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chainedloyalty があなたの投稿に返信しました “King Mors, I humbly ask for your help," Umbra bowed his head, knowing...”

Umbra let out a small sigh. "I thought you might have some knowledge on the topic," he admitted, frown on his lips. "It... was his daemons. I already went to the healer, but my body does not work like a humans. I cannot be healed that way."

“Makes sense.” Mors replied. “I have some books, but alas, I have very little account of the scourge on an astral body. You know how many messengers have fallen to the disease... Garuda, however, is the example for which I found any information on.” He tilted his head. “I can parse you some information, albeit, very little, involving a human devoted to researching Garuda up until her passing of the scourge. I have a price, however, if you would be willing to pay it.”

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@chainedloyalty (Nyx)

      The battle had raged on for over two days. At first Sasuke had lead backup for the first division, lead by both his brother and their father, but after the enemy had flanked them, he had been forced to cut himself off to decimate the sudden threat, hoping the front lines could do well on their own. They had endured losses, but ultimately won and drove the attackers back off their territory.

       It was a gruesome sight though. Sasuke had been full of adrenaline pumping through his veins, and had walked amongst the wounded and screaming as if cotton had been wrapped around his ears. He hadn’t heard them, not fully. Now, he was calming down and slowly, the gravity of the situation became clear to him. He screamed for medics to rush to the wounded he found, and for those who could still walk, to grab the corpses of their fallen comrades. He looked around frantically, hoping to not find his brother or father amongst the fallen.

     He ran over a hill, eyes scanning the disturbed soil, when he spotted a familiar face. “Nyx? Nyx.” Sasuke almost tripped over the spear of a soldier, and knelt next to the wounded Nyx Ulric, a soldier he had become aquainted with. Nyx was so good in battle that lord Fugaku had wished for Sasuke to train with him, which he did. “No, no.” Nyx was covered in blood and clutched his arm. “Hold on. Medic! Medic here!!” Sasuke placed his hand on Nyx’s back to try and comfort him. “It’s going to be okay.” He couldn’t see how damaged Nyx’s arm was, so he let the medics transport him away, staying close.

      “Hold on, I’ll come back!” the prince promised as he watched them place Nyx on a small white bed, amongst the other wounded survivors. Sasuke needed to find his brother and father first to confirm the outcome of the battle. “Report to me about his condition. Tell me when he wakes up,” he ordered a nurse when he saw Nyx’s eyes close. “Yes, your majesty.” 

      Sasuke was glad to see Itachi and Fugaku were fine, and a day later, he came to visit Nyx, who had been moved to a hospital. Sasuke sat down on a chair by the bed, watching the man. Nyx was bandaged almost all over his body because of gashes and scratches, but his arm was casked and clearly the most injured part of him. “Oh Nyx...What did you do?”

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gate·keep·ing: noun - the activity of controlling, and usually limiting, general access to something.Tumblr definition: when someone takes it upon themselves to decide who has access to something .

Boy, you know. I’ve been mulling over how I was gonna work with this ask and how to do this post for a while. Actually had the words a few times that I wanted to use but I waited and thought on it. As it turns out, there’s a lot I want to touch upon with my salt in this post. Most of it is general toxic behavior from the RPC community itself and some of fandom but, for the most part, it’s Tumblr bullshit to the extreme.

If you don’t want to see strong af opinions, please keep scrolling. The salt will be under the cut and I understand that most of what I’ll be saying in this post will not be popular opinions.

Gatekeeping Is A Form of Bullying

Ever heard some dudebro go ‘I bet she hasn’t even read the comics’ about a girl wearing a Marvel shirt? What about someone going ‘If you don’t read the books, you’re not a real fan’ when someone’s in line at the theater? Yeah, those are examples of gatekeeping. A couple of the most common ones actually. 

As for Tumblr RPC gatekeeping, it’s a bit more like this: 

Omg, you can’t write that because it doesn’t fit into what I believe is the only lore that ever exists

wtf why are you claiming that character is gay/trans/bi/ect? they’re not or it would be mentioned in canon

how dare you want representation for your gender identity/race/ect., that’s not okay because it doesn’t adhere to CANON

you can’t ship that because it’s morally wrong and i don’t like it (which sounds a lot like old church people bitching about anything at all really)

if you don’t have the right aesthetic then i won’t follow/interact with you at all

These are just a few examples but most of them are pretty common. And, you know, that’s sad as fuck, to be honest. So many people I’ve met on this side claim to have been bullied but they’re usually the same people who turn around and do this shit to others. It’s unreal to me that they don’t recognize their own behavior. What’s worse is that it can’t be pointed out or people want to use whatever buzzword they can to tell you to fuck off.

