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I have always and will always defend Gladio regarding that train scene.

We must consider some important factors:

1. Repressed feelings/Coping Mechanisms (main reason to me)

2. His duty/role in the story.

3. Lack of understanding/Stereotypes.

Honestly, I don’t think the three points can be described as separated because they all have to merge in one, so here is what I see and think about Gladio, his psyche, and the train scene.

Gladio is a man that was raised not only as a soldier, but under the concept of having to be the best soldier of the world, because it’s expected from him to be this unmovable wall, this unhumanly, impossibly strong and un-defeatable thing. I don’t know if you people know how soldiers are trained, but they’re basically trained to be cold-minded, to not lose the head, and to not let emotions overtake, so they can think 100% with the brain and 0% with the heart. 

Gladio was not only trained this way, he was raised this way; we see him laugh and be playful, but that’s outside of duty. Within it, it’s always the head cool and never panicking (except for that bit in Episode Ignis when he “freaked out” because Ignis was not answering through the com).

We see it in that small freak out, I’ll talk about it later.

All in all, Gladio’s into this philosophy of “duty now, feelings later”. We can take as long as we want in-game to do stuff, but I think that canon story is all one event after the other, no breaks in between (only the necessary stops, etc.). Knowing this, I have the idea that Gladio never gave himself a chance to mourn.

We see Noctis mourn and feel bad onscreen shortly after Insomnia’s Fall and Regis’ death, but not Gladio, or any of the guys; however, Prompto does have his breakdown in his episode, as does Ignis (of sorts), but not Gladio; his episode is not self discovery and emotions, he was looking for a way to become strong for Noctis; for his duty.  Always his duty, always his duty, Gladio’s centered and focused 100% in his duty through the game because he has to.

He says it himself during Titan’s trail; “when you can’t focus, I do it for you”. It doesn’t mean he’s being selfish and a cocky idiot; he’s saying that it’s his duty to focus when Noctis can’t, not something he masters, but something he’s forced to attend to.

So all the time it’s “Focus, focus, focus”, not a moment for emotions.

Let’s see, from Gladio’s perspective, all the shocking events that anyone would mourn but he didn’t:

Insomnia’s Fall. His father’s death. His king’s death. The loss of his homeland. The stress of not knowing Iris’ state (for a few days). Jared’s loss, which has to be particularly and majorly heavy for Gladio, as Jared was the Amicitia butler, and he most probably knew Gladio ever since Gladio was born, let’s say a second father or even a grandfather figure. Altissia in chaos. Lunafreya’s death.

And what I think finished affecting him, Ignis’ injury.

I don’t mean this as “omg they love each other” (which they do, just in a brotherly way). This has two sides, 1. the feelings for Ignis and 2. the personal side.

On a side, of course it would affect him to find his friend heavily injured, almost in agony, and then see him lose sight. It mustn’t be easy for anyone, to watch a dear one go through such tragedy. There’s a chart that shows the kind of relationships between the four bros individually, and Gladio’s with Ignis’ was something the sorts of “The person that understands the situation as I do”; they understand each other, and the dynamic and interaction feels like they’re best friends the way Noctis and Prompto are, if just not as bouncy and hyperactive and funny, rather serious and quieter. 

Watching and living through a dear friend’s, a dear brother’s tragedy, it must be terrific. Because death can’t be helped, but to watch someone lose sight? And someone so dear to him.

And then the “selfish” side; imagine being tasked since you’re born with the only single one duty of protecting, saving and aiding the life of someone else, and watch someone else do it for you. Imagine being tasked with the only one duty of making sacrifices for one person, and watch someone dear to him do it in your place, right after you thought you were strong enough to do it yourself.

I don’t mean Gladio was angered that Ignis made bigger sacrifices, on the opposite; I think it must have destroyed Gladio.

“It was supposed to be me, not you”  not a canon phrase, but one that I think must have gone through Gladio’s head a million times. He was supposed to die for Noctis, not Lunafreya. He was supposed to put the ring on, not Ignis. He was supposed to have been injured and face the Chancellor, not Ignis. He was supposed to be the one losing sight, not Ignis, not Ignis, never Ignis. 

