FFXV characters and what they would do at the summer camp I worked for
Noct:
Lifeguard
Spends all his time off napping in the boathouse
Regularly falls asleep at meals
The despair of his cocounselors because he's always asleep before the kids are
Gets REALLY animated when teaching the kids fishing. They're all like :0 he can talk like that???
SUPER HYPE FOR NIGHT OWL WEEK. LOVES STAYING UP UNTIL SUNRISE AND SLEEPING IN UNTIL 2 PM. TAKES ALL THE NIGHT SWIM SHIFTS
Only problem with night owl week is Prompto is a day jay :(
Regis is camp director but Noct still got vetoed when trying to make his activity block about video games :( Instead it's tying flies for fly fishing
Ignis:
It's tempting to say cook but in my camp cooking was actually a full-time job for adults and I can't see Iggy making this his career
General counselor with an education focus, but absolutely insistent on kids having choice of sauces for cookout day
Absolute wizard at getting a fire going without a firestarter
During staff send off, takes over the kitchen and goes absolutely ham. The official cooks tell him what they're gonna throw out at the end of the week and he makes dinner for everyone. Ofc this makes him everyone's favorite
His cabin wins the "cleanest cabin" and "most environmentally friendly" (lights off, water not dripping, minimum food waste) awards every single week. Everyone else has just stopped trying
Delivers both the "I start fires" and "fire safety" speeches with a completely deadpan expression, even through the shouting parts. The kids would also take it very seriously and miss the humor if the rest of the bros didn't spend the whole time heckling him
Activity block is about native edible plants
Gladio:
Adventures counselor
Has named the pond snapping turtle "Gilgamesh". There is ongoing beef with Gilgamesh due to the kids tipping over their canoes while practicing for the river trip
Kid: Where did you get that scar? :0 Gladio: I-- Noct: He lost a fight with a snapping turtle Gladio: I WON the fight with the snapping turtle
Always running the climbing station at Wednesday free for all. Easily goaded into trying challenging climbs during the climbing trip, but actually pulls them off
Found a knife lying around during an offsite camping trip and cleaned it up and kept it
Cries during send off, without fail
Activity block is about the history of the camp. Kids mostly sign up due to the fact that it's in an air conditioned building, but Gladio actually makes it really engaging
Prompto:
Listen, when your best friend is a camp director's kid and you really need a job and maybe a place to stay for a couple months, working as a dishwasher at a summer camp in the middle of nowhere two hours' drive north of the city sounds like a not super terrible plan? They feed you all but one meal per week, eat as much as you want, who cares if the pay's terrible
Turns out: Prompto loves working at camp
He's great at making kids not feel so self-conscious about camp silliness. Absolutely goes ham in campfire skits
I feel like he'd be great on the guitar
Did one summer as a dishwasher because he didn't have the self-confidence to go for anything more, realized that he could do horses chocobos, practically BEGGED for the chocobo counselor position
Super enthusiastic about being at camp 90% of the time
Surprisingly good at gaga ball for a guy who looks like he was picked last for dodgeball every time
Tries to love Night Owl Week for Noct but he can't. He can't do it. This boy is up at 6 am every day
Activity block is basic photography and he has a collection of blurry pictures of plants/buildings/staff given to him by campers
Iris:
Queen of the crafts camp five years running
Everyone knows she's going to be crafts assistant as soon as she's old enough to work
Can and will abuse her little sister powers to stop Gladio on his way to wherever so he can help with something that needs a lot of muscle at the crafts cabin
Originally started doing Night Owl week bc Noct is cute, then got really into integrating glowstick bracelets into bigger jewelry and also kicking ass at flashlight tag
Took one look at the boring twine used to hang staff name tags, said "nah", and made a bunch of multicolored finger woven bands for them
Can ALWAYS find somewhere to anchor her friendship bracelet. ALWAYS
Luna:
Assistant nurse (currently in medical school)
Loves to talk about native plants with medicinal benefits!
Very careful with local wildlife. Super fine about being shown frogs and bugs
Will correct your frog handling technique, Noctis we don't pick frogs up with our bare hands!
Rechecks the pool and boathouse first aid kits more than could possibly be necessary but nobody can tell which of the lifeguards she's visiting
Ravus:
Office staff
Has nothing to do with the kids until the inevitable surprise allergic reaction
Has all the back roads between camp and the hospital memorized, down to places to put speed traps. Can average 70mph with an uncovered mug of coffee sitting in the passenger seat and not spill a drop (this is a real guy I worked with)
During the yearly medical emergency, Luna just bangs the nurse's cabin door open and yells RAVUS at the top of her lungs and he's already in his car
Crowe:
Lifeguard
Unlike Noct, chooses her lifeguard uniforms based on what makes Luna go 👀
Once woke up Noct mid-nap to demand to know Regis's opinions on queer people. "Dad's bi. Leave me alone" and put a towel over his face
It wasn't even his towel it was Crowe's
Tank tops, short shorts, and flip flops IMMEDIATELY after send off
Loves creek walking
Activity block is outdoor survival
Libertus:
General counselor
Smuggled spices to cookout day until Iggy campaigned for a variety of sauces
Longstanding beef with the cook (Yamachang)
Mud walking KING. Spends half of each year praying for rainstorms so he can take kids mud walking
When he tried to hug Crowe while covered in mud she threw them both in the pool and they both got chewed out by maintenance
Technically his activity block is about Galahdian traditions, but since he takes every possible opportunity to run mud walking it almost never happens
Nyx:
Adventure director
AGGRESSIVELY cautious about belay safety, as is only right and proper
Makes adventure counselors go through belay safety training every. single. year without exception
Definitely is the guy who made up the "kiss the carabiner" tradition at the climbing station
"Look it sounds like a fun job but I spend a lot of time disinfecting sweaty climbing shoes"
Once made Ravus drive him to the hardware store to get a new ladder and rope rather than disappoint kids who wanted to zip line
His, Libertus, and Crowe's antics with the staff mail got packages banned for like two straight weeks, and they had to clean the sand out of the staff lounge
Can we talk about cat hybrid!qifrey a bit more please?
Aloof hybrid qifrey who always just so happen to be in the same room as you and gets upset when you smell like an other hybrid. While he knows humans don't eat mices he is lowkey offended when you throw them away–after all the effort it took him to haunt them for you!
And the idea of him trying to take care of you is so 🥺 tries to remember all he knows about humans and their needs... when you have really bad days where he can't get you out of bed he curls up behind you and starts purring to soothe you.
I hc he had bad experiences with humans in the past and at first he is wary of you but can't help getting attached in the end omg imagine qifrey doing the slow blink thing dhdhsh and if he has a tail imagine he wraps it around you to keep you close sjdhdj
sorry to all the abomegaverse lovers but actually this is the au that's been on my mind the last few days... ARGHHHH possessive khao manee cat hybrid!qifrey... i think he'd be really intelligent and his speech and mannerisms are startlingly human-like which comes as a surprise, because the spectrum for a hybrid is just so wide, but because he's blind in one eye and has a chronic illness that costs so much to maintain no one has taken him in :C so he has trust issues around humans :C but ueueueue if you're slow and patient with him he'll eventually climb into your bed on days you can't get out of it, and after a while you catch him doing slow blinks at you. when you question him about it he just mutters something like "silly humans" and slinks off without replying 😭