If you try to help correct someone, suddenly you’re every -phobic on the planet and you conveniently managed to set their grandmother on fire. The dramatic overreactions of some people have a price and they don’t realize that the emotional response is sometimes not the correct one.

Just because someone is doing something you don’t like doesn’t mean that it deserves a negative action on your part. 

‘That person upset me so I’m gonna post a callout/vague post about them!’ Why do you guys think that literally fucking everything needs a reaction? It doesn’t. You don’t have to react to everything that happens. Sometimes things warrant a simple ‘oh that’s fucked up’ and then you move on with your fucking day. 

Say you have thirty water bottles. Someone steals one and drinks out of it or whatever but you still have twenty-nine water bottles - why the fuck are you going to be angry all day about that one water bottle? What’s the point when you have twenty-nine other water bottles and you can forget about or throw away the one that was ruined/taken? 

You see, that reaction is how you guys act about any one instance that goes wrong on Tumblr except you’re pissed off for a week and you want to ruin someone’s fucking life over a post/thread that you don’t like. Or, in extreme cases, you open blogs to run your mouth at these people. It takes more effort to act like a dick toward someone than it does to just keep fucking scrolling and it’s astounding how ready people are here to wallow in negativity/toxicity.

Puritan Ship/Roleplay Policing

So I mentioned it before, but there’s this super popular idea on Tumblr that if you don’t abide by a certain unspoken ship/roleplay guideline, people will tear you apart over it. But guess what, guys, it’s fucking bullshit. 

Since when were people not allowed to make their own opinions on what they did or didn’t ship?

When did it start that people were considered trash for shipping something?

Who the hell made half of you the owners of the RPC so you think you can control what everyone does on their blogs? 

You see, this is the same attitude that I see all the time in churches. Oh they’ll tell you to your face that you’re welcome to do as you like and come looking however you want but the second you actually fucking do it, you’re ignored and treated like a social pariah. All this because people love to go around spreading rumors and talking shit about one another all over a fucking hobby. 

It’s actually kind of insane when you think about it. Like, you’re arguing over what two people are doing when they’re throwing internet Barbies at one another and you’re stomping across the playground to scream at them because you don’t like what they’re doing when it has nothing to fucking do with you. Remember what we called that in elementary and high school? Oh yeah, there’s a word for it: BULLYING. And now, it’s evolved into gatekeeping.

This attitude is literally as bad as someone going ‘you can’t sit with us’ just because you don’t like what they’re doing on their blog. 

Now, I called this section ‘puritan’ for a reason - “practicing or affecting strict religious or moral behavior.” Does that sound familiar? Because it should. Tumblr wants to call everything wrong and, from what I’ve seen, the hivemind doesn’t want people making their own opinions. Oh and don’t forget, if you don’t already know something then tough fucking luck because it’s ‘not our job to teach you.’ Thanks for the reminder, Susan, but we all know that you’re going to resort to calling people toxic abusers just because they weren’t given the chance to learn something like you were. Because that’s a fucking great way to help people to understand things from your point of view.

Look. What I’m saying is that trying to force everyone into your moral alignment isn’t okay. Some people will write murder and abusive relationships and not romanticize them just fine. The same goes for incest, rape, dysphoria, and a great number of other things. Believe it or not, some RPers actually take the time to look this shit up so they can make sure that they’re doing it fucking right and avoiding romanticization. You know, what you people want them to do but yell at them when you see it trigger tagged without bothering to take a look at the entire thread in question. Goes right back to that knee jerk reaction people like to rely on - not everything is the end of the world.

Callout/Cancelled Culture

This one’s going to be fun.

So we all know that people love their callouts but we also know that people just fucking love cancelling people. Guess what though - you cannot cancel a fucking human being because they’re not a television show. Shocker right? I know.

Now, I’ll admit that there’s some callout worthy topics but there’s some callouts that are so goddamn stupid that I just can’t take either party seriously. Now Tumblr loves dividing people, especially in the RPC. Don’t fucking tell me that cliques aren’t a thing in the RPC because ‘RPing in your bubbble’ is the same as having a clique. It’s the same concept hidden behind another name, don’t try to tell me otherwise. 