Because Gladio was raised with that idea, that he’s living just to keep Noctis safe and to go through all the hells and heavens and earths to keep him safe. So to acknowledge that he almost let Noctis die, and he didn’t because a dear friend made a huge sacrifice for him, and watch both of them at your feet, while you’re entirely unharmed?

Gladio must have been dealing with huge guilt, an enormous guilt, guilt in measures we cannot comprehend. 

So we add all the previous events to the massive guilt and the struggle of watching a dear friend going through his own tragedy.

And it doesn’t take a genius to know sooner or later he had to explode.

I like to compare our emotions or “soul” to a glass of water, and each problem or tragedy etc. is a drop (or many drops, depending on the situation). Gladio’s trained to keep the water inside, calm and cool, where everyone else drops the water at times before it’s full. So Gladio naturally, whether consciously or not, started keeping all inside, a drop for each event, and half a drop for each that that he didn’t give proper care to the glass.

Until his glass was full to the top. Full to the very top, unable to take a single drop of water more.

So it’s as soon as something else happens, as soon as the tiniest of events happens, that the glass spills the content. Because even if it was a tiny, stupid, unimportant drop of water, it was the last drop of water, the only one necessary to spill the entire glass’ content. 

And that’s what happens to Gladio. He has his glass full for major events, and it’s a minor one that drops it.

Its name? Noctis not putting the ring on.

Let’s retake it; Gladio has been repressing an enormous quantity of negative emotions within himself for the sake of his duty, until he became full. 

So it’s not that the fact that Noctis hadn’t put the ring on what makes Gladio so angry; it’s not because of one thing, it’s because of a thousand things that were triggered by only one. Gladio talking about the ring is only the tip of the iceberg; the real thing is all under the water and out of everyone’s sights, at least out of the sight of the people that are not comprehensive or understanding enough to go further the things that are said and cannot read the subtext.

Noctis not putting the ring on was not an excuse, but it also wasn’t the only motif or reason for him to explode the way he did; it’s everything he had been carrying, hiding behind the mask of only one fact. 

And here’s where enters the part of stereotypes.

We are so used to have a stereotype for each emotion that we think they’re all the same and we all react the same. We immediately link emotions to other words that we can’t get out of the zone of stereotype and into the zone of understanding and we think we all react and feel the same. We hear “sadness” and we think we all cry. We hear joy and we all think we all smile or laugh. We hear anger and we all think we yell. We hear fear and we all think we shake.

And honestly that’s not that; those are common factors that are shared among the great majority of people, but we don’t stop to understand that it’s always on different levels, different ways, and sometimes it’s not even that. There’s people that laugh when they’re scared, people who go mute and can just walk around when they’re joyful, the world is so big and vast and humankind is so unique and different and special and we’re all so different that not two people among the billions of them will ever feel the same way.

My happiness will never feel the same than yours, nor my sadness, nor my anger, and any other emotion. We can comprehend each other’s emotions but we can’t truly understand them because they’re a personal experience and only we know how we experiment them and how we feel them and how we demonstrate them.

So everyone sees Gladio raging out and screaming, frowning and shoving faces, that what we think immediately is “He’s angry”. And yes, yes, he’s fucking angry, but an emotion can be a way to demonstrate another emotion. So yes, Gladio’s angry, but we never stop to think that his anger is only the way to express other things.

I learned in a course of psychology during high school that anger is only the way to hide sadness. I’m angry at you because you were late, and it made me angry because it hurt me to feel you don’t care, which makes me sad. I’m angry at the world’s homophobia, and I’m angry because I can’t believe this much hatred exists, and it makes me sad. I’m angry at my mom for not coming to my birthday party, and I’m angry about it because I wanted her to be here and it hurt that she didn’t come (these are all merely examples). 

Yes, I’m angry that you’re not putting that ring on, and it makes me angry because you’re not filling your duty when others have made huge sacrifices so you do, and honestly it hurts to see the position you’re in, the position I’m in, the position he’s in, and I feel like I’m failing you, so please do your duty because I’ve been standing a thousand hells this far for you and I can’t stand to see I couldn’t do it right and have failed you.

Things change, hm?

