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Nᴏᴄᴛɪs Lᴜᴄɪs Cᴀᴇʟᴜᴍ ([personal profile] warpstriking) wrote in [community profile] melodiesofeternity2018-05-10 02:41 pm

Crystalline Chill

Who: Residents of house C-01 and friends!
When: All throughout May, see prompts and individual threads
Where: House C-01
What: Monthly catchall for the XV House shenanigans
Warnings/Notes: There's likely going to be spoilers for Kingsglaive and the main game up to Chapter 13 somewhere in the comments.


A. Sometimes you just want to ride...
Late in the morning of the 1st, there is a low purring sound of an engine going down the street. One that wasn't accustomed to travel aside by foot or chocobo claw. Yet, somehow, a certain man manages not to clip a single thing. And it sits there, in front of House C-01, black, shiny, and very much a wonder to a few moogles. Especially since the convertible's roof is airship-grade plexiglass.

B. [Insert "I'll Make A Man Out Of You" joke here]
There was one upside to living with the once-deceased leader of the Crownsguard, and that was one didn't have to go far for a training enthusiast. There was also one downside to this: not having to go far for a training enthusiast. It's the crack of dawn when the nice little symphony of insects and kwehs get interrupted by the sounds of wooden weapons clashing and spells being practiced.

Rest in pieces, light sleepers. They apologize in advance.

C. That's it!
Of course, no one can train or go through the day on no fuel. And one person in particular has taken upon himself to at least ensure a few others can eventually cook eggs without burning them. The real question is: Will Ignis come up with a new recipeh involving that jar of kupo nut butter?

D. I want to ride my chocobo all day~
If anyone is surprised at the fact that there are two or three (depending on the date because Chocobo Eater event) lovely birds, then they clearly don't understand at least 50% of the household's love for the magnificent creatures. The black one in particular seems to be particularly happy with their nice little stack of shiny objects...

There may or may not be a pair of glasses on the top of that pile. Sorry, Specs.

E. Hold my Ebony
(Feel free to come up with your own prompts, guys; these aren't the limits to our zaniness.)
chocobosnap: (Sadness)

So very fine...for I won't be afraid....

[personal profile] chocobosnap 2018-05-13 04:00 am (UTC)(link)
Prompto hadn't intended to send them keeling over, at all but he hadn't considered that Noct wasn't as sturdy as he was used to and he tried to help keep them on their feet.

Normally, he would've laughed, joked about Noct's poor balance and the fact that his friend who was smaller than him, slightly, had been able to take down the prince. It would've been a huge joke.

At the moment however his heart was heavy and he couldn't see the humour in it.

Prompto's hands linked around Noct's middle, squeezing him.

The only answer he got for his question was a muffled sniffle against his back. This conversation wasn't going to go well if he burst into tears at the mere thought of it, but that was exactly how he was feeling.

Along with the sniffle, came shuddering breaths and a trembling lip. It would be better for Noctis not to look.
chocobosnap: (Sadness)

stand by me.

[personal profile] chocobosnap 2018-05-13 04:35 am (UTC)(link)
They couldn't go on like this, him pinning his best friend to the ground unable to move, but at the same time Prompto didn't want to let go.

He sucked in a trembling breath and let go, moving off of Noct to sit on the ground beside him instead.

"I...sorry...I just-"

His voice was breaking again already, this was not talking about it. They needed to talk about it and he needed to be able to form words.

Maybe he should have waited until he'd processed it further.

He pressed the heels of his palms into his eyes, to quell the burning.
chocobosnap: (Dismayed)

[personal profile] chocobosnap 2018-05-13 04:54 am (UTC)(link)
Any other time, those comments would have come easily, and perhaps in the future they would, after all, his friend couldn't handle a big hug from his best friend in the world?

Comedy gold mine right there, but he wasn't able to handle it just at the moment.

"Yeah."

Again, one word, barely anything and just a mess was a good way to describe him. He didn't know what to do to fix that or how to make himself more articulate. He was never very good with stress.

"I...you..."

He was trying, the words just weren't coming and partly he looked like a fish out of water, mouth opening and closing before him.

"Noct d-do you-" He swallowed and curled in on himself more. He needed to spit it out, it wasn't going to make any sense.

"Know the future?"