And yes, sometimes people want to run around and start ‘clique wars’ like it’s fucking high school all over again. Sorry, but no one has time for that shit. Do your replies and keep your nose out of where it doesn’t belong, Barbara. But, of course, people have trouble with this concept and get into fights. It’s natural that no two people are going to agree on the same goddamn thing. It would be ridiculous to expect this, especially on this website, but just because you disagree with someone doesn’t mean that they’re cancelled. 

What you think is problematic and what someone else thinks is problematic are likely two different things. And sure, you’ll have people who agree with you and you’ll want them on your side but that doesn’t help because now you’ve created that divide. So things fester and get worse because you want to use your mental illness as an excuse (a popular choice from what I’ve seen) as to why you can’t communicate with someone. Next thing you know, there’s a huge callout against someone and that person didn’t expect it at all.

Knee jerk reactions. Fight gets worse. Divide gets bigger. Toxicity festers. 

Well now, there’s this new thing in the RPC where you can get a PSD template and fake fucking screenshots. Sure, it’s for musings and character profiles for things like Tinder, Facebook, ect. Just fun little things for you to throw your characters into and stuff like that. But there’s always that 1% who decide to use it so they can make it look like someone’s said something when they haven’t. So, when that person tries to defend themselves with a full-screen shot of their own (whole desktop or mobile version), things get worse until there’s a giant blowout. 

Once the dust settles you get this nice little ‘if you follow x, y, z then you can just block me bye’ behavior popping up. Well, that’s just childish. Unless something happened that was almost a ‘they found out where i live and they’re sending me glass filled cookies in the mail’ situation, then I have no reason to bother with that shit in your rules page. No one is obligated to tell you who they associate with just because you had a disagreement with them. However, if that person chooses to take your side, that’s up to them. 

I’m sure damn near everyone has had a similar situation to this happen to them on Tumblr before and, if it hasn’t, were you the one making the call out? If you were, was it worth it? Did it make you feel better? Sure, it might have in the moment but if you’re having that much of an issue actually communicating with others then you should take a step back and work on yourself before you involve other people. It’s like that one saying I keep seeing running around ‘if bad things always happen to you, you should make sure that you’re not the one causing it.’ 

Now, that’s not to say that I’m trying to gaslight anyone, but 9 times out of 10, I’ve looked back and realized that my own knee jerk reactions have caused a lot of turmoil that I could have avoided had I stopped and thought on it. I’ll admit that because guess fucking what, humans aren’t perfect. 

That’s the biggest issue on Tumblr. Half of you expect people to come on here and be perfect from the get go but humans make fucking mistakes and we learn from them. Do we not? How many of you can say that you were perfectly rational and amazing 15 year olds? Absolutely no one because teenagers have a lot of stress and expectations thrown on them while they’re going through a rough growth phase at that time. Things are unpredictable for them and they have school, teachers, friends, and parents throwing all of this shit onto them and then they come on here and have full-grown fucking adults slamming all this shit into their faces. It’s fucking ridiculous. And that’s another goddamn topic holy shit. The way some adults on here act is absolutely barbaric.

Sharing IP Addresses Out of Revenge/Anger

Oh this is something I’ve hated since I found out that Statcounter was a thing. Yes, I run it on my own blog but you’ll never see me sharing IP addresses on the dash. I’ll just quietly IP block you and go about my day, idgaf.

So there’s this huge trend and I’ve seen this on my own dash before (it was fucking disgusting, the response was atrocious on that person’s behalf, and I’ve since hardblocked) and it’s something I’ll hardblock over in a heartbeat. 

Now, for those who don’t know, Statcounter has a little piece of code that you can put into your blog theme and it’ll track the IP addresses of people who visit your blog. For me, I use it because I’ve had two stalkers in the past and yes, I keep screenshots of their visits for my own records. Fuck them. First one started the trigger for me and the second one recently exacerbated it. Anyway, if the person doesn’t have something on their browser to block it, Statcounter will pick up on their visit, what links they look at, how long they’ve been looking, their ISP, general location (never their precise home location, just the ISP’s area), browser info, and screen resolution. I’m sure there’s more but that’s all I recall for now. 

Having it so you can protect yourself from stalkers is one thing but having it and using it to throw someone’s IP out there is another. When I say that people weaponize Statcounter, I’m not joking. People will go on there after getting what they believe is anon hate and see who the move recent /ask visitor was and start blasting their IP all over the place.

For one thing - people can send asks via the dash. They don’t have to click onto your page at all so, there’s a HUGE risk of throwing out an innocent person’s IP address. 

