hashtag_chocobro | Prompto's Voicemail.

Be impressed at getting a text from Nina, Prompto! She was impressed with herself for sending it, though she'd sent a few to Vette before. It was still new enough to be a bit of a thrill to her.

Prompto!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Do you have pictures of Nell????????????????????

Hannibal had been hard-pressed to find a gift for Prompto that fit within the parameters of the gift - not expensive, and not obviously from him. That left out video games, camera appliances, and food.

Eventually, he'd researched and settled on a book that sounded interesting, then had it shipped anonymously to Prompto's dorm room. Hopefully it was something he'd enjoy.

Nina had sworn to send Prompto all the pictures and for the love of god, she was going to keep that promise.

PEOPLE WHO ARE NOT YOU GOING ON VACATION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This was followed by a selfie of Nina, smiling prettily; a picture of Vette, laughing; one of Sidon, looking absolutely delighted; Keyleth, who looked a bit awkward and nervous; and Lana, who was looking totally rad in armour.

Sabine's, like, coming later!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! On Monday!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So you'll get pictures of her then!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ALSO, COMPLETELY SCANDALOUS:

A picture of Sidon and Vette kissing on the Causeway.

MY GOODNESS, RIGHT?????????????????? SHAMELESS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The next set of pictures were after they'd left the Causeway and reached Warriors' Village. Prompto was treated to a positive deluge of photos showing everything from the fireplaces, to the thatched rooftops, to the inside of the wells and shops alike. Pictures of the team poking around the village followed, as well as of their supper—stew, bread, cheese and fruit—and of their beds, which looked quite cozy, if a bit rustic for someone used to Fandom's level of technology and architecture.

And look!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Even MORE scandalous:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::

A couple of blurry, dark pictures of what were unmistakably Sidon and Vette (their silhouettes made them impossible to miss) sneaking off in the dark.

Honestly!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! However will I cope with all of this canoodling???????????????????????????

The fact that Nina had followed Vette and Sidon and snooped until she'd realized they really, really weren't canoodling was left out, along with her pictures of that (which she deleted, reasoning that if she did so, no one need ever know she'd taken them in the first place) because, well, as horribly interfering as she was… Nina didn't want to hurt Vette and she didn't want to worry Prompto either.

So she'd keep her mouth shut (literally and metaphorically) on that bit of the evening. She knew good and well that she shouldn't've been following them anyway and, besides, implying they'd gone off to canoodle was a great deal more fun.

THE REAL FUN STARTS TOMORROW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Miss you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Have fun training!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

What followed that was an absolutely incoherent pile of emojis but, hey, they were all positive ones, which had to count for something, right?

Edited 2019-04-21 01:32 (UTC)

Nina's daily report would follow much later in the day, but not long after sunrise, Prompto was getting a selfie of her, looking far too awake for the hour, sticking her tongue out at him.

Followed by a text of: Good luck with your training today!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Nina had been totally remiss in keeping Prompto up-to-date with their epic quest which, really, had mostly been because when they'd reached the castle yesterday, she'd fallen asleep before finishing figuring out which pictures to take and then, that morning, she'd missed sending him a well wish because her excitement for Sabine had overwhelmed basically everything else.

I HAVE NOT FORGOTTEN YOU. IF YOU HAVE FORGOTEEN ME I WILL FEED YOU TO A UNICOMBIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

She followed that with a pile of hearts and rainbows, and a few axes tossed in there just for good measure.

But first, yesterday!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The pile of pictures she had of the grasslands and of the rest of the team laughing, talking, and walking were pretty great. She had a few decent pictures of some of the monsters, including one of a Grave Master rising from where, the picture before, it had looked like nothing more than a pile of rocks. The rest, though, were terribly blurry since Nina was not nearly as good at taking pictures as Prompto was and, well, in the middle of the fight she was usually trying to murder things but good rather than focus on how to take a picture right.

He was still definitely getting the one of the sorcerer reaching for her with it's creepy rotting face and hands though.

Her other pictures told the chronicle of there was definitely a lot of battle going along in those grasslands (the pictures, admittedly, were mostly taken after the battles though). And, as the sky darkened, pictures of the outside of the enormous castle they were heading towards got added into the mix.

Today was, like, WAY COOLER OH MY GOSH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Now, inside, he was getting a pile of pictures--one of Sidon sleeping, one of Lana meditating. Vette eating chocolate and talking to Keyleth. Sabine's arrival and the glowing blue Journeyman's Crystal. A load of pictures to impress upon him just how ancient, decrepit and rather sad the castle was.

(While also being super spooky!)

Because she could, he also got a selfie of her with Egbert, the friendly zombie. (Who was terribly confused by everything, but okay with this.)

