★ // stay frosty royal milk tea

[scourgingstars]

Who: Ardyn + Ignis, featuring some assorted things later on
What: Replanting medicinal plants and chocobo snacks.
Where: Around the building and nearby
When: ~May 9th
Warnings: JRPG illness, again.

He's still a complete imbecile. Has he ever learned anything a day in his life?

[Ardyn complained as he was known to do in between emptying out the lockers of anything that looked like it would hold a plant; lunchboxes, mostly. He may or may not have acquired a couple of pots through questionable means, but it never hurt to be fully prepared. His own persistent cough had finally stopped over the new moon, but now that a few days had passed it was starting to return no matter how he hid it.]

When we inevitably run out of medical supplies because everyone's running about doing the most idiotic things possible, I don't want to hear a word of complaint from anyone. Unless we can come up with a case of bottled water or somesuch thing out of nowhere, I'll have absolutely no part of playing doctor.

Comments

[scourgingstars]

...I'm much too far gone to change now.

[want_to_belong]

[For a bit it might seem like Prompto wasn't going to bother saying anything, but really, he was a little stunned in his response.]

Dude. I hate to break it to you, but you already have.

[scourgingstars]

...What?

[want_to_belong]

You went and got Gladio one of those sappy romance novels he reads. And you literally just told me you never let anyone access your armiger before. I dunno what you want to say about it all, but what you're doing is different.

[scourgingstars]

...

[Ardyn didn't seem to have much of an answer to that, and he definitely wasn't looking at Prompto now.]

That's not-...

[want_to_belong]

[He was actually feeling kind of sorry for Ardyn. After all they'd been through because of him it was hard to believe, but he did.

Biting his lip, he hesitantly put a hand on his shoulder.]

It's okay. Change is good.

[scourgingstars]

I'm tired of all of this. I'm tired of changing and sentiment and lack thereof, and I'm tired of existing.

...I can't do this for much longer.

[want_to_belong]

I can't say with that length of time anyone would feel any different.

[Even without the scourge, that long as a human? Everyone you knew would constantly die. Even Prompto realized that much. If he lived such a life he wouldn't know how long he could take it.]

Maybe there'll be a way we can take the immortality away. And you could just live with Iggy or something. I don't know, but... it's not like things could get worse, right? Seems like we're already starting from negative 100.

[Prompto was a very idealistic boy. Things would get better. Somehow.]

[scourgingstars]

It's pointless to even try. Something like that...it isn't what fate was chosen for me.

[want_to_belong]

Screw fate. [The response was sharp and immediate.] We're already gonna change it anyway, so why not change yours, too?

[scourgingstars]

Why bother? You of all people know I'm not worth it.

[want_to_belong]

I'm... not okay with all the things you've done. I'm never going to be okay with that.

[There wasn't going to be a day he would say he was fine with Ardyn killing Lunafreya, or all the awful stuff he helped do with the MTs.]

But it's not black and white, and it isn't fair. No one deserves all of that.

So I'm not gonna let 'fate' take my BFF, and I'm not going to let fate torture you, either.