Spill it. How much of a hand did you have in Prompto's Crownsguard training? What was he like to teach? Was he a fast learner?
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“I volunteered personally to do it.” Cor replied, teeth gritting when he realized the answer he knew might slip out. “I... I had a feeling. He would be good at guns. Niflheim tech. He would take to them... better than anyone else. He was in for a rough couple of months, and I knew either they would be too gentle, and he wouldn’t learn anything, or they’d be too harsh and he would get hurt. It was a specific time frame, and a specific training.” Cor sighed soft.
“He was the fasted learner I ever had. He had to be, if he wanted to leave with Noctis on the trip. He would train for hours each day, and show up sore the next morning. Sometimes he fell asleep on the bench outside the training room, and I’d bring him a blanket and lay him down so he could get some rest. He’s very strong, you know? His muscles are much more pronounce than Noctis’s...” Cor blinked.
“I was right about the Niflheim tech. He took very well to it. I wasn’t surprised. I figure that would be good. I assumed that the trip wouldn’t be long, they’d go to Altissia and come back and then... everything else happened, and I realized why Regis had such high qualifications for anyone who was going to go with Noctis... I’m glad I taught Prompto as much as I could, but he still had some nervousness while fighting. I knew that only experience got rid of nerves, so there wasn’t much I could do.”
Cor thought for a while. What was Prompto like to teach? Other than a fast learner... “I think he had a crush on me.” Cor spoke all of a sudden. If he wasn’t so drugged by this potion he would’ve covered his face saying so. “I had to hold him, his arms, pull his shoulders back, hold his stomach, grab his hips -- I wasn’t trying to hit on him or anything, it’s just that the field... it’s very physical, so, I have to be tactile -- and he’d turn pink and look away from me... I tried to be professional about it, so I didn’t address it. I didn’t want him to feel embarrassed, but still... it was flattering. To think someone was attracted to me, even after seeing me up close. And seeing me work -- still, I think knowing he might’ve liked me actually made it hard to criticize him. Not that I stopped. He still had a few sloppy shots, and he still jumped, and made mistakes. He needed correcting. It wasn’t the time to be flirty. It never is. I’m not exactly someone who is going to flirt to begin with.”
“I came close... to telling him where he came from. He hid his barcode from me. Most people don’t know what it means, but I do... and I... wondered if I should’ve told him, but I didn’t want to ruin his mood about going to Altissia... so I never did.”
Spill it + "Are you ashamed of your Doman heritage?"
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“I pretended I wasn’t Doman.” Cor replied simply. He would’ve been shocked someone even asked, but, the potion kept those nerves calm, instead he was just going to share. “After the Trial of Gilgamesh, they looked into my background and found out that I was not the age I said I was, and not an orphan, like I claimed. They made fun of me for being half-blooded Lucian. King Mors called me a “Doman” for a while instead of my actual name...” He clenched his jaw. “They called me Shogun, usually, that one stuck for a while. Fushi Shogun.” Cor shrugged. “I pretended it didn’t bother me.”
“My mother was a stunt actress. Doman people ‘do computer stuff and martial arts’.” He quoted with some tone of voice. “They didn’t think I was strong, but King Mors did... since I was the only one who survied Gilgamesh. So I was put on security detailing. For King Mors personally. I was on the same rank as Lucian High Guards... they said I cheated. No way a Doman could get in without cheating.” Cor blinked.
“Mors taught me about Lady Fukuryu -- the Rogue Queen, is what she’s usually called. She was a Doman Queen, and when the Lucian King died, she took over. She suffered, because people didn’t trust her, and she had to hide, away from the public and the place she called home for so long. Her blade, the shuriken, causes more damage than any other Royal Arm. Do you know why? Because Doman’s are weak to magic. So her pain is transferred to anyone who wields her armiger. I too am weak to magic. I didn’t know why until then.”
“I don’t know how to feel. Getting this far wasn’t because I was Doman. If they knew, I think I never would’ve been put in the Crownsguard. But there’s a lot about the Doman’s that the Lucian people aren’t taught. Involving their own country’s history. I still feel ashamed when it gets brought up...” He clenched his jaw. “But I know it’s a part of myself. I wouldn’t be carrying this if I didn’t know that --” He summoned Kikuichimonji for a second, then lets it disappear. “I’m not ashamed of being Doman.” He finally answered. “I’m ashamed of letting the people around me make me feel like there was something wrong with that.”