The pictures of the Larvae were kind of blurry, since they glowed oddly, and Unicombie had that problem magnified since Nina had no idea how to take pictures of a unicorn that was dead and covered in blue hellfire. The glowing red eyes turned out okay though.

SLEEP WELL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! STAY OUT OF TROUBLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

She was still, like, totally not sure what to make of how she felt about how that morning's conversation had gone but Nina was nothing if not true to her word and that meant that Prompto was still getting his daily pile of pictures.

You had better be TOTALLY EXHAUSTED after a hard day of work!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sabine being grumpy as she was woken up, Keyleth looking chipper as she rummaged through her things, Sidon and Vette talking in the morning.

This is a good team!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm keeping this team!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

After that was a long slew of yet more terrible, awful pictures of fights and monsters. And, for fun, the ever changing sky outside was also documented, with the timestamps so he could squint at those and try to figure that out. (Good luck with that; she had no idea how it worked either.)

He was also getting a bunch of pictures of empty coffins, since they were interesting, and creepy, and well, yeah, that was it really.

Each of the pictures in the puzzle room were also sent to him, as well as Keyleth's awesome filling a coffin full of water for Sidon.

And Sidon sitting in a coffin filled with water.

He's too big!!!!!!!!!!!!!! But the water's good for him!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Since she didn't really know what else to say, she just sent more emojis (he could make what he wanted of the rainbows and coffee cups and some things she wasn't actually sure what they were, she just picked them at random) and left it at that.

Nina was up bright and early and squinting outside at the... no, she wasn't sure what was going on outside and didn't really want to know either.

Especially not when she still had Miss Dozy and there was no Vette in their room yet.

So, first, Prompto was getting a text:

Are you, like, you today??????????????????????????????????????

And then she was putting stage one of her plan to read all the books into motion by texting Ignis:

Good morning!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'd, like, ask Prompto but I'm pretty sure he'd just tell me to ask you anyway, so I skipped that step??????????? But would you know how I could go about getting a library card for Insomina's public libraries????????????????????

Nina had… completely ignored Prompto's text of complete bullshit and, like, she was still horribly anxious about if he was… what he was doing… but she was being really good, keeping busy, trying to give him space instead of incessantly texting him the way she wanted to.

But, like, giving him space?

Wasn't going to stop her from sending him pics of the (black and white) campfire party. Or a few selfies of herself with her beer, hanging out in her lawn chair around the fire.

And of the ritualistic burning of things since, hey, no one needed those things anyway, right?

He was also getting a few pictures of Vette, holding a beer and sticking her tongue out (at him) at the camera, and of Okuyasu doing a Manly Man pose, just because she could send them to him, nyah.

Edited 2019-06-26 16:07 (UTC)

What was that? A late night text? When she should be sleeping, but wasn't? Only a fool would think she hadn't timed it deliberately so that, like, if he didn't answer, she could reasonably pretend he was sleeping...

THE FISH CAME IN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And if, like, Prompto needed any further elaboration on which fish then he was totally hopeless.

And, because she'd been thinking about it for, like, a week and a half at this point but actually talking to him in person was… well, she wasn't sure how it would go, really, and Nina was brave to the point of severe recklessness when it came to her safety and she knew good and well that fortune favoured the brave when it came to love, too, but all the same, she was a bit anxious about the next bit:

And, like, the last two weeks have been CRAZY MAD but, um, being your sister was pretty great??????????

She'd been so happy. Nina had thought about that a lot.

It was Wednesday, Nina had a party to plan (she, uh, probably ought to tell Prompto at some point, but she wasn't sure if it would go down better for Sidon to tell him or not…), and she was up to her pretty little eyeballs in her own self-inflicted work and picking out her classes.

But, like, it was Wednesday and Nina didn't want Noct to think that just because the summer things were over that she was going to stop talking to him.

Which was why Noct was, out of the blue, getting a text: What do you think I should get Prompto for his birthday???????????????????????????

On the surface a simple enough question except that, like, Nina had thought about it and realized she'd… never bought a birthday gift before? And Prompto deserved a good present and how was she supposed to pick out a good present with no experience?

So Noct was also getting a lot of panicked looking emojis. To emphasize the seriousness of her question.

Then, since she was busy badgering hot guys in a different universe, Nina also wrote Ignis a… rather lengthy email. It was more like a novella, since she'd been hoarding questions for… a few months. Mostly because the idea of trying to get it all into text format was just, like, way too exhausting and email was better for longer things, it really was.

