"I didn't say want," Prompto felt compelled to point out, though with a faint, wry hint of a grin. "I said need. There's a difference. And I...I was honestly just going to try to brush it off, you know, I...didn't want to make a thing out of it or anything, but now that we...we're, y'know, unbreakable, and everything..."

And maybe had was taking their whole Drama Diamond gang thing a little too seriously; maybe it was sort of just a dumb joke to them, or whatever, but he'd had all day yesterday to think about it, and....he realized how much it meant to him. The same with his boys back home. The same way Yang's dad had apparently decided he was stuck with them, too, even when they'd only met the one time so far. He still didn't feel worthy of any of it, and he knew he never would be, but...that was all the more reason to make sure that he could get at least as close to worthy as he could.

"It's important."