Cor stood in the empty kitchen staring down at the dining room table. Thin blue light coming through the window over the sink, shining on the chrome polish. He adjusted his shoulder bag, holding the suitcase by the handle. There was a plastic bag full of crumpled up paper, from the typewriter sitting in his room. He covered it with a plastic sheet. He made his bed, cleaned up the house, packed away his old toy cars that had been collecting dust, and other action figures.
It felt heartless, but every time he wrote something more heartfelt, he started regretting everything. So it had to be lifeless. He quietly looked into his mothers room, it smelt like her perfume, and she lay sleeping. The ruined side of her face, which hadn’t ever been fixed since the accident, she usually sleeps with that side of her face up. Angry patch of red skin that runs down her side and jaw, taking most of her ear, some of her nose, and her eyebrow no longer grew there. She’s still asleep. She’s a heavy sleeper. He knows, he relied on it to quietly pack his bags, and hide everything under his bed.
Cor set a snow globe on the paper, just to make sure it didn’t blow off the table. He takes the bag of papers, and throws it in a dumpster down the road, so his mother wont find all his attempts to write his letter. Cor adjusts his beret, and drags his suitcase. He heads down the block, and climbs onto the bus, onto the three hour bus ride to Leide.
Mom,
If you feel like selling the toys and my typewriter, I don’t mind. I won’t be using them anymore. If it makes some extra gil, you can also rent out my room to people. I’ll be okay. I have my own room now.
I know you always apologize, that we can’t live like we used to. You would apologize every day when I helped you in the hospital. When they told you you might not walk again, you acted really strong, but I know you were devastated. Your job was your life, you didn’t know what to do when you lost it. I used to pretend to be asleep on the couch in your hospital room so you could cry. I remember. It’s okay. I’m not mad. I was never mad with you. I was just sorry I couldn’t do anything.
Well. Now I can.
I’ll be in a basic training camp out in Leide by tomorrow. I applied and tested into the Crownsguard. I didn’t tell you because I know you’d be scared. Once I pass basic training, I’ll be moving to the Intelligence Center, out in Keycatrich. It won’t be that far from home. I’ll call as often as I can.
They don’t know that I’m not 18. I have no intention of telling them. If you try to pull me out, they won’t believe you. Registration has been convinced I’m a orphan. Please don’t come after me. I packed up all the gil I made from my paper route, and I’ll be using it to pay for everything. Don’t worry about it. I’ll send half my paycheck to you each month. I have no intentions of quitting. I’m not failing training. I’m not coming home. Don’t expect otherwise.
You’ve been through enough. I hope this will lighten the load. It’s about time I pull my own weight.
Interactions with the Glaive (Because of all your recent posts. )
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Since I’m a stickler about organizing a proper timeline, I do have some very specific details about the Glaive, but personally, Cor and the Glaives, to put it simply, I don’t think they have a strong relationship.
Okay, let me start with what I know. The Kingsglaive were formed by Regis immediately after he is given the prophecy of his son’s fate. This is when Noctis is five, so, 15 years ago from the events of the movie/game. Cor has been working with the Royal family for 32 years, since he was 13. He has seniority even on the oldest of Kingsglaive members by almost double the amount. Even if some Kingsglaive are older than him, which I doubt since it seemed to be comprised of young people, I imagine Cor will be held with more prestige than any of them. Not to mention, Cor was once part of King Regis’s retinue.
Does Cor look down on them?
My belief is Cor doesn’t look down on other races in Eos, not only because my own personal headcanon (that which makes him only half Lucian and not full) but also because of a clear difference in his understanding of them being in Insomnia. They are not immigrants. The people from Tenebrae, Galahd, Accordo, and other places from the world, are refugees. Cor has assisted in helping many refugees evacuate their home country. It’s not explicitly stated, but it’s heavily implied, and it’s also mentioned that Cor is still doing this later on, after the 10 years of darkness.
To explain, an immigrant is someone who comes to a different country voluntarily, either short or long term, with intentions leaning towards settling down, and possibly abandoning their former country in exchange for the new one they immigrated to. The Kingsglaive do not talk about Lucis like they immigrated there. Even though they’re referred to as ‘immigrants’. They talk like they are refugees. The key difference is for almost any visitor to a foreign country, people come, voluntarily. The only category that doesn’t, are refugees, who come involuntarily. The Galahd people say many times that they want to return home, save their homes from the Niffs, and don’t feel like Lucis is their home, but that they are ‘rats’ living there. (At least, Tredd Furia said something like that, I haven’t watched Kingsglaive in a while so forgive me.)