She knew that, when meeting the guys that she'd been giggly and bubbly and, in her opinion, totally adorable, but that she'd also probably not come off as the smartest since Nina rarely came off as particularly brilliant when talking to people… so this email was likely to be a bit of a surprise (though perhaps less than it could be; she wasn't sure what Prompto had told them) but, like, anyway…

Other than the intro ("Hi Ignis!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!") and the outro ("You're the best!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"), there was not a single punctuation mark either extraneous or out of place but was, instead (and after the opening pleasantries of having enjoyed meeting him and the guys in Insomnia), a series of increasingly complex questions she had about the development of Insomnia's infrastructure and the impact of that on the rest of the kingdom, particularly given the war going on and the increasing divide between those who lived inside the wall and those who lived outside of it… and the request that, if he could point her in the right direction for these answers that would be, like, totally amazing because she knew he was busy and she didn't want to waste his time, that'd be great!

And she didn't add, but she sort of hoped that, like, if he did have time that he'd answer her himself.

Either way, Nina didn't really expect an answer from either of the guys any time soon (and was tragically sad that she had nothing she could reasonably text Gladio about) and was happy enough to just send it all off and go back to working on The Party.

Edited (...a day later isn't too late to edit a ping, right? RIGHT?) 2019-08-29 19:50 (UTC)

I'm booooooooooooooooooooooooooooooored!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So. There was a text, Prompto.

Are you busy???????????????????????????

It was much, much later in the day honestly, it was basically night by the time she got around to to updating her charts enough with the new information that Wayne and Ignis had given her to go on (with Ignis getting a text that was just a 'you're my very favourite person right now, just so you know' and a pile of rainbows, even if his helpful suggestion had meant her work had to be completely redone to account for all of the extra possiblities) before she realized that, yeah, okay, in order to complete her latest updates, she needed clarity from Prompto.

YD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! V. important question!!!!!!!!!!!!! FOR SCIENCE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Then, before he could dwell on that for too long, she added:

How do you feel about boys???????????????????

If you're reading this IN REAL TIME then you're up WAY too late playing video games!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! GO TO BED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Duty calls so I'll be off-island for a bit, don't worry, okay?????????????????? Vette's looking after Foomy, so you've got to come up with t-shirt ideas!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! If she turns into a bird AGAIN can you please make sure to feed him??????????????? He likes sandwiches and salads!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! NO PEANUT BUTTER. Love you bye!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And an absolutely obnoxious pile of hearts and rainbows and stars to follow that.

Nina was still incredibly annoyed at Prompto regarding Foomy and she was going to Have Words with him at some point about it.

But, like, Prompto's birthday was coming up soon and she did love him and it was literally her sworn duty now to remember his birthday (well, okay, she still had to wait for the paperwork to be fully processed for it to be Officially her sworn duty) but, like...

Noct was still getting a text:

What's your schedule looking like for the weekend of the 25th???????????????????

Nina still did not know for sure if Noctis and the guys were showing up but, like, Noctis had said he'd get back to her--and hadn't--but had also implied that they were going, and Nina was going to assume they were going on the further assumption that if she did and they had to back out, at the very least, she'd wind up with a prince being apologetic to her and, really, that was winning all around...

(Though she still really hoped they could, you know, actually come...)

Either way, Noctis, Ignis, and Gladio were getting a series of texts from Nina detailing their travel arrangements, their accommodations, her security measures (the latter of which she assumed Gladio and Iggy would care more about than Noctis), and the timing of all of the above along with a cheery 'I can't wait to see you guys!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!' and a pile of hearts and an equally cheery, but much more menacing, 'if you breathe even the SLIGHTEST WORD of all of this to Prompto I will make ALL OF YOUR LIVES a LIVING HELL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And then more hearts and stars and rainbows just to drive the point home.

Usually she'd tell them she'd murder them but, like, Nina knew better than to do that over technology when dealing with an actual prince--Noctis and the guys, knowing her, would probably be fine with it; she would never mean it seriously--but, like, it would also probably ruin her application into the intelligence services of Lucis because, like, who hired a spy that threatened the heir to the throne with death?

Instead, like, she'd just leave them in suspense.

It was more fun anyway, doing it like that.

...

... And if Noctis hadn't mentioned any of this to Ignis and Gladio, well, he was going to have to now!

Edited (*edits all the edits*) 2019-10-22 16:33 (UTC)

At this point, really, all of the guys had to be used to varying levels of nonsensical questions from Nina.

So Ignis was getting a polite query regarding the nature of aspartame, what it was in, and if she ought to be avoiding it.

And then all of the guys, including Prompto, because why not, were getting a lengthy series of texts about various dresses and her demanding their opinions on them pretty please it was important.

Because of course she'd do that. Of course she would.

Nina was just about one hundred percent sure that Noct was going to wind up sharing this with her brother anyway but, like, that was also part of the fun to see how long it took her query to Noct to get to her brother and...

Never let it be said that Nina didn't deliberately spread nonsense around.

FOR SCIENCE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Can you, like, think of any situation where Prompto would successfully fake his death??????????????????????????

Science, with Nina, was a strange, fickle beast.

