#ff15 headcanons

Noctis bristled as he heard the wind whip around the car, Ignis had pulled up the roof when the sun had disappeared beyond the horizon, still, he felt a chill. Sparing a glance to Gladiolus behind him, he notices the large man was flexing his hand, a nervous twitch that Gladiolus had developed when he was trying to remain calm, but the quickest way for the big guy to be calm was with a weapon in hand to defend his friends and himself.

“You sure there aren’t any heavens around here, Spec?” Noctis asked, always one for hunting, but something within him made him feel hunted.

“Unfortunately not, the next one would be on the other side of the town,” Ignis stated, his grip flexing on the steering wheel, much preferred if it was a dagger. Something out beyond the road was watching them, his eyes darted to the driver’s side mirror as something raced by, when those green eyes turned back to the road he slammed on the breaks sending everyone slamming forward.

Why did his Majesty not believe in seatbelts?

“What the hell, Iggy?” Gladiolus barked, a face full of leather as his reward from the sudden stop.

“There.”

Everyone’s eyes turned to the figure just outside the headlights reach. It stood tall, as large if not taller than Gladiolus. Humanoid in shape with an impressive build, and standing in the middle of the road.

“Think he needs help?” Prompto muttered as Ignis crept the car forward attempting to get the figure when the light, only for it to shuffle back if one could call the movement such out the view. It clearly did not like the headlights or light for that matter.

So moving the Regalia into a creep, Ignis moved forward towards the figure in the road. It would maneuver backward but refused to leave the road. Ignis glanced to Prompto who had stopped messing with his camera and had turned rather pale, but his fingers curved as if he were to summon a pistol. Turning to the rearview mirror he saw Noctis swallow as the Prince crept forward trying to view the monster. While Gladiolus already had one hand on the door, ready to strike first if whatever this creature was turned nasty.

Ignis stopped the Regalia’s creep, as he reached over tapping the lock button so all the door locked.

“What?”

“We’ll be saver int he Regalia.” Ignis insisted. “We aren’t aware what this creature is or what it can do, we’ll be able to outpace it in the car, and should the Regalia take damage Cindy will be able to fix it.”

No one argued with the strategist.

So Ignis slowly maneuvered the car backward, his eyes never from the creature before him. The had maybe backed up less than a couple steps when the creature moved forward, a haunting glow in its eyes, followed by another glow below the first two further along the torso.

Tink!

“What the hell?” Gladiolus growled.

Tink! Tink! Tink!

Ignis reached over shoving down Prompto while Gladiolus did the same to Noctis as something invisible shot through the car, embedding right where everyone’s heads rest.

“It’s shooting at us!” Prompto gasped, as summoned a gun, the only long-range fighter, he would have to defend, as he cracked the window returning fire, the creature shuffling back to avoid the bullets.

“Any ideas Specs?” Noctis called, Prompto couldn’t keep it a bay for long, seeing that it closed its eyes and returned to the shadows.

“Just the one! Prompto get in here!” Ignis yelled, once the blonde head ducked back in, Ignis quickly reversed, watching as the creature’s glowing eyes appeared again and gave chase. Only for Ignis to suddenly throw the car into drive, racing towards the creature, hoping that this game of chicken end in their favor.

It had rushed on them so quickly, that all anyone heard was the sound of something on the hood, quickly followed by the roof. Ignis didn’t hit it, it jumped! and in the split moment where it was on the roof, they heard the scratching of it trying to gain purchase, either to rip into the car or hang on.

“Floor it!”

Every part of logic in Ignis told him to remain the speed limit, but the man in him that wish to survive this encounter with his friends told him to hit the gas and not let up.

“Brace yourselves!”

Ignis slammed on the brakes, tossing his arm out before Prompto, as Gladiolus did the same to Noctis in the backseat. The body on top of the car rocked forward, hitting the hood and then rolling to the pavement below.

Ignis didn’t give it a chance to recover, as he whipped the car to the left, hoping he cleared the body, as he raced down the highway.