Cor does not know what being a refugee is like, but he can sympathize and empathize towards what they must be feeling. I would like to imagine that Cor has a bigger world view due to his constant moving around. (Again, this is headcanon stuff, it’s not explicitly stated that he actually moves around a lot) Cor probably knows a bit more about different cultures, even though he’s not a Lucian diplomat or anything, he has most likely been around, even at a young age like 15, which gives me the impression he’s more experienced with other cultures. This seems very political, I understand, but, to be honest, the Kingsglaive movie was made out to be a very political based movie, as was most of the game, honestly.
Okay, so, he doesn’t look down on the people that make up the Kingsglaive, how does he personally feel about Kingsglaive itself?
Well, my assumption is it’s more complicated than he’d think. It feels a bit extra for them to exist, but, as far as I know, Cor doesn’t know why they exist. Cor was never told Noctis’s fate. The only people who are implied to know are Regis, Lunafreya, and later on Ardyn, but Ardyn was not told the prophecy about Noctis directly, simply the part about the Chosen King. The fact that it was Noctis was just how everything went down. So, Cor’s feeling towards the Kingsglaive was that Regis was pitying the refugees and wanted to give them jobs. He doesn’t know that Regis was doubling down on protection, and hand picking the strongest magic users he could find.
So, Cor does actually feel antipathy towards Kingsglaive itself. He feels like he’s being replaced, and his soldiers are being pushed to the side. This also doesn’t help because then it starts ramping up racial tension too. Like, okay, I know this is getting political, but if there’s a group of almost exclusively Lucian people, feeling replaced by a group of almost exclusively refugees, you can’t tell me someone won’t be the ‘they’re taking all our jobs’ guy in the crowd. The guy who sticks out to me is the Lucian guard that starts making fun of Nyx while he’s at gate duty. A lot of them are like that.
Cor is not like that, he understands that they need jobs, they need to survive, and they also need a place to be in Lucis, being close to the King probably would make them feel more comfortable about living in Lucis, although they don’t nearly have as much power over their situation. Still, Cor also has this deep seated feeling that he might be being replaced, and, well, you can see there’s some friction in their relationship. It’s not all tense and fighting, some Crownsguard get along with the Kingsglaive, and vice versa. Some are even friends. Cor and Drautos probably know each other fairly well, and their soldiers probably have to interact a lot.
Still, the Kingsglaive are also out fighting the war, while the Crownsguard, well, are the guards of the crown, right? So they are exclusively in the Citadel, guarding Regis and Noctis most likely. Cor is probably there more often than not, although he seems familiar with the countryside of Lucis too. His group is more inactive, although I assume he’s not (Cor seems way too strong and able to fight to just be a guy sitting around in the Citadel holding out tissues for Regis when he feels ill. ok.) and actively fighting with the Niffs. Maybe even with the Kingsglaive. So some Kingsglaive must know Cor at least a little bit.
Still. He’s the Marshal of the Crownsguard. If those two groups have animosity, there’s a lot of Kingsglaive that are going to associate him with all the hateful racist Crownsguard, and hate Cor by default. There’s nothing he can do about that. Too many people, too little time.
What’s Cor’s individual interaction with the Kingsglaive members? (aka, your actual question, plz forgive my annoying flavortext.)
Well, considering all my nonsense above, most of the ones that know him, give him a lot of respect. Even the ones that don’t know him, know not to fuck with him. He’s in a high position, has a lot of seniority, and well, at the end of the day, he’s fucking Cor the Immortal. Cor has a big reputation, that much is clear. If there is anything they talk about in relation to Cor, it’s his big ass reputation he totes around. No matter who it is, I have a feeling they respect Cor.
So anyway, lets divide it into three categories. Positive, neutral, negative. Positive, people who like Cor, consider him a leader, or a mentor even. Cor most likely has spoken to these people more than a handful of times. Neutral. People who don’t care about him, meaning they know him but don’t care to know more. Probably never talked to him, get a bit nervous when they’re addressed by him, overall just a general military hierarchical relationship. Negative, at worst they want him to die and assume he’s a racist Lucian like most of the Lucian’s that are hurtful to the Kingsglaive, at best they just hate him because that reputation he holds has given them a bad impression and assume he’s full of himself.
Cor talking with Negative types, he can tell. He can feel glaring, teeth gritting, murmuring, eyes on him, hateful tension in the air. He handles it well, because, well, he’s been in battles, he’s been around people who actually want to fucking kill him. It’s not a big deal when it’s just hate. Still, it’s not an environment you want to be in. So, he probably would rather leave those Glaives to Drautos.