Finally.
chocobosnap: (Don't make me do this)

[personal profile] chocobosnap 2018-05-13 05:20 am (UTC)(link)
Prompto had found out because Ignis had taken the time to tell him, in exchange for confirming the first two phases of the prophecy. He wasn't sure if Noct had known or not and the confirmation settles thickly in his stomach, like he swallowed lead, something he wouldn't have cared to do in the first place.

Noctis knew. Noctis hadn't told him.

He could guess why, and mainly it had to do with the fact he was sitting on the floor falling to pieces over the fact that his best friend was going to die and leave him and the loss that they prayed was temporary would be, but the next loss would be anything but.

He choked back a sob, and peered around his hands at Noct, he looked sad, or disappointed. Some combination of the two. He hadn't wanted Prompto to know, but wasn't he going to find out in the end?

He offered him a mournful expression instead of words because he didn't have them.
chocobosnap: (Sadness)

[personal profile] chocobosnap 2018-05-13 06:19 am (UTC)(link)
It was hard to look at him because surely Noctis was as devastated as Prompto, if not moreso because it was his life on the line.

Prompto didn't know what he could say to make things sound better. To make things even slightly easier on either of them because how could he? What could he do with a prophecy that just made him angry at the Astrals.

The Astrals - he'd never been raised to believe them, of course, no one had raised him one way or another, but because he'd met some of them he had to. This was a shitty deal and they were terrible. He wanted to scream every blasephemous curse word that he could think of, but that also wouldn't solve anything.

Why was it there were no solutions?

"Yeah." Prompto choked out. Noct should have told him. He should have warned him but he also understood because how could he say something to that effect? How do you walk up to someone and say you're going to die?

He was only twenty. It was so very cruel and unfair.

"Noct I-" He wasn't ready for this. He wasn't ready to face the prospect of waking up without Noctis in his life and knowing, knowing that when he returns and they wait, that when Noct comes back it will be the end. It will be over.

The thought made him nauseous, a nausea that would carry him through however long it was going to take to wrap up his life, as though it were a package.

"Is there really no way to stop this? I'm not ready for this." His voice cracked. "You're not ready for this!"
chocobosnap: (Dismayed)

[personal profile] chocobosnap 2018-05-13 06:44 am (UTC)(link)
Prompto found himself filled with grief, still that agony and burning at his eyes, the lump in his throat, it was too much. He wasn't sobbing like with Ignis, but he was very close to losing it in his own way.

He uncurled himself slightly and shuffled on the ground so he could wrap his arms around Noctis, as long as he let him do that, and he choked in another sob. He couldn't keep losing it.

"I'm-" He was sorry there was nothing he could do. "I don't want you to go."

That was the most selfish, immature thing he'd said, and he knew it. Prompto sucked in a breath. "N-No, I mean-" He swallowed. "I mean I'm sorry. Just. I...don't want you to think any of us want you to go."

Was that any better? Hopefully it was because he felt like that bereft teenager he was before he met Noct. He didn't know what he would do without him.
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[personal profile] chocobosnap 2018-05-13 03:05 pm (UTC)(link)
He appreciated the comfort, probably as much as Noctis did and he clung to him squeezing tightly. Prompto didn't know what to say, there were no words that could take this pain away and there was nothing he could do to make it better. He didn't know how he was going to accept this. He didn't know how he was even going to get up in the morning and not cling to Noct like he was going to die.

Because he was going to die, and a lot sooner than they planned.

Prompto swallowed, lump thick in his throat. "At the throne." He repeated vaguely aware he was doing it. He hadn't seen the prophecy, the images. It was horrifying to think that Ignis and Noctis had.

"N-No I know just-" He stammered a little in his fluster.

"This sucks."
chocobosnap: (Sadness)

[personal profile] chocobosnap 2018-05-13 08:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Noctis had to be hurting as much as he was, if not moreso. Prompto sighed and hugged back, holding him tightly as though he never wanted to let go because if he did, they'd be one step closer to the inevitable.

The damn inevitable truth that the Astrals had it in for Noct, no matter what they did. And they tried - they tried hard to make everything okay again but it never would be.

