Oh, I mean miqo'te. It's... I guess in my world it's a video game race, but apparently it's a real thing in Era's world. They're like cat people, kinda. Ears and tail, slitted eyes and little fangs.
Ah, so this glamour was of a miqo'te, not a cat. [ She nods to herself, filing that away. It wouldn't do well to erroneously refer to such ears as anything but miqo-esque now!
It reminds her, just a bit, of how the Gormotti in her world have such feline-like ears. Perhaps they're a video game race in another world...? ] Was it King's Night? That video game, I mean.
[He considers for a moment - he's played a lot of video games, and a lot of them were arcades where he's real vague on the lore - before shaking his head.]
Oh, one of the sentient races in my world. Round, small, with long, prehensile ears, and big round eyes. [ She speaks of them fondly. ] Not only are they adorable, they're also intelligent and crafty.
[ She's reminded of the one person who appeared in her world a month prior, a robot who had been designed by a Nopon. ]
I-- ah, I was only wondering if maybe one of my world's races had appeared in your world's video games.
That would be kind of weird, wouldn't it? To hear that you might be something fictional on another world?
[The miqo'te woman hadn't seemed to mind when it came up in their conversation, and Era took it in stride, but you never know what a person is going to think about such a subject. It's not a feeling he can understand personally, though, since humans appear to be literally everywhere.]
That might be even more weird. Like- would they know I made them? Is it just a coincidence? If we met, would I have to fake it and pretend I don't know anything? And then I'd wonder if I was in someone else's video game...
[ She doesn't know the answers to such questions, but she has to stop herself from bursting into a fit of giggles. The point of this is to have a little bit of fun with imagination. ]
Allow me to be the first to congratulate you on your newfound fatherhood of many characters. [ Many. People. They would be real, hypothetically. ]
[ With the main NPC in their version of King's Knight being a prince in need of rescuing-- ] You could impart all of your princely wisdom! And combat techniques. Who knows, maybe he'll even be able to save himself from dragons in the future.
So you keep saying. It's weird... I never used to be.
[In the last year or so - here, and on Eos - he's managed to connect with people in ways he struggled so much with while living in Insomnia. Seems that it really was the crown that always held him back.]
I did, yeah. They came to me first though. Or... I guess if you want to be accurate about it, my dad gave me to Ignis, like, "take care of this kid" and he took it super literally.
Not babysitter, exactly. We were both way too young- he's only a couple years older, and at the time I was only 3 or 4. We... had a nanny to keep an eye on us.
[His voice is momentarily quiet at the vague mention - it's been twelve years, but still, childhood trauma's a whole thing - before he regains the steam to continue.]
But you've seen Ignis, he takes his job so seriously. He was like that even as a kid. I don't remember too much from back then, but he spent a lot of time trying to keep me in line.
Probably not. [He's not gonna refute that, he knows Ignis well enough.] At least not in retrospect. He'd had plenty to say at the time when I was misbehaving.
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It reminds her, just a bit, of how the Gormotti in her world have such feline-like ears. Perhaps they're a video game race in another world...? ] Was it King's Night? That video game, I mean.
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Did any of your video games have a race called Nopon?
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That's a nope on the nopon. What's that?
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[ She's reminded of the one person who appeared in her world a month prior, a robot who had been designed by a Nopon. ]
I-- ah, I was only wondering if maybe one of my world's races had appeared in your world's video games.
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That would be kind of weird, wouldn't it? To hear that you might be something fictional on another world?
[The miqo'te woman hadn't seemed to mind when it came up in their conversation, and Era took it in stride, but you never know what a person is going to think about such a subject. It's not a feeling he can understand personally, though, since humans appear to be literally everywhere.]
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[ She won't disagree with him on that, although she finds it far more interesting than it would be disturbing to her.
She nudges him gently with an elbow. ]
Just imagine, Noct, all the designs and NPCs you put into King's Knight... Those could actually be real people in some world out there.
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That might be even more weird. Like- would they know I made them? Is it just a coincidence? If we met, would I have to fake it and pretend I don't know anything? And then I'd wonder if I was in someone else's video game...
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Allow me to be the first to congratulate you on your newfound fatherhood of many characters. [ Many. People. They would be real, hypothetically. ]
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[Perhaps a bit like his own father feels here in town, with an adult son more than half as old as he is.]
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Insidias Lucis Caelum doesn't sound half bad.
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We'll welcome him into the family with open arms.
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I don't know if I can handle that kind of responsibility. I hear being a dad is a lot of work.
[He never even got to do the marriage part... though maybe he'd best lean away from that part of it, lest this become less jokey of a conversation.]
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Well, if you don’t end up telling him, [ Hypothetically, anyway, since his character in question isn’t here. ] you could always just be his friend.
[ Not that one cannot be both a father and a friend, but. ]
You’re good at that, you know.
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[In the last year or so - here, and on Eos - he's managed to connect with people in ways he struggled so much with while living in Insomnia. Seems that it really was the crown that always held him back.]
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[ A pause. ] But you became friends with Prompto, right? And Ignis!
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She did not know this! ]
He was your babysitter?
[ Also, Ignis barely looks older than him! ]
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[His voice is momentarily quiet at the vague mention - it's been twelve years, but still, childhood trauma's a whole thing - before he regains the steam to continue.]
But you've seen Ignis, he takes his job so seriously. He was like that even as a kid. I don't remember too much from back then, but he spent a lot of time trying to keep me in line.
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I'm guessing that it worked? Keeping you in line. But I also hope that you taught him how to have fun, too.
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[He doesn't sound especially regretful about it. He was a model prince! ...When he had to be.]
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[ Like, boi, please. ]
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