Say someone does this - mistakenly throws out an innocent person’s IP after receiving anon hate. That person is likely going to have a panic attack. Not only have you shared their state and general location but you’ve blamed them for something they didn’t do. Throwing that IP out there, to any fucking extent can create a witch hunt for anyone who has Statcounter to try to figure out who the owner of that IP is. 

This is related to gatekeeping because you’re essentially blacklisting anyone who lives in that state/general area from the RPC all because you saw they were in the /ask page. How fucked up is that? It ties right back to the knee jerk response and it shows that people given even a modicum of power abuse it at the first chance. This isn’t even addressing how vicious some people answer anons.

Sure, posting an IP address on it’s own isn’t illegal but when you tack a name onto it, then it is because you’re essentially creating a threat toward that person.

Point of this section - don’t fucking share people’s goddamn IP addresses on the dash, it just makes you a douchebag. I lose all respect for anyone doing this when I find them - fuck you for doing that.

Activism Forced into Roleplay

I used to be in the Marvel RPC. Key here: used to be. Part of the issue that lead to me leaving was how much people slammed IRL issues into RP. Yes, I’m well aware that Marvel comics has a long and deep history of taking on IRL issues and the comics themselves are quite political.

However my issue comes when this is happening outside of the Marvel community.

I’ve seen people trying to force IRL events down people’s throats. ‘You shouldn’t be happy - x, y, and z are happening right now and don’t you dare tell me to be quiet about it!’ Good way to get yourself blocked. People RP as a hobby and, for some, as a form of escape. Immersing into a character to find out what makes them tick is a form of method acting, so it could be said that we’re method writing out characters to an extent. So shoving IRL issues at some RPers can cause them to lose muse or abandon blogs entirely. 

Of course, in the same breath, I’ve seen people told that they can’t RP something because they’ve never experienced it, people think they’re romanticizing it, or some other bullshit Tumblr reason. Look, I’ve experienced rape, self harm, suicidal thoughts, CSA (incestuous and non-incestuous), as well as mental and physical abuse. Don’t you dare assume that I cannot write about these experiences in an accurate way and don’t you fucking dare tell me that I can’t write it because I’ll tell you first off where you can shove your bullshit. The fact that people have to disclose that they’ve been through these things so people will stay off their ass on Tumblr RPs is fucking ridiculous too. 

You don’t get to tell me what I can and cannot write on my blog when I trigger tag the living shit out of everything to make sure that I’m protecting as many people as I can from seeing it. Do not try this shit with me. Censoring someone because it doesn’t adhere to your moral code is just as bad as banning books, televisions shows, and/or movies. 

Censoring something doesn’t solve the problem and boy fucking howdy does Tumblr have an issue with that. Censorship is another form of gatekeeping, by the way! You might not like it but people don’t go to jail for writing about incest or rape, just fucking saying. Oh but there have been crime authors sent to prison, I was suspended from school for writing about murder, but nothing about rape and incest. 

Sure, it may raise some eyebrows and people have to actually use gasp! postblock, tumblr savior, and any other method of tag blocking so they don’t see it but uh… that’s called being responsible for your content consumption.

Tumblr Is Not The Real World

Alright. So I’m gonna close this with a good reminder that I think some people on Tumblr could use. 

Tumblr is not the end-all be-all of the world.

Yes, you can make some good friends here and that’s fine but when you stay on here too long, the toxicity can start to change how you view the world around you. No, not every man that walks by you is going to rape you. No, not every woman that you see is going to be okay with you treating her the way you do female ocs and canons on here (actually, I’ve met some women who were proud they could make a full-grown man cry with the right look so). 

You have to think about how Tumblr makes you view others as well. All this ‘you messed up once so you’re cancelled’ behavior is a social media phenomenon that doesn’t carry on into real life. It just doesn’t. Sure, you can block someone you know IRL but that doesn’t stop them from talking to you if they were a Facebook friend you went to school with. If they still live nearby you, they’ll either talk to you or about you. What are you going to do? Take the Tumblr route and fucking scream at them like an incoherent banshee? No, you’ll suck it the fuck up and you’ll act like a decent person, don’t fucking lie.

You need to understand that Tumblr is it’s own entity, it’s own little sphere on the internet and, by no means, is it appropriate to carry on in your daily life the way some of you do on here. And if you do, please take a moment to stop and look at yourself. 

Self improvement starts when you want to improve but gatekeeping, bullying, and acting like a total barbarian to people you don’t know isn’t okay. This goes for the ones you do know too. I’m not saying that triggers aren’t important in the real world but you need to understand that forcing the social climate to change will only make people dislike you. When they don’t want to change, they’re not going to and some will refuse to change to spite you. 

