fayth's daddy issues week
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"Noctis?" Cor repeats, and then there's the creaking of a chair as Cor gets down on the floor too, his face peering under the desk at Noct as he kneels on the carpet.
He's gonna have to. "I'm—" he begins, only he can't, he can't he can't he can't, he can't say it even one more time. "I'm not okay," he says instead, and then surprises them both when he suddenly bursts into tears.
After defending Insomnia from an attack, Regis falls into a coma, and is unable to have visitors. Noct does his best to cope, but it's getting harder and harder to pretend to everyone that he's okay. When it finally becomes too much for him, Cor is there to help him through it.
Written for FFXV Fatherly Love Week on twitter! Day 1. Prompt: missing you.
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- Part 1 of fayth's daddy issues week
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What do you need help with? the text says, and he stares at it, his stomach flipping unpleasantly.
Making a face, he reluctantly starts typing out a reply. I'm going somewhere later. With someone else. I'm not sure what to wear. There. It's the truth, even if it's not the whole truth.
Is this a date? comes the next response a moment later, and Noct groans.
First dates are nerve-wracking. Even more so when all you have in your closet is t-shirts and fancy suits, neither of which are appropriate for a casual date. But luckily for Noct, his dad is there to help with both some fashion and fatherly advice. And perhaps get a little misty-eyed that his little boy is growing up.
Written for FFXV Fatherly Love Week on twitter! Day 2. Prompt: look how grown up you are.
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- Part 2 of fayth's daddy issues week
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Ignis scoffs. This conversation is becoming ridiculous, and he wants to be done with it. He should have known sharing with Gladio would get him nowhere. "I'm not traumatised."
After Noct is nearly kidnapped, Ignis finds himself suffering nightmares that leave him with little sleep. But they're not a big deal—at least that's what he tells Gladio. His best friend tells him otherwise, but it's not until another one followed by a panic attack that he starts to believe there's truth to the words.
Written for FFXV Fatherly Love Week on twitter! Day 3. Prompt: I had a bad dream, can I stay with you?
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- Part 3 of fayth's daddy issues week
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"Argentum. Come here a minute."
Prompto glances up from his phone, blinking, eyes darting about nervously for a few seconds before settling on Cor. "Me?"
Cor looks at him with a raised eyebrow. "You see any other Argentums around here?"
"Haa, right," Prompto says with a little laugh. "Uh, sorry. You needed something, sir?"
While patching up an injury Prompto receives and then hides during training with Gladio, Cor comes to realise he's not the only one who's been wishing for him to be a father figure to the boy.
Written for FFXV Fatherly Love Week on twitter! Day 4. Prompt: child is injured and dad patches them up.
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- Part 4 of fayth's daddy issues week
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His dad stays quiet, and Gladio can feel his eyes on him, watching him, the worry palpable, but he's not capable of finding the words to explain yet. He's pretty sure his dad already knows, though. If it's not about Ignis, there's not much else it could be, on this day in an hour that's still fairly early. "Is this about your mother?" his dad asks, once the silence has stretched beyond something anticipatory and worn thin, fraying into tension.
Gladio swallows, a few more stray tears slipping out. "Miss her," he offers, letting his dad make of that what he wants.
The ten year anniversary of his mom's death dawns, and Gladio tells himself he's fine. It's his dad he needs to worry about. His dad who, ten years later, still can't even speak his late wife's name. But Gladio? Gladio knows he's fine—and he is, until an old book series and a long-forgotten drawing show him otherwise. And through his grief, he and his dad both finally begin to heal.
Written for FFXV Fatherly Love Week on twitter! Day 5. Prompt: finding old drawings.
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- Part 5 of fayth's daddy issues week
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"I... wanna take him with us," she says slowly, aware how ridiculous of an idea it is. She doesn't know the first thing about coeurls. But her heart aches at the thought of abandoning him to die.
What was supposed to be a routine hunt for a coeurl turns into a not so routine rescue instead, and the sight of a newly orphaned cub dredges up the grief for her father that Iris has been trying to push down since Insomnia's fall.
Written for FFXV Fatherly Love Week on twitter! Day 6. Prompt: child brings home a stray animal.
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- Part 6 of fayth's daddy issues week
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"Very well," he says, unable to keep the resigned tone from his voice. "I'll stay."
At his words, Noctis stops his screaming, but breathy little sobs still escape him as tears trail down his face. "You're gonna stay?" he asks, swiping an arm across his snot-soaked nose.
Both the action and the hopeful note in his voice make Regis wince. He nods anyway. "Yes," he says, ruthlessly smothering the guilt that flares up. He'll stay, but only until Noctis inevitably falls asleep from exhaustion, and then he'll sneak away like the coward he is.
The aftermath of the daemon attack and the invasion of Tenebrae have taken a toll on eight year old Noctis, leaving him with separation anxiety and Regis at his wit's end. Desperate to ease Noct's fears, he turns to Ignis for answers, who gives him a solution: a stuffed animal to remind him of his dad and help him feel protected.
Written for FFXV Fatherly Love Week on twitter! Day 7. Prompt: stuffed toy.
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- Part 7 of fayth's daddy issues week
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"You didn't call me because you were bored," his dad says then, the words quiet, and he sighs. Not one of annoyance, just... acceptance.
"No," Noct admits, and takes another bite of his muffin.
An impulsive call to his dad at three am has Regis showing up at Noct's apartment unannounced, leaving him scrambling to play host while struggling to hide the troubles bouncing about in his mind. But after an awkward night of muffins, snow-watching, and hot cocoa, Noct decides that maybe he's ready to talk after all.
Written for FFXV Fatherly Love Week on twitter! Day 7. Prompt: child it's three in the morning.
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- Part 8 of fayth's daddy issues week