#coon thoughts

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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. 

1. Ignis Scientia from FFXV: PLEASE DON’T GET ME STARTED.

2. Emil Castagnier, from Tales of Symphonia 2: OKAY, I really need to rant on this one because Emil is tagged as the third or fourth most annoying RPG protagonist to exist AND WHY. Maybe it’s my over developed sense of empathy, but really I understand his attitude and I LOVE the progress he had across the story. He’s a kid that’s been rejected and mistreated all his life, OF COURSE HE’S SHY AND QUIET AND INTROVERT. Protagonists tend to be all brave and almighty and risky. But introverts? We’re veeery rarely EVER portrayed as the heroes or heroines. Introverts are always the shy bookworm wizard or the quiet sassy sidekick, but never the hero. That’s why I loved his character so much, he’s actually very introvert and shy and very insecure, so of course he sounds “whiny”; they’ve literally thrown him into a risky adventure against his will, of course he’s scared. But then you see him deal with his internal problems, lrean to balance the two sides of him, and he ends up being a SUPER AMAZING HERO, because he wasn’t brave, he LEARNED TO BE BRAVE for the sake of the planet’s safety and well being.

Pus his ending is AMAZING I WAS TEARING UP THE ENTIRE TIME, because holyghsduhatrs, not spoiling but what a sacrifice man, like do you know how many GUTS does it take to accept something like that??? AND THEN WHETHER YOU GET GOOD OR BAD ENDING, HE’S JUST SO SELFLESS AND

HNGHFNHFGDHFG *IMPLODES*

INTROVERT PROTAGONISTS FOR THE WIN

3. Tsukasa Futaba or Patrick Sprigs from Megaman Starforce (Ryuusei no Rockman): WHAT IS IT WITH ME AN THE INTROVERT OR MOST HURT OF THE SERIES- *deep breath* This guy. This lovely guy. The poor thing is struggling with literally himself, except it’s not himself. I LOVED his design as Gemini due to the dual personalities like jesus christ, nice thing you did there, writers. I adore his soft, vanilla side because he really is sincere. HE DOESN’T MEAN TO BE MEAN.I feel so bad when he’s refraining himself from doing any harm, it breaks my heart because it’s a DS game and it’s lil avatars but you can see his struggle and- *deep breath* he kills me. He really means to harm to anyone and he’s sefless too, he just- can’t control it. ;____;

4. Fye D. Flowright from Tsubasa Chronicles PLEASE DO NOT GET ME STARTED I WILL NOT STOP HNNFNGFNGF

5. Remus Lupin from Harry Potter, because the man is the most adorable creature to have ever existed, he’s only very scared, he’s insecure, and he only needs to be cuddled and he wants the best for everyone and quiet introvert with love for books and “I’d rather stay home curled under a blanket by the fireplace than go out thank you very much” mood, yessss.

6. Zuko, from Avatar TLA: Ohboi where do I even start. Zuko has one of the best character development in history. He goes majestically from “I am so angered at everyone I will kill you all I only love ME” to “Shit, I was SO WRONG, truth is I was angered at only myself, how do I fix this” with all the steps in between. For a character to realize he’s wrong, that’s one amazing thing. But to go through all stages of it, the ough beginning, the slow realization, the outrage and outbursts of denial, accepting it, crying it, then come to his peace...boi. OH. BOI. Plus, his story has always made me HNFGNGF cause it’s so good. And he’s handsome in the last book. Also firebending = EPICNESS. 

7. I’m trying to pick someone from Final Fantasy Type 0 but most of them are all my babies how do I choose, *eternally sobbing*

8. I am running out of ideas.

9. Death Note’s Light Yagami: because this smartass is so INCREDIBLE. He never- no matter how many times I watch the show (I’ve only done that twice lmao but you get my point) he still mind-blows me. He’s so smart and smooth and sneaky and I hate him so much this bastard I LOVE him. Mamoru Miyano is god in his voice acting, and his latinamerican voice actor did INCREDIBLE and I am hopelessly in love with the voice and the character and one of the best bloody moments is when he’s following this woman around who could easily figure out it’s him, and he keeps staring at his clock and she’s like “Why you looking at your clock so much” and he’s like GIVES THAT EVIL STARE AT HER AND GOODBYE LMAO. Not to say about the moment he’s imprisonated with his MASTERPLAN JESAUSHOLYCHRIST FIRST TIME I SAW THAT I WAS OUT OF MY MIND I HAD TO PAUSE TO SCREAM BECAUSE WOAHMANWHATTHEFUCKTHAT’SEPIC

10. The Maze Runner’s Newt: ....please leave me alone ;____;     *runs away crying*

Bruh, he doesn’t only have to compensate for an incapacitated member, he also has to keep an eye on him at the same time.

