#gladnyx

[absolutelynoct]

I’m really excited to be starting this fic as I have planned it for a while. It doesn’t have all of the same usual pairs I go for, so I hope I’m able to tell the story well.

Read The Prince and The Paupers on Ao3 Here: https://archiveofourown.org/works/28177059/chapters/69044577

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Kinktober19 prompt ‘mirror’ so we went with mirrored bondage. I was really liking this one, so I may finish it sometime now that it’s 2020 lololol I was also like, low-key thinking of an old gladnyxnoct fic by @jazzraft I had read a loooong while ago.

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[raidelle]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Title: Check Out

Fandom: FFXV

Rating: M

Pairing: Gladnyx

Warnings: None

Summary: Nyx and Gladio are competitive bastards trying to one-up each other on social media. For a good cause.

Notes: Written for the lovely @aliatori

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"OH MY GODS, GLADDY! LOOK AT THIS!"

Iris bursts into Gladio's room and practically shoves her phone into his face. The brightness of the screen, a sharp contrast to the pages of his new book, makes him reel and Gladio promptly bumps his head on the headboard.

"Wow, Mooglet. Rude," Gladio mutters. He swats Iris's hand away, puts a pillow behind his head, and shifts into a more comfortable position in the center of his bed to resume reading.

"Look. At. This!” Iris insists. She climbs up Gladio's bed and bounces up and down on her knees as she waves her phone under his nose.

Gladio groans and swats at Iris again. "If it's not an emergency or something bad involving Noct, Mooglet, it can wait." He's been looking forward to reading this latest addition to his favorite author's adventure-fantasy-romance series, and not even his sister's sometimes-annoying persistence will make him put it down tonight.

"Okay, fine," Iris concedes with a huff. She flops onto her back by Gladio's feet and starts fiddling with her phone. "It's not either of those things. It's just your boyfriend one-upping you on Eosgram for that Insomnian Public Library 'Read With Me’ social media --"

"Son of a --" Gladio puts down his book and grabs his phone off the side table.

Iris rolls over onto her stomach, her legs up and swinging in the air merrily. "Oh look, he posted it on Tweetbook, too! And it's trending!"

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[bladesandstars]

100 Ways Challenge - Prompt Fill #24

This might have been influenced by the fact that Ninja Warrior is on at the gym when I go. These two would be great at it though, wouldn’t they?

Prompt: 24. “Just because.”

Fandom: FFXV

Pairing: Gladnyx (Gladio/Nyx)

For: @aliatori​

Rating: G

No Warnings Apply

Team WarpFlight

“Welcome back to the fifth annual edition of Insomnia’s Ninja Warrior!”

The crowd cheers, and Nyx and Gladio bounce on their toes, excited for the start of the race. Nyx does a showy, if sloppy, head-over-heels flip, and the crowd roars more. Gladio rips off his shirt (he’d been planning on doing it anyway, but it’s also a good chance to one-up his opponent) and flexes.

Nyx rolls steel-blue eyes toward him in that look, and Gladio gives him a shit-eating grin in response. Sure, they’re competitors, but they’re also something more, and that’s adding a little bit of a sexy edge to the day that Gladio finds himself fully enjoying.

They hop, adrenaline rushing, while the announcer plays the cheesy video of them training together. Sure, it had been a gimmick to get themselves onto the show - the t-shirts, the silly nicknames of Warp and Flight (the latter for Gladio’s giant eagle tattoo, of course) -  but it had seemed to work. The producers had also been excited about playing on Gladio’s role as someone close to the royal family, but he’d put the lid on that quickly, with backup from Clarus. The production team had chosen, instead, to focus on them training together, and Gladio watches a guffaw burst out of Nyx as he looks up to see a series of slickly-captured bloopers of the two of them spool itself out for maximum viewer amusement.

They watch themselves bigger than life on the large screen, giving each other burly handclasps and spotting each other and shouting in encouragement, and Gladio catches Nyx’s eye again. They hadn’t included any footage of the two of them making out or anything, but at least Gladio thinks it’s pretty clear that they’re something more than rivals and training partners. Who knows, he shrugs, people see what they want to see.

The video ends, and Iris starts screaming her head off from the sidelines. She’s decked out in a red Flight shirt, as are Clarus, Noct, Prom, and Ignis, and then the camera shows Libertus, Pelna, and Crowe, all wearing blue Warp shirts and hollering in excitement. Regis and Luna had staunchly refused to pick a side, but both are absolutely watching and grinning from the royal box above the bleachers. (Ravus, too, had insisted he didn’t care, but as the camera pans Gladio catches sight of the flash of a red Flight t-shirt under his jacket, and he laughs.).

