GENKI SILENT PROTAG. She'll probably strong-arm you into doing something ridiculous, and do so with the cutest smile on earth. She might also poke you with a naginata if you're a punk.
THE SASSY PROTAG. a phantom thief with a heart of gold. lives rebelliously and without regrets, though spends most of his time feigning a very unassuming persona. #nailedit
A true sunshine protagonist. Country bumpkin, slow on the uptake. Wants to be everyone's friend. Swordian Master of fire, incredibly hot-blooded. A GOOD BEAN. Please love him. He's my favorite and I am biased.
The original fabulous Tales science lady. Probably wants to dissect you pretty shamelessly. Loves and adores cute things. Inventor of the Swordians. Definitely the definition of Mad Scientist.
[gysahl greens, hair certainly is not. and while it's faintly amusing to see someone struggling with a couple of rowdy chocobos on the ranch—well, noctis knows that this isn't going to work out well for anyone.
so while the others are distracted—prompto by doting on the chocobos, ignis with refining a recipe, and gladio being the taste-tester as promised, it leaves noct with a bit of time to himself.
...also, really, to dote on chocobos. but apparently also to be a bit of a savior prince.]
Easy now... [really, he says that more to the chocobo than to tsubomi, leaning down to pick up some of the greens at her feet and handing all but one of them off to her. he holds one up to the chocobo as an offering, and while it's warking pretty loudly, it seems to relent.]
...They're pretty friendly, but giving them greens first keeps 'em from chewing on anything else.
[he may or may not be speaking from experience here.]
[ There is one pigtail absolutely frizzy and in disarray, because Tsubomi managed to valiantly protect the other one, so not only does she look like a fourteen-year-old girl who has no idea what she's doing, but she also looks like a fourteen-year-old girl who wants to melt into the ground and die.
Her luck with extremely good-looking men continues to be terrible. ]
O-oh... I see, it was hungry, not angry... [ Hopefully. She does flinch a little when the chocobo swings its head back towards her like it's considering round two, and holds a green up with astonishing speed.
[if it helps, he's not judging her for it. he'd judge one of his bros, but someone who clearly has no experience at all with chocobos—he can't blame her on that.
he leans over a bit, placing his palm on the chocobo's beak. he smiles a bit—almost an ironic contrast to his dark color scheme—there's just little getting around the fact that noctis has a soft spot for animals.
They get pretty fussy sometimes. But as long as you treat them right, they're gentle. That's why they're so easy to ride.
[well, that's definitely worth the quirk of a brow.]
Kind of a conflicting story there, isn't it? [for someone as bad and uncreative at covering his tracts as noct is, he somehow manages to pick up on that.
but she did make it pretty apparently, honestly. it wasn't exactly a swift switch in story there.]
I think the greens would taste better, anyway. [ And she doesn't even flinch when the chocobo warks at her this time, smiling a little sheepishly instead. ]
"Sir's" just a little too formal. Kinda makes me sound like an old stuffy guy, or something.
[maybe if she were talking to ignis, it would make sense. someone would definitely call him "sir" and he wouldn't even bat an eye.]
Noctis. [it's not like it's all that much of a secret of who he is to most. even if they don't recognize his face, the name is a recognizable one. it comes with the territory of being the lucian crown prince, after all.
(even if he prefers to go about lucis incognito for the most part, it's not like there aren't a ton of people who don't know who he is.)]
[ From the slow, curious way she echos his name, it's probably way too obvious that she isn't familiar with it. Not the name, not the meaning, and certainly not the implication.
(And yet, he could say the name "Gladiolus" and Tsubomi would know exactly what that was and what the flower symbolized, go figure.) ]
it's definitely strange. strange enough that he does offer a curious glance. his name is so well known, even if his face isn't outside of the crown city—even nearby people seem to turn their heads when the name is uttered.
