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What the final fantasy dudebros fundamentally miss about Prompto’s elementary —> high school transformation is that it’s not just some inspiring weight loss journey. Prompto going from fat to skinny was not the catalyst for the Promptis friendship (which is what makes it even more tragic that Prompto felt he had lose all of this weight since we the audience know Noct would’ve accepted him regardless). The catalyst was Prompto becoming confident and reaching out to talk to other people. As he says in Motel Promptis, he used to be super shy and couldn’t talk to anyone. Those daily interactions he had with fellow runners and passerbys got him out of his shell and made him into the person who was able to casually approach the prince with a pat on the back.

It makes me so sad that these straight guys just look at Prompto losing weight and don’t see the actual EMOTIONAL journey that was probably more important than the physical one. When you reduce Prompto to just going from fat to skinny you’re fundamentally doing his character a great disservice.