I think Gladio feels like he failed Noctis because Noctis is not acting as he should be doing it, and instead of feeling it’s all on Noctis, Gladio, who  was tasked with making Noctis succeed, sees him fail and doesn’t see him fail but sees himself fail. Because if Noctis failed it’s only because Gladio failed (this thought, in his head).

So we add all that we know, Insomnia, Regis, Clarus, Jared, Iris, Ignis, Lunafreya, his own failure, all into one, and then one tiny fact is added, of course there’s only so much one person can take. 

Back to the emotions and stereotypes, I meant to say that we all think of the word “sad” and we think everyone cries, but honestly everyone has their own way of showing sadness. There’s some that hide it, some that stay quiet, some that furiously cry, some that silently cry, some that decide to vent it into punching things, etc. 

Gladio’s way of expressing sadness may as well be screaming and hiding behind anger. Because that’s how he was taught to react; no time to cry, just punch things and yell. So, considering he grew up into the philosophy of a cool, dead head, and making the terribly mixture of it with a huge, enormous repressing of emotions, he becomes conflicted, he wants to cry but his brain has no idea how to do that, and what is the only other door that’s open? Anger. So all that Gladio has to cry, he shows it through anger instead. Because that’s his sadness, different from everyone else’s, because I insist none of us show or feel the emotions the same way.

Noctis not putting the ring on probably did upset him, yes, and it annoyed him, but it was more the trigger and excuse than the entire view of his rage. Gladio’s not abusive or exaggerating or an idiot for screaming at Noctis for something that may seem so trivial; what he talks about is only the trigger, the tip of the iceberg. The real thing hides underneath and behind.

Usually, when we have a trigger of these sorts, we end up going back to the real reason even if just indirectly.

It happens a lot to me with my mom. She’s a bit explosive as well, and I’m super understanding about this issue of people’s emotions and not digging into stereotypes, and I tend to listen very well, so I’m usually her target when she wants to rant about something. And one day you can see her getting upset at me for something like not washing a fork, and three minutes into her rage, she’s talking about why her brothers don’t support or help her when she needs it. 

It has nothing to do with the fork. If I wasn’t as understanding as I am, I’d think all the outrage was towards me, against me, because of the fork. But I know the fork was only her trigger, and the real reason goes deeper and into other things. 

And what does Gladio say?

He starts talking about the ring, but then, a bit out of place without being too out of place “Ignis took one for you too, and for what!?”

Hm? *wiggles eyebrows*

And you know why my mom usually rages at me (without insulting or harming me in any way)? Because she knows I understand, I never yell back, and because she trusts me. 

It’s easy for emotions to break free without your consent in front of people you trust. 

So Gladio’s outrage doesn’t only mean he was sad, frustrated and scared, it can also speak about his trust into Noctis. Honestly, if he wouldn’t believe in him, he wouldn’t have given a damn about the ring. But he wants Noctis to grow as a mature king and fill his role and be responsible and he knows he can do it, so that Noctis is not doing it angers him because he knows he can, and it just triggered him.

Besides, Gladio grows with this idea that he has to be some sort of mentor and guide for Noctis, his protector, the brotherly figure that should be wise and that will “focus when Noctis can’t”. So the adviser having the moral down in the dumps, and Prompto having no official duty, Gladio must feel, consciously or not, that it’s on his hands to take the reins and do something, and he wants to put Noctis in his place and be the main column to keep things up.

But Gladio, by this point, is so frustrated himself. Imagine trying to lift everyone’s spirits when honestly you don’t want to or can’t. Of course it turns into frustration, because he knows what’s needed but he doesn’t have it, but no one else has it, so he tries to force himself to it, and only ends up more angered and frustrated, and his attempt to lecture Noctis turns into an argument.

And just a friendly reminder: GLADIO IS ONLY 23 YEARS OLD. Nobody can expect him to be the wisest or anything. They’re all stupidly young, so young and put into situations that would freak anyone of any age out, especially someone their age, because they’re past the “I don’t understand, so I face it fearlessly” stage and the “I understand fully and have experience enough to face it” stage,t hey’re right in the middle, where they understand perfectly the risks and the problems, but don’t know how to deal with them.