Neutral is probably the same. He understands there’s no real relationship other than work, so, he’s to the point with them. He’s to the point with everyone, but, they don’t get much else out of him.
Positive, are people he probably knows or has trained himself. (I could go off on a tangent on how I don’t know wHAT COR’S JOB EVEN IS, but I will spare you, I promise, I just can’t help mentioning because this interferes with my headcanons all the time :p I honestly can’t say for sure what his job is.) Cor is a very hard mentor in my headcanon. Especially since it’s canon info that Cor doesn’t train the Crownsguard personally. Clarus does. Gladiolus says so. Like Monica, the woman with Cor at the beginning of the game. Gladiolus calls her “one of my dad’s best”. So, the Amicitia handle training the Crownsguard I assume. In Kingsglaive we see them training on their own, I don’t know who trains them, and I’d like to assume Drautos and Cor are both mentors. Cor is a harsh mentor, if the Episode Gladio DLC told me anything, he doesn’t pull any punches. :| He will absolutely fucking wreck his own student. Why?? I don’t know. I guess that’s just how he trains. Maybe he’s not as nice as I’d like to assume he is, but at the very least he seems reassuring and straightforward. It’s not like he just beats the shit out of Gladio for no reason, he only does it after Gladio fights Gilgamesh. And he praises Gladio a lot, as well as Prompto. He praises people who deserve it in his eyes. For Gladio, it’s because he worked hard, for Prompto, it’s because Prompto is doing this literally out of the Kindness of his Heart. Prompto is the only one not born royal, and doesn’t have to be there, but stays anyway, which is why I think Cor praises and flatters him so much in your short interaction with him. Not only that, but Cor can see some similarity between himself and Prompto, and wants to give Prompto what he didn’t have; praise and acknowledgement.
Anyway, I went off topic. Again. So, let’s break down who we know from the Movie, and how I imagine Cor would interact with them.
Drautos: Both higher position characters. Drautos is a captain, Cor is a Marshal. As far as I can tell you, I can only assume Cor has higher status. Funny enough, as far as I know, Drautos’s actor, Adrian Bouchet, is about 45, (at least as of making Kingsglaive) so, they’re the same age. Perhaps there’s a bit more they understand and relate to since they are peers. I feel like of all the Kingsglaive, they were the closest.
Nyx: Everybody calls him the “hero” and Cor knows of all people what it’s like to have a moniker that is used to taunt you sometimes, so he sympathizes with Nyx a bit. I don’t think Nyx would realize that though, since I can’t imagine they meet often. Other than Nyx being punished with gate duty again by Drautos, or something like that, Cor wouldn’t really see Nyx that much, but at the same time, he sees him probably more than anyone else, since Nyx gets demoted to Crownsguard jobs all the time, at least, by the looks of it.
Crowe: I feel like because she is so powerful as a mage, Cor might have met her for combat training. I don’t know how Crowe does with close quarter fighting, from the looks of it she wouldn’t need to use it. But she’s clearly very skillful, and Cor would like to help hone those abilities if anything.
Libertus: He really hasn’t interacted with Libertus. The only reason he knows him is because of Drautos. That’s actually why he knows most of the Kingsglaive. Cor trusted Drautos a lot because he could tell Drautos sympathized with the Kingsglaive a lot, and he knew where they were coming from.
Luche: One of the negative/neutral types. Luche is around Drautos a lot though, but, he can feel him sneering whenever Cor has Drautos’s attention. Tredd and the others he feels it too.
Pelna: Positive/neutral type. Cor can see he’s pretty intelligent and informative, but, everything is professional, and they hardly interact in the Citadel, so Pelna can only really nod his head and just listen to what he’s told.
That’s really all I can think of for now. :p Forgive my egregious list of nonsense that I spewed, I hope that made some sense. I tried to give it categories to clear it up, but it’s still a mess, bear with me. Thank you for sending ;3;
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He sure as fuck needs one my dude.
Okay, all joking aside. He doesn’t like them. Cor doesn’t like anything where he feels vulnerable. Massages are a double whammy because not only do you have to be vulnerable around another person, you have to take off your clothes. (Well, you don’t have to, and he wouldn’t, but, massages are usually for your muscles, so, taking off your clothes helps the masseuse/masseur whatever word you have to use >:p) In my headcanon, both of these are a huge no to Cor.
Cor, in my HC, has a lot of scars all over his body, has had a lot of broken bones, and really doesn’t like how he looks. He has burn marks, electricity scars, frostbite wounds, gunshot wounds, knife wounds, explosion shrapnel. It’s not pretty. It’s not cool or interesting or strong in his eyes. It reminds him of the people he watched die in those scenarios. It’s really hard when the reminder is on your skin.