Everyone’s playing it up for the cameras, but also the energy is infectious. This is the first head-to-head race they’ve had in this competition, and it’s exciting. Gladio and Nyx had scored nearly the same times on the qualifying courses, each trading narrow victories of fractions of seconds.

The countdown begins, and Nyx, not to be outdone, throws his shirt to the side. Gladio cackles again at the whoop from the crowd, and they take off at top speed as the buzzer goes off.

Not quite stride for stride but at even speed - Gladio does have several inches of leg length on Nyx, but he’s notoriously fast and scrambly - they launch themselves toward the first obstacle.  More like a fun zipline than a challenge, both sail through, unconcerned, and land safely on the mat beyond. Without hesitating, they both barrel forward to the series of spinning blocks. Nyx leaps across, darting from one to another without giving it a chance to spin and throw him into the water. He’s deft enough that it looks like magic, but that would be against the rules.

Gladio, on the other hand, nails the obstacle with brute force, gathering enough running speed to launch himself across the last three entirely - less risk that way.  He pauses before the next obstacle, and looks up at it.

The Jumping Spider. Nyx takes no prep time, and bounces off the trampoline and up instantly, grabbing hold with feet and hands like he does this all day. Gladio takes a breath and then up, squashing his massive bulk into a shape that can move him through.

It’s surprisingly easy once he’s in there though, and his chest and core strength launch him through faster than he thought, shaving a little off the tiny advantage Nyx had scored through his lack of hesitation.

They fling themselves over to a grip-strength obstacle, and Nyx lets out a wild laugh. Gladio enjoys this, sure, but Nyx loves it - the adoration from the crowd and the sheer physical, stops-pulled-out exertion are like drugs to him. Gladio’s responsive laugh is more doting, and he leaps onto the obstacle.

Grip strength is one of Gladio’s things - he hasn’t been swinging a sword since he was a kid for nothing. He can hang here all day, and so can Nyx. But the obstacle lurches and rocks, and uses Gladio’s own mass against him, as he’s got to hold on against the backlash of his own bodyweight swinging.

He’s also tall, and this obstacle dangles dangerously close to the water. Between getting slowed down by the extra pressure of hanging on and the need to curl himself up, Gladio’s losing even more time.

Nyx is crawling across the underside of the rope net at the end of the obstacle - a fast if untraditional method, and it gives Gladio an excellent view of his arms, chest, and abs flexing before Gladio launches himself up onto the platform for the last obstacle. Gladio bounces into and out of the net like a normal person instead of scrambling like a spider, and it takes him a moment to get unstuck but seems much less complicated.

Nyx hasn’t planned on this being a head-to-head race, and his own net lurches wildly as Gladio’s bounces. He very nearly loses it, and his ass dangles dangerously close to the disqualifying pool of water beneath. Gladio’s up and out and wiping his hands on his pants in anticipation of grabbing the edge of that giant sheer wall they’ve got to climb.

Predictably, Nyx launches himself up the wall a nanosecond faster than Gladio. They’re close enough to touch, and Nyx does. Rather than slam down his button, he reaches down and hauls Gladio up, and they finish together. A tie.

They’re gasping for breath, chests heaving, and the crowd is losing its collective shit.

“Why did you do that?” Gladio turns toward Nyx as he heaves their joined hands into the sky.

He gets one of those smiles in return. Not the crowd-smile, not the look-how-charming-I-am-smile. Not even the that-was-funny-smile. Nope, this one is special, and Gladio still remembers the first night he saw it, and the first time he knew this thing they had together was different.

“Just because.”

It is a tie, officially. Even though Nyx held back a little, they’re still counting it. The announcer is going on about it while confetti rains down, and Gladio grins. This way, the show will have to donate to both the Royal Animal Rescue and the Phoenix Down Medical Fund. But mostly, Gladio thinks, Nyx had wanted to do this together, and that was pretty great too.

He grabs a scruffy chin in big sweaty hands shaking with effort and adrenaline, and kisses Nyx long and deep, right there in front of Insomnia and the TV cameras and everyone. Just in case they didn’t get the subtext from the video.

Gladio pulls back and beams at him, and Nyx winds a hand up behind Gladio’s neck and kisses him again. Is that Regis hollering? People seem to be pretty okay with Team WarpFlight, and Gladio’s pretty happy about it, too.

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[aliatori]

alternate title: what my friends have to put up with on the daily

[mushydesserts]

hey there! : D even though they are not very original, i would love to share some gladio/nyx thoughts with you! to be honest, i was distracted the whole day, because i couldn’t stop thinking about them… i guess what first made me like them is their dynamic. i have a thing for pairings in which both have very strong personalities which lead them to clash from time to time, but who hold a profound respect for each other, nonetheless.

