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Very concerned yes. Very, VERY concerned. Poor guy can’t even walk down the Hall without, at minimum, going utterly quiet and just kinda- sagging like something is trying to crush him down or like every one of his (many many many) scars are all throbbing at once. They don’t understand why, and he refuses to explain it, but they have … a few nebulous ideas.
Most of those ideas go out the window when they realize Nox Does It Too. He’s just way stealthier about it, better at hiding it if he has to cross the Hall with witnesses around. The first time Cor stumbles across Ardyn AND Nox just … standing there. In the middle of the cold marble hall, surrounded by statues of the Old Kings and looking up at the painting of the Prophecy, harmonizing on some soft, eerie song he can’t understand… He honestly freaks out internally. He halfway expects to be murdered for just witnessing this and is unashamed to admit he backed out of there as fast as he could to drag Regis, Clarus, and Titus out of bed as backup before trying to pry those two loose of the Hall of Arts because the air around them felt just plain unnatural (too heavy, too old, too still and angry and mournful) and Cor may be famed as the Immortal but he’s not actively suicidal enough to test that theory in this instance (and if his skin crawls when he realizes that the only thing that comes close to the aura those two put off in the Hall is Gilgamesh’s Tempering Grounds with its ghosts and angry memories… can anyone blame him?).
Nobody can figure out why these two are so bad off in the Hall and why Ardyn is the Worst of the two, especially since they both refuse to get within two hundred feet of a psychologist, but yeah.
There Is Much Concern™.
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Very concerned yes. Very, VERY concerned. Poor guy can’t even walk down the Hall without, at minimum, going utterly quiet and just kinda- sagging like something is trying to crush him down or like every one of his (many many many) scars are all throbbing at once. They don’t understand why, and he refuses to explain it, but they have … a few nebulous ideas.
Most of those ideas go out the window when they realize Nox Does It Too. He’s just way stealthier about it, better at hiding it if he has to cross the Hall with witnesses around. The first time Cor stumbles across Ardyn AND Nox just … standing there. In the middle of the cold marble hall, surrounded by statues of the Old Kings and looking up at the painting of the Prophecy, harmonizing on some soft, eerie song he can’t understand… He honestly freaks out internally. He halfway expects to be murdered for just witnessing this and is unashamed to admit he backed out of there as fast as he could to drag Regis, Clarus, and Titus out of bed as backup before trying to pry those two loose of the Hall of Arts because the air around them felt just plain unnatural (too heavy, too old, too still and angry and mournful) and Cor may be famed as the Immortal but he’s not actively suicidal enough to test that theory in this instance (and if his skin crawls when he realizes that the only thing that comes close to the aura those two put off in the Hall is Gilgamesh’s Tempering Grounds with its ghosts and angry memories… can anyone blame him?).
Nobody can figure out why these two are so bad off in the Hall and why Ardyn is the Worst of the two, especially since they both refuse to get within two hundred feet of a psychologist, but yeah.
There Is Much Concern™.
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