noct's a big deal guy, right? You're best friend is the kind of guy who'd have a political marriage.

[ Give her. The deets. ]

[photoshooter]

Oh, ehheh.

[Caught him. Sheepish, Prompto rubs under his nose.]

Yeah, uh... Noct's royalty. Once we get the Crystal back from Niflheim, he's gonna be King of Lucis. So I guess you could say he's a pretty big deal, yeah.

[hellahighwater]

Duuuude. Best friends with royalty! Why're you acting like it's some secret?

[photoshooter]

Habit, I guess? It is kind of a secret. We've been on the run for a while, now, back on Eos, so it's not really safe for him to get recognized.

[hellahighwater]

Ohhh. So even though no one'd really care here who doesn't know, you just...hella default.

[photoshooter]

Pretty much. That and Noct never acts like a prince or a king or anything, not unless he has to. If he could, I bet he'd put all that royalty stuff aside to fish and sleep and play video games all day and be way happier.

[...

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But... he can't. So... as much as I can, I try to make things normal for him. Gladio and Iggy, they can't, so it's up to me.

[hellahighwater]

...That's really sweet, Prompto. He can't have the normal, so you bring the normal to him.

Gladio and Iggy, they your other friends?

[photoshooter]

Uh-huh. Gladio's Noct's bodyguard, and Ignis is his...

[Advisor? Secretary? Assistant?]

...Babysitter.

[hellahighwater]

[ A light chuckle. ]

Lemme guess, there's a more...official title, that's just the fitting one?

[photoshooter]

Yeah, he's his advisor or something, but he also does all the cooking and cleaning and sews buttons back on Noct's shirts and usually insists on being the one to drive. He's been there for him forever. Since Noct was, like. Three.

[hellahighwater]

Youuu weren't kidding, shit. Actual babysitter.

[ As an aside: ] I hope you realize while they might be totally normal for you, all your names are like...so fucking cool for me. They sound like fantasy names from some kind of book or video game or Dungeons and Dragons campaign.

[photoshooter]

[He laughs.]

What, really? Well, I guess the guys do have pretty impressive names. I think it's a Citadel thing, they all come from families with courtly ties and stuff. But we have names like yours, too! There's Cindy and Monica and Dave...

[But Prompto, why is your name ridiculous, who are your parents, why are they like this.]

[hellahighwater]

But yours is Prompto, how is that normal?

[ She's teasing. She's enjoying and teasing, this is a nice stake-out. A much better one than hers from two days ago. ]

[photoshooter]

Hey! I'm normal! You want ridiculous, you should hear Noct's full name.

[He leans in, conspiratorial.]

It's even longer than Lady Lunafreya's.

[hellahighwater]

[ And she leans in too! ]

You can't just fuckin' leave a girl hangin', bro, what is it?

[photoshooter]

My best friend...

[Pause for dramatic effect.]

Is His Majesty, Noctis Lucis Caelum the One Hundred and Fourteenth, King of Lucis. ...Which is where we're from.

[Final FUCKIN' Fantasy, girl.]