Hello! I wish you good luck with this blog! You're right in saying slot of the imagines are inactive. It upsets me. Anyway here is my ask! Could I get an imagine where the chocobros significant other is captured by Ardyn and they can't do a thing to stop it and all they can do is watch with Ardyn being his usual 'charming' self about the whole thing? Please and thank you and I cannot wait to see what you write!
Thank you so much for the kind welcome! I’ll do my best to stay as active as possible, so I hope you stick around, too! (ノ◕ヮ◕)ノ*:・゚✧
Noct is beside himself with worry- and anger, both at Ardyn and at himself for not being able to do anything. He’s meant to protect his kingdom and he can’t even protect the person he loves. But self loathing will come later, after he’s made sure that you’re safe.
He recognizes that Ardyn is doing it just to get at him, to upset him (of course it works) but it doesn’t matter that he knows. He would try to fight at first, but failing that, deviates between lashing out and being compliant, seeing as how neither seems to be working and he just wants you away from Ardyn and he’ll do what it takes.
“You’d better not hurt them,” Noct says.
“Now now,” Ardyn replies, “let’s not ruin the suspense. A little begging would not go unrewarded, though, Noctis.”
To your surprise, and Ardyn’s delight, Noctis kneels.
Prompto is unrestrained terror, big blue eyes staring at you in horror from start to finish. It doesn’t take long for the tears to start, which is what Ardyn’s after. Even before that, Prompto’s begging from the moment he sees this happen. There’s nothing he wouldn’t do to protect you, nothing.
Old insecurities flare up, though. What if he’s not capable enough? He’s always been the one out of place, barely able to do anything right in his eyes, and what if he isn’t able to protect you either? Gladio would be much better at it. Ignis probably wouldn’t have let this happen in the first place and Noct always took care of everyone else first.
“You cry so beautifully,” Ardyn tells him and although Prompto doesn’t react asides the continued litany of please, it makes your own blood boil.
Ignis has a moment of sheer terror, and you watch it wash across his face. It’s probably unnoticeable to anyone else, but you know. Then he immediately takes the compliant side, asking all the right questions: what Ardyn has done, what he wants, etc while remaining calm. His attention stays laser focused on Ardyn.
Then he offers himself over to Ardyn instead, and the man looks shocked at the suggestion as though he didn’t expect it. Ignis weighs the pros of his capture like he’s reading off a grocery list.
“I don’t care.” Ardyn interrupts. “If I want to break you, all I have to do is break them and then both of you will be irreparable together!”
Now Ignis shoots you a look of concern, and Ardyn only laughs.
Gladio fights tooth and nail from the beginning. Even if he can’t get to you, he’ll still try to fight his way there. Only if someone threatens you if he doesn’t stop, then he will, and he will glower the entire time. Keeping his cool, especially around you (or Iris, he will kick ass for her, too), isn’t an option. He’s seen his fair share of battles and he’d rather solve things with his fists than his words.
He doesn’t come off as non-threatening, which doesn’t help the cause. If it comes down to your safety, though, he will lay down his sword. He might even offer to take your place, too, if only (he says) so that Ardyn will have a fair fight.
“This is what you’re doing now, trying to ruin innocent lives?”
“We’re all innocent until someone does something bad. Besides, where’s the fun in being innocent, anyway?”
reactions after maintaining your safety:
Noctis: still on his knees as you rush over and throw your arms around him, he hugs you back and you can feel him shaking, when you say he doesn’t have to kneel for anyone he says he doesn’t mind if it’s for the people he loves, doesn’t say much more but just holds onto you like he had feared he might never get to again (which is exactly what he was thinking)
Prompto: still in tears, grabs onto you and doesn’t let go and you both cry into each other’s shoulders, he wants to make sure you’re okay but you just want to make sure he knows how grateful you are and make sure he’s okay too, he finds it silly but beams as you say he’s beautiful all the time too
Ignis: hands are shaking, hugs you tightly and the pulls back to go full on mother hen, wants to make sure you’re alright and everything but he’s talking so fast you can barely understand him (it’s the nerves, normally you’d think it cute) and you have to silence his worry with a peck to the lips
Gladio: tries to act annoyed for all of three seconds but then pulls you in and you’re nearly dwarfed by his body, dwarfed and protected, and he can’t promise that it’ll never happen again but he’s going to teach you how to fight in the event that it does because no one is going to hurt you