Dumbest of all FFXV questions.
The Citadel is a huge place with a ton of internal security and stuff and lots of staff/guards/etc so like-.
For the kiddos of the single parent employees or employees who’s spouse can’t watch the kids that day for WHATEVER reason? Does it have a daycare?
And who RUNS IT if they do?
There’s probably a Crownsguard or five in there at minimum for security (nothing says “target for blackmail and hostage situations” like unguarded kiddos of the cooks and servants who change the royal bedsheets) but who RUNS it? Who plays with the kiddos and ensures everyone is fed and watered and has nap time and that bullying is a no-no and all that stuff?
Idk why this has suddenly occurred to me but now the idea is here and I’m curious.
And also wondering how to incorporate it into a WIP.
Would work for Stand Strong. Hmmm.
*snerk* imagine a romance one-shot or something with Regis and an OC where the OC is the daycare worker for the Citadel Daycare and Noctis wanders down there somehow, which he is not supposed to because SECURITY but the worker is stupidly oblivious to the news/royalty despite working in the CITADEL and doesn’t even bat an eye at suddenly having an extra kiddo. Figures it’s a late drop-off of the child of a worker’s sibling (they do that sometimes, when a servant’s sib or cousin needs help with a kid but the servant is working, sometimes they smuggle them into the daycare even though it’s TECHNICALLY against the rules but hey it’s not like a five year old is gonna be an assassin) and just rolls with it. The new kiddo, Noct, is adorable and sweet and shy and hates veggies but otherwise is very polite, and apparently IS the kid of a worker because his dad “works upstairs signing papers”. Daycare worker assumes kiddo’s parent is like- a new secretary or something and doesn’t. Put together. The name “Noct”. Or the black hair and blue eyes. Spends all shift with a tiny Noct on her proverbial coat strings because he’s too shy to play with the other kids on such short notice but he’s lonely. Has NO idea that the rest of the Citadel is LOSING ITS MIND because the pRINCE IS MISSING.
How the Crownsguard guarding the daycare don’t notice their prince trundling in the footsteps of the daycare person is a MYSTERY.
Then FINALLY someone notices the prince. Like- workers are coming to pick up their kids and more than one are servants for the royal levels and are like ???? what’s HE doing down here???? and the daycare worker is like: oh you know his parent? Can you tell him to come pick up his son? He’s a dear but my shift is ending soon and the daycare is closing in like, an hour.
All the servants, realizing that this worker has NO CLUE who Noct is:…. sure we’ll do that.
And then KING FLIPPING REGIS shows up ten minutes later and Noct gleefully hugs his Very Frazzled Parent who had been in the middle of panicking and thinking Noct had been kidnapped or something and just- he’d wandered down into the daycare.
Daycare worker has a long, slow moment to realize AH, that’s what Noct meant when his dad “works upstairs signing papers” and then there’s the KING and the very intimidating SHIELD asking why she didn’t TELL ANYONE where the prince was and is just like-
I didn’t know he was the prince?
and that would be how Regis meets Noct’s future stepmom.
This would be especially hilarious if it’s like- a soulmate AU and so Regis has gone his entire life with a shy scrawl of “I didn’t know he was the prince?” on his person somewhere and so Regis hears it and his brain Bluescreens so hard.
*whispers to self* Oh no.
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