Gladio’s literally in charge of the entire group, at least I dare to believe he feels like, because he has- Prompto, who despite being amazing and progressing each day, literally only learned to fight months prior to the journey.- Noctis, who is his literal priority, the guy he has always had to keep an eye on no matter how well the prince does on his own.- Ignis, who’s been incapacitated and needs to be protected no matter how much he insists he can go on his own

Like shit, Gladio must be feeling he literally needs to look after the three the whole time.

Gladio’s been charged by himself with three times his duty, because he doesn’t want any of them to be harmed even further or to die so long he can help it.

Of course he’s angered! Imagine the great sadness he’s already dealing with, now add all this stress, not to say he’s thinking of Iris left behind, and now having to force himself to be three times the stronger he was raised to be.

BRUH

GLADIO’S SUFFERING TOO AND WE FANDOM DON’T APPRECIATE HIM ENOUGH, WE’RE TOO BUSY ALL “Poor Ignis, omg Poor Noct, omg, he didn’t have to shove Prompto like that omg :’(” and LIKE HELLO

LITERAL SHIELD BREAKING APART?

It isn’t! I actually have an objective explanation to that!!

I’m not sure if it’s real or just hallucinations among some of us in the fandom, but, apparently, Present/Older Ignis is the most confident version of him.

There’s Brotherhood, who doesn’t count much as he’s still growing up.

There’s the 22 year old him, who isn’t shy, and doesn’t lack confidence. But while he doesn’t lack of it, he’s in a very balanced level; he seems to know he’s strong enough, but he doesn’t extra brag about it or anything. 

Then there’s recently-injured Ignis, veeeery clearly the least confident of his personas. He’s always keeping the head down and delivering comments that just…no, Ignis. Okay, he doesn’t express “Damn, I’m a useless piece of CRAP”, but small things like “Was I in the way?” are just like agh okay I’ll stop or my heart will die. Sum up, he’s insecure.

But then there’s older and totally blind Ignis and CONFIDENCE BOOST.

I believe it must be the fact that he’s EXTREMELY PROUD of having become a stronger Daredevil with more troubles than Daredevil ever had. Ignis must have gone through heavy suffering trying to force himself to adapt to a normal life lacking his sight, a heavy struggled that I imagine could be the heaviest in his life.

And he managed to do it so well he can not only walk on his own and not fall down, he can COOK and he can FIGHT just FINE. I dare to say even BETTER than he used to. He has all and any reasons in the world to feel proud, and, of course, to be so damn freaking greatly confident.

Now, the point I want to reach:

Did you know, anon, that you could be physically ugly but people would consider you attractive only out of your confidence?

It’s a very wide subject that I won’t touch fully in here, but it’s very true.

I have learned out of watching other people and out of very personal experience that this is a truth. You can be an average person with average look, you could be out of the socially stablished canon of ‘beauty’, you could even be ugly, but people could still be attracted to you like none of those previous statements are true if your confidence is big enough.

It’s something about vibes. This is anoter subject I won’t touch fully, but on a summary, the universe and everything, even the things we can’t touch like emotions, are made out of vibes. 

When you hate yourself and despise yourself, your vibes are a reflection of it. That’s the reason people will reject you, ignore you, and consider you all that you think of yourself; ugly, dumb, etc. 

Same happens the other way around.

On summary, what you see if yourself becomes your vibes, and your vibes travel everywhere whether you want it or not, only for the fact that you exist and you move. And the vibes you spread out are a reflection of what you see in yourself. Hence, people will receive those vibes and their own vibes will decipher the codes in them until giving them the words to use to refer to you.

Trust me, anon, I’m not on drugs right now. This is a truth. I say it out of personal experience.

I used to dislike myself very much, and things only got worse when I got this ugly scar, but as years have gone and as I’ve forced myself to stop martiryzing myself, and as my current school has given me the literal homework of loving myself to almost narcissistic levels, the change is obvious.

Still an adult, I still have awful acné at times, I’m dramatically short, and I violate the canon code of beauty in many other ways, but I’m so damn self confident that people come to me both in friendly and romantic ways whether I want or not. Which did never happen to me when I hated myself. When you believe yourself beautiful, you’ll be beautiful to EVERY SINGLE PERSON ON THE PLANET and nobody will even notice you’re not in the canon or out of the “average”. Nobody notices. 