(to which he sort of dips his head away. better not draw too much attention to himself in the middle of a chocobo outpost.)
awkward.
he'll shake it off after a minute, looking back to her, still curious.]
So... what brings you to a place way out here? Doesn't seem like you're from this area. [given her lack of familiarity with chocobos. he guesses there are plenty of places they aren't too common, but she doesn't seem to be from the crown city...
[ Tsubomi may not be as bold with strangers as Erika, or as composed as Yuri-- but what she lacks in confidence, she makes up for in perceptiveness. And it's not at all hard to put a name to the look Noctis gives her, even if she's not sure why he seems curious.
Until she also realizes that people are glancing their way, which means something one of them said had drawn their attention, and she doubts it was anything she said, by way of introduction.
... Which means she at least messed up for him, and Tsubomi's eyebrows quickly draw together... until she fidgets from foot to foot and finally sighs. ]
I'm really not. I'm from a town called Kibougahana, and I woke up here, and I... believe I'm lost.
Kibou...gahana... Definitely not anywhere around here.
[it rolls off his tongue easily enough because eos languages make no sense, especially in lucis. while most of his kingdom technically seems english based, insomnia sure is a bizarre mix of english and japanese language because, you know.
that makes sense.
either way, it's a place he's never heard of, and he kind of wishes ignis were standing closer, because if anyone is going to know where kibougahana is, it's probably him, but... well. he's not sure.]
You just... woke up here, at the Chocobo Ranch? [did she get kidnapped or something?
sometimes he really, really doesn't get life on the outside at all.]
Mm... I was asleep, and I had a very strange dream... and when I woke up, I was here.
[ It would have made more sense to her if she'd been fighting the Enemy of the Week at the time, or some other evil, because she's seen some weird shit in her fourteen years of existence.
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so while the others are distracted—prompto by doting on the chocobos, ignis with refining a recipe, and gladio being the taste-tester as promised, it leaves noct with a bit of time to himself.
...also, really, to dote on chocobos. but apparently also to be a bit of a savior prince.]
Easy now... [really, he says that more to the chocobo than to tsubomi, leaning down to pick up some of the greens at her feet and handing all but one of them off to her. he holds one up to the chocobo as an offering, and while it's warking pretty loudly, it seems to relent.]
...They're pretty friendly, but giving them greens first keeps 'em from chewing on anything else.
[he may or may not be speaking from experience here.]
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Her luck with extremely good-looking men continues to be terrible. ]
O-oh... I see, it was hungry, not angry... [ Hopefully. She does flinch a little when the chocobo swings its head back towards her like it's considering round two, and holds a green up with astonishing speed.
Much to her relief, she's spared. ]
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he leans over a bit, placing his palm on the chocobo's beak. he smiles a bit—almost an ironic contrast to his dark color scheme—there's just little getting around the fact that noctis has a soft spot for animals.
They get pretty fussy sometimes. But as long as you treat them right, they're gentle. That's why they're so easy to ride.
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[ Noctis, this bird is huge. Even if she tried, she doubts she could get on its back in any manner of grace and dignity.
No, really, she's staring at it with a whole lot of misgivings, even as she tentatively reaches out to touch one folded wing. ]
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...but not before a bit of a sarcastic quip.]
They don't wear saddles for decoration, you know. [obviously it's because people ride them.]
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But for now, she just kind of flushes a little and glances to the side, now toeing at the ground. ]
I did just wake up before he decided to chew on me-- er--!
[ Tsubomi, let's not say concerning things. ]
I-I mean, I guess I really wasn't paying close attention! [ or attention. At all. ]
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Kind of a conflicting story there, isn't it? [for someone as bad and uncreative at covering his tracts as noct is, he somehow manages to pick up on that.
but she did make it pretty apparently, honestly. it wasn't exactly a swift switch in story there.]
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[ she says to the ground. So it hadn't been a lie, exactly, because Tsubomi sucks at lying anyway. ]
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[but he shrugs. he's not making a very big deal of it.]
