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prompto argentum

hey hey hey! can't get to you right now but i will soon as i get the chance! 📸

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[mercurio]

[prompto's a-giggling for exactly one second before he's dragging the chair to the side of the table along with his weight (sorry, employees of the establishment), until he's sat nearly next to ardyn.]

A bit. Maybe. Depends on what you find embarrassing.

[he taps onto one of the folders in his camera's memory (bless SD cards). it reads nothing suspicious or otherwise incriminating, other than 02/14/2017. prompto full screens the first image and then hands his camera over to ardyn. several different options pop up in white, but ardyn might be most interested in the arrow motioning towards the next picture.]

[the pictures aren't all too incriminating; just teachers having a drunken, fun time at a bar and outside of it. nothing unusual, were it another group of people]

[prompto sits, hunched forward a bit, hands holding on to the bit of chair between his knees.]

I will say I've taken pictures of way worse things.

[daemonized]

[For someone as observant as Ardyn, the date of 02/14/2017 is telling enough. Immediately, the professor has an inkling of what he's about to be met with, as far as the photos are concerned.

He leans in a little, since the boy is seated closer, and takes the camera from him. A moment while he taps at the screen, scrolling through the photos. Of him handcuffing Bigby, of him seated with Grell, singing.]

...Ah. [He straightens, leaning back in his chair, one hand still clasped at the camera, and the other comes to rub at the stubble on his chin. The flicker of embarrassment, though good-humored, in his expression.]

Yes, I remember that night. Vaguely. [He taps at the screen, the one of him serenading Grell.] Did you just happen to be passing through?

[mercurio]

[prompto snickers, a hiss of a laugh really, shoulders shaking in clear amusement. he takes pictures of so many things and of so many different people, sometimes of situations a bit incriminating, but he never does anything with the power he would otherwise have with those photographs.]

Yeah. I was walking home from my experimental date, and who do I see on the other side of the street in the pub, but a group of responsible adults?

[he had popped into the seven eleven right across from them, and watched in bemusement for a while.]

[daemonized]

Well. "Responsible" is used rather liberally in this instance.

[If he were to be honest, he remembered less and less the more that night continued on. He scrolls through a couple more pictures, commenting.]

Though what can I say? Many drink themselves into a stupor on Valentine's Day. [Even though that's usually for less-than-happy reasons.] As a single man, I had to continue the tradition.

[Even though Ardyn had.... two dates.... that day.]

[mercurio]

There's nothing wrong with it.

[in prompto's eyes, he has no reason to judge his teachers and adults in general for just having a night off. it's normal, isn't it? to just go and have fun with your friends; there's no age limit to that.]

[he hees before speaking again]

There's no age limit on having 'fun.' I just took pictures of it because I basically take pictures of everything and everyone.

[studying people this way....]

[daemonized]

Catching people unaware reveals some of the more honest moments in life, doesn't it?

[Ardyn knows next to nothing about photography, but he feels safe in making this assumption. He pauses, considering.]

Even so, some of these are less than flattering.

[At least there are no pics of anyone puking. He hopes.]

[mercurio]

--you should see my selfies.

[less than flattering pictures--prompto is kind of king at that kind of depiction. but, something about ardyn's words tell him that ardyn isn't all too upset about the pictures.]

[which is what spurs prompto on to say:]

Do you want a copy of them? To have something to remember that fun night by.

[daemonized]

They can't possibly be that bad.

[He responds with a glimmer of amusement. And at the offer, something wry ekes into his smile.]

I think I'll take you up on that offer, actually. If it isn't too much trouble on your end.

[He wonders how the others would react to seeing these. He considers showing them, not for malignant purposes, but merely out of curious amusement.]

[mercurio]

[prompto shrugs, taking out his phone and writing down on his eternal to-do-list that he needs to send these photos to ardyn post haste. considering he just got a record player from the man and all.]

I just gotta remember. And! You gotta promise you won't tell anyone where you got these from if you show them around!

[he just needs to make the disclaimer]

[daemonized]

I promise that my lips are sealed.

[He didn't even have to make the disclaimer, honestly. Ardyn would have kept this much to himself regardless.]

I can keep a secret.

[mercurio]

If you gotta deny knowing me, you gotta do that too, okay? I won't get mad!

[he's considering this like some dramatic spy game]

[that being said--] It's a little jarring to realise our professors have fun too. But, it's cool that you all do.

[daemonized]

I wonder if I'll have to go so far, but having your permission eases my anxieties. [Ardyn had no... anxieties about this, really. He finds it amusing that Prompto holds this secret to such a degree of drama, but at the same time, he'll keep to his word.]

Honestly, I think the faculty needs more opportunities to destress than they actually have. I suppose when they do, things go a bit... ah, overboard.

[Though does Ardyn seem like the type who's ever stressed out? Unlikely.]