#chel rambles

ok im farting this out right now because i've seen a couple of people questioning why i like and often draw the headless berdly motif and this is my personal take

Part I

☆ Noctis ☆ 

Typically the first to fall asleep. Boy can literally fall asleep anywhere at any given time, even in jeans, which nobody can quite comprehend. He’s prone to passing out in a manner of different places varying in noise level and movement, ranging from the Regalia to the busy marketplace of Lestallum. (Gladio once found him asleep on the toilet, though they was mutually agreed to never speak of it). However, as Prince and Chosen King, his companions are liable to leave him be, so long as he’s not in any imminent danger. That and it takes all four of them to wake his Highness up (the only one who has the patience to endure the process of waking him without resorting to drastic means is Ignis). 

☆ Ignis ☆ 

The third to turn in, Ignis has a rigorous routine he likes to stick to. When the Prince isn’t traipsing across the entirety of Eos at night with them in his wake, he’d partake in a nightly ritual of calculating their supplies, making note of what groceries and/or curatives he needs to stock up on, mending torn clothes…and once that’s done, he’d proceed to his nightly skincare routine, his acne prone skin likely to flare in the harsh conditions. As a man that takes his position very seriously, he has incrementally trained his body to function on little sleep, and is therefore always up before their alarms ring, can of Ebony in hand and breakfast already started.

☆ Prompto ☆ 

The second member of the group to head to bed. He likes to end the day on a positive note, something he’d learned to do during his mission to lose weight. So as he settles in to sleep, he’d run over a mental list of everything good that had happened that day. Unfortunately, the list keeps getting shorter…but he tries not to let it get him down. With a quick once over of the pictures he’d captured during the day (was that Gentiana again?) the photographer of the group would snuggle down into his sleeping bag and thank the Six he has such amazing friends. 

☆ Gladio ☆ 

i'd like to think that berdly wouldn't be an innate stand user, but instead gain his stand later down the line through the arrow

i imagine it being similar to how koichi becomes a stand user in part four, he gets shot with the stand arrow and was meant to die since he lacked enough potential, but through being healed by another character (probably ralsei or noelle) he survives and gains a powerless stand that slowly evolves into much stronger forms overtime as he develops as a character

berdly probably would have good stand potential though, but i feel like the idea of him originally not being worthy for one can reflect on how he seems to be irrelevant to the prophecy in the game, meant to be sidelined but yet inserts himself into the plot anyway