im too tired to be coherent rn but random thought: i just KNOW prompto was incredibly intimidated by both Ignis and Gladio when he first met them lmao
like one day noctis offers to give him a ride back home from school or something and prompto is like whatever. then he gets there and ignis greets him very formally and introduces himself as noctis' advisor. and prompto is mildly terrified of him. that boy has anxiety for days, he was DEFINITELY sure he was gonna slip up at some point and that ignis was just gonna stop him from ever seeing noctis again or something.
noctis sees him being weird around ignis and is like 'dude what are you doing its just specs he's literally chill' meanwhile prompto is vibrating in pure terror bc this is like someone IMPORTANT and SMART who'll probably clock him as the commoner he is instantly
ignis makes a few jokes to try and calm him down but prompto is NOTTT getting it and his anxiety just makes the dry humour go over his head so it makes things worse
and it's probably even worse with gladio 😭 like they go to the mall together or something and noctis ends up having to bring a bodyguard so he just drags a (very annoyed) gladio along with him. from prompto’s perspective, there's this six foot something muscled guy who's several years older than him and whose job is SPECIFICALLY to protect noctis. and the first time he meets him, he's in a bad mood. like at that point prompto is just thinking he's gonna die
in reality what happens is that both ignis and gladio see this random kid who's following noctis around and instantly adopt him as their new little brother.