Forcing anything won’t help. 

Gatekeeping won’t help. 

Censorship has never helped.

People don’t respond to being told what to do, feel, or think. Personally, I’d tell someone to fuck off if they tried doing it to me. So why do you think you can do it to others? Ever heard of ‘treat others how you want to be treated?’ Just be fucking decent and stop acting like other people are your goddamn doormat, jfc.

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“Yup. Definitely a twink,” Aranea doesn’t need to spread the rumor, it’ll spread itself.

“....How does that make me a twink?! Please, enlighten me.”

You’re doing this to yourself, Somnus.

#chainedloyalty #lkajdsgajg #SOMNUS THIS IS UR OWN UNDOING

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Nyx grins, pretty amused by it all. “I have my sources,” he offers, deciding to leave it at that. “And be careful, I’m planning on sleeping with it tonight, if you know what I mean~”

“You’re something else, Ulric.”

“It’s not even anatomically correct.” 

#chainedloyalty #he's like #wouldn't you rather sleep with the real deal?

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Incredible. That worked out much better than he had thought. He should keep the fake mustache around, in case he needed it again. “Cool. You’re pretty smart,” or something along those lines.

“Thank you!” Magitek still shouts sentiment the same way the vendor at the red truck does. Magitek returns to holding banner, and standing still.

#chainedloyalty

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“My name is Umbra,” hopefully this man wouldn’t have heard of him. Most knew of the Astrals, but rarely their messengers. Umbra wanted to check up on Ardyn after everything that had happened. He wasn’t sure he believed it when he heard that he had escaped Angelgard, but it seemed like he had help. “Were you the one? The one who helped him get out of there?”

Something deep inside his mind clicked, realizing that the name wasn't so unfamiliar but he couldn't really put it together. There must be something special about this --- guest. How else would he have found out that Ardyn was released out of his prison? Nonetheless, there wasn't much of a chance for a little visit to his laboratory or office for greater inception or talk since he really craved to obtain more information about the other. Maybe he would be lucky enough that Ardyn would open up about ----- his friend. With a click of his tongue, the lead researcher turns around, nodding at the question with a smirk on the lips. "Indeed, I must admit it's a bit of a surprise how you found out about Ardyn's current position."

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@chainedloyalty (Noctis)

It may be his birthday, but the day’s chores still needed to be done. He had gotten up earlier like he usually did and first prepared a cup of strong ebony for himself. While he enjoyed the bitter taste on his tongue, he watched the orange sun peek out from behind the pine trees in the distance. It was a lovely day today. If the day remained quiet, it would be a good birthday. 

Considering they were on the road, Ignis’ expectations for this day were low.

He started to prepare breakfast and greeted Gladiolus who was up next and who wished Ignis a happy birthday with a clasp of Ignis’ shoulder. “Thank you very much,” he smiled, glad they all were alive and well and able to spend this day together. Even if the circumstances weren’t happy. “Now, wish me luck. I’m waking Noct.”

He made his way over to the tent where Noctis and Prompto were supposedly still asleep.

#chainedloyalty #ignis (t)

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Nyx can't help but let out a small snort of amusement. "It's possible, if you get it from young. If not? You best stay far away from Coeurls. Even the ones you have here are dangerous, but nothing compared to the ones in Galahd. Terrifying beasts, but incredibly beautiful."

BULLET // BUT IN THE END, MY TIME WILL COME

“ Of course I want a small one. I don’t want it to either electrocute me or bite my head off. “ and a soft hum, arms crossed as if in thought “ The fully grown one can be a mega evolution, though! Big, murderous electric cat. ” snort “ Okay but that only makes me want to see one from up close even more. How different are the ones in Galahd? ” 

#chainedloyalty #📷 || IN CHARACTER ◀ #📷 || CITY LIFE ◀ #[ he's all yours pffft #just #starry eyed Prom @ Nyx ]

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“Visiting?” He smiled at the stranger, and stepped around them, looking him up and down. The large wooden door slammed shut on it’s own, hard enough fort the gust of air to extinguish the flames. “That’s cute. You should’ve been honest, and woke me up, you didn’t have to stand around waiting.”

“News from Bahamut? Or you just came to see me? ... Umbra?”

#chainedloyalty #v. apocalypsis

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Loqi will accept the cake and eat it happily in privately and then continue to try to kill Cor afterwards.

Have fun eating that non-poisonous cake.