Looks like he's not all that interested in your hair anymore.
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... But thank you for helping me, sir.
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[really, it's no big deal to him. he chuckles a bit at the chocobo—mostly because it seems like the little guy just wants in on the conversation.]
You can lay off the "sir" stuff, too. Not like I'm that old, you know. [he's not even old at all. too formal.
"too formal," says the literal prince. it's fine.]
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[ ... she says promptly. Well, this coming from someone who was raised by her grandmother and probably talks stupidly formally as is... ]
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[maybe if she were talking to ignis, it would make sense. someone would definitely call him "sir" and he wouldn't even bat an eye.]
Noctis. [it's not like it's all that much of a secret of who he is to most. even if they don't recognize his face, the name is a recognizable one. it comes with the territory of being the lucian crown prince, after all.
(even if he prefers to go about lucis incognito for the most part, it's not like there aren't a ton of people who don't know who he is.)]
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[ From the slow, curious way she echos his name, it's probably way too obvious that she isn't familiar with it. Not the name, not the meaning, and certainly not the implication.
(And yet, he could say the name "Gladiolus" and Tsubomi would know exactly what that was and what the flower symbolized, go figure.) ]
It's a pleasure to meet you. My name is Tsubomi.
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it's definitely strange. strange enough that he does offer a curious glance. his name is so well known, even if his face isn't outside of the crown city—even nearby people seem to turn their heads when the name is uttered.
(to which he sort of dips his head away. better not draw too much attention to himself in the middle of a chocobo outpost.)
awkward.
he'll shake it off after a minute, looking back to her, still curious.]
So... what brings you to a place way out here? Doesn't seem like you're from this area. [given her lack of familiarity with chocobos. he guesses there are plenty of places they aren't too common, but she doesn't seem to be from the crown city...
or anywhere in lucis, really.]
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Until she also realizes that people are glancing their way, which means something one of them said had drawn their attention, and she doubts it was anything she said, by way of introduction.
... Which means she at least messed up for him, and Tsubomi's eyebrows quickly draw together... until she fidgets from foot to foot and finally sighs. ]
I'm really not. I'm from a town called Kibougahana, and I woke up here, and I... believe I'm lost.
[ She's really lost. ]
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[it rolls off his tongue easily enough because eos languages make no sense, especially in lucis. while most of his kingdom technically seems english based, insomnia sure is a bizarre mix of english and japanese language because, you know.
that makes sense.
either way, it's a place he's never heard of, and he kind of wishes ignis were standing closer, because if anyone is going to know where kibougahana is, it's probably him, but... well. he's not sure.]
You just... woke up here, at the Chocobo Ranch? [did she get kidnapped or something?
sometimes he really, really doesn't get life on the outside at all.]
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[ It would have made more sense to her if she'd been fighting the Enemy of the Week at the time, or some other evil, because she's seen some weird shit in her fourteen years of existence.
Now including this, apparently. ]
... But none of this looks familiar to me at all.
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[which is not to say he's disbelieving. honestly, she looks out of place in her way and she clearly doesn't know who he is or much about lucis at all.
it's suspect in a way that noctis doesn't really understand, but he's not so cynical as to be completely disbelieving, either.]
But I guess you probably just want to get home instead of being stuck in a place you don't know.
[doubly so when it seems like she's here alone. that's probably kind of dangerous.]
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[ She can't trouble this good-looking man any further, she's determined not to. ]
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[he may be good-looking, but it's not like he's an asshole or something.]
You sure about finding your way? It can get kind of rough around here.
[it's a bit disconcerting, honestly.]
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[ Actually, now that he mentions it... ]
Rough... how, exactly?
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[...?
he's about to be way more confused about where she's from, isn't he.]
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[ she sure did just squeak. ]
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[he knows that people who don't leave brightly lit towns too much don't really have much experience with them, but they're still usually, like.
aware.]
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