Prompto, Gladiolus, and Noctis turned to see the creature rise to its feet again, its haunted yellow eyes glaring at the black car. Ignis spared a glance into the rearview mirror, only to find the creature racing after the Regalia.

“Shit!”

It was a lot faster than it should be for its size! Ignis slammed on the brakes again, only to hear the creature slam into the trunk of the car and then fall to the ground, before he sped off again.

The four road in silence, uncertain of how to start explaining the situation they were in until they entered town only to be greeted by you with a bright smile in the hotel room.

“What’s wrong, you boys look like you’ve seen a ghost.” You called, only to have your arms full of the men clinging to you tightly. “Boys?”

That night you and four grown men shared a Queen size bed, it was uncomfortable, but the only way you could get them to sleep.

You never got out of them what they saw, but it really had to have spooked them something horrible, and the poor Regalia had three huge dents in it, the hood, trunk, and roof, along with the entire front window covered in what looked like small bullet holes.

Noctis: Noctis notices that his significant other spends a lot of time with Talcott lately and talking to Iris on the phone. They are a bit quieter than normal and instead of scolding Iris or Talcott for doing something out of hand they just let it slide a wistful smile on their face. He swears he can see tears misting up in the corner of their eyes, he’s not quite sure. At first he’s just chalking it up to stress of this adventure, it had made a total 180 from the leisure trip to a horror show. One night they have camped near a fishing spot, everyone knows that Noctis likes to be the solo fisher but he takes his significant other aside and hands them the fishing rod. Taken back a bit unsure what he’s going on about when he tells them to cast, showing them how to he slowly starts to talk. Just casual stuff that is menial but relaxing because it’s not about the fiasco around them. When he mentions about their sibling how they would find it funny that they are fishing. That is when his significant other starts the water works that they had worked on so hard to keep back, sobbing intensely as all the memories and thoughts come to their mind about their sibling. Noctis is shocked unsure what had happened trying to think about what he had just said and realized how much attention you had been paying to younger people lately. . .your sibling was younger and left in the Crown City when they left. . .

“Darling. . .why didn’t you say anything?” He asks as he wraps his arm around you hugging you tightly pressing cracked lips to your temple.

Noctis listens to you shakily tell about how you got a phone call from your parents how your sibling was killed during the invasion of the Nif Army. How they got caught in the crossfire and didn’t survive the trip to the hospital. Noctis spends the rest of the time with his arm wrapped around you and listening to you tell stories about time with your sibling. He will tell you that as long as you remember all the time you two had together they will always be with you.

Prompto: He picks up on your depression a lot quicker than you thought he would the man has been through a lot of depressing issues in his life so he knows the warning signs. You lie to him just saying you are stressed and depressed from being on the road all the time unable to fight as well as the others and spent most of the time hiding behind Prompto. (He’s a protective baby) Prompto noticed you looking through your photos on your phone a lot more than normal lately it’s not like he gauges time limits on things but you’ll be even looking at photos while eating dinner, clearing up camp, showering you have nearly destroyed you phone a few times. Becoming irrationally angry when he tried to put the phone in a safe spot from the water so it doesn’t die. (Ignis doesn’t want to waste rice on drying out a phone!) You storm away just wrapped in a towel sitting on the bed looking at the damp phone staring at the photos. Prompto let you cool down for a few minutes bringing your clothes and your favorite chocobo plushie handing the items over he sits down next to you on the bed.

“So it’s more than just stress of traveling, babe.” He states firmly, there was clear concern in his voice.

You hand over the phone showing the picture of a selfie with your father at a local cafe sharing a coffee. Telling him that he had died when the Nifs had infiltrated the Crown City, he a Glaive dying to protect the King. It broke Prompto’s heart to hear you keeping this bottled up for so long now, it’s been months since the attack and you haven’t spoken a word about your feelings. He felt emotional with yours emotions flowing freely, holding you tight and pressing soft kisses to your face as he tried to ease your pain. He joked about at least you got to spend some time with your father that he hadn’t a clue about his real biological parents. That your father died doing what he did best guarding the city and died with honor. He knew those were generic things to say, sighing he told you it sucked that he had to die despite not saving the King. That you didn’t get to say goodbye to him that this trip was suppose to be short and easy. That no matter what you did he couldn’t come back - but that he, Prompto would be there for him in your fathers place to take care of you and love you.

