hanatsuki89:

“Those ain’t your bodyguards, they’re your brothers.”
Or, a “what if” set in Cartanica. You can pry the theory about them processing grief in different ways and things going differently if Noct had opened up from my grubby hands.

P,s, I never do angst, but when I do…I do it well.

EDIT: @aliatori wrote a splendid piece about this moment from Gladio’s POV! –> HERE