“…i imagine them to sometimes cross paths during training and despite his admiration for the glaive, gladio gets annoyed with his behavior, because why does he have to be such a show off and why can’t he take things more seriously? but truth is, gladio slowly finds himself intrigued, and more often than not, his eyes involuntarily follow nyx as the other warps his way through training…”

“i also like to think that they often spend their evenings after practice at the galahdian district, eating skewers and drinking beer, sometimes with other glaives, sometimes just the two of them, and naturally ending up at nyx’s apartment”

uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh YES??????????????

YES lemme ju

GLADIO AND NYX IDEAS.

- Nyx is a loose cannon who actually mostly follows the rules, and Gladio is a stickler for the rules who is also secretly a daredevil. Both of them almost get killed every other hunt or field mission, and then get yelled at by their superiors. Neither defends the other.

- Gladio gets nauseous from warping and kind of resents that Nyx can do it so easily.

- Gladio and Nyx may or may not have some shared heritage, though Gladio has zero idea about what Galahd is like because that would’ve been his mom’s side of the family. He only knows that he remembers some of the bedtime stories and that he likes the food.

- Whenever Gladio needs to wait for Nyx outside his place or the locker room, he crosses his arms and leans against the wall and glares at everyone who goes by. Libertus makes fun of Nyx because it’s like he’s got a guard-puppy.

- Gladio and Nyx argue vociferously about sports and have different favorite teams, but since each of them has a different favorite sport, they will watch whatever it is in the bar that night and sympathy-cheer for whatever team the other one is rooting for. They will then laugh when that team loses.

- Crowe is one of Iris’s trainers and Gladio thinks Crowe is going to train Iris to kill him one day.

- nyx does not disagree 

- The haircut is a military thing. Nyx maintains his, but Gladio just lets his grow out and gets it cut again whenever he needs to be at some sort of official event. The braids are a Galahdian thing though, and Gladio was curious about them, so Nyx showed him how to do them, and Gladio showed Iris, and Iris will one day wear hers like that, partially in remembrance, during the Dark.

- Gladio is younger than Nyx but has been training for longer, which kind of disturbs Nyx. Nyx is low-key protective of Gladio because of it.

- Gladio really listens to Nyx’s stories about Galahd, and sometimes he expresses that he wishes he’d grown up out there instead of crammed up in the city. Not many people from the Crown City are like that, so Nyx likes him.

- Nyx kind of dislikes Clarus because he thinks Clarus wasn’t there for Gladio enough when he and Iris were kids.

- Gladio’s kind of conflicted about Regis hiring the Glaives. He thinks it’s kind of a shitty thing to do, considering what the Glaives have been through, but Gladio is also bound to be loyal to the King and to agree with the King’s decisions without question, so he’s just vaguely uncomfortable about it.

- They didn’t have shopping malls in Galahd. Nyx is still kind of awed and intimidated by them, and this amuses Gladio, who invites him along when he goes on shopping trips with Iris. 50% of the useless shit Nyx has is stuff Iris has convinced him to buy.

- Sparring. 

[ckyking]

Hi there, wanted to ask if you could write more about the Gladio/noct/nyx OT3? Maybe something fluffy or just something on how they interact more with each other, especially nyx and gladio? Are they totally okay with sharing noctis? or are there maybe little games or bets on who is going to get some this night? xD Or how did they feel about their first threesome? krkr

Heya! Oh, believe me, I will~ There are multiple AUs in the works with their names written across it.As for the sharing part, there is always an element of competiveness between them that Noct likes to call their “alpha male bullshit”, which can range from ‘playful’ to “trying to maim the other’ depending on the AU.In a game of cat and mouse, my Man from UNCLE!AU, Gladio and Noctis happened first, because Nyx works for Niflheim and our dear prince trusts him even less than he does the Lucian operative (even if he would be interested otherwise). Except Nyx, the suave bastard, likes pretty things, and Noct definitely fits in that category; Gladio has his own charms even if they’re at each other’s throats a lot. It’s definitely ‘trying to maim the other’ category, at least in the beginning, and it mellows out as time goes on because Noct is a determined little fucker and will bash heads together if necessary until they learn to play nice.In the stars are calling our names, definitely playful. Nyx and Gladio are friends and on-and-off fuckbuddies, and their relationship is all snark and stupid bets. They sometimes do it because they can’t help themselves, and Noct will roll his eyes knowing full-well that it will end up with the three of them in bed together anyway. Crowe and Pelna had a hand in that relationship finally happening because they are Noctis’ Bros, capital B, and she had enough of them not doing anything about the frankly obvious thing developping between them.All in all, a lot of fun times ahead! I hope this answered some of your questions ;D

[absolutelynoct]

The Prince & The Paupers, Chapter 2: Changes is now available on Ao3 to read!

(I chose this image for the graphic cause I kind of imagine Cor’s apartment to be styled a bit like this.)

Read it here on Ao3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/28177059/chapters/69130185