Gladio’s 23. He’s young, he’s hot-headed at times, of course, of course. It happens. People in the early twenties still don’t know where and how to go, we’re not wise or mature enough yet as much as we think we are, and situations as hard and heavy as the guys face, of course it’ll throw them off-guard and out their knowledge and reach. 

To be honest, I think that to be so young, he did excepcionally good, incredibly excellent, facing everything. 

Having one breakdown is just natural and logical, and it doesn’t take any credit from him. It was fair; he had gone through the journey wise and strong, much wiser and stronger than anyone should ask from someone his age. So a breakdown was very well deserved. 

Thing is people don’t understand that “breakdown” is not only crying, it can also be anger, and it won’t stop being a breakdown. Different demonstrations, same thing. 

And even though I’m sure I’m forgetting something because I always post stuff forgetting about the best damn arguments or parts, this is what I think of Gladio’s outrage in the train, why I understand and support and love it, and why I think it’s natural and very well needed. 

This has an awfully long tie in my inbox. Came in around November, I’m calculating. I apologize, and I also thank you greatly for your patience! I hope you’re still around ;w;

This entry came in when I shared some posts about Omega!Gladio that @gladioflowerchild posted. It’s from them that I first even thought about the possibility of Gladio being an Omega in an ABO verse. Check their posts! Tags Omega!Gladio, of course ヽ(・ω・)ﾉ I’m pretty sure many of what I list down below have already been pointed in their posts, because they basically summed it up pretty well, but I’ll write my own list, see what pops up.

Also, do note I’m not very well versed into ABO verse (didn’t even know it existed until I found this fandom), so I may be missing so many possibilities and things to imagine.

This is A/B/O dynamics, so if you don’t like, please do not read.

Adding a Keep Reading at some point.

Omega!Gladio headcanons:

He’s the ‘typical’ “Omega that everyone mistakes for an Alpha”.

EXCEPT not at all.

This happens with most people…except Clarus always knew Gladio was an Omega.

Toddler Gladio was already making his nests, partly imitating Mama (his omega figure, instead of imitating papa, his alpha figure) and partly because he just wanted to.

Toddler Gladio could spend an hour arranging his plushies and toys and blankets in his crib or in his play mats until it was perfect.

He would usually bring Clarus to show him and he would look for his approval and praise.

Toddler Gladio, when alone, also played to be a parent.

With other children he played tag and hide and seek and normal things, but when he was given the chance with other kids or when he was alone, he could cradle a teddy bear and lullaby it to sleep, would take care of his moogles, play dad with his plushies.

A very typical omega behavior; his omega-parent instincts showing through what he likes to play.

Even when playing with other kids, if one fell or got injured, Gladio was always first to go look after them and treated them like a good Omega parent.

So, at least for Clarus, it was always pretty clear that little-not-so-little Gladio would be Omega.

Did Clarus have any troubles with that? Nah. He adores his son whatever dynamic.

Hahahahahahahahahahhahahahahha!!!

By the name of The Most Sacred and Most Illuminated Moon Prince Coonie the Adorable and Magnificent, I declare this as canon. Square Enix can say nothing about it or oppose, it’s the Garbage’s Prince’s word and it’s official and I oppose to any opposition to making this canon.

I have always pictured that mostly during youth but this goes on for longer, Regis is an hyperactive little mess that comes and goes everywhere because he’s, as you state, a small child all of his life, and he’s curious here and curious there and excited about this and about that and can we please go there omg pls can we go there.

It has never helped that Regis always had some sort of authority over others, that did but grow with the years. So Regis wants to go somewhere, he will damn go there, whether you want it or not, because he can and he wants and he can’t resist because “did you see that, omg, I want to touch”.

