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'Ah, Prince Noctis, your compassion knows no bounds, worrying for a machine?'

'Do machines usually bleed?'

'You're getting blood on the Prince's wonderfully polished floors'

Prom crouches and uses his cape to wipe it away

just a show of power

Timed to perfection

Noct coming out in time to see Proms head snap to the side

Maybe Ardyn was purposefully trying to evoke a connection

With the intent to leave Prompto there as a spy

He didn't factor in the Lucians coaxing the humanity out of Prompto

Probably constantly makes remarks in front of Noctis

About Prompto being a thing, a possession

'He's has no free will' just a machine to do as one pleases

Makes an example of it

by making Prompto do something dehumanising

Noctis is livid

Imagine him about to literally make Prom lick the dirt off his boot

and Noct stands from where he was seated at his meal

'Stop this!'

'Prince Noctis, the battlefields are littered with the scraps of these units'

'You showed little remorse then, is it because you see his face now? I promise you they all looked identical'

Regis cuts in that this is hardly the talk to be having during their meal

'Ah yes of course, tell me, how is your beautiful fiance'

'You would know better than I'

Regis is like 'I give up'

Prompto probably has bruises across his face too

Noct catching him alone and asking him if it hurts

Prompto is like 'I don't understand your request, my apologies, your Highness'

Noct tries to explain

Prom is like 'I understand, it is negligible'

Maybeeee

There was like demon shots that Prom had to take daily to keep the MT control

And right after Ardyn leaves he accidentally knocks it over

and it smashes

and he's like

'well.....shit'

He keeps trying ot let Ardyn know he's fucked up when he checks in

Ardyn's like 'whats gotten into you, if it isn't related to the mission, I don't want to hear it'

So yeah

He's probably a mess after a few days

between withdrawal

And if we imagine just for the sake of this AU

That he wasn't cloned from a baby

but taken as a child recruit

He'd have memories coming back too

Which is where the name comes from

I dont imagine the changes to be *too* drastic

Definitely ports and stuff