Also, if you try to massage his arms, or legs, and put both your hands on his arms or legs, and push down... You’re fucked. He will attack you. And he will hate himself for it. He will snap out of it in probably a few seconds, but in those second you pretty much better pray to six he won’t snap your neck because he will grab you and he will come close to doing just that. He absolutely hates this, and I know people make fun of the word now a days, but it triggers him. It straight up triggers his PTSD, and it will drive him to go into full on kill or be killed mode.
He can not relax. Not when he is put in a vulnerable position. No matter how many times he’s told it’s just a massage, it’s just a masseuse/masseur ect. He hates it. To branch off a bit, he keeps a knife in his bathroom even though he can warp a weapon to him at any time. That’s how worried about being vulnerable he is. He sleeps with his katana on him out of fear that the warping thing might not work at some point and he’ll be vulnerable in his sleep.
Now, as for Cor giving a massage, he can give a pretty mean one. Literally. It might hurt. But it feels good too. He knows the way around his own body, he need to stretch, and he shows he’s fast and flexible, so he must know at least basic stretches to keep his body in shape to do that. He can find the proper way to pop your neck bones, shoulder bones, back bones, elbow bones, it’ll feel weird but it’s strangely relieving to have them popped and to have your back be massaged by him, his hands are strong.
Although, actually having him massage you would be a rare chance, because, it would probably happen to a very close partner, or someone he feels very comfortable with. It’d probably be pre and post sex massages too lbr. So, good luck ever actually getting a massage from Cor.
(I’ve been procrastinating on schoolwork for NO REASON other than I want to procrastinate, so, here, I’ve been working on what kind of skill I think Cor would have. Since Gladio has the Survival Skill and Ignis has Cooking, and Hammerhead seems to take care of your car, I settled on something that wouldn’t really take away from any of those things that were already handled in game. He takes care of plants in my headcanon so... plants :p and animals on occasion.)
Cor is the party’s husbandry expert. His skill increases every time you harvest plant or animal material, or ride around on chocobos. Regular items yield a small amount of skill points while rare items yield larger amounts of skill points.
Level 1: Leide Farming - Yeild more items from Leide based plants and animals
Level 2: Duscae Farming - Yeild more items from Duscae based plants and animals
Level 3: Cleigne Farming - Yield more items from Cleigne based plants and animals
Level 4: Husbandry Material - Yield more items from any plant or animal based material. Applies during hunts or while harvesting.
Level 5: Locavore - Produce stores offer 10% discount on all items.
Level 6: Chocobo Husbandry - Gain more skill points by riding Chocobos.
Level 7: Harvester - Produce stores offer 30% discount on all items.
Level 8: Chocobo Caretaker - Chocobo abilities activate more frequently before battle.
Level 9: Farmer’s Friend - Produce stores offer 50% discount on all items
Level 10: Eos’s Harvest - Allow more yield on any plant or animal pickup. Rare drops and rare hunts also have possibility for higher yield.
9. Is your character’s current socioeconomic status different than it was when they were growing up?
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(Yes, he was a rich spoiled child in Insomnia that did all sorts of clubs when he was a child, but that changed a lot when he got older, and as my headcanons go, his mother became infirm and they lost a lot of their income. It’s not just their losing income, he almost loses his mother in my headcanon, so that sends him down that path that he feels he needs to protect himself, and everyone, and that doesn’t want to have to be taken care of, and he wants to be independent and help others.
It’s almost obsessive, to the point that he does overextend himself to other people, trying not to be a burden. Cor even abandons Noctis after he moves out towards Leide, because he learns the hunters are way in over their heads and need help. Now, he’s obviously got a lot less, he doesn’t have leisure time, not typically, but he’s just glad that he doesn’t have to be taken care of by anyone. As long as he can support himself, he’s fine.)
12. In what situation was your character the most calm they’ve ever been?
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(When it was confirmed to him that King Regis and Clarus Amicitia were pronounced dead. Mostly, everything inside him just sort of emptied out. He feels a lot of regret now, but, at that moment, he couldn’t feel anything. He was very focused. Usually when Cor suffers losses his mind goes blank. Freaking out and crying and panicking is something that takes up all the sleepless nights and moments that come after a nightmare. So, when he loses things, he gets very calm and focused to avoid collapsing, and that day he pretty much lost everything, so, that would be his calmest moment.)
