How about something for the chocobros discovering their s/o being afraid of the dark and what do they think/do about their partner being afraid of it?

backseat-imagines:

• Noctis found out you were afraid of the dark when you seemingly would never step into dark rooms. At first he thought nothing of it, but he noticed the pattern that the rooms they never entered was dark- and then the one time you finally did you ended up rushing through like something was chasing them.
  “You don’t do so well with the dark I’m guessing?” He didn’t really have to ask, he already put two-and-two together.
• He really can’t blame you. At some point, when he was young, he had been as well so he understands what it’s like. So he doesn’t mind.
• Noctis just knows when you stay in a room with him that he’ll likely have to have a nightlight going. Which is fine with him, it doesn’t affect his sleep any. Just as long as you can feel safe and sound. And if you have trouble sleeping still then they can fall back onto playing games or him telling them one of the old stories Regis used to tell him until they fall asleep (after all that used to do the trick for him).
• But for situations outside of sleeping arrangements, Noct just tries to handle getting the lighting situation back to where you’ll feel more comfortable. That or he tries his best to lead you through and keep you calm, but he hasn’t yet realized that “just stay calm” doesn’t work well, but he does know telling you “it’ll be okay” is at least some comfort.

• Ignis thought it was strange just how you used to keep the lights on in almost every room and they were on throughout the whole day. Any time he turned one off, you’d be coming up behind shortly to turn it back on, though you tended to not remain in the room for long.
  “Don’t you want to save on your power bill?” He’d ask. But was only told that it was fine. For all he knew, this could have easily just been a quirk and there was no use in pressing more into it.
• He didn’t find out the real reason until one night you and him had been sharing a bed; you trying to sleep and he was reading something and he kept a lamp on. It was violently storming outside, and all of the sudden there was a bright flash and a loud roaring CRACK sound of lightning striking nearby and it took the power out. Iggy tries to make a remark about the situation, but you don’t respond. Instead you were just tightly balling yourself up into the blankets, shaking. Unusual. You don’t act quite like this for thunderstorms, so that lead him to one conclusion; you were afraid of the dark. And now the light issue made so much sense.
• Ignis sort of finds it to be cute. Not quite a laughing matter, but it’s still a silly and endearing quality.
• Ignis will do what he can to comfort you through those by offering you various means of distractions. Talking to you through it, getting you a warm drink, being the one to go out to find the flashlight or candles to bring back to you, board games while you still have some kind of light. And on a night like this he’ll let you snuggle and hide your face in his chest until you fall asleep.
• He’ll be a little more careful about what lights he’s turning off from now on, turning on the lights in a room you were about to go through so you didn’t have to worry ahead of time. With sleeping, you both come to a compromise; he has a harder time sleeping with a light on so he’d rather not have a nightlight, so he’ll stay up later and keep a light on until you fall asleep. However he’ll let one of those come in if for some reason you’re having troubles on some nights and you just can’t sleep/can’t stay asleep.

• Gladio knows there’s something up when you happen to avoid going into the basement at all costs. You need to get something from down there… but… “Babe, I’m a little busy right now. Why can’t you go and get it yourself anyways?” You can’t give him an answer, or rather you won’t. You don’t want to embarrass yourself in front of him, so for the time being you dropped it and tried to wait later for when he wasn’t so busy.
  “You still haven’t gotten it? Seriously, what’s up with you? You’re not afraid, are you?” He hits the nail on the head, but you still didn’t want him to quite know.
  “It’s just that it’s dark.”
  “C’mon, there’s a light switch on the left side at the bottom of the steps. You know this.”
  “Yeah but it’s at the bottom… What if I fall down when I’m on the steps?”
  “There’s enough light coming from the room that you’ll be able to see the steps without too much problem.”
  “But…Okay, fine. You’re right. I am scared. It’s dark down there and I’m a coward!”
• Gladio finds it cute to tease you over it, though you won’t likely think his teasing is.
• He’s not so much sympathetic in your case. In fact he tries to push you into going into the dark, says you need to face your fears, that it’ll help toughen you up and get you to move on passed it.
• However, if you get stuck in the dark and begin to have a terrible panic attack about it, that’s when he’ll actually try to comfort you.

• It’s already a well known fact that Prompto is also afraid of the dark. He’s always been upfront and honest about it. Just he really hadn’t known that you had been too. Not until the both of you were caught out some place and the power went out.
• Instantly you clung to him, hugging tightly onto his arm. “You too, eh?” He mutters, feeling how badly you were trembling against him.
  He understands how it is entirely too well, but somehow your fear of the dark gives him courage to step forward into it. It doesn’t take away his fear, but he hates the fact it scares you too, so expect him to slowly lead you out of the situation, trying to calm his own panic as much as he can so he doesn’t make it worse on you.
• When Prompto gets more scared and anxious, he gets more talkative. He talks fast and he tries to maintain a conversation with you because maybe that will distract you both just enough until you both get back to the light.
• He’s more than happy to huddle up with you when you’re scared. Prompto will take you by the hand and give you little comforting squeezes. Need a night light? No problem? Dim room still too dark for you? Either he’ll hit the switch or he’ll offer up his phone for you to use as a light. Simply whatever you need, Prompto will try to have your back on!