Beauty comes from your aura, not your physics.

Anon, I know we’re talking a virtual character of a videogame, but there is a major truth on this.

You love blind Ignis because bling Ignis loves himself very dearly.

*deep breath*

Wow. 

I…I think this is not the answer you were expecting. But you triggered me.

Ahahaha.

I don’t think you’re overthinking; indeed, I’ve seen some people go with the headcanon that Ignis is a Tenebraean. Possibly not a major headcanon in the fandom, but from the little I’ve gathered it seems like a possibility many consider, so don’t think you’re overthinking. It IS confusing, after all, what with the poor info we’re given about him and his origins.

Be aware that I don’t speak Japanese, and I don’t understand it. So I may be speaking nonsense right below:

While I don’t actually speak it, if I have to keep an ear up, there’s not much of a difference between Ignis and the rest of the voice, not one as notorious as putting accent from the USA compared to that of England.

I’ve seen somewhere before that ignis does, however, speak in a different sort of japanese than the boys. 

When I was trying to translate some doujinshis I found the poor, non methodical way I could have, I found that there’s these two main forms of japanese: Hiragana and Katakana. I forgot which, but Ignis speaks in one of these forms, and the rest of the guys in the other one.

But again, it does not precisely /sound/ like much of an accent difference, but rather in a /way of speaking/, which is not the same.

I’m aware that the way Ignis speaks in japanese (the original voice), it’s the formal use of the language, but nothing has it it’s from a /different/ country or region.

This is probably going to sound harsh, but do you know what I think on why in the English version they made Ignis English-English?

Because it’s a poor excuse to make him sound “formal”. Like some USA accent can’t do; they clearly can, but seen from Ignis’ extra royal behavior, subconscious and conscious heads associate formality and royalty to Europe-born languages.

It is stated that Ignis is from somewhere else, but he’s worked/lived in Insomnia since he’s a child. We don’t know precisely what age, but it’s stated he’s childhood friend to Noctis. Do you think an accent from a foreign country would stick with a person for over 2 decades or 15 years or 10, let alone until they’re 32? 

I’m not sure if in Japanese he’s from “somewhere else” in the accent or if it’s just a different for of japanese that he sticks to in language because his behavior is excessive formality rather than a region-born accent. But I’d stick with the idea that he speaks the way he does because of his job and the way he was raised, not because he’s from somewhere else. That he is, perhaps. But I don’t think the accent would stay as thick if he not only lived in Insomnia but also lived childhood, youth and adulthood in there.

So yeah, I believe that the reason he’s got an english accent is only because, when the game arrived to the hands of the voice acting companies in the USA, they wanted to make the formality clear; what a best way than give him an english accent, even when in japanese there’s no accent difference but rather more of a way of speaking only?

I’m not saying I hate his voice. I do for sure prefer Japanese a life more, but Adam Croasdell’s voice is enjoyable. I don’t like it for Ignis, but he created a whole new character, and his Ignis is not bad. He’s as good as the original, but it’s almost not the same essence.

I didn’t know Ravus and Luna spoke in English accent as well. Hadn’t paid attention to them (have barely heard them, I’ve only digged in the main party’s english voices). 

I believe this is to state very firmly that they’re from another kingdom; a reminder that they’re not the same, but also a reminder that they’re royalty. Again, because our socially stablished canon thinks that the europe versions of languages are the “most formal” of their kind. You know, a guy from Texas can be formal and that doesn’t mean he needs an english accent.

But yeah, that’s what I think.

I wouldn’t discard the idea that he may have been born in Tenebrae, but I do discard the idea that the accent would have remained with him throughout the years.

Again, mostly because we know he’s been in Insomnia since he’s a child, and we don’t get to see much of his parents, so even if he had been with them in Lucis, he still grew up in an entirely-Lucian environment. The accent wouldn’t prevail, and that’s why I support the idea that his japanese is different in wording but not in accent or color.

Perhaps the voice acting company in charge of the game for the USA thought it was extremely necessary to make a exccessively strong remark of how formal he is and “hey why not make him from england or something lmao”. Which, again, is not wrong or bad, but I don’t think it sticks at all with original.

Still, what can I say? I can’t judge the game in english; sounds pretty good despite all those things to compare and the incongruent idea of him keeping accent despite an entire life spent in a Lucian-full environment.