Gladiolus: Gladiolus noticed that you spent more time helping cooking and cleaning in fact taking more of that duty from Ignis lately, saying that it made you feel better. The way in which you said it was almost bitter as if someone was forcing you to say that, it at first didn’t bother Gladiolus much he enjoyed his significant others cooking a lot it was better than Ignis’ in fact. You really knew how to cook a good ramen and knew the secret of a good meat and potato meal. Though you looked sad while cooking he noticed it when you were cooking one night stirring some soup, staring over the expanse of the field just looking so morose. He went to talk to you about it and you just muttered “it’s one of those days, babe.” He took it with a grain of salt going out of his way to do small things to cheer you up throughout the days, picking your favorite flowers, carrying you on his shoulders, reading aloud to you.

Visiting Lestallum you had spotted a mother and her children, going up to her shyly speaking with her in a soft tone. Gladiolus couldn’t make out what you had asked of her over Prompto’s excited tones about the view from the ledge of the Discs. But what he saw told him, the woman wrapped her arms around you hugging you tightly as you buried your face into her neck holding her tightly.

“Worried about the family left behind in Insomnia. . .” Gladiolus muttered as it dawned on him.

That night Gladiolus took you to a secluded place and admitted his guilt on feeling like a jerk for not even thinking about your family. You knew he would catch on soon it wasn’t like you were trying to hide it but you also didn’t want to advertise your sorrows. Curling up on his lap, letting his fingers rustle through your hair you told him that your mother had died from a illness that was aggravated by the Nifs invading. He cleared away your tears, telling you it is okay to grieve and to let your emotions show. Gladiolus held you there all night listening to your stories about your mother enjoying the prideful look you had on your face as you told him how much she meant to you.

Ignis: The man with so much to do and keep a eye on nearly didn’t catch your depression, your smile fading quicker and quicker by the day. Not reacting the same to his puns or the antics of Prompto and Noctis. Becoming more mechanical by the day as the depression took over your body and soul as your mind was eating you up with the news you had kept to yourself.

You’ve been sleeping later and later needing more pushing to get out of bed to continue forward. Unable to focus on learning recipes from him or to to anything much beyond the basic necessities of life. Ignis was unsure how he didn’t pick it up all these huge warning signs of your depression, was he just too focused on doing his duty to Noctis he neglected his significant other?

Without speaking to you he decided that a day they had spent at a caravan he cooked you a special breakfast, all of your favorites he had collected himself. Bringing it to bed he heard you sobbing into your pillow whole body shaking from the tears. Nearly dropping the food Ignis rushes over to you placing a gloved hand on your shoulder trying to get your attention.

“My love what is wrong, please speak with me.”

BONUS:

Iris: As a fabric: Watercolor Floral a denim.

Iris always shops with her brother and loves to look at the floral section, jewelry and always asks for a stuffed animal at the register.

Dino: As a fabric: Playtime Sequin a special occasion.

Dino only comes in for the jewelry he’s smart about it though and shops there when they are on sale. He always shows the cashiers his previous works and tells people in the line his Etsy shop name.

Ravus: As a fabric: Black rabbit fur - a fake fur.

Ravus shops for already made jewelry pieces, fake fur and baking supplies. He always has the coupons, printed out because his phone always fights him. Ravus always pays with cash and asks about the return policy.

Nyx: As a fabric: Boho Floral a corduroy

Nyx was sent in the store by a friend to do a online pick up for them, he’s not sure where to go or what to do. He’s unsure what is going on in the store or what was there, it’s nothing he’s seen before. He marvels at everything as the cashier is doing the online pick up.

Lunafreya: As a fabric: Rouge Felicite a upholstery.