I am hopelessly, utterly, desperately in love with the idea that Regis is a children man, as in, he’s desperately in love with babies and toddlers and he wants to carry every single one that he sees and make funny faces at all of them and “omg so adorable can I hug this child, ma’am? So chubby and adorbs, you so cute hhfgdngdjndfg”. He kind of has the face of that sort of man, absolutely devoted to kids in a Papa way that just turns him into an absolute mess.( ´ ▽ ` ).♡

There’s King Regis, getting distracted mid-speech on TV because “HELLO THERE BABY BOY HIIIII :3″. There’s prince Regis visiting one of the towns during the war 30 years ago, talking serious matters when “OMG IS THAT YOUR KID, CAN I HUG HER? :3″. There’s Shield Clarus, Crownsguard Cor, old friend Cid and companion Weskham, desperately and frantically running up and down and side to side across all of Altissia because “WE LOST THE PRINCE, WHERE IS THE PRINCE, WHAT IF HE WAS KIDNAPPED, REGIS WHERE TF ARE YOU”. And, of course, there’s prince Regis, sat in the middle of a public square, letting all the kids paint his face and put flowers on his hair while he makes all of them laugh.

This man made of adorableness.

And then, of course, there’s Regis only getting worse after Noctis is born, because GODS, HE’S OBSESSED WITH HIS SON, he has always adored children and babies AND THIS ONE IS HIS OWN HNFDNNGFDGNF, so his Papa mode has grown A KAZILLION TIMES.

So this has his Papa alert and senses and mode activated and super strong all the time. It’s simply natural that he beelines towards every baby and kid he sees, THE MAN CAN’T RESIST IT, IT’S IN HIS NATURE, HE WANTS TO SQUEEZE THOSE ROUND FACES AND HEAR THOSE BABY LAUGHS PLS.

No damn wonder Clarus lost his hair rather than shaved it off! 

Omg, I just thought both cases woud be hilarious. On a side, it’s hilarious that Clarus loses his hair out of stress from having to chase Regis everywhere all the time since their youth and it only gets worse the older they get, and it’s hilarious to think Clarus decided to cut his hair himself because he tends to pull from it every time Regis drives him mad in stress and what is the point of hair if he’s pulling from it all the time, dammit.

Ahahahahhaha!

Regis, that adorable adult toddler, I love him.

Poor Clarus, indeed, though! He had to accompany Regis to the war in their youth, stressing to protect him in the battlefield but also stressing having to chase him around because THIS PRINCE CAN’T UNDERSTAND THE MEANING OF “STOP”, and he’s warping everywhere he sees and running places and climbing things and Regis can yoU PLEASE NOT DO THAT YOU’RE RISKING YOUR LIFE SENSELESSLY DO YOU NOT HAVE COMMON SENSE, but Regis is just SO EXCITED AND CURIOUS.

And we have to add to it that Clarus also has to chase him and find him whenever the young prince is hopping from place to place because “GASPS there’s a baby there!”, “Ohmygod Clarus look it’S A BABY THERE”, “CLARUS IT’S A KINDERGARTEN FIELD TRIP THER-” <— Regis is not asking him to go. Regis is just pointing it out before/at the same time he’s wraping or running off towards there. 

And then it only continues for a whole decade, until Regis has his own son.

And then it only gets twice the worse having to chase this king around.

He’s late to meetings, interruptnig his speeches, running outside the Citadel without guards, secretly inviting all the kindergartens to the Citadel for “recreative field trips” without telling anyone else, carrying with some random baby (when he’s not bringing his) during meeting Councils and your Majesty where did you get that child and whose is it omg you can’t just steal babies (don’t worry, he’s not stealing them lmao).

And Clarus is behind there, chasing him, running after him, trying for Regis to not accidentally end up dead because he’s warping from too high up or running straight into the streets with not a single guard because HAVE YOU SEEN THIS MAN RUN TO CATCH UP WITH A TODDLER OMG IT’S IMPOSSIBLE TO CATCH UP WITH HIM.

Imagine Regis in like the tenth floor pacing around being nagged by Clarus because of putting his kingly duties off at times and being this running careless mess.

“-I’m telling you all this jsut because I care about you, Regis. You can get mad at me if you want. But all I’m saying is that if you want to say hello to a toddler, you can’t just run into the streets like that. I know you can look after yourself, but we’re in the middle of a war, Niflheim is after you, not the kingdom, because they know they’ll have the kingdom if they can have you, and you just run into the streets like that, so careless? Regis, I don’t want anything to happen to you, both as a Lucian and as your friend. It’s personal to me. And I’m-…you better be listening to me, Regis Lucis Cae-”

Clarus just turned around to see why Regis is so quiet.

