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Kaciart

1 is the collosseum in altissia has a different type of event certain evenings

And the other is 'We have it on good info that they have lucians from when Insomnia fell and theyre selling them' 'isnt that the kid you went to school with?'

Draiad

i love how occulty

the mask is

Kaciart

yesss

everyone has to wear one

You cant recognise or remember anyone except the merchandise

gnine

ooof between teh masks and the heavy robes contrasted with his near nakedness just ups the creep factor

Draiad

which is super creepy

oh man how super self conscious you would be

with all those eyes on you

Ellaygee

ok but even if they get raided and rescues happen, the masks will make it impossible to know if EVERYONE was like..gotten or whatever.

and then like...there's always this shadow of a possibility 

Kaciart

once you get outside and drop the mask and robe

youre just another person in the city

Ellaygee

yupp. perfectly innocent background character number four. 

Kaciart

totally wasnt buying slaves or anything

nope

prom would be a novelty too

A niff

'Unmarked except for a single tattoo'

'Untouched'

So the first I imagined its Noct and Cor

That they got wind of what was going on and were determined to save their citzens

His tomb hopping can wait - his father would want him to help their people first

Noct and Prom weren't besties - just classmates when the roadtrip happened

They spoke sometimes but never got close

Maybe the Royal advisors put a stop to it - they would have otherwise

They were friendly in school

So this is Noctis' chance

Imagine if Luna had tipped him off

Shes still determined to get her ship happening

Ellaygee

yesssss, so she and prom would have still had their thing?

Kaciart

Yes but he couldnt do much when the higher ups put their foot down

Maybe shed even requested that the Niff they would find be brought to her

Persuades them that its VERY important that Prompto stays with them

Ellaygeelol yesssss make it happen

He's probably pretty messed up from this too so the boys wouldnt be too pleased about taking a ptsd victim with them

But then theres some incident and he gets a gun and cleans up

And theyre like...okay maybe he will be helpful

Which would be tough because he'd just have gotten to know Noctis and have him taken away

Gladio would probably throw himself into training him as a distraction and Cor also

So then the second option

Prom gets snatched

Maybe they even know what he is and thats the reason for it

This is super rare

The buyers are probably mostly from Niflheim who understand the significance and strenght

The others are rich people who want a trophy

I kind of feel in this instance that because he's trained and strong that maybe theres some way to control MTs

Ellaygee

ooh, yes. get them a nice lil killing machine

Kaciart

Like he has a collar or some chip that as soon as he even thinks of harming the people holding the remote he gets a migraine

Because otherwise he'd be too dangerous to sell

Can you imagine them trying to set him on Noct and co when they try to break up the sale

They're like 'do what i tell you or die'

'jokes on you, I'd die for Noct without a collar'

Actually lets go chip

For the 'cutting it out' angst