"You can't- n-no, we can't give up." He clung to him, fingers curling into Noct's shirt. "We have to think of something, something we can give instead, hell, they can have me. I'm not-"

Prompto would lay down his life for Noct to live, that was just how it was. He made that promise when he got his uniform to protect him, to live for him and to ensure he made it through and he took it to heart. Beyond his duty, he was his best friend, the one person in the world that understood him inside out, and the first person in his life to show him kindness.

Not that Lunafreya hadn't, but she hadn't exactly been around.

He honestly had no idea what he would do without Noctis.
chocobosnap: (Sadness)

[personal profile] chocobosnap 2018-05-14 01:31 am (UTC)(link)
"Noct I-" Prompto felt bad because he invoked Luna's name and guilt burned in his stomach. Guilt for not getting to know her, and guilt for the fact she was lost all too young, all too unfairly because Ardyn was an asshole.

He squeezed Noct tightly and shook his head. "I...It makes the most sense you know?"

Prompto was babbling. "If they'd take the change I mean, you're the king and Iggy's your advisor and Gladio's your shield. Everyone's important."

He left the words except me unspoken.

"I can't- I don't know what I'd do without you Noct. It's only been a week and I miss you so much, I just..."

Prompto knew he was skittish, jittery and retreating into his shell without his best friend around and he needed him. "I can't lose you, please. Please Noct."

Please don't leave me to face this alone.
chocobosnap: (Don't make me do this)

[personal profile] chocobosnap 2018-05-14 02:07 am (UTC)(link)
Prompto let out a choked sob. "I kn-know that. I know I'm good enough for you, but maybe, maybe I can be good enough for them too. I mean...if it's just a life they need."

Out of all of them, it was his that mattered the least, but he was being hugged tighter which made him cry in earnest, head tucked into Noctis' shoulder. He would be embarrassed, but he felt this time it was wholly justified.

"Please don't, I mean don't talk like that. We're here. That's just- It's good. Yeah? They can't get you here? I won't let you out of my sight."

He could try anyway but knowing their time together was limited made it hard not to want to hold onto every precious possible second.

"We have to." He sniffled and wiped his eyes on Noct's shoulder. "We have to."
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[personal profile] chocobosnap 2018-05-14 02:40 am (UTC)(link)
He makes a little noise when he's squeezed harder, breathing just wasn't a priority to him at the moment. It was more important to impress upon Noct how he felt about this, and he was just devastated.

Prompto just nodded, keeping quiet on the matter for the moment, just because he didn't say it, didn't mean he didn't think it. He was the spare man in the group and he knew it.

He was fine with it, until Noct he'd always been the forgotten, the one left behind and he knew they'd be fine if the Astrals took him instead. He didn't know how to go about proposing this to them, however.

"Good. I mean. Really good. I don't want you to have to-" He swallowed. The crystal wasn't there, wasn't that why?

"I can't promise that, Noct."
chocobosnap: (Don't make me do this)

[personal profile] chocobosnap 2018-05-14 03:28 am (UTC)(link)
"I remember." He answered in a choked tone of voice and he swallowed thickly, trying to keep back his emotion.

"Look, I just can't-" Prompto closed his mouth and let out a whine and he reached forward to push Noct's hair out of his eyes.

"You can't die either, you can't, I won't let you. I'm...You can't okay, I need you, and Ignis needs you, Gladio needs you and all of Lucis. You can't." Prompto breathed. "You can't. Okay?"

He let out a whine. They had time but it was far from infinite. "I won't waste it..." Prompto dragged his arm across his eyes. "I won't."
chocobosnap: (Sadness)

[personal profile] chocobosnap 2018-05-14 03:44 am (UTC)(link)
He wasn't entirely sure why did that, a gesture of comfort perhaps, some way of touching Noct that seemed a little closer to normal, something he could laugh about later.

Prompto was terrified to lose him, he already had felt like he had, but he'd been in denial. Noct would come back they repeated like a mantra and yet, now he was learning he would and then die.

All for the Astrals bidding.

He let Noct pull him forward, hiding his face there and squeezing him hard again, but as much as they wanted to talk this through, and as much as he didn't want to get out of bed in the morning, knowing this terrible secret, he let their speaking lapse.

Finally, when he'd regain some semblance of control, he sniffed and wiped his eyes again. "......Sorry I made your shirt wet." It was a mumbled, half-hearted joke that may have fallen flat, but it was something.

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