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Word travelled fast, luckily. It was important for him not to stay too isolated so that he might miss some vital information. Of course there was a difference between information and gossip, but despite the obvious lie that was being told, Sasuke was intrigued and agitated.

Sasuke Uchiha returned to Konoha!

Really? He’d know about that, if he really returned and he obviously didn’t. Someone must have transformed himself into him and even if approaching Konoha now was dangerous, he needed to see for himself. If someone truly dared to impersonate him, Sasuke was going to punish them.

He told the others to stay in their current hideout, even as they protested. “I’m just going to see for myself and then come back. I’m not entering the village.” That was the plan at least. “It would be too early to draw attention to myself.” Or rather, more attention than was already drawn to him, thanks to whoever had the gall to take on his form and cause chaos in his name. “Wait for my messages in case anything happens.”

With that being settled, he made his way towards Konaha, with a mixture of anticipation and anger boiling in his stomach. He had to show the world that an Uchiha wasn’t going to accept such disrespect, and that no one was safe from Sasuke, not even when Sasuke himself was far away from Konoha. 

#chainedloyalty #'I'll murder him' he says #he'll end up eating his tomatoes

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Can't because he's the prince. Right, title before all else. Noctis pretended he didn't hear it because he couldn't afford to go through the day thinking like that. He let himself be held at arm's length and frowned, trying to keep himself as quiet as possible.

He frowned and took a seat at the kitchen table, leaned forward onto his elbows, and put his hands together. Noctis turned his face away.

"It's something you do to show affection to someone you love, isn't it? So why wouldn't I be doing that to you?" Oh, he wasn't stupid. Noctis had learned about this from Prompto of all people and he believed that yes, this should have been fine.

Noctis finally turned his head and regarded Ignis with an unreadable gaze. "Or is this not acceptable because of my title?" His tone indicated that the answer to that question would set the course for the rest of their evening. It wasn't that he was trying to start a fight but... Noctis didn't want to be treated as being only a title.

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“Gramps!”

“...? Yes, Noctis? What is it?”

#chainedloyalty #asdlgkjalgj #O HNO

[ofglaiveandguard]

Titus Drautos was a stern, no-nonsense man, but he had always had a bit of a soft spot for the Prince of Lucis. He didn’t even fully understand it himself. He HATED his father but had never been able to bring himself to hate the Prince. Noctis was an innocent, born years after Titus had lost his home and he couldn’t hold his father’s crimes against him.

It was for that reason Glauca had failed all those years ago in Tenebrae. He had been sent there to kill both the King and his son and he had thought he’d be able to do it but he had hesitated. One look at the boy and he had faltered and as a result, the pair had escaped.

Noctis had grown a lot since then and Titus often found himself thinking about that day – about how close the Prince had come to death. How he would be dead if not for Titus’ weakness and the worst thing was that despite his attempts to remain detached,  that weakness had only grown.

With his fondness for Noctis and his hatred of Regis, he was CONFLICTED.

That didn’t stop the man spending his annual leave with the Prince though. A week, in a cabin on the outskirts of Insomnia with a car-full of fishing gear. It was nice – the cabin was one bought for Noctis by Regis as it was out of the public eye and next to a good fishing spot, but it wasn’t too often he got to use it.

Noct was a Prince, after all. He couldn’t go anywhere without someone trailing him and Titus...well, it was no hardship. It had been a while since he’d last had the time to fish and it gave Noctis the freedom to enjoy himself while remaining safe.

It was a good compromise – one that the King had agreed to.

As they walked into the cabin, he dumped the heavy bags he was carrying – one full of his clothes and one full of fishing gear for both of them.

“Well, we’re here. Did you want to rest up for a bit or head straight to the lake?”

@chainedloyalty

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[chosenbythecrystal]

► "eat your vegetables" (from ignis~)

Send my character a ► and a command. They must obey.

The look that Noctis sent Ignis was one of absolute betrayal. The man had always made an effort to get him to eat his vegetables, even going so far as to try hiding them in his food, but this…this was something else. He was exploiting him when he was most vulnerable and that was not cool.

Still, thanks to whatever force was acting upon him, Noctis was unable to disobey now that he had been given the command and after glaring at Ignis for a good five minutes, he turned his attention to his plate which was now empty save for the vegetables he hated so much. He scrunched his face up in a disgusted scowl before he pierced a piece of broccoli, shoving it into his mouth and swallowing as quickly as possible to get it over with.

Even so, he grimaced as if eating something truly disgusting.

“You’re evil.”

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