All that he finds is the blue silhouette of the king who just warped off the window of the tenth floor to the damn outside of the Citadel grounds and is currently running after a man that’s walking with five toddlers.

This is the moment Clarus gestures to grab his hair and pull from it out of stress and exasperation and panic and asdjkjddlflasdjhgs.

So good he lost all of it by this point, honestly, he’d just harm himself from all that pulling.

(PS: now Clarus has to run ten floors down because he can’t warp like Regis, ahahahhaa)

I LOVE WHAT YOU SHARE WITH ME HERE, ANON.

HAHAHHAHSAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!

The best part about this is that it’s not only a child leash, it’s a BACKPACK LEASH ｡ﾟ(TヮT)ﾟ｡

I have the visuals of either young or older Regis with a moogle backpack-toddler-leash and I don’t know why it’s so hilarious, ahahahhaha!

Imagine Clarus imagines to do that, but just to embarrass the king as a way of punishment to see if he finally understands. “NO MORE RUNNING AROUND LIKE THAT, YOU’RE LIKE A TODDLER, REGIS, YOU WANT TO BE A TODDLER? I’LL TREAT YOU LIKE A TODDLER >:(”, so Clarus thinks of forcing the backpack leash on him. ｡ﾟ(TヮT)ﾟ｡

Is this stopping Regis from his hyperactive runs around the Citadel?

Nah, man. He’s just gonna warp away.

Clarus sighs; nope. Not gonna work, so not worth trying. Plus, that’s the king so it must be kind of forbidden or something.

Clarus will just walk now every time Regis runs away. He’s too old for this shit. And Regis will get tired at some point, right?

Ahahahahah!!!! Aaaaaaaaaawwwww!!!!♡

This is one of the cutest things because it’d absolutely be canon! Hahaha!!

Gladio, you adorable dork. 

I imagine Gladio just so immersed in his food, all his passion and attention put there, and he just doesn’t get the point, he just gives a fleeting thought to what Ignis is trying to tell him. Like, he’s so focused in what he’s eating and he’s enjoying it so much he doesn’t think straight, he’s only “OM NOM NOM THIS IS SO GOOD” in his head, and doesn’t stop to think about things twice, hahaha.

You know what the best part of this is? Well, I was going to say something but then I realized basically everything is the best part but okay listen hnfnngdgndfg

On Gladio’s behalf the best part is that he’d be adorably and naively proud of himself, ahahahah!!

Like he’s all dirty on the face and his lips are a mess and he’s got that stain on his cheek and everything, but he has no idea, and after he kisses Ignis, he sees Ignis just stare at him, place a hand to where Gladio kissed him, stare at him with so much warmth and sweetness and so much love, and he just leans close to rest his head on Gladio’s shoulder and hug his arm (if he’s sat at his side), or he rests his chin on a hand and he keeps staring at Gladio like it’s the first time Ignis falls in love with him (because he falls in love with him multiple times per day, you cannot tell me otherwise), so Gladio is like

Ahahaha

He’s like…so PROUD, so darn freaking proud of himself. He continues eating and he’s even happierthan before, thinking “Astrals, Iggy is so cute. He looks at me like I’m a deity. He’s so in love with me and I know him so well, I know when he wants a kiss but feels too shy to tell me so he only points, but he doesn’t need to tell me, I catch it immediately and kiss him, and that makes him so happy. I know my Iggy so well, I’m so proud of myself, I’m the best darn boyfriend of Eos (˙︶˙)♡♡♡♡“

And on Ignis’ behalf, the best part is that he would do what Gladio sees; he is staring at him like he’s the god of beauty, like the first time he falls in love with him, he is hugging his arm and resting the head on his shoulder/holding the weight of his head on a hand to stare at him in absolute silence and with so much love…

…because Gladio is so silly and naive and adorable sometimes, omg, he’s all tough and muscles and scary looks, but this idiot is so dumb sometimes, the poor thing,ahahah. Ignis is just staring at him because “Omg how adorable is he? I was all cold and rationality just pointing out some dirt and his first reaction was to lean close and kiss me, like not a dirty mouth kiss, he just pecked my cheek, and he looks so darn proud of himself, omfg, he’s too cute, how can someone this tough and big and manly be so stupidly, disgustingly adorable? Hnngdngf, I have the best goddarn boyfriend of all Eos.”