But it’s a sexy accent. Won’t discard that. 

And heck, can the man sing.

That would be AWESOME!

Though I’m not sure if Square Enix are going to be merciful enough to show us that. Apparently they like that we suffer, so the worst thing they could do to us is to never show us the world after the light returned and leave us in the eternal question that divides the fandom, oceans and creates wars: did Gladio, Ignis and Prompto survive?

I once wrote this long analysis of why I think the bros survived, so I’m standing there.

But it’s just theory. I could be right as much as I could be wrong. So seeing the world after light returned would be possibly the best thing SE could give us: not only are we seeing how peace returned, how the people reacted, but we’d also finally see the destiny of the bros. 

But I’m also EXTREMELY CURIOUS on other matters.

Who ruled Lucis afterwards? Was it a council rather than choosing a new king or queen? Are the chocobros in that council? Did Prompto move out of Insomnia and started a new life in Hammerhead? What is Ignis doing now that all the thing he worked for in life is fulfilled and he’s still got a long life to live (if that’s the case)?

Who ruled Tenebrae? The royal family died too. And Niflheim is left with no ruler either. Who ruled that?

Did everything become one huge nation like Noctis hinted he wanted it to be?

I’d give one of my toes if SE could just show us the bros survived. It’s not a happy ending, but it wouldn’t be as tragic, at least. 

I’m not sure the DLC is showing that to us…and if it does, it’d probably be a 10-seconds long cinematic that’s going to give us one answer and make us rage into 10 questions more because that’s how evil the FFXV staff is, hahaha.

I’m really not sure what to expect from this episode. I know it’s going to have a great impact on the story but how?

Are we seeing his past? What does it have to do with the main story? I’d love to see Ignis’ past, I’d never get enough about him, but how is that an impact? Or are we seeing something we missed along the story? WHAT? Or are we seeing the impact of the story after light is recovered?

I have so many questions. I really don’t know what they’re going to show us in his episode besides the event at Altissia.

*orgasms*

On a side I would be VERY upset, because he’d be 12 years older than I, most surely Japanese, and hence he would have not a single idea of my existance, and the worst is I’d probably not have a single idea of his either, and even if we did we’d be an entire world apart, and we wouldn’t really fully understand what we’re saying even if we communicate in an even language like english because it really isn’t his nor my mother language.

Besides, he looks like he’s completely ace, the kind of person that’s not interested in romance or anything, so I would be crushing so hard on him while he’d have a pet cat and be the happiest man of earth just like that. But I also wouldn’t like to get his attention on the romantic sense, because while I accept couples with age gap, I myself am not comfortable with the idea of being in one of those.  So the crush I’d grow on him would be platonic and I wouldn’t like it to come to reality despite how much I’d really like him. So the idea of him being ace is somehow even…idk, it’d make me SO DAMN comfortable. So so so comfortable for that reason. 

Unless we got the 22 y.o. him, then I would be crushing VERY BAD on him and regretting his asexuality, hahahaha.

I’d still want very badly to be his friend, anyway, because he’s basically what I think all humans should be like: loyal, sincere and with honor. He’s got his HUGE downsides and bad parts and flaws, of course, but all in all he’d be a person of good intentions and actions.

So even though I do would care at first, I believe it’d fade away with time because I’d be entirely content just as friends/acquaintances, He looks like he appreciates silence, and so do I, and looks like would have nice conversation topics I’ve always wanted to talk about but can’t, so…yeah. I would just really want to be friends. 

Nah man, I don’t think Gladio’d try to take her from others. Ya know, maybe it’s because I went through some HEAVY stuff about it, but I’m not a supporter of jealousy/partner-ownership as a demonstration of affection.

Ofc jealousy can’t be helped so I guess Gladio could have raged at times like WHY CAN’T SHE LOOK AT ME THE WAY SHE LOOKS AT NYX WHY

But I don’t think he’d do something to stop that because, ya know, if Ignis chose that Glaive, that means that’s HER decision, and Gladio’s gonna be fine about it. A bit sad, ofc, because he wishes Ignis could look at him the way he looks at her, but nah, he’s gonna leave her to do her decision <3

Plus, Fem Ignis dating Nyx sounds really cute! It could be cute as a first romance, but coming to a friendly break-up, and eventually finding out she reallyreallyreally likes Gladio >u<

Putting aside the jealousy which I really don’t support in any ship, this would be a nice scenario! Who’d have thought of Fem!Ignis x Nyx?