But, hey, it gave her something to do while waiting for Iris to get back to her around her classes.

ASSUMING YOU REMAIN UNKIDNAPPED

Ah, yes, texts from Nina.

I HAVEN'T BEEN KIDNAPPED FOR THE RECORD. I'M AT THE LIBRARY IF YOU NEED ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Nina had a lot of feelings today and so capslock made her feel better.

BUT CAN YOU GET MY PINK HAIR CURLER AND THE PRESENT ON VETTE'S BED AND DESTROY THEM, PLEASE?????????????????

Nina supposed that required further explanation.

LIKE. THOSE WERE FROM THE WELCOME PICNIC, of course she'd claimed a present for Vette and not opened it, shut up, she was coping just fine with Vette's absence really, AND TIP AND I ARE THEORIZING THAT THERE MIGHT BE ANOTHER WAVE OF KIDNAPPINGS AND THE GIFTS SEEM TO BE RELATED SO, LIKE. THEY HAVE TO GO. PLEASE????????????

Even though she was really sad about losing her pink hair curler. It was super great.

But being un-kidnapped was also super great, so…

THANK YOU LOVE YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yeah, so.

Nina had an important question for her brother.

This was probably going to earn her another incredulous rendition of her name but, like:

Proooooooooooooooomppppppppppppppptooooooooooooooooooo can u b cupid for the party on Thursday???????????????????????

Nina had… completely forgotten about Ignis' birthday. Which, like, to be fair he probably didn't expect her to have remembered (or known) in the first place so realistically she was totally in the clear…

But, like, that just wasn't Nina's style.

So Ignis was getting a package delivered to him—to his work address because, from what she could tell, Prompto didn't actually know Ignis' home address and while she did, like, the whole point was to not be super creepy.

(In an emergency, like, that was totally different though.)

Anyway, he was getting a package. It was a neatly wrapped, very wooden sturdy box, about the size of a large shoebox, and absolutely filled to the brim with a wide variety of spices and sauces from Vette's universe, all of them neatly packaged and labeled—in Nina's most precise lettering--with their names in English (since the labels on all of the containers were… not… in anything remotely like English), their basic flavour profiles, what they were commonly used for, and their best before dates.

It was also postmarked and her letter was dated from before his birthday.

Happy birthday!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Prompto let me write this—all the translating just, like totally defeated him, the savage—but we had a blast picking these out for you and hope you enjoy them!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Love,

Nina & Prompto Argentum

And, really, the only surprising thing about the note was the fact that Nina had signed it, but also Prompto had.

Prompto had… not.

But really, forging her brother's signature was hardly a crime, right? Especially when she was covering his ass, too, about a friend's birthday…

The fact that it was late was totally being blamed on portal issues.

Nina was... working up the nerve to send Noctis her usual weekly update but, like, it was kind of terrifying too when she hadn't any idea of how he was taking the whole thing. Had Prompto gotten around to telling him?

She didn't know!

On the bright side, Nina had a really good pretext to text Prompto about Noctis.

I found Noct's next bday gift!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LOOK AT THIS MAJESTY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THIS WONDER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It held neither majesty nor wonder but it was, in her opinion, absolutely amazing.

She'd managed four whole days of Not Bothering Prompto Or Anyone Really.

... So either he'd be proud of her or worried about her at this point.

Either way, Wednesday's update to Noctis was a long, winding rant about idiot jerkfaces who came in and arrested people who'd done nothing wrong and hadn't even asked around properly before making judgments!

Prompto, on the other hand, was getting a link to the podcast of her radio broadcast and a: CAN YOU BELIEVE THIS?????????????????????????

“Hey, kid. Kincaid-Price here. Just wanted to let you know, your sister’s back here in Fandom, and she’s... well, she’s in one piece. She’s in a room at the hotel for the moment, figured that’d make things less complicated for you if you wanted to swing by.”

That Liam very much was of the opinion that him swinging by would be the right choice went unspoken, but was heavily implied.

“Anyway, that’s all.”

Yeah, so, Nina still had ethics to go to and all and she was pretty sure that would go better than... whatever had gone on in her economics class.

Still, the boyos were getting a text before she went to Ethics.

So, like, my economics class set someone on fire.

She was less than impressed. Less than impressed. Admittedly, she hadn't told the boyos that she'd been on fire but she figured they'd be unimpressed at the class anyway.

It was, like, in the Danger Shop and all but ohmygosh you guys. Ohmygosh.

Yeah, like, Nina had made the executive decision to not inform her brother that part of her soul was apparently that of a vain, venomous snake.

… Mostly because, like, if he didn't have a clue by now then he was just hopeless. But also because she knew he didn't like snakes.

So it was Monday morning that he was getting a text from her:

70s gothic disco party!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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