So it’s a fact that Gladio is the best boyfriend in Eos!

…just not because of the reasons he thinks, ahahaha♡ ～(‘▽^人)

*DEEP BREATH*

BASICALLY

THIS IS A GEM FOR THE GLADNIS TREASURE CHEST.

Or a treasure on its own hnfdjghfdgnf headcanon fucking accepted and treasured! Aaaaah, how can these two be SO STUPIDLY ADORABLE!?

Dude, I know!! 

The reason they don’t let us give him the hair down look is because the console would explode. Ignis is the best creature to have ever existed and he’s too pure and I’ve always said that the only reason he doesn’t exist is that if he was real the universe wouldn’t comprehend the quantity of purity and epicness of him so the universe will collapse.

BUT YOU PUT HIS HAIR DOWN

THE ENTIRE MULTIVERSE COLLAPSES.

He stopped wearing the hair down because he was TOO FLAMING HOT and caused troubles EVERYWHERE.

Iggy with the hair down is troubles.

There’s multiple car crashes from all the drivers looking at him when he passes by.

No Glaive or Crownsguard can train because they’re staring at him.

The king can’t focus because he’s staring at him.

You put Ignis with the hair down in the middle between two armies about to clash, they’ll stop in the spot just to stare at him.

He can’t have the hair down when on an airplane because the pilot is out of his seat just to stare at him. 

He can’t have any conversation with anyone because for some reason people start melting!? Some have burst out combusting out of nowhere!? Some have exploded and turned to ashes!?

“What is happening? Am I too powerful?”

Yes, Iggy.

Hahahahahahahhahahaha!!!!!

Ohmygod, I had thought somewhere during the journey, but it fits so nicely and perfectly well somewhere in the Citadel! (Psst, anon speaks of this scenario).

Poor Clarus, he must have had enough with his older daughter growing as such a beautiful woman (that’s troubles because it means suitors hndnfgndfgsd shoo away all of you ladies and gentlemen, this is my baby girl! >:’( ), now hearing her talk about boobs with her girlfriend, ahahahah!!!

Maybe Clarus stayed behind due to some meeting, and Gladia and Iggy stayed at the doors of the hall outside to wait for him (because they just so happened to be having dinner at the Amicitia house that day XD), but Clarus is taking too long, so in a moment of boredom, the girls start the conversation from the previous post about boob size.

Hahahahahaha, poor Clarus, having to wait there until the girls are done because they’re literally standing at the exit ahahahah!!! The poor man has to listen to everything XD

Imagine he hears a moment of silence, so he assumes it may be safe to try now-

-but when he gets a look of the room, he immediately stares away closing the eyes and trying not to scream, traumatized because he just saw his daughter grabbing another girl’s boobs as if studying them. 

SILVER, OH BUDDY, YOU HAVEN’T PLAYED/WATCHED EPISODE IGGY!?

HNNNFGFDGF I HOPE YOU GET TO DO IT SOON, IT’S TOO EPIC, YOU’LL LOVE THE HELL OUT OF EVERY HALF-A-SECOND OF IT.

AND YES, RAVUS IS UNGH

RAVUS IS LIKE WATER. HIS MOVEMENTS AND ENTIRE BEING IS ALL GRACE AND A NATURAL AND BEAUTIFUL FLOW. HE MAKES OF FIGHTING AN ART. 

YOU SHOULD SEE HIM JUMP, HNG. 

Well “calmly” may be…not the best description on the context of his emotions, and he IS kind of rushing, BUT he’s going it with that grace that defines him!

RAVUS IS SUCH A GRACEFUL CREATURE, HAVING HIM AND IGNIS IN THE SAME SPACE IS LIKE WATCHING A VERY BEAUTIFUL ART OF SORTS. THE TWO ARE GRACE AND BEAUTY WHILE KEEPING IT AGGRESIVE AND OHBOI 

THESE MEN MAKE OF FIGHTING AN ART NOT ONLY OUT OF HOW THEY DO IT, BUT HOW THEY MAKE IT LOOK TO THIRD VIEWERS.